The journal Buildings & Cities and ARL – Academy for Spatial Development in the Leibniz-Association organized a video challenge celebrating a diversity of built environment research from PhD students in many countries and built environment disciplines. Collectively, these videos illustrate the importance and interest of emerging built environment research to civil society, politics and industry.
The theme of this video challenge was “Why it matters”. This was an opportunity to explain the significance of PhD students’ research, articulating a ‘big picture’ view of its potential contribution and impacts. The topic could be transdisciplinary in nature or be based in a specific discipline: sociology, geography, construction, engineering, facilities management, architecture, planning, real estate, urban studies, environmental design, finance, project management, business, etc.