Native European flat oyster (Ostrea edulis) reefs have strongly declined in the Dutch Delta, motivating restoration efforts that use engineered substrates to support settlement and early reef development. In Lake Veere, Project Asta tests the Mother Reef concept: biodegradable clay blocks that are conditioned …

The Local Context Summary Memo (LCSM) supports the municipality of Arnhem in advancing its urban heat adaptation efforts. It is part of the Cool Cities project, an EU Interreg North Sea Region initiative involving seven case study cities that test innovative, transferable methods for understanding and …

Cool Cities Rotterdam Local Context Summary Memo The Local Context Summary Memo (LCSM) supports the municipality of Arnhem in advancing its urban heat adaptation efforts. It is part of the Cool Cities project, an EU Interreg North Sea Region initiative involving seven case study cities that test innovative, …

Cool Cities Middelburg Local Context Summary Memo The Local Context Summary Memo (LCSM) supports the municipality of Arnhem in advancing its urban heat adaptation efforts. It is part of the Cool Cities project, an EU Interreg North Sea Region initiative involving seven case study cities that test innovative, …

At the (Not) Jammed Poetry Night at Limestone Books Maastricht in 2022, seven writers read their poetry alongside “Scott”, a real-time printing system designed by the DuctTape Collective. Using Google’s English-language speech-to-text voice recognition system, it transcribed the spoken words in real …

Image it is 2100 and half of the Netherlands has flooded. How will such a disaster influence how we see ourselves and our society and result in new design principles for the much-needed new cities? By combining several sources (e.g. the WUR and PBL future scenario's) and based on his view on the newly …

‘Makers Block, from craft to consumer in M4H district.’ The design of Makers Block connects the makers workplace with housing along three lines: living adjacent to making, living with making and living next to making. This happens on top of a double high plinth with studios in an ensemble of buildings, …

‘Compounding Waalwijk. Transformation of the urban core’. The monofunctional shopping center in Waalwijk is no longer functioning. How can this location, in phases, be transformed for Waalwijk to regain its regional importance and revitalizing existing identity nodes? Inspired by midsize utopia, New …

Aquabots is a development platform for autonomous navigation which was initiated in 2010 by the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences and system integrator Imtech. In 2014, the first student team successfully crossed the river Nieuwe Maas with their Remotely Operated Vessel (Aquabot) EindMaas. By …

The restoration of native flat oyster (Ostrea edulis) reefs in Lake Veere is a key ecological goal of the Oyster Heaven project. However, successful reef development may be hindered by predation. The European green crab *(Carcinus maenas),* a known bivalve predator in Lake Veere. This study investigated …