ENCI was the first cement factory in the Netherlands and was important to build up the Netherlands. On a site opposite to ENCI, this proposal of a discovery parc will engage the public in the future of the ENCI-legacy and the value of the former quarry for Maastricht and the Euregion. Sharing the peninsular …

The coronavirus pandemic highlighted the vital role urban areas play in supporting citizens’ health and well-being (Ribeiro et al., 2021). In times of (personal) vulnerability, citizens depend on their neighbourhood for performing daily physical activities to restore their mental state, but public spaces …

The current Covid-19 pandemic has underlined the importance of urban public spaces in achieving health and social well-being (Dobson, 2021; Poortinga et al., 2021), prompting policymakers and urban planners to rethink their approach to the design of these spaces. They now propagate adapting urban public …

Designed, organized and facilitated a co-creation event with a panel of energy experts/ citizens of Hoogkerk. The main focus of the event was the ecosystem services identification and the proposal for an integrated energy landscape in Hoogkerk Zuid. A researcher from TNO and students from the master …

A dike has been punctured to allow limited tidal waterflows into an agricultural landscape near the village of De Heen in the west of Brabant Province. A transition towards a brackish agriculture will be supported by a saline visitor center that is embedded in the water flows surrounded by new crops, …

Urban planning for climate change is a complex topic for historical and large cities like Alexandria, which are also coping with economic and demographic pressures. In this project the design of water engineering is drawn into the horizon of the local population, by mapping several containment measures …

Fossil fuels have greatly affected the world. How we move around in our cars, how we produce and consume our food, how we keep our economy running, generate electricity and spatialize our cities. But whether we like it or not, we are moving towards a future without these fossil fuels ¬– an era in which …

In a design and research studio of the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture six students investigated between September and December 2020 the transition to that post-fossil era, we visualized the expression of the post-fossil city of the future, we explored systems and solutions that we cannot yet imagine. …

We live in a hearing world. Others live in a deaf world. The deaf world has its own language, the sign language, Dutch or English or . . . Frisian. The deaf world also has its memorials, made out of stone. The only deaf memorial in the Netherlands --- and likely in the whole world --- is in Amsterdam, …

Het geluid van kolkende irrigatie-installaties die de uitgedroogde akkers bevloeien, herinnert mij aan een mooie zomerse dag in Brabant. Zo onschuldig en mooi als ik dacht dat deze machines waren, veranderde mijn kijk erop toen ik me realiseerde dat deze grote waterkanonnen een groot deel van de problematiek …