Designing with direct and indirect

Designing with direct and indirect nature, as well as space and place conditions to reconnect people with the biodiversity & environment. Sub focus on ‘wastescapes’ / ‘Droscapes’ and how Biophilic Design and Nature based solutions can be used for regenerative strategies.

Mentor

Arjan van Timmeren
Nico Tillie
Remon Rooij
René van der Velde

Research

Green Blue Cities
The main objective of this project was to develop knowledge and tools required to seize the opportunities arising from future challenges to manage urban storm water in a way that facilitates robust, synergistic and multi-functional green infrastructures that will address today’s and tomorrow’s climate and other changes in dynamic urban areas.
https://jpi-urbaneurope.eu/project/green-blue-cities/

Student Projects

An Eco Synergist Hub In Rotterdam: Reuse and Regeneration of neglected urban fragments into Ecological Hotspots
by Francesca Mazza
Future of cities: A research for the optimization of the application of instruments within a municipality to increase sustainability in area development
by Nadine Schmidt
The circular potential of the urban mine: A spatial-temporal dynamic stock model for urban systems with a case study of copper in Amsterdam
by Sabine de Haes