The future is WOOW

Deze krant werd gepubliceerd ter afronding van het WOOW project in 2023. Download

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Circulaire plastics voor een duurzame toekomst.

Placemaking in the Urban Living Lab Heerlen and Aurora flat courtyard intervention: learning towards urban vitality in vulnerable and cultural diverse neighbourhoods

Abstract The neighbourhood GMS in Heerlen-Noord, the Netherlands, is one of the 16 Dutch neighbourhoods that need extra focus to its livability and socio-economic challenges due to the historical development in the area and its current stigma in society. Placemaking as a planning philosophy and urban living labs as a planning approach both offer potential […]

Urban Living Labs and Transformative Changes: A Qualitative Study of the Triadic Relationship Between Financing, Stakeholder Roles, and the Outcomes of Urban Living Labs in terms of Impact Creation in the City of Groningen.

He who does not trust enough, will not be trusted. Lao Tzu Ancient Chinese philosopher and writer Urban Living Labs (ULLs) have become a popular instrument for finding solutions to urban challenges faced by cities. While ULLs have achieved a certain level of normalisation in cities, a general lack of understanding remains regarding the character […]

The Urban Living Lab as Tool for Introducing Circularity in the Everyday Life of Vulnerable Neighbourhoods: Case-study Kerkrade-West, the Netherlands.

This is a contribution for the OLLD conference and was published in the proceedings. Urban Living Labs have become a popular instrument to find solutions to the pressing challenge that cities face: How can they combine economic prosperity, social cohesion, and environmental sustainability? While the normalisation of Urban Living Labs in cities is well evident […]

Changing Use and Performance of Industrial Estates from 1965 Onward: the Case of the Parkstad Conurbation, the Netherlands

In the wake of deindustrialization and economic shifts, industrial estates in the Western world have faced strong changes in programmatic demands. While strategically situated urban brownfields have held a central position in contemporary urban design practice and discourses in the past, industrial estates, developed since the 1960s in suburban peripheries, have become central to these […]

Who is Doing What? Spatial Practices in Refugee Camps – Kurdistan Region of Iraq

On the background of the Syrian conflict started in 2011, camps were set to host temporarily the waves of displaced Syrians kept flowing inside Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). Majority of these populations are from Kurdish background, seeking refuge in what they believe to be a part of the “home-land” of the Kurdish Nation. In […]

(re)CYCLE Limburg booklet

This booklet holds a collection of drawings, maps, schemes, collages, artistic impressions etc. which were made by students during an intense design moment in the project (re)CYCLE Limburg, which took place in December 2016. Students of Built Environment, Facility Management, Social Work and Health & Care cooperated in making designs and developing strategies for urban […]

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