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Nurhan Abujidi

Nurhan Abujidi is sinds 2016 lector bij Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, waar zij het lectoraat Smart Urban Redesign leidt. Als architect en stedelijk onderzoeker richt zij zich op rechtvaardige en duurzame stedelijke transities, met bijzondere aandacht voor sociaal-ruimtelijke ongelijkheid, circulariteit en co-creatie. Ze verbindt onderwijs, praktijk en onderzoek op een innovatieve manier en werkt nauw samen met publieke en private partners aan vraagstukken rond leefbaarheid en de kwaliteit van de gebouwde omgeving. Naast haar werk als lector is zij medeoprichter van het European Center for Circular Building Transformation (ECCBT) en actief binnen regionale, nationale en internationale netwerken die zich inzetten voor de circulaire en inclusieve transitie van steden.

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Urban Living Labs as Innovation Infrastructure for Local Urban Intervention Acceleration and Student Social Learning: the Impacts on Community Wellbeing in Heerlen

2024

A living lab can make local change more collective In this research, we examined Urban Living Labs as infrastructure for accelerating local interventions and supporting...

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Limburg Univercity Book

2024

Learning from Limburg’s cities, with Limburg’s cities Limburg Univerc_ity presents our regional programme for learning and innovation around sustainable urban transformation. We see cities as...

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Urban Living Labs for the Development of Hybrid Research Methods in Contextualized Societal Challenges; the Example of Cultural Probes in Poverty Research in the Netherlands

2023

Listening to poverty as it is lived In this conference paper, we explored how Urban Living Labs can help research move closer to people’s everyday...

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Placemaking and the Urban Living Lab for Students’ Social Learning and Innovation in Education: The Case of Heerlen

2023

Learning with a neighbourhood, not only about it In this paper, we explored the Urban Living Lab as an educational setting as well as a...

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Crossing Multiple Solar Energy Gaps: A Dutch Case-study on Intermediation for Building-integrated Photovoltaics

2023

Building-integrated solar needs more than a good product Building-integrated photovoltaics, or BIPV, can turn roofs, façades and other parts of a building envelope into electricity-generating...

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Circular Cities for Urban and Social Resilience

2023

Circular cities are more than efficient material flows In this publication, we argue that circular cities cannot be made by treating waste, energy, water, buildings...

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The future is WOOW

Nurhan Abujidi Maurice Hermans

2023

Seeing Limburg as one connected everyday landscape With The future is WOOW, we wanted to explore how Limburg can make room for the ways people...

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

2022

De binnenplaats van Aurora als gezamenlijke opgave In deze publicatie onderzoeken we hoe placemaking en een Urban Living Lab samen kunnen werken aan het dagelijks...

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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.

2021

When does a living lab lead to more than a pilot? In this study, we asked why some Urban Living Labs create lasting value while...

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

2021

Making circularity matter in Kerkrade-West In this paper, we ask how circularity can become meaningful in a neighbourhood where daily concerns are already urgent. Discussions...

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Not All Homeowners are alike: a Segmentation Model Based on a Quantitative Analysis of Dutch Adopters of Residential Photovoltaics.

2021

Solar households do not all decide in the same way In this study, we challenged the idea that homeowners who install solar panels are one...

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Justice in Social Housing: Towards a People-centred Energy Renovation Process

2021

Energy renovation must also be fair In this article, we argue that social-housing renovation should be judged not only by carbon savings and technical performance,...

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Small-scale Bioclimatic Prosthesis: A strategy for adaptive social housing based on local spontaneous and socio-environmental patterns in transitional spaces

Nurhan Abujidi Leonardo Venegas Simona Pecoraio Karen Allacker Frank Troyer Boris Rebolledo

2020

Learning from the spaces residents already transform In this publication, we propose a small-scale strategy for improving social housing in Latin American contexts where residents...

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

Nurhan Abujidi Layla Zibar

2019

Looking beyond the camp plan In this paper, we asked who is actually shaping refugee camps when they remain in place far longer than anyone...

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Decided or Divided? An Empirical Analysis of the Decision-making Process of Dutch Homeowners for Energy Renovation Measures.

2019

Een renovatiebeslissing groeit stap voor stap In dit onderzoek laten we zien waarom energierenovatie voor huiseigenaren geen eenvoudige rekensom is. Nederland moet de bestaande woningvoorraad...

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Circular (de)construction in the Superlocal Project

2019

Starting with what the neighbourhood already had In the Superlocal project in Kerkrade, we looked at deconstruction as more than the final act of removing...

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Are Energy Decisions About Energy?

Nurhan Abujidi Wendy Broers Veronique Vasseur René Kemp Zeger Vroon

2018

Home energy choices are also choices about everyday life In this conference paper, we asked whether kilowatt-hours, insulation values and payback periods are enough to...

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(re)CYCLE Limburg booklet

2018

Kerkrade-West as a place to test another future (re)CYCLE Limburg documents the first phase of an intensive design and research process in Kerkrade-West. Developed through...

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(re)CYCLE Limburg, A Co-design Approach for Transforming Public Spaces in Kerkrade West

2017

Why we started in Kerkrade-West In this publication, we look at public space as a practical starting point for renewal in Kerkrade-West. The area has...

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