Landscapes of Power: Reconfiguring the energy production landscape of Western Macedonia

The beginning of the 21st century is defined by geopolitical tensions around resources, an expected shortage of fossil fuel resources and the emerging climate crisis, amplifying the urgency of the transition to renewable energy sources. This energy transition has been at the forefront of public discussion, framed by the 2016 Paris Agreement and...

Energy as a spatio-temporal project: temporalities of energy landscapes in the Rhine Basin

The relation to energy is what carries humanity through every new spatial possibility. The context of the European Green Deal that triggers decarbonisation of many industries and faster energy transition to the latest technologies of renewable energy production is only one among many past and future transitions. All in all, it brings different...

Energy Habitats: Transforming the port's material landscapes through a green-blue spine

The first decades of the 21st century are defined by an expected shortage of fossil resources and an emerging climate crisis which make the transition towards renewable energy resources not only inevitable but also urgent. In the process of this transition, the Port of Rotterdam, associated with the biggest fossil fuel industry landscape in...

Transitioning Energy (and) Landscapes: Exploring infrastructural, architectural and landscape symbiosis

The North Sea region’s energy transition has begun. The prospect of how it will happen and what it will look like, however, is still shrouded in uncertainty. What is clear is that this is a mammoth project of unprecedented scale. The sheer quantity of renewables we need to integrate into our energy infrastructures will transform our peri-urban...

Geographies of Power: Spatial Strategies for a 'just' energy transition in Tamil Nadu

The era of energy transition has brought to the front, the incredible potential of designing the reciprocal relationship between energy and space. The transition to renewable sources of energy like wind, solar and geothermal energy, uses space in a different way- its altered spatial qualities have blurred the boundaries between technical space ...

Energy Landscapes: Shaping the energy transition in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area

Through the perspective of Urban Metabolism, that focuses on the design of flows, this project researches the flow of energy in regards to the Paris climate agreement of 2015. The energy transition towards renewable resources is considered in the terms of spatial impact and public acceptance. The energy landscape is used as a design concept that...

Empower the energy landscape of Friesland

Many parties are required to activate the energy transition. It’s a challenge for everybody: citizens, businesses, governments and civil society organizations at all levels. Not just at (inter) national level, but renewable energy should also, especially, be given shape on the regional and local scale. To realize local opportunities of energy in...

Limburg Dross - Future Spatial Forms of Industrial Productive Landscapes

This research seeks to understand what underused industrial landscapes spatially mean to the city regions they occupy and how they can be better integrated into the daily lives of the thousands of people living or working nearby. By utilizing the transition to sustainable energy sources as the backbone for new interventions in the city fabric...