Re - Constructing Spatial Narratives: The case of Agrinio city

Agrinio, as a medium-size city of Greece, is suffering by the economic crisis that is infesting the country. However, besides the harsh phenomena that the country, as a whole, is experiencing - increased unemployment and illiteracy rates, poverty, brain drain, population migration, social exclusion, spatial and environmental degradation -, it is...

From Interspace To Interface: Shaping Public Life

Some public spaces in the Netherlands function exceptionally well and provide significant benefit to the wider society in areas such as public health, retail activity and community participation. However, the vast majority of public space does not perform as well. One example is Oude Noorden, where the public space has failed to provide a...

Urban acupuncture: Creating a method to strategically apply and design small scale interventions

How can small scale spatial interventions in public space, by means of citizen participation, strategically contribute to regenerate a deprived neighbourhood in the Netherlands? The main objective of this project was to search for an innovative method for the regeneration of public space by strategically applied and designed small scale...

Liveable port, passive zone: The regeneration of Old City Port in Rotterdam brought by sustainable transformation

Vibrant space / Problem space: Improvement of public spaces in Dutch underprivileged housing areas to increase social cohesion and safety

In this project the answer was searched on the research question how the perceived safety in Dutch underprivileged housing areas can be improved through the enlargement of the social cohesion by means of the design of the public space. In most underprivileged housing areas the socio-spatial problem is that the inhabitants do not feel connected...

Light plan - space for people: A public space strategy towards a 24 hour vitality and socio-spatial integrated inner city for Brussels

This graduation project is a practical research on the way light can be used within the urban context to create vital environments during 24 hours of the day. The connection of the lighting design with the urban design is explored with the goal of integration and regeneration of a disconnected area in the inner city of Brussels.