Engagement by Design: How four residential gardens in the Randstad (NL) stimulate healthy interactions between individuals, community, and place.

Culture and Context in Public Space Design: Symbolic ornamentation, local craftsmanship and public participation as a way to enable meaning and affordance

Rapid urbanization and increasing globalization of urban development strategies are resulting in a lack of connection between people and places, and places and their context. Nevertheless, cultural embedding and sense of place have a direct impact on the quality of public space. The purpose of this research is to explore culture and context...

Geomorphological mapping in urban areas

Designing with Hybridity, Scalar Paradoxes, and Complex Dynamics: How Two Domestic Gardens Challenge the Contemporary Landscape Imagination

Belonging to the small-scale and private sphere, gardens are usually omitted from urban and regional landscape plans. Yet, we argue that the assemblage of everyday gardens – the garden complex – is an inherent component of the landscape metropolis that holds the potential to become a powerful landscape agency. This potential is enclosed, among...

Mapping and Design as Interrelated Processes: Constructing Space-Time Narratives

Mapping Landscapes in Transformation

Innovation in mapping methods for historical landscape research is flourishing,<br/>largely because this type of research is situated at the very fertile intersection of<br/>ongoing technological development and sustained critical reflection. On the one<br/>hand, the development of digital tools for data capturing, data analysis and data<br/...