Metaverse | Transitioning (To) Future Cities: Transdisciplinary platforms as instruments to democratise technology for participatory use in building back neglected urban voids of Riga

We are at the beginning of the most significant societal change since the internet. We are transitioning from a 2-dimensional browser-based interaction to immersive 3-dimensional experiences. The metaverse is not a place or a destination but a state where technology and ecosystem are symbiotic. <br/>Digital Twins, interactive toolkits,...

THEIR FORTRESS: The regeneration of migrant laneways from both social and spatial perspectives

<br/>The main object of this study is the migrant laneway, which refers to the old community in the city center that attracts migrant workers because of its low rent and good location. This kind of community in urgent need of renewal contains three aspects: spatial, social and the process of renewal. This study regards these three aspects as the...

Platform Urbanism Beyond Colonization and Commodification: Designing the Platform Before It Designs Us

The rapid upsurge of the platform economy is producing profound changes to the way in which urban areas are functioning. With digital technology putting roots down in the fields of public transport, hospitality and the service industry, it opened up possibilities for new platform economy companies to nest themselves within the activities of...

Flourishing Foodvalley: Pattern language as a co-design method to approach the transition towards circular agricultural systems in a hybrid landscape.

This thesis explores the possibility of circularity to regenerate the degraded agricultural systems of the Foodvalley region. The Foodvalley is a regional network organization, consisting of eight municipalities situated partly in the province of Utrecht and partly the province of Gelderland. Circularity is used to describe a way in which...

Towards a Critical Urbanism: Evaluation and revision of the Open Society concept (Welfare State period) across Western Europe, the Netherlands and Spain

Currently, there is a growing gap between theory and practice in urban and architecture fields, that requires dialogue on multiple fronts, scales, and new perspectives. Bridging this gap and achieving a successful transition to a new era. In which theory and practice must work together cohesively creating new methods, models, new points of...

Playgrounds of commons| Spatial interventions for collective appropriation towards liveability and diversity in Rotterdam South: The case of Oud Charlois and Waalhaven

How would it be if collective appropriation was an essential part of a spatial strategy?<br/>Playgrounds of commons refer to a mix of top – down and bottomup<br/>spatial strategies and design interventions taking as a starting<br/>point that Rotterdam South can be seen, and (re)designed as an<br/>heterotopia, where as Shane (2003) underlines...

The temporary citizen: and the spatial implications of the next mode of energy in Vlissingen

With a new scale of operating and constructing large offshore wind farms, harbours and adjacent cities are facing a transition. This transition will include an increase of work migration and temporary citizens within the area. The construction of a wind farm from the port of Vlissingen-Oost will result in a comings and goings of all kind of high...