Garden in the Machine

This project incorporates a wide range of cultural and historical references, using the archive footage of the construction of the Flevopolder, the Venetian polder landscape, Robert Smithson’s work on territories and mines and Roman mythology to construct a narrative about new towns, and new beginnings. Situated on the threshold between the...

Erosion for Betterment: Designing with Erosion to improve well-being | a case study of the Volta Delta, Ghana

Erosion for Betterment is a graduation project within the Landscape Architecture master track at the TU Delft. The project examines an underdeveloped coastal area in Ghana that is sadly facing severe erosional threats due to previous unfortunate human activities. It offers an unexpected direction in handling issues as such by proposing an...

Framing Atmospheres: A journey through Rue du Faubourg du Temple

This graduation project finds its origins in my fascination for cities and its atmospheres, which are endangered by the process called gentrification. Gentrification is the effect in which urban areas are renovated and upgraded causing for lower-income classes to be abandoned towards the outer city. Living in the inner city becomes only...

Gender Walk Design: Tapping the potential of the collective knowledge as a research and design tool in the (multicultural) *Kiez, Berlin-Neukölln

The graduation project ‘Gender Walk Design’ investigated genderwalks as a method for knowledge gathering in planning and design. Because gender based differences and inequalities are present in cities, the work towards understanding and reacting to them is very relevant for urbanists. However, intersectional gender aware design is extremely...