The Think Tank: Debate, meet and expose 21st century agriculture

The Raadhuis (1938-1939) is located in the centre of Winterswijk, together with its surroundings, it offers great possibilities to create a communal centre on this site again. In its past this has already been the case with the post office, banks, church and of course the town hall on site. Next to that the Winterswijk offers a perfect tourism...

Thuis in Hillesluis: leven in de Ambachtsschool

A vacant former school building in Hillesluis, Rotterdam-South, is transformed into dwellings specifically designed for residents of this area who are moving upward the ladder of social mobility (“sociale stijgers”). In order to enable them to climb up (or start on) the property ladder, research is conducted on their housing preferences. Three...

New Natural Landscape:Restoring biodiversity in post-industrial region,Parkstad-Limburg

Parkstad Limburg is a conurbation of eight municipalities in South-Limburg in the Netherlands. It’s a typical post-industrial city on the coal mine belt which crosses Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. Due to the stop of coal mining this region lost its pillar industry and now is facing a series of problems of shrinkage in economy and population....

Waiting for Heathrow

The Design as Politics theme for this year is migration, which was the starting point for this project. I took this to mean, in general, ‘movement’ - rather than migration across countries for economic reasons or from danger zones as refugees. Instead, I decided to focus more on how the daily migration of people affects the spaces in which we...