Becoming Nairobi: Codifying Public Space for an Arrivals' City

Drawing back on my experience of living in Nairobi, this thesis explores the city’s dynamic system of public space and tries to improve its legibility by establishing a framework for its use and design. Exploring Nairobi as a city of arrival, my personal process in the development of this project was quite similar to that of coming to Nairobi as...

Designing with Tourism

Designing with Tourism represents an alternative approach for the regional development in Puglia, Southern Italy, using tourism through spatial design.<br/>The approach have been tested on the town of Altamura (BA) and it proposes a Widespread Territorial Multifunctional Park that blends the industry of tourism with the local reality aiming to...

Dashain, new civic places for a society in transition

On September 16th 2015, Nepal signed its new constitution, which, among others articles, claims the federalization of the country, makes the nation secular and allows freedom of expression. This event represents a milestone and a glimpse of hope after decades of internal political instability and uncertain administrations, which even led to ten...

JUST Food, pig farming in an Arcadian landscape

With a decentralizing government on the background there is a need for new ways of envisioning our future. In the Design as Politics studio this is done by researching an Utopia, in this case applied to our global system of food production. The proposed design of pig farming in an arcadian landscape answers the main research question 'What are...

Learning by Doing: Re-imagining craft education

Post-Exodus or the involuntary prisoners of architecture

Post-Exodus or the involuntary prisoners of Architecture, is a project about corrupt well intended top-down pretentions. A project about when utopia becomes dystopia. About when the built environment becomes out of tune with experienced and desired reality. Accumulating to the point of large scale vacancy and crisis. The focus of the project...

Freedom VIC for Urban VIC Team: Village in the City transformation in Shenzhen, China

This graduate project is called “Freedom VIC for Urban VIC Team”, which is dealing with the Village in the City (VIC) transformation in Shenzhen China, focusing on the transformation of VIC (the “ghetto” area), in Shenzhen’s current society. This project derives from the current situation that there are 251 VICs in the inner city of Shenzhen,...