A Trifle Strife?: Public Space, Rituals and Communalism

This study investigates Bengaluru’s Chamarajpet Eidgah Maidan as a proxy of Hindu-Muslim religious communalism manifesting in public space. The maidan has been a ground of controversy since June 2022 due to a conflict over its use for (religious) ritual activities. The incumbent Hindu-nationalist BJP government fails to mediate such...

Next, Chinatown: community design for transforming Rotterdam Chinatown

This report examines the role of an urban designer in a multicultural society. When an urban society is overlapped with a spatial and diverse cultural layer, a cultural community is seen as the essential unit for outreaching and interacting with this complex environment. Community design is required for an urban designer to explore the...

Regenerating Moerwijk: Constructing a framework for regeneration to improve community life and the public realm in Moerwijk

This graduation project searches for a framework for regeneration that integrates several core themes to bring about more social interaction in a post-war neighborhood like Moerwijk while at the same time densifying it. The result of the research is a constructed pattern language. The pattern language forms the basis of the framework for...

Whose City Is It?: How to Achieve Socio-Spatial Justice By Using Citizen Participation Systems Focus Area: Rotterdam South, Tarwewijk

This research project focuses on how to provide the necessary infrastructure for citizen participation systems and encourage the inhabitants to get involved in the decision-making process in the communities by developing an alternative strategic framework, which offers a step-by-step community activation system. The main location of this study...

Domestication Will Shape Future Public Spaces: A Report from Rotterdam

This commentary aims to provide a window on the future by studying actions, taken to control the spreading of the corona virus, while obviously affecting public space over a year. What has been the effects on public space directly linked to these actions during the pandemic; what values play a role, and what can we expect for the future? We have...

Living at the hub

The site of the project -Teleport O, is situated in strategic position for the whole Amsterdam: at the transport hub – Sloterdijk station, and in one of the “green fingers” of Amsterdam, reaching the city centre. The qualities of the location are not efficiently used. The “green finger” is interrupted with the office area, where a lot of...

Blove: The shared library of TUDelft

Using Mekel Park, the unfrequented green area of TUDelft as a study-case, the project provides both theoretical foundation and practical application to increase and foster the use of public space involving its community. Few years ago the central public space of TUDelft campus was completely renovated with the creation of a green area called...