Water as a carrier for futuure values: a design for the long term transition for the Benthuizer Noordpolder, The Netherlands

Living in the deep polders in the deltaic landscape of the Netherlands poses large-scale challenges. Biodiversity decline, weather extremes, sea level rise, salination, the housing crisis, and subsidence affect large parts of the Netherlands. These challenges should be tackled together through the integral question of ‘what does the area need?’...

Inhabiting Pollution to Address the Commodification of Nature: An analysis into Bourj Hammound Landfill, Beirut

Beirut is a catastrophically polluted place; the foul garbage piling up on the streets, high level of air pollution and rapid privatisation of green spaces are all causes of such an ill-treated palimpsest city which has quickly declined into this condition. Today Beirut relies heavily on its port, which has been conceived from the sea like its...