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Spatial design is commonly positioned as a neutral technical discipline concerned with improving cities and spatial conditions through rational analysis and objective methods. This research challenges that assumption by examining the colonial foundations embedded within the discipline itself. The tools of spatial design emerged within colonial systems of governance and continue to participate in the territorial logics of dispossession, extraction and control. Colonialism is therefore not approached as a historical event but as an ongoing structure that continues to organise space in the present.
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This research investigates the complicity of spatial design in the reproduction of these structures. Through the cases of Palestine, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, it examines how colonial relations continue to shape contemporary spatial realities. These territories are not treated as isolated contexts. They are read as interconnected manifestations of a broader global system in which spatial design plays an active and largely unexamined role.
The research is structured around the Situated Negotiation Methodology, a framework developed to address the limitations of conventional urbanist methods when engaging with contexts shaped by colonialism, occupation and ongoing violence. By positioning positionality as a methodological necessity, the framework enables engagement with fragmented, contested and uneven forms of knowledge while accounting for the researcher’s own embeddedness within the systems under investigation.
The research concludes through radical imagination. By constructing speculative spatial futures for Palestine, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the absence of colonial intervention, it explores how these territories might have developed beyond the constraints imposed by colonial rule. Decolonisation is approached as both a disciplinary and personal process. Ultimately, this research calls for greater accountability within spatial design and argues for forms of knowledge production that recognise, confront and resist the colonial structures through which the discipline continues to operate. ...
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This research investigates the complicity of spatial design in the reproduction of these structures. Through the cases of Palestine, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, it examines how colonial relations continue to shape contemporary spatial realities. These territories are not treated as isolated contexts. They are read as interconnected manifestations of a broader global system in which spatial design plays an active and largely unexamined role.
The research is structured around the Situated Negotiation Methodology, a framework developed to address the limitations of conventional urbanist methods when engaging with contexts shaped by colonialism, occupation and ongoing violence. By positioning positionality as a methodological necessity, the framework enables engagement with fragmented, contested and uneven forms of knowledge while accounting for the researcher’s own embeddedness within the systems under investigation.
The research concludes through radical imagination. By constructing speculative spatial futures for Palestine, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the absence of colonial intervention, it explores how these territories might have developed beyond the constraints imposed by colonial rule. Decolonisation is approached as both a disciplinary and personal process. Ultimately, this research calls for greater accountability within spatial design and argues for forms of knowledge production that recognise, confront and resist the colonial structures through which the discipline continues to operate. ...
Spatial design is commonly positioned as a neutral technical discipline concerned with improving cities and spatial conditions through rational analysis and objective methods. This research challenges that assumption by examining the colonial foundations embedded within the discipline itself. The tools of spatial design emerged within colonial systems of governance and continue to participate in the territorial logics of dispossession, extraction and control. Colonialism is therefore not approached as a historical event but as an ongoing structure that continues to organise space in the present.
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This research investigates the complicity of spatial design in the reproduction of these structures. Through the cases of Palestine, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, it examines how colonial relations continue to shape contemporary spatial realities. These territories are not treated as isolated contexts. They are read as interconnected manifestations of a broader global system in which spatial design plays an active and largely unexamined role.
The research is structured around the Situated Negotiation Methodology, a framework developed to address the limitations of conventional urbanist methods when engaging with contexts shaped by colonialism, occupation and ongoing violence. By positioning positionality as a methodological necessity, the framework enables engagement with fragmented, contested and uneven forms of knowledge while accounting for the researcher’s own embeddedness within the systems under investigation.
The research concludes through radical imagination. By constructing speculative spatial futures for Palestine, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the absence of colonial intervention, it explores how these territories might have developed beyond the constraints imposed by colonial rule. Decolonisation is approached as both a disciplinary and personal process. Ultimately, this research calls for greater accountability within spatial design and argues for forms of knowledge production that recognise, confront and resist the colonial structures through which the discipline continues to operate.
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This research investigates the complicity of spatial design in the reproduction of these structures. Through the cases of Palestine, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, it examines how colonial relations continue to shape contemporary spatial realities. These territories are not treated as isolated contexts. They are read as interconnected manifestations of a broader global system in which spatial design plays an active and largely unexamined role.
The research is structured around the Situated Negotiation Methodology, a framework developed to address the limitations of conventional urbanist methods when engaging with contexts shaped by colonialism, occupation and ongoing violence. By positioning positionality as a methodological necessity, the framework enables engagement with fragmented, contested and uneven forms of knowledge while accounting for the researcher’s own embeddedness within the systems under investigation.
The research concludes through radical imagination. By constructing speculative spatial futures for Palestine, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the absence of colonial intervention, it explores how these territories might have developed beyond the constraints imposed by colonial rule. Decolonisation is approached as both a disciplinary and personal process. Ultimately, this research calls for greater accountability within spatial design and argues for forms of knowledge production that recognise, confront and resist the colonial structures through which the discipline continues to operate.
Energetic Agronomies
A radical approach to reimagine farmers as the backbone of energy transition
Student report
(2025)
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S. Stulen, A. Chourti, W.J. Koster, Sodaba Sodaba Khalili, I. Luque Martin, C.E.L. Newton
The current direction of energy production in the Netherlands will not reach the goal of climate neutrality by 2050. Existing methods are insufficient, storage is lacking, and space is scarce. Meanwhile, farmers bear the responsibility of consistently changing climate policies, facing uncertainties, and the NIMBY mindset blocks the drastic transformation of agricultural areas. The current profit model of energy suppliers demotivates local participation in realizing solutions. Rethinking the relationship between land, energy, community and politics, can transform these challenges into a bold and innovative approach that bridges these sectors.
By 2125, agricultural land will produce and store all green energy of the Netherlands and farmers will hold a secure position within a sustainable urban-agricultural system. Eliminating the current profit model of energy suppliers will result in a kickstart for local participation while balancing the spatial demands of renewable energy and the identity of agricultural land.
To address structural problems at the core, a radical approach is necessary, which results in working with several disclaimers over a timeframe of 150 years. A review on ethical considerations and defining a theoretical foundation, supports comprehensive decision-making throughout the project. By implementing the spatial qualities of the Dutch landscape in the definition of bioregions, the strategy can implement suitable energy production methods on agricultural lands surrounding our cities, to provide the local energy and food demand. Through investigating the possibilities of innovative technologies of energy production, ecological farming strategies and a restructured social contract, this project provides a strategy towards a local energy system.
With a case study of one of these cities, the project illustrates further spatial implementations and design possibilities, phasing movements and interventions to the year 2175. By addressing not only spatial and ecological needs within the energy transition, a social equitable path is provided, challenging the current state of affairs. The research concludes in proposing an energy transition with farmers perceived as the solution, while reshaping rural-urban relations in the future. ...
By 2125, agricultural land will produce and store all green energy of the Netherlands and farmers will hold a secure position within a sustainable urban-agricultural system. Eliminating the current profit model of energy suppliers will result in a kickstart for local participation while balancing the spatial demands of renewable energy and the identity of agricultural land.
To address structural problems at the core, a radical approach is necessary, which results in working with several disclaimers over a timeframe of 150 years. A review on ethical considerations and defining a theoretical foundation, supports comprehensive decision-making throughout the project. By implementing the spatial qualities of the Dutch landscape in the definition of bioregions, the strategy can implement suitable energy production methods on agricultural lands surrounding our cities, to provide the local energy and food demand. Through investigating the possibilities of innovative technologies of energy production, ecological farming strategies and a restructured social contract, this project provides a strategy towards a local energy system.
With a case study of one of these cities, the project illustrates further spatial implementations and design possibilities, phasing movements and interventions to the year 2175. By addressing not only spatial and ecological needs within the energy transition, a social equitable path is provided, challenging the current state of affairs. The research concludes in proposing an energy transition with farmers perceived as the solution, while reshaping rural-urban relations in the future. ...
The current direction of energy production in the Netherlands will not reach the goal of climate neutrality by 2050. Existing methods are insufficient, storage is lacking, and space is scarce. Meanwhile, farmers bear the responsibility of consistently changing climate policies, facing uncertainties, and the NIMBY mindset blocks the drastic transformation of agricultural areas. The current profit model of energy suppliers demotivates local participation in realizing solutions. Rethinking the relationship between land, energy, community and politics, can transform these challenges into a bold and innovative approach that bridges these sectors.
By 2125, agricultural land will produce and store all green energy of the Netherlands and farmers will hold a secure position within a sustainable urban-agricultural system. Eliminating the current profit model of energy suppliers will result in a kickstart for local participation while balancing the spatial demands of renewable energy and the identity of agricultural land.
To address structural problems at the core, a radical approach is necessary, which results in working with several disclaimers over a timeframe of 150 years. A review on ethical considerations and defining a theoretical foundation, supports comprehensive decision-making throughout the project. By implementing the spatial qualities of the Dutch landscape in the definition of bioregions, the strategy can implement suitable energy production methods on agricultural lands surrounding our cities, to provide the local energy and food demand. Through investigating the possibilities of innovative technologies of energy production, ecological farming strategies and a restructured social contract, this project provides a strategy towards a local energy system.
With a case study of one of these cities, the project illustrates further spatial implementations and design possibilities, phasing movements and interventions to the year 2175. By addressing not only spatial and ecological needs within the energy transition, a social equitable path is provided, challenging the current state of affairs. The research concludes in proposing an energy transition with farmers perceived as the solution, while reshaping rural-urban relations in the future.
By 2125, agricultural land will produce and store all green energy of the Netherlands and farmers will hold a secure position within a sustainable urban-agricultural system. Eliminating the current profit model of energy suppliers will result in a kickstart for local participation while balancing the spatial demands of renewable energy and the identity of agricultural land.
To address structural problems at the core, a radical approach is necessary, which results in working with several disclaimers over a timeframe of 150 years. A review on ethical considerations and defining a theoretical foundation, supports comprehensive decision-making throughout the project. By implementing the spatial qualities of the Dutch landscape in the definition of bioregions, the strategy can implement suitable energy production methods on agricultural lands surrounding our cities, to provide the local energy and food demand. Through investigating the possibilities of innovative technologies of energy production, ecological farming strategies and a restructured social contract, this project provides a strategy towards a local energy system.
With a case study of one of these cities, the project illustrates further spatial implementations and design possibilities, phasing movements and interventions to the year 2175. By addressing not only spatial and ecological needs within the energy transition, a social equitable path is provided, challenging the current state of affairs. The research concludes in proposing an energy transition with farmers perceived as the solution, while reshaping rural-urban relations in the future.