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Extractivism To Circularism

An exploration of the the spatial implications of the Critical Raw Materials Act in the Netherlands

The European Union’s Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA) aims to address the growing demand and supply chain disruptions of critical raw materials essential for energy and digital transitions. While the Act emphasizes enhancing processing, recycling, and extraction activities withi ...

Weaving Flax Fiber into the Territorial Fabric

A spatial design exploration on the potential role of flax in a circular biobased building sector in the Netherlands

Shifting to a circular biobased building sector is imperative to address pressing environmental challenges while meeting societal needs. The construction sector, responsible for a significant portion of global carbon emissions, faces the additional demand of constructing and refu ...
The Delta Program states that the Netherlands must be climate-resilient and water-robust by 2050, posing a great challenge to spatial planning. This imminent challenge of climate adaptation requires a common ground of interdisciplinary approach as monodisciplinary reductionist ap ...

Qualities of Density

Sustainable and Livable Renewal of Urban Village's Industrial Parks in the context of Industrial Transition in Shenzhen

The starting point of this project is the search for a renewal approach, including process and outcome, that allows urban village communities to move from labour-intensive industry-dominated production and living space to a sustainable and livable high-density community in the co ...

Cross me if you can

Approach to CO2 through mobility in the areas of cross-border regions

Cities are responsible for a great amount of CO2 emissions related to transportation (CBS). However, the greatest amount of CO2 is caused by private transport and is mainly associated with peri-urban (the peri-urban area is a common place to live for the natural environment and a ...

Donut Diet

Agricultural transition towards a circular, collective, and regenerative future

There is an imbalance in the nitrogen cycle, mainly caused by an increasingly intensive agricultural sector. This leads to the degradation of nature and the loss of biodiversity. Measures have been taken at European level to reduce the amount of nitrogen emitted by the agricultur ...

Elements for Appropriation

Cultural and ecological values of interstitial urban spaces in the Netherlands

Interstitial urban spaces form an exception in the very organised urban-rural monocultural landscapes in the Netherlands. These unplanned in-between spaces are rarely valued from a traditional planning perspective, in which they are seen as “empty” or “unused”, thus ready for dev ...

Circularity of the Everyday

A Pattern Language for the Transition towards a Circular Food System of the Everyday Life in Schalkwijk

The current linear food system in the Netherlands has a negative impact on the environment, requiring almost ten times the biocapacity the country has to offer. The food sector plays a big role in generating this inequality - this overconsumption, and of the entire food supply ch ...

Patching Up The Lowlands

Towards sustainable metropolitan development and enhanced spatial qualities in the peri-urban interface of the Deltametropolis through biophilic and technophilic developments

The Netherlands is a place where the interplay between mankind and Nature1 resonates deeply within the roots of its omnipresent cultural landscape. Proactively shaping this landscape, which is widely considered as the most eminent aspect of place identity of the Lowlands, stands ...

Towards a Sustainable and Liveable Desakota

Designing for sustainable industry transition in the peri-urban territory of the Greater Bay Area

This thesis explores spatial strategies for achieving sustainable industry transition in the dispersed urbanised areas of the Greater Bay Area (GBA) in China. Since 1978, urbanisation in the GBA has accelerated, significantly expanding beyond metropolitan regions. These dispersed ...

The Fresh Rhine

A strategy for a clean and consistent water flow in a resilient Rhine River basin

The global water crisis could 'spiral out of control' due to overconsumption, pollution, and climate change. Building resilient freshwater systems is one of the most significant challenges in the face of climate change.
The Rhine River basin is home to over 60 million people. ...

The Power of Justice

Spatial Strategies for a fair Energy Transition in North-West Europe

The energy industry is responsible for almost 89% of GHG emissions (IEA, 2022), and projected CO2 emissions would exceed the 1.5°C goal (IPCC,2023). There is no question that we need to transition towards renewable energy sources, it has become an urgency and we need to transitio ...

From Degradation to Regeneration

Revitalizing the socio-ecological agricultural landscapes of North-West European Lowlands

The current food production and distribution system has led to extensive degradation on both the global and local scale, requiring a transformation of the vast, urbanized rural - beyond just climate-change mitigation but radical regeneration.
The ongoing intensive agricultur ...
All over the world, cities are attempting to emit less carbon to limit the possibly detrimental effects of human-induced climate change. One way to limit carbon emissions is by reducing fossil fuel car use and transitioning to forms of low-carbon mobility. Electric vehicles (EVs) ...

Dare to switch off

The transformative Urban Energy Landscape of Oud-Crooswijk

exploitative energy production to meet the demand (Our World in Data, 2021). The current energy system causes climate change, pollution, and pressure on space (Our World in Data, 2021) (Withagen, 1994) (KNMI, 2020)(NOS, 2017). The energy transition begins to take shape, companies ...
Urban environments in the Netherlands are under a lot of pressure. Deca
des of urbanization, emitting greenhouse gasses and diminishing ecology
have created far going consequences for our living environments. Cities
are experiencing increasing heatwaves, heavier and ...

Spatial approaches to a circular economy

Determining locations and scales of closing material loops using geographic data

Rapid urbanization and a growing world population has exerted unsustainable pressures on the environment, exacerbating climate change through unrestrained material usage and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Since the turn of the century, transitioning to a circular economy (CE) ha ...

Textile Landscape

A design exploration to understand the spatial dimensions of a local , circular textile ecosystem in Noord-Brabant.

One of the largest productive and economic chains in the world is the textile area. Not only providing the highest level of employment around the world but also making this one of the most polluting activities (Provin et al., 2020). There is a growing awareness among the Dutch go ...

City around the corner

Strategic design interventions to alter the urban rhythm in the peri-urban areas of Rotterdam

In the current era of global warming and urbanisation, it has become imperative to change the urban rhythm. Our current mobility habits make human and nature unhappy and unhealthy. This problem is apparent in sub-urban neighbourhoods, that often experience low connectivity and lo ...

Reviving the Ruhr

Preparing the Peri-urban Ruhr for an uncertain energy & climate future

With the climate change and energy transition becoming evident and ever so relevant, industrialised regions focussed on fossil fuels need to rethink their socio-economic plan. Furthermore, urban designers are obliged to rethink the energy paradigm. This report combines energy lan ...