In October 2016, SPcitI launched the research-by-design study ‘MensenWerk – The Future of Urban Living, Planning for the Unknown’, in collaboration with a group of stakeholder and experts. With this project, we want to start an initiative to study the spatial…
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Interviews for ‘MensenWerk’
Posted in Design Research, Netherlands, News, Projects, Research Tagged with: MensenWerk, MRA, spatial planning, the future of urban living, work
ISOCARP 2016 Article: The Future of Urban Living
During the 2016 52nd ISOCARP Congress in Durban, South Africa, Miranda Schut presented a paper entitled “The future of Urban Living: New Forms of Work – Planning for the Unknown in Amterdam”. The paper was part of the congress fourth…
Posted in International, News, Presentation, Projects, Research Tagged with: Amsterdam, Future of Urban Living, ISOCARP, MRA, Planning Strategy, research, Urban Policy
ISIGE-Mines ParisTech on a Field Trip to Amsterdam
Last week, a group of students of the ISIGE Institute, enrolled in the master program “ingenierie et gestion de l’environment” (environmental engineering and management) at the Ecole des Mines de Paris were in Amsterdam. The one-week long trip, guided by Miranda…
Posted in Knowledge Transfer, Netherlands, News Tagged with: Amsterdam, Circluar Economy, Field Trip, ISIGE Mines ParisTech, Social Innovation
Linking Urban Farming and Urban Planning in Times of Crisis: Food Strategies for the Al Za’atari Camp
In July 2016, SPCitI, in collaboration with RUAF, conducted a second mission to Al Za’atari Camp in Marfraq, Jordan. This second field work assignment is a follow-up to the first scoping mission organized in 2015 and commissioned by VNG International. During…
Posted in International, News, Projects Tagged with: Camp Al Za'atari, Jordan, Mafraq, regional strategy, RUAF, social cohesion, Urban Agriculture
Porto Novo “Ville Verte”, Benin
In the first two weeks of February, the French NGO ‘Les Ateliers‘ organised a workshop in Porto-Novo, the capital city of Benin in West Africa. Two teams of 12 international experts, of which Miranda, brainstormed to identify directions for the development…
Posted in International, News, Workshop Tagged with: Benin, development plan, green city, Porto-Novo, sustainability, Workshop
