On 29 May, the day IABR–2014–URBAN BY NATURE– opens to the public, the design and water sectors gather for the symposium Urban Design in Times of Climate Change.

Cross-sector cooperation is an essential precondition when we want to develop innovative solutions for sustainable urban development. Designers and water specialists, mainly from the United States and the Netherlands, will gather to discuss how we can take concrete steps towards the further integration of the water sector and the creative industry, and why this is essential in times of climate change.

The moderator is Henk Ovink (principal of Rebuild by Design and Senior Advisor for Secretary Shaun Donovan of HUD and the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force)

PROGRAM:

from 9 a.m.
Coffee and croissants at Kunsthalcafé

10.00 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. symposium
The symposium will be opened by Steven L. Stockton, director of Civil Works (USACE - US Army Corps of Engineers)
In three sessions, ten projects will be presented by national and international speakers. The symposium will focus on how the Dutch integrated approach, where water knowledge and design are combined, contribute to finding solutions in times of climate change.
The program includes case studies from Jakarta, Istanbul and Rotterdam and inspiring examples of designers and stakeholders involved in Rebuild by Design, an American design competition set up after Hurricane Sandy to address the vulnerability of the New York-New Jersey region, a region that is economically essential to the USA.

Session 1
•Dawn Zimmer (Mayor Hoboken, New Jersey) / Nanco Dolman (Royal HaskoningDHV)
•Jeremy Siegel (Bjarke Ingels Group - BIG)
•Florian Boer (De Urbanisten - Rotterdam Climate Resilient City)
•Kellie Terry-Sepulveda (The Point Community Development Corporation, New York City)

Session 2
•Adriaan Geuze (West8)
•Frans van de Ven (Deltares - Dutch approach)
•David van Zelm van Eldik (Deltaprogramma Nieuwbouw & Herstructurering, Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Milieu)

Session 3
•Lodewijk van Nieuwenhuize (H+N+S – Beykoz, Turkey)
•David Waggonner (Waggonner & Ball Architects, New Orleans)
•Kristian Koreman (ZUS)

12.30 uur closing

organized by: Rebuild by Design, IABR, NWP (Netherlands Water Partnership), Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment

language: English
admission is free, please register at r.melaard@nwp.nl

Inspiring examples and upbeat stories from Lagos, Can Tho and Jakarta.

Climate change, flooding, lack of infrastructure and jobs: Can such multi-facetted challenges develop into income opportunities for the urban poor? Can local construction and indigene living methods teach us innovative approaches on how to address flooding? And how do participatory methods in urban design and planning feed into this? Local Solutions provides a platform to participants in IABR–2014–URBAN BY NATURE– and other guests who are dealing with these questions and possible approaches.

Participants include Kelly Shannon, Bruno De Meulder, Daliana Suryawinata, Florian Heinzelmann, Philippe Urech, Taibat Lawanson and Fabienne Hoelzel.
Moderated by Thomas Häusler, chief science editor at SRF Radio.

language: English
admission is free

IABR–2014–project #61: Waste Incubator: Makoko! (Fabulous Urban) - Lagos, Nigeria

^{Fabulous Urban}

On the occasion of the publication 'City and Wind - Climate as an Architectural Instrument' (DOM Publishers, May 2014) and the participation of the research project ´51.9 ° N - wind - city – climate´ in IABR–2014–URBAN BY NATURE–, the TU Berlin, msa Münster and the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design (RAvB) organize a symposium that addresses the integration of climate into the architectural and urban design process.
How can the design of neighborhoods and buildings optimize the urban climate? Experts discuss the relationship between architecture, urbanism and environment.

Speakers: Peter Mensinga (ARUP, Amsterdam), Tobias Armborst (Vassar College of Art/Interboro, New York), Duzan Doepel (Lector Sustainable Architecture / Doepel Strijkers, Rotterdam) Mareike Krautheim (Architect, Berlin/Rotterdam), Ralf Pasel (TU Berlin / pasel.künzel architects, Rotterdam), Sven Pfeiffer (FH Münster), Joachim Schultz-Granberg (FH Münster)

language: English
admission is free

You can order the publication ‘City and Wind - Climate as an Architectural Instrument’ (DOM Publishers, May 2014) here.

Hong Kong is a city without ground. Public life here takes place on the numerous foot bridges and in underpasses, huge shopping malls, corporate lobbies, railway stations, and other nodes, rather than on the ground, in the streets, or on the sidewalks. Within the context of the ´Cities without Ground´ project, selected for the main exhibition of IABR–2014–, Adam Frampton and Jonathan Solomon discuss their guidebook to Hong Kong, ‘Cities Without Ground´, and the implications of that city's unique urbanism on the future of public space.

language: English
admission is free

IABR–2014–project #65: Cities without Ground (Frampton & Solomon & Wong) - Hong Kong

^{© Frampton & Solomon & Wong}

Lecture on the occasion of the photography project ‘Birds Don’t Cry’.
Photographer Anjès Gesink and urban ecologist André de Baerdemaeker show and tell the story of birds that ran into serious trouble after having moved to the city. Having received professional help however they happily moved on with their life.

language: Dutch
for more info please visit www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl
admission with a valid IABR–2014– entry ticket
please register via zondagmiddag@hetnatuurhistorisch.nl

Birds don't cry

The spatial policy and numerous challenges and projects with regard to the Markermeer include measures concerning water quality, flood protection, ecological value, recreational value, and major future challenges related to urbanization and the associated infrastructure. Time to discuss Making Markermeer, and explore where and how projects either impede, support, or eliminate each other and how they are likely to develop over time.

Two zones will be addressed: Marker Wadden / Houtribdijk, containing the reinforcement of Houtribdijk and the development of the Marker Wadden, and the west side of Markermeer with the lee measures Hoornse Hop and dike reinforcement Hoorn/Edam.
The presentations show the results of research by design, carried out in the context of Atelier Making Projects. The debate focuses on the various tasks of ‘Making Markermeer’ and the entire implementation.

Moderator: Bert van Meggelen

2 p.m. Introduction
by André Rijsdorp (Natuurmonumenten)
2.15 p.m. Presentations
- Recommendations Research by Design Markermeer by Frits Palmboom (Van Eesteren Leerstoel)
- Research by Design: Marker Wadden / Houtribdijk by Rik de Visser (Vista Landschapsarchitectuur & Stedenbouw)
- Research by Design: west side Markermeer by Ruut van Paridon en Karen de Groot (Van Paridon en de Groot)
3.45 pm Debate
How are cultivation of nature, water safety and recreation integrated and implemented in the projects for Markermeer? How can Markemeer be developed into a Metropolitan landscape?
5 - 6 p.m. Drinks

Organized by: Atelier Making Projects, Natuurmonumenten, the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, and the Ministry of Economic Affairs

language: Dutch
free admission, please sign up via ateliermakingprojects@minienm.nl

For more information please visit: Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Milieu

Delta cities struggle with long-term problems such as land subsidence, the effects of climate change, and rapidly growing populations. Jakarta, New Orleans, or Gouda: they all face major challenges.
This debate, hosted by Deltares, addresses ways to optimize the available knowledge of land subsidence, climate change, and adaptive delta management in urban planning and urban policy to create future-proof cities.

language: Dutch
for more info please visit www.deltares.nl
free admission, please sign up via iabr@deltares.nl

Jakarta, Indonesia

^{© Deltares}

On the occasion of IABR–2014–URBAN BY NATURE–, the associations BNA, NVTL and BNSP and the City of Rotterdam organized the competition: ‘The City as an Ecosystem: Designing with Flows.’ The challenge was to make the area Blaak/Westblaak more attractive, sustainable and future-proof.
From among the submitted design ideas, a jury chaired by IABR–2014–Curator Dirk Sijmons selected three nominees. The cash prize will be awarded on 4 June. The winning design will become part of the exhibition URBAN BY NATURE–.
Speakers will include Dirk Sijmons, Paul de Ruiter, Astrid Sanson, and Jos Gadet.

The nominees are:
Weaving Flows: Towards an Adaptive City
Ingrid Ackermans, Guido Zeck, and Peter Twisk

Coop Blaak
Hannah Frederick, Mischa Woutersen, Albertine Tjeenk Willink, and Rob Brink

GFT Avenue, Vegetable and Fruit Gardens in the Center of Rotterdam
Janneska Spoelman, Merten Nefs, and Lucia Dossin

organized by: BNA Research, NVTL and BNSP

language: Dutch
for more information, please visit www.ontwerpenmetstromen.nl
free admission, please sign up via secretariaat@nvtl.nl

What are Smart Cities in the Netherlands going to look like? How are they going to affect infrastructure, the urban metabolism, and the people living in them? In the context of the IABR–2014–, Maarten Hajer (Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency) will discuss these and related issues with Marleen Stikker (Waag Society), Jan Hendrik Dronkers (Rijkswaterstaat), Peter Glas (Water Board Association), Guido Braam (Circle Economy), Chris Sigaloff (Nederland Kennisland), and Jorick Beijer (Blossity).

language: Dutch
free admission, please sign up via www.pbl.nl/iabr
for more info, please visit the PBL's website

Annual commemoration of the wild duck that flew to his untimely death against the glass façade of the new building of the Natural History Museum on 5 June 1995, and was subsequently sexually assaulted by a same-sex congener. The now stuffed duck will make an appearance at 5:55 p.m., the exact time of the fatal accident, and interested parties and specialists will exchange ideas on methods to prevent collisions between birds and glass buildings.
Afterwards, there is a six-course duck dinner at Tai Wu, Mauritsweg 24-26, Rotterdam.

language: Dutch/English
free admission, dinner at own expense
for more information, please visit www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl

Cities compete about which is the most sustainable and green, but being sustainable and green real time is not that easy. What effect do all of the sustainability ambitions have on urban management today and in the future? How can we connect insights, knowledge, creativity, entrepreneurship, and investments? What part will spatial design have to play?

Organized by: Ruimtevolk and Nederlandwordtanders

language: Dutch
free admission, please sign up via www.ruimtevolk.nl

Presentation by Jonathan Loh. His report describes and compares current trends in biological and linguistic diversity, and argues that there are striking parallels between the evolutionary origins of diversity of nature and of culture, with both facing an extinction crisis. However, the extinction processes in languages and in species differ and geographic patterns of extinction risks across the world differ as well.

Jonathan Loh is a biologist, a consultant to the World Wide Fund for Nature and an honorary research associate at the Zoological Society of London.

language: English
free admission, no registration required

Can design help us find an alternative model of urban development, one that does not capitalize on the exploitation of land and natural resources, but on the productive capacity of people and space?

for more information please continue reading here

language: English
free entrance, registration via conference@iabr.nl

São Paulo - the need for new development strategies

^{photo by Joachim Declerck}

The Los Angeles Biennale (LAB) is an experiment in creating a nomadic platform on urbanism and architecture in LA, hosted by other urbanist biennales around the world. Its second installment takes place in Rotterdam, is hosted by IABR and ZUS, and will take place on Friday 13 and Saturday 14 June, on the Luchtsingel in the Schieblock Rotterdam.

LAB@IABR will host a number of architects, urban designers, writers, curators and others in a public setting.
Among the guests invited are Elma van Boxel (ZUS), Dirk van Peijpe (De Urbanisten), George Brugmans (director IABR), Guilherme Wisnik (curator Architecture Biennale of São Paulo), Jose Armenio de Brito Cruz (president of the Brazilian Institute of Architects), Dirk Sijmons (curator IABR–2014–URBAN BY NATURE), Joachim Declerck (Architecture Workroom Brussels), Ilaria Mazzoleni (Professor at Southern California Institute of Architecture), Anthony Carfello (LA Biennale), Adelina Greca (director National Planning Agency of Albania), Joni Baboçi (National Planning Agency Albania), and Ole Bouman (curator).

This time around, LAB will shine the light on a local municipality in Los Angeles County, Vernon City. Known for being “Exclusively Industrial” since its establishment in 1900’s, Vernon City has been home to countless factories involved in food production, storage and distribution.
“The Vernon City Project” has also been a selected entry for IABR–2014–’s main exhibition URBAN BY NATURE– in the Kunsthal Rotterdam.

Discussions will start from the possible forms of urbanism and the critical co-existence with industrial production in the urban core. In Los Angeles, this co-operative condition not only has a strong economic impact on the employment of the labor force but it is also seen as a catalyst to mitigate and counter the sprawl of the city. This also triggers questions on varied conditions of suburbia, sustainability and good city design practices.
What will happen to the city cores as they increasingly become management / middlemen / administrative centers filled with real estate speculation and retail based local economy, often capitalized by global brand name corporations?
What happens to vulnerable communities within the city that are subjected to the fetishisms of the marketing concept “The Future Is Our Product” and all its uncertainties?
Lastly, how should the built environment and involved parties respond to these complex and interconnected issues dealing with the contemporary evolution of nature and urban life?

Location: Luchtsingel Passage
Friday 13 Juni and Saturday 14 Juni: 10:30 AM - 4 PM
language: English

LAB in Shenzhen

The Nomadic Los Angeles Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism first manifested it self at the Architecture Biennale of Shenzhen, in China - for the catalogue, click here.

In the context of the eponymous presentation of eight urban delta regions in the IABR–2014– main exhibition, scientists and designers will address the existing threats and opportunities in various delta regions. Their aim is to realize an exchange of knowledge in the field of measures and spatial strategies: knowledge that can help link the indispensable long-term development of delta water systems facing climate change to short-term plans for urban and nature development.
At the symposium, hosted by Urbanism TU Delft, new theoretical insights and (related) new design concepts and spatial strategies will be presented and discussed.

Program

09:00 Registration and coffee
09:30 Welcome and introduction, Han Meyer, TU Delft

Sessie I: Understanding deltas in transition
10:00 Steffen Nijhuis, TU Delft
10:30 Richard Campanella, Tulane University, New Orleans

11:00 Break

Sessie II: Designing deltas in transition

11:15 Frits Palmboom, TU Delft
11:45 Diego Sepulveda Carmona, TU Delft, Wolbert van Dijk, Rotterdam

12:15 Tom Colbert, University of Houston

13:00 Lunch

13:45 Joao Pedro Costa, University of Lisbon
14:30 Bruno De Meulder, Catholic University of Leuven

15:15 Break

Sessie III Discussion

15:30 Reflections, Peter Bosselmann, University of California, Berkeley, Bas Jonkman, TU Delft
16:00 Debate

17:00 Closure and Drinks

language: English
for more information please visit www.tudelft.nl
free admission, please sign up via l.h.i.devos@tudelft.nl

The meeting Tested on Texel presents innovative projects that demonstrate how developments and changes concerning climate, energy, agriculture, and tourism can be used as development opportunities. The results of the IABR–Project Atelier Planet Texel, which involved many entrepreneurs, social organizations, and inhabitants of Texel, offer concrete suggestions for the mutual enhancement of environmental sustainability and island economics – suggestions that may also be relevant to other islands, (touristic) regions, and cities at home and abroad.

The meeting will address and share the experiences and insights and will look forward towards the next steps: how can the projects presented be implemented? Which are the key stakeholders in this next step? And what are their opinions on the results presented?

For a small preview watch the video Planet Texel

language: Dutch
free admission, please sign up via iabr@texel.nl

Texel Talks (c)

Hans Peter Föllmi

Fen orchid, natterjack toad, and other red-list species have made their permanent home in the Rotterdam port area, just like Europe’s largest colony of black-backed gulls. This field trip is meant for visitors who enjoy seeing the port’s nature up close, accompanied by an ecologist of the BSR (Urban Nature Bureau).

language: Dutch
for more information please visit www.portofrotterdam.com
tickets can be purchased at the Kunsthal checkout counter. As there is only a limited number of seats, we highly recommend that you register via the registration form.

An audiovisual live performance by Theunis Piersma, professor Migratory Bird Ecology and Sytze Pruiksma, composer, sound artist and bird-watcher.

language: Dutch
free admission, no registration required

Urbanization is still expanding rapidly, and it makes feeding the populations of the world’s metropolitan regions a major challenge. Connecting the principles of urban populations to the productive capacities of agribusiness uncovers new strategies. The invited speakers will address the current situation and explore the way forward.

language: Dutch
free admission, please sign up via www.metropolitanagriculture.com

How can the strengths and qualities of the Brabant Mosaic Metropolis be optimized to realize its ambition to become and remain a top knowledge and innovation region? And how can that be done in concurrence with current principles about the appropriation of social energy?
On BrabantStad+ Day, these and other questions will be discussed. The focus will be on the results of research by design performed in the context of the IABR–Project Atelier BrabantStad.

BrabantStad+ Day is the next step in Braband(Stad)’s participation in the IABR, and brings it closer to achieving its goal of developing new approach methods and policy, and advancing the debate on the future of Brabant(Stad).

language: Dutch
free admission, please sign up via ywijns@brabant.nl

How can water-related infrastructures in densely populated deltas be developed in harmony with the environment while making use of nature’s forces and creating new opportunities for nature?
Starting from a number of pilot projects in the Netherlands and abroad, EcoShape, a network of Dutch contractors, consultants, government institutions, applied research institutes, and universities involved in hydraulic engineering and environmental management, wants to discuss these and related issues on the platform of IABR–2014–.

language: Dutch
free admission, please sign up via info@ecoshape.nl

Cities the world over will run into trouble if they do not get a grip on their own metabolism. Flows of energy, food, water, material, and waste are growing fast. On the platform of IABR–2014–URBAN BY NATURE, the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency is staging an international debate on the global challenges that cities face.
Participants are Mark Swilling (Stellenbosch University, UNEP IRP), Philipp Rode (London School of Economics), Joyeeta Gupta (University of Amsterdam) and John Urry (Lancaster University).
The afternoon will be moderated by Maarten Hajer (PBL).

language: English
free admission, please sign up via www.pbl.nl/iabr

The book 'Smart about Cities - visualizing the challenges for 21st century urbanism', by Maarten Hajer and Ton Dassen (PBL), will be presented at the this conference.
The book is available at a reduced prize during the IABR (until Augustus 24, 2014): €19,50 in stead of €24,50. Please order your copy here.

The theme of the IABR–2014– and international observations on the profession of landscape architecture will serve as a mirror to the five Dutch Schools of Landscape Architecture in order to reflect on their programs, find overlaps, differences, and oppositions, and to present their visions and ideas on education.

language: English
free admission, please sign up via www.dutchschooloflandscapearchitecture.nl

For a thousand years, the city of Groningen (200.000), has occupied a strategic position at the end of the Hondsrug. Down through the centuries, the city and countryside have had to rely heavily on one another. In this framework, the city and countryside are continuously rediscovering themselves: as a laboratory where spontaneous innovation continuously occurs.

The Groningen contribution to IABR is the result of a quest to chart this metabolism.

On June 20, during a lunch debate in the Natural History Museum Rotterdam, Dirk Sijmons and other speakers reflect on the position of the Groningen submission to the IABR–2014–URBAN BY NATURE– exhibition.

Speakers:
Roeland van der Schaaf, alderman Spatial Planning Municipality of Groningen
Tjerk Ruimschotel, supervisor Urbanism Municipality of Groningen
Dirk Sijmons, curator IABR–2014–URBAN BY NATURE–
Eric Frijters, architect .FABRIC en lector FUR ( Future Urban Regions)
Yttje Feddes, former Government Advisor on Landscape

start 12 p.m.

Language: Dutch

free admission, please sign up via jeannette.roelofs@groningen.nl quoting name and organization

For more information please visit: www.urbangrolab.nl

^{© Shootmedia/VentoBoreale}

This field trip takes visitors to a number of extraordinary locations, areas, and buildings in the 40-km-long port area. En route, an architect of the Port of Rotterdam Quality Team will explain the spatial policy of the Port Authority and its implementation into practice.

Thanks to the "Visual Quality Program', the quality of the visual appearance of the Rotterdam port area keeps increasing. Consider the renovation of typical buildings, Santas and the RDM-site, and the attention to architecture in the construction of new offices, as Euromax, Port City, Dockworks and the building of British Petroleum (BP). Also in the public space, we see beautiful developments on Maasvlakte 2 and the Maxima Viaduct and Dardanellenweg.

Start at 1 pm at the Kunsthal, the excursion ends at 5 pm

language: Dutch
for more information please visit www.portofrotterdam.com
tickets can be purchased at the Kunsthal checkout counter.

price: combiticket IABR exhibition + field trip: 15 euros per person (please note, regarding the closing time of the Kunsthal, the exhibition can only be visited prior to the field trip!)

As there are only a limited number of seats, we highly recommend that you register via the registration form

Director of the Youth Food Movement Joris Lohman tells about the relationship between nature and our food, and what actions and interventions are needed in the transition to a food system with respect for nature, humans, animals and the environment.

Throughout the world, more and more young people are increasingly aware of the role they can play in the transition to a more sustainable and healthier food culture. An important representative is the Youth Food Movement; part of the international Slow Food Youth Network. They are active since 2009 with the YFM Academy, actions and the annual Food Film Festival, and they are working on a chain-wide network of change-minded young professionals in agro and food.

Programma:
15.00 – 15.30 Reception with coffee and tea
15.30 – 15.40 Welcome by Natasja Oerlemans
Hoofd Footprint & Innovatie bij het Wereld Natuur Fonds
15.40 – 16.30 Lecture 'Nature on your plate' by Joris Lohman

16.30 – 17.00 Drinks with YFM approved snacks

language: Dutch
free admission, no registration required

For more information about the YFM please visit the website.

Youth Food Movement

In The Diversity of Vacancy, the morning session of the conference on Vacancy and Reallocation, various parties will extensively discuss the diversity among unoccupied buildings.

organized by: Board of Government Advisors and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency with the cooperation of Rudy Stroink, RAAAF, SCP, PBL, o.l.v. Ruben Maes

language: Dutch
for more information please visit www.collegevanrijksadviseurs.nl

free admission, please sign up via bram.verhave@rgd.minbzk.nl

What will happen when, rather than reallocating buildings, we reallocate regions, in connection with other challenges in the area?
This debate addresses the research by design into potential strategies for the deployment of the opportunities concordant with reallocation for the creation of a regional spatial and economic agenda.

organized by: Atelier Making Projects, National Real Estate and Development Office, National Office of Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, Creative Industries Fund NL, CRA-Board of Government Advisors

language: Dutch
free admission, please sign up via ateliermakingprojects@minienm.nl

PROJECT ATELIER ROTTERDAM is the next step towards Rotterdam’s goal to become a sustainable city and region. The results are in: the research by design, the developed strategies, and the concrete project proposals provide a solid starting point for sustainable urban development in Rotterdam, based on an extensive analysis of its metabolism and that of the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt Delta in which the port city is a node.

On 25 June, the city of Rotterdam in collaboration with the IABR and AIR will start looking for the connection and synergy between these proposals, and for the major Rotterdam players and the local small-scale initiatives that are the building blocks of a successful circular economy. Take part in the open discussion and help think about the city and its future.

language: Dutch
free admission, for more information and program, please visit www.sleutelenaanstofstromen.nl

IABR, AIR, Gemeente Rotterdam

for more information on the IABR–Project Atelier Rotterdam please continue reading here

On the 4^th of July, these perspectives will form the basis for exciting presentations, discussions and hefty debates on the future of spatial planning.

Why are business areas still being built? When will the bike, as the future means of transport, be given priority in the city? When will the office market bubble burst? Can provinces play a role in stimulating the labour market? Is it just to build in the Delta? On this day, we want to raise the questions that have not yet been asked, and to highlight the problems that we have tried to dodge. Friday, 4^th of July, 12:30 in the Kunsthal Rotterdam. Free entry, register now!

Program:
12.30 Reception / registration
13.00 Opening & key note address – Peter Heij
13.05 Introduction Year of Spatial Planning – Hans Leeflang
13.15 The five perspectives – Paul Gerretsen
13.35 New types of work in Spatial Planning – Rick Vermeulen
13.45 Break – formation of table groups

14.00 – 15.30 Breakout sessions
Six tables: The Netherlands as ‘Production land’; Green Blue Netherlands; The Netherlands as ‘Sustainable land’; The Netherlands: One big city; The Netherlands as ‘Network land’; Free table.

15.30 Break – back to the Auditorium
15.45 Each table reports on their insights
16.30 Presentation of the Year of Spatial Planning website & close – Jeroen Niemans
16.35 Close – Hans Leeflang
16.45 – 17.30 Drinks

Organized by: Platform31 (on behalf of C2015 and the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment) and Deltametropool

language: Dutch
free admission, please sign up via www.platform31.nl (registration required)

Unfortunately this tour is fully booked. There might be cancellations. In that case, you can try to obtain a ticket at the Kunsthal on 6 July.

Reserved tickets can be picked up at the Kunsthal on 6 July, no later than 30 minutes before the start of the tour.

A field trip to the port with an expert explaining the general principles of port development and the principles used to design and construct the Maasvlakte 2. The trip includes a visit to the Slufter, a depot for storage of contaminated dredged material built in the 1980s that is presently the subject of research concerning its future use.

The Maasvlakte 2 and Slufter projects are featured in the exhibition URBAN BY NATURE– in the Kunsthal Rotterdam.

language: Dutch
for more information please visit www.portofrotterdam.com
tickets can be purchased at the Kunsthal checkout counter.

price: combiticket IABR exhibition + field trip: 15 euros per person (please note, regarding the closing time of the Kunsthal, the exhibition can only be visited prior to the field trip!)

Maasvlakte 2

^{© Aeroview}

A lecture by Jelle Reumer, followed by a guided tour of the IABR–2014–URBAN BY NATURE– exhibit ‘PURE RESILIENCE – the city is a wildlife habitat’ in the Natural History Museum Rotterdam.

Jelle Reumer's new book, Wildlife in Rotterdam – Nature in the City, is a small history of urban ecology and an ode to the resilience of nature. With gusto Jelle Reumer speculates about urban nature in the future and signposts the astonishing evolutions taking place every day under our urbanized noses. Tomatoes sprouting from tramlines, swans building nests of plastic bottles, subway mosquitoes that never leave their underground lair: the city is a miraculous cradle of wildlife.

language: Dutch
please register via zondagmiddag@hetnatuurhistorisch.nl
for more information visit www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl

The book Wildlife in Rotterdam – Nature in the City is for sale at the Kunsthal Bookshop or online at www.historischeuitgeverij.nl

Wildlife Rotterdam

What is the impact of the transition to 100 per cent renewable energy by 2050? A discussion and a double book launch. Commissioned by the CRA, a photographic baseline by Theo Baart, presents the current state of affairs in the Netherlands. Government Advisor Eric Lutes explain his recent opinion on wind turbines. And then, the book kWh/m2: Landscape and Energy. An initiative of IABR–2014–URBAN BY NATURE– curator Dirk Sijmons and H+N+S Landscape Architects, published by NAi/010. This book contains the results of design research on the spatial implications of an almost 100% energy transition in 2050 at four levels: Europe, the regional landscape, the city and the individual household.

Both books are offered to Ed Nijpels (Chairmen of the Committee 'Secure Energy agreement').The event will be moderated by Jaap Modder.

Organized by: NAi010 Publishers / College van Rijksadviseurs / H+N+S Landschapsarchitecten / Landscape architecture TU Delft

The publication kWh/m2: Landscape and Energy is available at the NAi Bookshop.

time: registration from 3 p.m., start program 3.30 p.m.
language: Dutch
free admission, please sign up via rsvp@nai010.com

THE URBAN UNDERGROUND is a full-day program, which addresses how careful deployment of the subsurface can improve the value of life above ground.

Increasing urbanization throughout the world challenges the sustainable development and resilience of cities. Despite this, the importance of the ground beneath cities is under-recognized and often overlooked. The main goal of THE URBAN UNDERGROUND is to provide a long-needed contribution to greater interaction and networking, and so transform the relationship between experts who develop urban subsurface knowledge and those who can benefit most from it: urban planners, urban decision makers and the community.

The program consists of:
A symposium in which urban developers and underground specialists from various European cities discuss the urgent issues concerning the urban underground.
And an underground experience: 3D models and visualizations, serious game, demo sessions, profiles, cores.

PROGRAM:

09.00 Registration with coffee & tea

PLENARY SESSION 9.30 – 10.40 a.m.
09.30 Welcome and Introduction by the Chairman (Ard den Outer)
09.40 Opening by ir. Ron Voskuilen (Director City Development City of Rotterdam)
09.50 Need for efficiënt use of urban subsurface resources- Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Cramer (Professor of Sustainable Innovation at Utrecht University, ambassasor of COB)

10.15 The world between Cables and Carboniferous - Dr. Michiel van der Meulen (TNO Geological Survey)

BREAK 10.40 - 11.00 a.m.

PARALLEL SESSIONS 11 - 12.30 a.m.
Session 1: Workshop Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment with Helsinki (Natural History Museum),
Session 2: Presentations (Auditorium Kunsthal),
Session 3: 3D Demo’s (LAB Kunsthal),
Session 4: Serious Game Underground (Auditorium Upstairs)

LUNCH 12.30 - 1.45 p.m.

PARALLEL SESSIONS 1.45 - 3.15 p.m.
Session 1: Workshop Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment with Oslo (Natural History Museum),
Session 2: Presentations (Auditorium Kunsthal),
Session 3: 3D Demo’s (LAB Kunsthal),
Session 4: Serious Game Underground (Auditorium Upstairs)

BREAK 3.15 - 3.40 p.m.

PLENARY SESSION 3.40 - 4.30
15.40 Feedback from parallel sessions
15.55 COST–SUB-URBAN: Improving the understanding and use of the ground beneath of our cities Dr. Diarmad Campbell (British Geological Survey)
16.20 Closing Remarks by ir. Johan Vermeer (Director Engineering Consultants City of Rotterdam)
16.30 Close by the Chairman & Drinks

Organized by COST-SUBURBAN; City of Rotterdam, Engineering MRO; TNO Geological Survey; COB; Strategis; RO2.
With the participation of: Ministry of I&M (STRONG), Ministry Economical affairs (EBN), City of Amsterdam and Geo-Impuls.

Language: English
Admission is free, please register via connecting_underground@rotterdam.nl

The research of Ellen van Holstein – PhD candidate at the University of Wollongong, Australia – focuses on community gardens. Following an Urban Political Ecology approach she asks how community gardens can be understood as a coming together of social relations and practices and who gets to decide on how these shared garden spaces work. Community gardens are imagined as spaces that provide greenery and access to food, that empower citizens, that mitigate the negative impacts of urbanization, and that are therefore increasingly made part of policies to 'green the city'. Drawing on case studies in Sydney, Australia, Van Holstein argues that community gardens are not always spaces that are empowering and inclusive to all. Now that community gardens are presented as quick fixes to challenges of urban sustainability and social equity, it becomes increasingly important to understand power relations in gardens and who gets left out.

During this meeting Ellen van Holstein presents her research followed by a Q&A and discussion moderated by Jelle Reumer, director of The Natural History Museum and author of the book 'Wildlife in Rotterdam'.

time: 5 – 6 p.m.
location: Natural History Museum
language: English
For more information please visit www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl

In the context of IABR–2014–URBAN BY NATURE–, Project Atelier BrabantStad explored new development models for the Province of Brabant and formulated six development principles.
IABR–Project Atelier BrabantStad now goes on tour. From October 2014 until February 2015, the results of Project Atelier BrabantStad will be exhibited in Eindhoven, Tilburg, Helmond, ‘s-Hertogenbosch and Breda, accompanied by a public program.

More info on the website of MozaïekBrabant → (in Dutch)

Together with the province, the five largest cities, the water boards, Brabant's Architecture Centers, and with an open invitation to the public, everybody is invited to contribute to the program of ‘MozaïekBrabant’ – the next step in the development of the proposals of the IABR–Project Atelier BrabantStad.

From 9 – 31 October 2014, the results of IABR–Project Atelier BrabantStad are exhibited at the Designhuis, Stadhuisplein 3, 5611 EM Eindhoven
Organized by: Province Noord-Brabant, bkkc and Designhuis Eindhoven

From 6 – 30 November 2014, the results are exhibited at the Brabant Knowledge Center for Art and Culture (bkkc), Spoorlaan 21, 5038 CB Tilburg.
Organized by: Province Noord-Brabant and bkkc

From 5 – 31 December 2014, the results are exhibited in Groen4Life & Cacaofabriek at Cacaokade 1, 5705 LA Helmond.
Organized by: Province Noord-Brabant, bkkc, Groen4Life and Cacaofabriek

From 12 – 30 January 2015, the results are exhibited at the Sigarenfabriek Willem II, Boschveldweg 473, 5211 VK ’s-Hertogenbosch
Organized by: Province Noord-Brabant, bkkc and Sigarenfabriek

The last stop, from 5 - 28 February 2015, is at the Stadskantoor of the Municipality of Breda, Claudius Prinsenlaan 10, 4811 DJ, Breda
Organized by: Province Noord-Brabant, bkkc and Municipality of Breda