Cittaideale is an expert in co-designing advanced spatial plans for regenerative urban environments and landscapes. In its designs Cittaideale propagates unexpected solutions since the future is unprecedented by nature. In the design the major questions of our time are integrated: food systems, climate resilience, increasing biodiversity, water sensitive design both for droughts and floods and energy landscapes.
Cittaideale brings together creative teams for generation of new knowledge, designing a special plan or work on spatial innovations in urban and rural contexts. For every task specific expertise and creativity are united. No matter if a research- or design-team is created, the synergy is kindled even before the team starts working together. This increases the togetherness which leads to the best results. This way Cittaideale enhances insights in the necessities of the future, by creating a unique team for every question.
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returning the favor
changing urban mindsets
The proposal for one of the H2020 calls, to create next-gen climate scenarios is ignited by the thought of reversing the biased ‘Western’ influence on current climate scenarios towards a traditional knowledge induces process of co-creating these scenarios. This is undertaken by being directed and led by indigenous groups and knowledge systems about responding and anticipating (e.g. planning, designing) to climate change. Working with partners from India, Brazil, Indonesia and China, surfacing their traditional knowledge for treating their local problems in history, will subsequently be applied to a range of European cities. Lessons learned will then be used to construct novel global climate scenarios.
The proposal for this call of the Urban Studies Foundation, aims to reset the mindset of urban residents and turn them towards co-creating a currently polluted creek as a regenerative common, in the center of Puducherry. It is proposed to empower young females to form the bridge between the creek as a common and the residents that live alongside the creek. The group is empowered to ask inconvenient questions and invite the residents to participate in creating urban installations and events to regenerate and naturalize the creek. This way the mindset of the residents will change, and energy is concentrated for transforming and cleaning the creek. Also, this project reflects on current urban policies that often start from the male-dominated physical planning perspective. Instead, the female spiritual approach focuses on the non-physical elements such as common good, shared responsibilities and collaborative action.
DEVELOPING
Oosterwold, Zeewolde
The Oosterwold project in Almere is based on allowing people to develop their own house and environment, guided by minimal rules to develop also 50% urban agriculture, cleaning wastewater and providing anergy and infrastructure as part of the development. This has led to an abundance of initiatives and a neighborhood in which substantial amounts of food are grown. This concept is now used to inform a similar urban development in the municipality of Zeewolde. The planning process for this unique urban development (one of the Dutch 10 breakthrough locations), just started in March 2026 and is expected to co-create renewed ideas of community, social coherence, regenerative urbanism and organic urbanization. The plan will innovate the current ideas developed in Oosterwold and turn it into a plan for living together, growing a substantial amount of food, and embrace regenerative practices.
NEWS
2025 | 12 - 2028 | 11
urban swarm
[With HvA and many others] This European collaborative research project (DUT/Driving Urban Transitions) aims to design solutions for dealing with climatic (water) and circularity threats and challenges to urban spaces. For this process, the Swarm Planning approach is used. This approach identifies the points of biggest risks, and designs solutions anticipating worst case scenarios for these risks. This leads to solutions that cover not only the major risk, but, because other risks are then minor compared to the worst case, offers a future for all problems, including unknown ones. It does so by increasing the flexibility in urban context and using natural processes to guide the design. The Swarm Planning approach will be used in Urban Living Labs in Valencia, Athens, St. Niklaas and Amsterdam.
2026 | 01
2026 | 02
Regen pondy
Yumana
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Puducherry is located in the southeastern part of India and must deal with a range of problems. The air quality, the abundance of different types of waste, the deteriorated quality of the water system, urban heat islands, flood risks and a vulnerable coastline for the effects of sea level rise. Additionally, the biodiversity is declining and natural systems increasingly become disconnected. These problems are dealt with in the Regen Pondy Conclave in which global experts, local stakeholders and experts, academics, and students discussed long-term solutions for creating a regenerative region. This co-creative process was guided and curated by Cittaideale in close collaboration with local participants. The conclave ended with a symbolic action to cherish the creek, and wishes to transform it into a clean, healthy and rich waterway. This was expressed by hanging flags with individual messages and wishes across the creek.
[For CREO] Yumana is a site in the northern part of Tijuana, Mexico. Its development into a thriving urban mixed-use area will be based on the qualities that the underlying natural system provides. To achieve this the design work starts with a plan for the biodiversity and soil. In this plan, the landscape is taken first, before urban concepts are developed. This plan uses the topographical wetness index to identify the wettest places and creeks. From this, the sources of waterways are located and connected with each other to create a large connective park. The waterways are then widened as a green corridor and connected to the edges of the site, before a serious drop of slopes occurs. This is the point where all water, even in times of severe rainfall must be retained. The slopes themselves are redesigned as urban forests, using the keyline methodology. After this basis, urban propositions can be embedded in the natural system.
2025 | 06
livable
Mérida
[@TEC de Monterrey] The Livable Mérida design workshop is co-organized with the Université Libre de Bruxelles and aimed to develop designs for a sustainable and regenerative city, based on traditional practice and archeological knowledge. The context of the Yucatan peninsula offers a rich archeological background, and many of the traditional urban technologies used in history formed the basis for innovative urban designs for three smaller towns in the urban fringe of Mérida: Kanasín, Caucel and Komchen. The intensive design charrette brought together local and international archeologists, experts, academics and students to design a regenerative future for each of those sites. The combination of archeological knowledge and creative design created a greener, more regenerative future.
2024 | 07 - 2025 | 10
urban milPA
[@TEC de Monterrey] The Urban Milpa is a version of the Milpa system adjusted to confined and smaller urban spaces. The milpa crops, such as frigóles, calabazas, and maíz form the basis and are surrounded by impossible plants, plants that are no longer known, or too expensive to cultivate in current large-scale agriculture. The Urban Milpa consists of raised beds, that are easy to construct and providing the controlled growing environment for the crops. This experiment has proven that ingredients for traditional dishes can be grown in a constraint urban condition and are harvested for local chefs to reinvent the traditional dishes. Three cycles of growth have resulted in a range of reinvented recipes, which can be cooked by everyone. The Urban Milpa concept can be replicated at a larger scale in the Monterrey Metropolitan Area, and beyond.
2025 | 03
regenerative regions - 2
[@TEC de Monterrey] The second International Symposium on Regenerative Regions brought thought leaders from Belfast, Sydney, Pondicherry, and Melbourne, creatives, faculty, students, and many other engaged people together in Monterrey to discuss how to design Regenerative Regions. In a series of interactive co-creative workshops regenerative themes were further explored. The wisdom of natural living systems is taken as the first step in urban development. If we understand the systems of ecology, soil, climate, water, and air, we can design a regenerative urban landscape. Within this landscape people and non-human organisms are healthy, safe, happy, and balanced. The symposium was organized and curated by a team under leadership of Rob Roggema.
2024 | 09 - 2025 | 02
2023 | 09 - 2025 | 02
green metropolis
Miyawaki forests
[@TEC de Monterrey] The greening of the city will be a step-by-step process. Small project will be bound together into one green city. An important element in this is to experiment with the planting of small forests. The first so-called Miyawaki forests have been designed and planted. A small forest of ca. 100m2 can be planted because of a special occasion, such as a wedding, a funeral, a primary school class, a memorable anniversary, and so forth. Using the Miyawaki method of planting, the trees and plants are very close to each other. This makes them strong enough to survive in difficult conditions and, due to competition, grow faster than regular forests. This intensity also leads to a 30% higher carbon capture. Only native species are used and the growth, and environmental changes are monitored using sensors. After ca. two years the forests grow independently of human maintenance.
[@TEC de Monterrey] The Green Metropolis project investigates which transformations at the metropolitan scale can reverse Anthropocene impacts on human health and safety. This starts by identifying the regional landscape pain, such as quarries, biggest highways, housing built in natural protected areas, contaminated waterways, large-size parking lots, and the XL-sized buildings and industrial sites are mapped. Beyond these over 17,000 constructions obstruct, overbuild, or made natural creeks and rivers invisible. This landscape pain forms the point of departure for healing the problems: repairing, reversing, and regenerating the urban landscape. The Green Metropolis would then create a green belt around the current urban boundary, rewild all rivers and creeks to become bio-corridors, turn highways into green bio-corridors and green all roofs of the XL buildings and all residential roofs, and plant trees and agave in every street. Once this is achieved on google maps a completely green metropolis, as if invisible, emerges.
2024 | 01 - 2025 | 08
reinventing traditions
[@TEC de Monterrey] The abundance of bulk and processed foods, consumed by a majority of people in Mexico, has led to a fast growth of diseases such as diabetes, obesity and mental health. At the time, people have forgotten how rich and healthy the local cuisine used to be. Heritage recipes are museum pieces rather than used for cooking. This project captures heritage food recipes and determines their nutritional value. Once the heritage recipes are understood, the crops and produce needed to cook these are grown in an urban setting (outside the TEC-greenhouse, the Urban Milpa system). The harvest is then supplied to local chefs who reinvent the recipes and cook the menu. This way, a healthy, local cuisine becomes popular, and more people can experience its taste, quality, and its food value. This stimulates them to try both the growth of local ingredients as well as the cooking at home.
2025 | 03 - NOW
2025 | 01 - NOW
thirsty city: rio pesquería
Jardín Botánico Arboleda
2024 | 07 - NOW
sound of the wild
The Metropolitan area of Monterrey faces increasing environmental challenges due to climate change: declining precipitation trends and rising temperatures. This results in heat island effects across the city and water scarcity. Even the river system runs thirsty. For the watershed of the Pesquería river an integrated water approach is developed in which the improvement of the water quality as well as certifying reasonable quantities of water to be appearing in the riverbeds go hand in hand. By using a design-led approach the water quality is improved, water is retained by slowing down the water, encouraging infiltration and creating additional water reservoirs. Moreover, alongside the river streams parks, wetlands and riparian zones are designed to purify and store this valuable resource. In the end this redevelopment of the river system is attractive to the neighboring residents.
[For CREO] The Botanical Garden in Arboleda is a collection of trees and plants that are organized in sections according to the seven ecotones of the Monterrey Metropolitan region, ranging from the desert to the pine forest. An eight section, the riverine ecotone is missing. In this project the design for the eight’ ecotone will be made, specifically planting the species that belong to the Monterey riverine environment. The creek that passed by the Jardín will be connected through the eight’ ecotone with the other seven. Besides the plantation of specific species of plants, the design will also include harvesting of rainwater from the nearby urban development (Arboleda) and prevention of flooding further downstream by meandering and rerouting of the creek.
[@TEC de Monterrey] Urban residents are increasingly unaware of their natural surroundings. If we can stream nature’s sounds to them, they can listen to real time sounds or recorded tracks from a specific time and place. This would then enhance their compassion for nature, and lead to different behavior and decision-making, in favor of a more natural urban environment. In this project, the sounds of the Chipinque forest is recorded and streamed. The technology to make this happen is placed high up in the trees so an undisturbed natural sound is recorded. This way the listeners will enhance their affinity with and importance of nature.
2024 | 04 - NOW
2024 | 03
Internet of trees
regenerative regions
2024 | 01 - 2024 | 04
symbioceneic region
[@TEC de Monterrey] This research project aims to interlink groups of trees and exchange collected information to understand their behavior, demands, and conditions.
By placing sensors in trees, a range of data is collected, such as the humidity, temperature, level of CO2, nitrogen, the light intensity, growth of the tree, fertility of the soil. Moreover, using the Haikubox, birdsongs are recorded and the species can be detected. The aim of the project is to determine the conditions under which trees or a small forest flourish. The data collected is publicly available on a dashboard and can be followed real time.
2024 | 04 - NOW
[@TEC de Monterrey] The International Symposium on Regenerative Regions was organized to bring together thought leaders, creatives, faculty, students, and engaged people from around the world. Inspiring keynotes from London, Oaxaca, Pretoria, Delft, Sydney-Port Moresby and Helsinki-Taipei-Kharkiv, in combination with lively discussions in several panels suggested to take nature as the point of departure for urban development. Once the regional ecological dynamics and processes are understood a conscious urban landscape can be designed. The two days of intensive exchange of insights and ideas have led to the book ‘Regenerative Regions’.
2023 | 10 - 2024 |05
[@TEC de Monterrey] This design studio for the Master of Architecture and Urban Design is developed to investigate the so-called symbiocenic region. The Master students needed to backtrack the region to find a past sustainable equilibrium. This state of being was then confronted with the current and potential future urban condition in Monterrey by using Glenn Albrecht’s’ thinking about the Symbiocene. The current pain in the Monterrey region, such as quarries, polluting highways, invasive buildings, and contaminated waterways is investigated first, after which these problems are spatially healed, repairing those painful elements. Finally appreciated urban environments are designed, the ones that residents will embrace and love.
The designs show the possible symbiosis with the natural environment, if nature is taken as the basis for urban design. A healthier urban environment emerges that is also more resilient when a climate hazard occurs.
2023 | 08 - 2024 | 12
nature-driven machine learning
4tud
regenerative river
[@TEC de Monterrey] The data put in Machine-learning processes is often human biased. Outcomes are therefore also human oriented. To support a nature-driven urban development this process is counterproductive. In this project we explore how nature-driven input in the Machine-learning process can lead to regenerative, nature-driven urban outcomes. By using characteristics of ecosystems and/or the behavior of keystone animals as inputs in the Machine-learning process, the modelling and design of the city can be based on and inspired by natural processes. The city will then become more resilient and flexible, so it can deal much better and in a natural way with climate change impacts and other stresses. The first results show that the city can be designed very different and can instinctively act upon a disruption or change that is coming by learning from species and ecosystems anticipations, responses and behavior. The benefits of this approach are an increase in urban adaptive capacity, minimizing the risks in the urban environment and for inhabitants. This reduces rebuilding and recovery costs.
[@TEC de Monterrey] For four students of the Master in Landscape Architecture from the Delft University of Technology their stay, and the facilitation, guidance and tutoring of investigations, analyses and designs for their master theses was undertaken. Each of them focused on a specific urgent theme in the regeneration of the Monterrey Metropolis. This has led to a successful graduation of Pieter van der Wel, who planned a water sensitive metropolis in ‘Hydrate Monterrey’, Kim Handelé, who dug into the urban agriculture and food potentials of the Monterrey region in ‘Cultivating connections’, Eline Onih Holtes who focused on the water system of the main Santa Catarina river in Monterrey in ‘La Voz del Rio’, and Isa van der Bijl who designed a plan for regional and local urban forestry in ‘ArborMetropolis’.
[@TEC de Monterrey] In a collaborative design studio, the Santa Catarina River will be designed for regeneration. A natural system in which the water in the basin is kept, discharged, and released slowly, ecosystems flourish, and preventing urban flooding. The studio starts with investigating the entire watershed, design the urban water system and proposing detailed plans for a (hyper)local natural river system. The river is there to be embraced by the residents that live next to it, and the design proposals will pay attention to accessibility and their possibilities of interacting with the river. This way, the river becomes a habitat for nature in all its different forms, a resilient water system, and offers safety for extraordinary conditions.
2023 | 10
2023 | 08
2023 | 01
Sound of the Land
Maguey landscape
nature decides
[@Tec de Monterrey] Urban development decisions are taken by humans. Therefore, cities accommodate economy, housing, mobility and leisure. These human-driven decisions impact the health of nature in a negative way. What would happen if we invited nature in the decision-making process is experimented in a workshop session in which the participants become a tree. They were asked to respond to questions on their desires and demands as if they were trees. This resulted in needs of the assemblage of the trees, such as belonging to a group of fellow trees, not to be replanted or moved, and the need for more space around them. This experiment is translated into a formal role in council decision-making by inviting a mountain, forest, river, animals or plants into the political arena, represented by people acting as if they are nature.
2022 | 05
Holwerd aan zee
[@TEC de Monterrey] The wonders of the Maguey plant include cooling, humidity, carbon capture, soil improvement, biodiversity and grows a suite of products (agua de miel, medicine, clothing). It is extremely suitable to transform arid landscapes in livable and nature-rich environments. In this Project we explored the regeneration of the desert landscape of Coahuila, Mexico. At this landscape scale, 1 hectare of Maguey (2000 plants and 400 Mezquites) captures 45 tons of CO2. The landscape design for the state of Coahuila shows the benefits of this transition. A small-scale experiment is foreseen for the Villa de Patos range in General Cepeda. When transferred to an urban setting, 2000 Magueys and 400 mezquites along a street of 4km, also captures 45 tons of CO2.
​[@TEC de Monterrey] Since the 1970s, we have lost at least 2/3 of biodiversity. Over time, we tend to forget how nature in our city sounded, looked, felt, or smelled. In this project we raise awareness of this lost memory and nature, we reconstruct the senses of the past through immersive experiences by creating a composition of sounds and images through the years. Based on this historical experience we then transform the future to become more regenerative. We will create a physical and immersive experience to seamlessly transition through the changes in the city of Monterrey. From the past into the future. This way the inhabitants of the city enhance their human health, and their emotional well-being, productivity, peacefulness, creativity, self-understanding, self-reliance, positivity, and grounding.
2022 | 06
designing knowledge economies
2021 | 05
Het plan voor Holwerd aan Zee (HaZ) stelt voor om een doorbraak in de zeedijk te forceren die de verbinding tussen het Werelderfgoed Waddenzee en het achterland herstelt. Dit betekent niet alleen een economische kans voor het dorp en de héle regio, maar ook een ecologische kans voor de kwelders, de wadvogels, migrerende vissen en alle andere soorten die baat hebben bij meer variatie in de kwelders, brakke zones en een natuurlijke zoet-zout overgang.
Cittaideale is onderdeel van het basisteam, dat als taak heeft te onderzoeken op welke manier dit plan realiteit kan worden en zo ook een mentale doorbraak kan bewerkstelligen.
The development of a sustainable knowledge ecology and broad prosperity in a regional perspective are tasks that require a long-term approach. Spatial cohesion and interaction are important for this, as is the creation of good spatial conditions for the promotion of excellence and equal opportunities. This design workshop explores how landscape and urban planning can contribute to a more resilient and regional knowledge ecosystem in South Holland. While taking the innovation districts in Delft, The Hague, Leiden and Zoetermeer as the starting point, the potential of the regional landscape system is explored and considered as the fundament for sustainable social, ecological and spatial-economic development. This means that in addition to the urbanisation challenge, energy transition and climate adaptation, an attractive, inclusive and liveable urban landscape is on the agenda as preconditions for knowledge development and broad prosperity.
Delft University of Technology, department of landscape architecture and urbanism initiates a design workshop in which four student teams develop designs. for these knowledge ecologies. Cittaideale supervises the design team which digs into the Leiden knowledge corridor, connecting the inner city of Leiden with the North Sea.
REWILD is de inzending voor de tender voor Sluisbuurt Kavel 4a, in Amsterdam. In opdracht van Kondor Wessels is natuur-inclusief bouwen geherïnterpreteerd door de natuur delend te geven in de ontwikkeling. Zo is er eerder sprake van bouwinclusieve natuur, waarbij de natuurhistorische condities van het Oer-IJ metaforisch zijn gebruikt in het ontwerp van de gebouwde omgeving en het gebouw zelf.Daarmee bepaalt de natuur de plek tot een omgeving voor de mens en alle andere organismen. In het ontwerpproces is samengewerkt tussen studioninedots, ZUS en anderen. Cittaideale heeft het rewilding concept in het ontwerp vormgegeven en de ecologische principes vertaald in ontwerp uitgangspunten.
04 / 03 / 2022
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'Onbeschrijfelijk Paradijselijk'
Interview in de biodiversiteitsspecial van de 'de kanarie in de koolmijn'
24 / 02 / 2022
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'A quadruple balancing act'
Keynote presentation at the Ecocities 2022 Conference, Rotterdam
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30 / 10 / 2021
'Nature driven by design. Towards regenerative cities and landscapes'
Keynote International Landscape Architects Symposium.
Beijing Forestry University
2022-2025 | 01
NEOM is the name of a mind-boggling development to design a complete new city in the northwestern part of Saoudi Arabia. Given the fact this landscape is arid, and consists of desert, rock and sand, the main question is how to create a livable and green landscape that forms the condition for urban environments. Greening NEOM therefore emphasizes the creation of a green, forested landscape, that not only brings about pleasant climate for its new citizens, but also contributes to a net decrease of temperature in the region.As part of large international consortium, led from Brazil, Cittaideale is designing the landscape, based on scientific findings regarding climate modeling, hydrology and ecological succession.
2021 | 01
The future is uncertain. The Zernike campus Groningen is eminently the place where new knowledge is developed, and therefore also the best place to experiment with new solutions which may be useful in the future, however that may look. Climate adaptation on the Zernike campus is primarily focused on dealing with a surplus of rainwater, drought, and rising temperatures. These form the new framework for the functioning of life on campus: new circumstances determine how students, employees, and perhaps in future, residents, can use and live on the campus. For a sustainable use of the built environment and our landscape, we must not only account for changing consumption patterns, such as for example a different diet, but also for changing ways in which goods and materials are produced. These will have their own impact on how we must arrange our environment and how we can use this to our advantage.
2022 | 02
Within the context of the Room for the River program, in which the physical space in and along river beds is extended to give room for increased water discharge, a range of dike enlargements are proposed. One of these, the Bokhoven dike escarpment is prone to flooding as it is the narrowest flow-through in the entire Meuse. The inhabitants of this area have the idea to integrate several ambitions in one design for the area Flood mitigation, enhancement of biodiversity, safety and recreational activities,go hand in hand whilst creating a longing perspective for the landscape, in which people and all other organisms will live safely together.
Cittaideale designs this holistic and regenerative landscape vision.
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2022-2024 | 03
2021 | 02
2021 | 03
Woningbouw- opgave dronten | housing Dronten
Saoudi Arabia is one of the most arid countries in the world, and therefore prone to overheating, droughts and other climate impacts, such as dust storms. The Crown Prince has therefore signaled the need for Greening the country by planting billions of trees, and redeveloping parts of the desert into forested landscapes. Water and Beyond, an international consortium, collaborates with Saoudi Arabia on investigating the conditions under which this might be possible. The impact of greening the landscape on decreasing global temperatures, reducing carbon emissions, and the transformation of national livability conditions is investigated by the team, under the leadership of Antonio Nobre, from Brazil.
Cittaideale has the honor of working within the consortium on the landscape design of this new, lush future for Saoudi Arabia
Cittaideale werkt mee aan een plan voor Nederland waarin de stikstof- en voedselcrisis, de klimaatproblemen en de achteruitgang van de biodiversiteit in één klap worden aangepakt. Door landbouwgrond, op vrijwillige basis, om te vormen tot 50% natuur en daarvan op 4% van de grond woningbouw te ontwikkelen, wordt de biodiversiteit verdrievoudigd, de woningnood opgelost en krijgt de landbouw een gezond en economisch perspectief. Natuurrijk Nederland presenteert een ruimtelijk plan voor Nederland, een uitvoeringsstrategie en een businessplan hoe dit gerealiseerd kan worden.
Nederland kampt met grote druk op de woningmarkt en de provincie Flevoland heeft zich opgeworpen om een deel van de woningbouwopgave op te vangen. Cittaideale onderzoekt, samen met Over Morgen op welke manier een substantiële toevoeging aan de woningvoorraad van de gemeente Dronten op een toekomstbestendige manier kan worden vormgegeven. Daarbij zijn de ruimtelijk-fysieke aspecten net zo belangrijk als de sociale toekomst van de huidige en toekomstige inwoners van de gemeente. Door klimaat, voedsel, natuur te verbinden aan fysieke en mentale gezondheid, sociale verbondenheid en de ruimte voor ontplooiing ontstaan plannen voor een sociaal gedreven stedelijke ontwikkeling.
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2022 | 04
Hoe kan een duurzame omgang met ons voedsel zichtbaar, voelbaar en proefbaar worden gemaakt? Dat is de vraag die beantwoord wordt in een smaakpark. Cittaideale ontwerpt het voedselpark waarin de ingrediënten groeien voor de gerechten die chef de fermentation, Christiaan Weij, bedenkt en bereidt in de kookstudio. Het park is geïnspireerd op het stuwwallandschap van de westelijke Veluwezoom en refereert aan een heuvelbeekje waar op de flanken de lokale vruchten, kruiden en groenten groeien. In het park wordt verder geëxperimenteerd met aquaponic torentjes, die elk een eigen smaak representeren, en worden in dômes exotische gewassen en insecten gekweekt. Alle producten vinden hun weg naar de keuken, en zijn vrij toegankelijk voor inwoners van de omliggende wijk.
In the design studio Neitherland (2019-2020) which was developed and lead by Rob Roggema in collaboration with Greg Keeffe and Sean Cullen, students of the Groningen Academy of Architecture and the Masters of Architecture and Urbanism of Queens University Belfast studied the low-density landscapes of the Lake District, UK and the Hogeland in Groningen province, the Netherlands. The studio aims to visualise and imagine the food-energy-water nexus of these territories within the context of the climate emergency.
De Gelderse Vallei staat onder grote druk van het huidig landgebruik, dat mede oorzaak is van de stikstofproblematiek, en daarmee negatieve gevolgen heeft voor de natuur. Een kentering in denken is noodzakelijk, om een veerkrachtig landschap te creëren en de natuur weer geruimde te geven. Regionale partners hebben het initiatief genomen een natuurlijke verbinding tot stand te brengen tussen het noordelijke deel van de Veluwe en de Utrechtse Heuvelrug, bestaande uit natuur en natuurvriendelijke en circulaire landbouw. In de nieuw opgerichte stichting de Nieuwe Veluwe wordt dit initiatief nader uitgewerkt.
Citatideale is gevraagd hiervoor de regionale gebiedsvisie te ontwerpen en ontwikkelen.
2021 | 04
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2019 | 01
Rob Roggema begeleidt samen met Nico Tillie de ontwerpstudio ONSITE 2.0, waarin studenten Stedenbouw en Landschapsarchitectuur ontwerpen maken die de campus van de TU Delft een grotere biodiversiteit moeten bezorgen. Daarbij werken zij concrete ontwerpen uit voor de vergroening van de buitenruimte bij BK City, en verrichten zij ontwerpend onderzoek naar de mogelijkheden om in een bestaande vijver veen te laten groeien. Deze ontwerpen worden niet alleen ontworpen, technisch uitgewerkt en begroot, ze zullen ook worden uitgevoerd in de zomer van 2021. De projecten zijn onderdeel van een bredere ecologische visie waarin de campus de verbindende schakel vormt tussen de Ackerdijkse Plassen en het Abtswoudse bos, de Botanische Tuin en de Delftse Hout. De studio, die loopt van april tot juli 2021, is onderdeel van het Urban Ecology and Ecocities Lab van de Faculteit Bouwkunde.
Urban communities are particularly vulnerable to the future demand for food, energy and water, and this vulnerability is further exacerbated by the onset of climate change at local. Solutions need to be found in urban spaces. This article based around urban design practice sees urban agriculture as a key facilitator of nexus thinking, needing water and energy to be productive. Working directly with Urban Living Labs, the project team will co-design new food futures through the moveable nexus, a participatory design support platform to mobilize natural and social resources by integrating multi-disciplinary knowledge and technology. The moveable nexus is co-developed incrementally through a series of design workshops moving around living labs with the engagement of stakeholders. The methodology and the platform will be shared outside the teams so that the knowledge can be mobilized locally and globally.
The Cumberland Plain, west of Sydney Metropolitan and east of the Blue Mountains, is the playground of urban development. The new international airport is projected in this landscape and kindles subsequent developments, such as an agri-logistics hub and room for over one million inhabitants, To embed this urban development in the landscapes thorough analysis's been undertaken of the water, soiled elevation in the landscape, as the precondition for the local production of food, clean water and energy. It turns out that to start with the landscape first, the ecology, climate adaptation and soil preservation can be enhanced whilst integrating housing and industries in the landscape.Cittaideale has lead and facilitated design workshops in Western Sydney,and