Beleid maken voor de campus: Delft en Eindhoven in de battle of brains

The definition of a campus has traditionally been very simple. A campus is the site where a university is located, and where the faculties that form the functional core of academic study have their buildings. It may also include appropriate accommodation such as sports facilities and housing for students and teachers. The phenomenon originated in the United States, where a need arose for coherently organized university environments inspired by the older British colleges, such as in Oxford and Cambridge. Unlike these predecessors, however, the university complexes in the United States tended to be located separately in the suburbanizing landscape, rather than integrated into built-up urban areas.Van oudsher is de definitie van een campus heel overzichtelijk. Een campus is het terrein waarop een universiteit gevestigd is en op dat terrein staan de gebouwen van de faculteiten die de functionele kern uitmaken van de wetenschap. Daarnaast kunnen erbij passende accommodaties zijn onder-gebracht, zoals sportvoorzieningen en huisvesting van studenten en docenten. Oorspronkelijk komt het fenomeen uit de Verenigde Staten, waar vanaf de late negentiende eeuw de behoefte rees aan coherent georganiseerde universitaire omgevingen, geïnspireerd door de oudere Britse colleges, zoals die in Oxford en Cambridge. In tegenstelling echter tot deze voorgangers werden de universiteitscomplexen in de Verenigde Staten eerder apart geplaatst in het suburbaniserende landschap dan geïntegreerd in stedelijke agglomeraties

Learning form the Oil Revolution: understanding the past

This project visualizes the history and current presence of oil in our everyday surroundings in order to facilitate long-term urban sustainability and energy innovation. Designers and citizens around the world want buildings and cities to be more sustainable and ecological.While their initiatives to reduce energy use are relevant, they often concentrate on individual structures rather than larger global flows, and on technological approaches disconnected from history, society, and culture. They fail to build a new ecological mind-set, a widespread popular culture of sustainability. An older culture already characterizes our cities: petroleum has shaped our modern world. To make a new world, we must first understand the pervasiveness of petroleum; how its production, consumption, and physical and financial flows have shaped cities and rural landscapes such as the Rotterdam/Antwerp area; and how oil companies, governments, and citizens co-constructed an oil-based modern culture over the last 150 years.This project allows practitioners of the built environment and the general public to map how the petroleum revolution has driven architectural and urban design and how it has shaped both our behavior in and our perception of our cities. We seek to increase popular awareness as a foundation to develop new sustainable solutions

Learning form the Oil Revolution: understanding the past

This project visualizes the history and current presence of oil in our everyday surroundings in order to facilitate long-term urban sustainability and energy innovation. Designers and citizens around the world want buildings and cities to be more sustainable and ecological.While their initiatives to reduce energy use are relevant, they often concentrate on individual structures rather than larger global flows, and on technological approaches disconnected from history, society, and culture. They fail to build a new ecological mind-set, a widespread popular culture of sustainability. An older culture already characterizes our cities: petroleum has shaped our modern world. To make a new world, we must first understand the pervasiveness of petroleum; how its production, consumption, and physical and financial flows have shaped cities and rural landscapes such as the Rotterdam/Antwerp area; and how oil companies, governments, and citizens co-constructed an oil-based modern culture over the last 150 years.This project allows practitioners of the built environment and the general public to map how the petroleum revolution has driven architectural and urban design and how it has shaped both our behavior in and our perception of our cities. We seek to increase popular awareness as a foundation to develop new sustainable solutions