Re-Energize South Limburg: Designing sustainable energy landscapes

Designers, architects and planners must begin to anticipate the far reaching changes we are facing in connection with climate change. What if we take action and actively participate in the transition from fossil-fuel driven society towards a more sustainable society? This Wageningen University paper intends to discuss some of the spatial opportunities and consequences of a sustainable energy transition in relation to climate change and depletion of fossil-fuels. At the same time, it provides a broad overview of issues and challenges at hand whilst designing sustainable energy landscapes on a regional scal

Beyond Fossils. Envisioning desired futures for two sustainable energy islands in the Dutch delta region

This book is the concrete product of an academic exercise: the Master’s course ‘Designing and Planning Sustainable Energy Islands Atelier.’ It is the condensed result of three months’ work by six teachers and sixty students from the disciplines of landscape architecture, spatial planning and cultural geography at Wageningen University. These people spent three months considering the matter of a sustainable energy future for Goeree-Overflakkee and Schouwen-Duiveland. They focused on the following four landscape types that are found on the islands: • The coastal landscape • The agricultural landscape • The recreati onal landscape • The urban landscape They envisioned a future in which enough renewable energy is generated to fulfi l at least the need of the island’s residents in a sustainable way

Green-Blue infrastructure for a resilient and healthy city

This book, Atelier 2014-Utrecht, is a perspective on sensible use and optimisation of the green-blue structures in the City of Utrecht

Master atelier regional scale

In an atelier like this three groups are involved: students, lecturers and tutors. The students have completed their Bachelors degree in landscape architecture. Tutors were Van Ettiger (Landscape architecture, Wageningen) and Roggema (Province of Groningen

Design Principles and Guidelines; Bridging the Gap Between Science and Design

Landscape architecture is growing as a discipline and more landscape architects than before choose an academic career and get their PhD. New academic journals emerge and papers get published. In landscape architecture schools however, a gap is growing between more research and more design oriented students and teachers. Possibly the development of so called design principles and design guidelines could be a middle ground between doing only research or only design. A study of recent Phd studies and Msc studies explores the development of design principles and guidelines as a product that holds the middle ground between design and research. Design guidelines offer what Aristotles has described as Phronesis “knowledge in the making” and perhaps what Cross refers to as designerly ways of knowing. Design guidelines are less specific than individual design solutions for a specific location and thus are a form of generalised knowledge. The examples point to the usefulness of design principles and guidelines, but also point to the requirement of testing. It is therefore doubtful whether well-developed design guidelines are the timesavers our students hope them to be

Design Principles and Guidelines; Bridging the Gap Between Science and Design

Landscape architecture is growing as a discipline and more landscape architects than before choose an academic career and get their PhD. New academic journals emerge and papers get published. In landscape architecture schools however, a gap is growing between more research and more design oriented students and teachers. Possibly the development of so called design principles and design guidelines could be a middle ground between doing only research or only design. A study of recent Phd studies and Msc studies explores the development of design principles and guidelines as a product that holds the middle ground between design and research. Design guidelines offer what Aristotles has described as Phronesis “knowledge in the making” and perhaps what Cross refers to as designerly ways of knowing. Design guidelines are less specific than individual design solutions for a specific location and thus are a form of generalised knowledge. The examples point to the usefulness of design principles and guidelines, but also point to the requirement of testing. It is therefore doubtful whether well-developed design guidelines are the timesavers our students hope them to be

Re-Energize South Limburg: Designing sustainable energy landscapes

Designers, architects and planners must begin to anticipate the far reaching changes we are facing in connection with climate change. What if we take action and actively participate in the transition from fossil-fuel driven society towards a more sustainable society? This Wageningen University paper intends to discuss some of the spatial opportunities and consequences of a sustainable energy transition in relation to climate change and depletion of fossil-fuels. At the same time, it provides a broad overview of issues and challenges at hand whilst designing sustainable energy landscapes on a regional scal