Op de avond van 3 december organiseerde het Architectuurcentrum Nijmegen en Rijkswaterstaat een avond rondom Ruimte voor de Waal. In het Bastion onder de Waalbrug gaven de ontwerpers een inkijkje in het proces en in hun inspiraties. Ik leidde de avond.
‘So what can we do to protect our city from climate change?’ Every city in the world is asking itself that question, including Montclair, New Jersey, just across the river from New York. New Jersey and New York were hard hit by Hurricane Sandy. And that was the question that Gray Russell, sustainability officer of Montclair, put to me in our interview for a special edition of the local cable tv show ‘Greater Montclair’. I was in town to give two lectures in the month-long program Rising Tide at Montclair University. Read the article…
‘So what can we do to protect our city from climate change?’ Every city in the world is asking itself that question, including Montclair, New Jersey, just across the river from New York. New Jersey and New York were hard hit by Hurricane Sandy. And that was the question that Gray Russell, sustainability officer of Montclair, put to me in our interview for a special edition of the local cable tv show ‘Greater Montclair’. I was in town to give two lectures in the month-long program Rising Tide at Montclair University. Read the article…
Age of Wonderland ‘Balancing Green and Fair Food´ discusses the complex issues that takes place in our globalized food system through inviting six creatives from around the world to exchange knowledge during the Dutch Design Week that took place from 17 to 25 October 2015. For the publication associated with this event, I wrote the essay “Wonderland Water” about the growing awareness of the Dutch and their relationship with the water.
During TEDx Zwolle I gave a lecture about water in the city around the world. The sea and the rivers have shaped the identity and the country itself. Climate change increases the risk of flooding and drought. The effects of a disaster in a densely populated country like The Netherlands are incalculable. Climate change is now forcing itself upon us: a new reality that cannot be ignored. Read the article…
Dijken zijn de dragers van het Nederlandse landschap. Toch bestond er nog geen boek over – juist omdat ze zo vanzelfsprekend zijn, vermoedelijk. Dat hebben de landschapsarchitecten van LOLA Landscape nu gedaan: Dijken van Nederland. Daarin heb ik een essay geschreven over … dijken als bron van innovatie. Read the article…