What could a circular and climate-adaptive inland port area look like? Defacto will use its experience in design research to explore potentials for sustainable development of Port of Zwolle | Port of Opportunities together with Stec Groep, New Economy and Panteia. The first stakeholder session already resulted in interesting synergies between energy generation, urban mining and logistics. We are looking forward to further cooperation with our partners and other stakeholders in the area of Kampen, Meppel and Zwolle!
Anne Loes Nillesen in podcast
In Nederland is er regelmatig te veel of juist te weinig water; lange periodes van droogte worden afgewisseld met hoosbuien. Wat kunnen we daaraan doen? Hoe kunnen we ons aanpassen aan dit veranderende klimaat? Anne Loes Nillesen ging hierover in gesprek met Bart Krull voor de podcast van het Waterschap Amstel, Gooi en Vecht en vertelt over kansen voor klimaatadaptatie in stedelijke gebieden.
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Anne Loes Nillesen in panel discussion about the Sundarbans
Anne Loes Nillesen will be one of the pannellists of the SEARCH Conversation to discuss about the Sundarbans this Saturday, July 3rd, 6:00 pm IST (2:30 pm CET).
The Sundarbans has been on the receiving end of repeated natural disasters. The region has been devastated after being hit by ‘Amphan’ last year and ‘Yass’ this year. Covid, too, added to the misery of people. The unique tenacity of the place while living on the margin for long is being tested frequently. The discussion will address three points: critical issues, significant measures taken so far, and long-term options.
Presenting the first results of our Nature Based Solutions study for Kigali
Wednesday June 2nd Defacto Urbanism will present the first results of the Urban Nature Based Solutions (NBS) study for Kigali, at the Ecoshape Building with nature seminar. This World Bank study (supported by the ACP-EU) focusses on urban NBS that reduce the rainwater runoff while greening the city. Our multidisciplinary team of Defacto Urbanism, Ecorys, HKV, RHDHV, Sher and CGIS developed an integral approach for identifying and selecting suitable NBS. You can register for the session (16:00-17:00 CET) here
Kick-off WeerWoord Rotterdam
De kop is er af: de afgelopen weken hebben dialoogsessies voor het programmakader WeerWoord Rotterdam 2030 plaatsgevonden. We zijn met verschillende Rotterdamse stakeholdergroepen – ‘nieuwbouw en bestaand vastgoed’, ‘buitenruimte’ en ‘alle Rotterdammers’ – de dialoog aangegaan over wat klimaatverandering voor hen betekent. Wat opviel: er is al veel kennis en bewustzijn over klimaatverandering (met name over regenwater en hitte), maar de vraag blijft waar en hoe vanuit de stakeholders het beste kan worden bijgedragen aan klimaatadaptatie. Komend jaar zullen we hier een strategie voor ontwikkelen: Defacto, Nelen&Schuurmans, de Gemeente Rotterdam, de waterschappen, woningbouwcorporaties en Evides werken gezamenlijk aan een strategie om klimaatadaptatie binnen Rotterdam voor de thema’s hitte, droogte, overstromingen, bodemdaling, grondwater en neerslag verder op te schalen en te mainstreamen.
Double Dikes for Flood Risk Management
Coastal protection can become more sustainable, natural and affordable by facilitating tidal influence in areas between dikes. That is the conclusion of researchers from NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research in their recently published report.
We are always happy to team up with WWF Netherlands and researchers to work on innovative and green projects!
You can read more here.
Lecture on water inclusive cities at the Bangkok design week
Anne Loes Nillesen presented a lecture on integrated flood risk management at the Bangkok design week. She presented best practices regarding approaches for integrated flood risk management and urban design.
Anne Loes Nillesen keynote speaker at the ‘Future Landscape Architecture’ forum, January 26th , Bangkok, Thailand
The School of Architecture and Design, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi is organising a landscape architecture forum titled ‘Future Landscape Architecture’ on the 26th of January. The forum will have discussions and talks on the present and future of landscape architecture in the changing world which requires new type of practitioner. A panel discussion is organised among the key note speakers which will be followed by a design workshop.
More information: here.
Defacto’s freight transport analysis presented at the Corridor conference -2018 in Alsdorf , Germany
The Corridor conference 2018 is a joint initiative of the ministries of North Rhine – Westphalia, the Netherlands and Flanders. Defacto’s visualisations and analyses of the east and south-east corridor were presented by project leader Luc de Vries. The conference aims to boost a joint and coherent strategy, to strengthen transport performance and sustainable area development along the corridors.
Lecture by Anne Loes Nillesen about ‘Designing Flood- proof urban regions at Future cities laboratory, ETH- Singapore on 15th August
The Future cities Laboratory, a programme of the Singapore- ETH center is organisang a Lunch talk on 15th August. Anne Loes Nillesen will be giving a lecture about ‘Designing flood proof urban regions’. She will show a multi-disciplinary ‘research by design’ approach, in which water serves as a guiding design principle for resilient urban regions. She will show examples of the application of this approach for the Dutch Delta Programme, the Bangladesh Delta Plan and the Houston Galveston bay area. As a result of the different physical, economic and political contexts, the approach in different regions leads to completely different design strategies.