Master Class Hollandstad
Stadslab European Urban Design Laboratory and IABR Rotterdam Architecture Biennale 2012 are pleased to announce a Master Class to be held in April 2012 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
The Master Class is open to all design students and professionals -architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects- at all levels of experience.
Hollandstad needs input from designers.
The Randstad is unique because its core and periphery are inverted. It has a ‘hollow’ core with green landscape, conventionally defined as ‘the green heart’, waiting to be awakened and recognized as a potential and to be further developed in a smart way. The green heart is a giant obstacle for those who are inflicted in politics and spatial planning as its development was locked since its ‘birth’ in the 1970’s. To escape from this deadly embrace, Hollandstad defines the green heart as the inner core of the Randstad. Both Randstad and core make a metropolis of currently eight million inhabitants with a new heart full of potentials like managing all necessary energy, food, water, waste and recreational issues. Through this new synergy between core and conurbation many issues do not need to be imported or outsourced but can be controlled locally. Hollandstad is unique in this sense and can deliver insights for retro-active repair and transformation of other metropolises.
The Master Class is an exciting 6-day long charrette. You’ll come to Rotterdam, visit and participate in the Biennale, meet international designers and stakeholders, interact on a daily basis with other designer participants, and be taught by the invited lecturers from among others AMO, TUDelft, WUR.
The results of the Master Classes will be plenary presented and exhibited in the Smart Cities - Parallel Cases exhibition at the NAi.
Four major themes
Urban planning and design will be triggered and defined by integrated cycles of the four major themes of our future: water, energy, waste and food with implications on occupation and tourism. An excursion, two public seminars with five lectures and two lunch reviews will fuel the research/design process. Jan Willem van Kuilenburg, principal of Monolab Architects, Rotterdam will will support the links between the themes and will support the daily studio work.
The 6-day long charrette is bound to be a great experience. You’ll have the chance to network with other designers, and you may be able to apply for learning credits in your own country. It’ll look great in your portfolio, too.
Details
Dates: 21 April-26 April 2012
Studio space is arranged, including printing facilities, lunches and two diners.
Participants need to bring their own laptops.
Cost: EUR 450 for professionals, EUR 150 for the team members that have operated within the Parallel Cases 2012 Smart Cities exhibition.
Language: English.
Further inquiries: info@stadslab.eu
How to apply
Fill in the forms at http://www.stadslab.eu. The deadline is XXXXX. After we’ve received your application, we’ll review it and get back to you by email. If accepted, we’ll tell you how to pay and send you the welcome packet after processing payment. Stadslab European Urban Design Laboratory is engaged in Parallel Cases, an initiative of 6 Academies of Architecture in the Netherlands to co-host an international exhibition on 'Smart Cities' at the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2012. Stadslab will organize a 6-day international Master Class 'Smart Synergy. The Inverted Metropolis'. Topic is to rethink the cycles of elementary resources for our cities: Food, Energy, Water and Waste. The Master Class will focus on Randstad Holland, the large metropolitan region including Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague.
Stadslab European Urban Design Laboratory has been engaged in Parallel Cases, an initiative of 6 Academies of Architecture in the Netherlands to co-host an international exhibition on 'Smart Cities' at the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2012. Stadslab organized a 6-day international Master Class 'Smart Synergy. The Inverted Metropolis'. Topic was to rethink the cycles of elementary resources for our cities: Food, Energy, Water and Waste. The Master Class focused on Randstad Holland, the large metropolitan region including Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague. Twelve international participants developed scenarios, supervised by Ton Venhoeven and Jan Willem van Kuilenburg.
More information in the Stadslab Smart Synergy Flyer