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Does the Computer Have a Better Idea?

Invited lecture and essay on the potential role of digital technology and data in spatial planning and design at the Architecture Centre AORTA, Utrecht

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Dec 23, 2022

Keynote address 3rd International Conference on Urban and Rural Development and Planning in the Water Network Area, Suzhou

13.000+ participants in international conference 12 November 2022 organised by the Urban Planning Society of China and School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Suzhou University of Science and Technology

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Nov 15, 2022

Invited lecture International Symposium Living (With+In) Infra, Vastukul, India

500+ participants from 40+ countries in the International Symposium on Mobility and City organised by M3M Foundation, 11 November 2022

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Nov 15, 2022

Designing Green Cities Lecture Series

This lecture series offers designerly perspectives on greening cities and bridges theory and practice in landscape-based urbanism, urban forestry and urban ecology. 

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Oct 31, 2022

Review in Science: Transforming Urban Environments

New publication (+ review) on how resilient cities of the past hold lessons for creating adaptable communities of the future

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Aug 22, 2022

Interview on Climate Robust Heritage Estate Landscapes

Climate robust heritage estate landscapes thanks to the utilization of systems thinking, co-creation and design power. Interview in Beeldspraak Magazine

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Aug 22, 2022

Resilient Coastal Landscapes Published

Results published of the TU Delft Landscape Architecture MSc-graduation Design Lab on Resilient Coastal Landscapes 2021-2022

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Aug 22, 2022

Third price in CHSLA and ASLA competition

Alumni Yu Liu wins 3rd price in Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture (CHSLA) and American Society of Landscape Architecture (ASLA) competition (500 entries)

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Aug 22, 2022

Visiting Professor South China University of Technology, 2021-2022

Lectures and design studios on various topics in urban planning and landscape architecture at the School of Architecture, SCUT, Guangzhou

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May 5, 2022

International Workshop Designing Knowledge Ecologies

Research by design on innovation districts Knowledge Region by the Sea 2070 with students and professionals from the Municipalities The Hague, Delft, Zoetermeer, Leiden and Province of South Holland

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Apr 14, 2022

Greening Lessons from the Oldest City in the Netherlands

Inspiration meeting in Nijmegen on ‘Green, Healthy and Liveable Cities', organized by De Groene Stad, with Ton Verhoeven, Steffen Nijhuis and Madeleen Helmer 

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Feb 17, 2022

Open Access publication on Historical Estate Landscapes

Cross-disciplinary theme issue of Bulletin KNOB on the Past, Present and Future of Estate Landscapes

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Jan 25, 2022

Articles on Designing Heritage Landscapes in Landscape Architecture journal (风景园林)

These bilingual publications address a landscape-based regional design approach for future-proof heritage estate landscapes

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Dec 20, 2021

Keynote address Annual National Conference on Public Space 2021, Zwolle (Netherlands)

Invited keynote lecture on Designing Climate Adaptive and Healthy Cities, 13 October 2021

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Nov 14, 2021

Third price IFLA Europe students and young professionals’ competition

Alumni Yangjiao Wang wins 3rd price International Federation of Landscape Architecture competition with project ‘Forest landscape restoration for climate-adaptive estates in the Baakse Beek region, Gelderland’

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Nov 12, 2021

Keynote address Ninth 21st Century Urban Development International conference 2021, Wuhan (China)

Invited keynote address on Designing Climate Adaptive and Healthy Cities, 17 October 2021, Wuhan (China) with +55.000 participants

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Nov 15, 2022

Keynote address Annual National Planning Conference of China 2020-2021, Chengdu (China)

Invited keynote lecture on Resilient Urban Development and Adaptive Planning in the Greater Bay Area at ANCP, 26 September 2021

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Nov 12, 2021

Selected to Design District Development Plans Water and Green for the City of Antwerp (Belgium)

OKRA landschapsarchitecten and Nelen & Schuurmans combine excellence in landscape architecture, geo-information technology and climate adaptation for a more resilient and climate proof green blue Antwerp

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Sep 17, 2021

Designing Coastal Interfaces published

Results published of the TU Delft Landscape Architecture MSc-graduation Design Lab on Resilient Coastal Landscapes 2020-2021

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Sep 17, 2021

Management Team OKRA Landscape Architects

Enforcing the link between design, practice and research by joining OKRA Landscape Architects

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May 26, 2021

Building with Nature Perspectives published

Volume seven published in the Research in Urbanism Series (RiUS), edited by Janneke van Bergen, Steffen Nijhuis, Nikki Brand, Marcel Hertogh

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Apr 4, 2021

Interview on Chinese Pearl River Delta

Backgrounds on project Adaptive Urban Transformation with Pearl River Delta (China) as case study

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Apr 4, 2021

Invited lecture & workshop Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, 6-8 January 2021, Jeruzalem

Invited lecture entitled 'Flowscapes. Designing Urban Landscape Infrastructures' and workshop 'Cartographic explorations' at the Urban Design Master's Program at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jeruzalem, Israel, 6-8 January 2021

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Jan 11, 2021

Selected to Design a Vision for the Shantou Inner Bay, China

OKRA landscape architects with Steffen Nijhuis selected to work on the Shantou Inner Bay Urban Design International Workshop

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Dec 28, 2020

Interview 'The Delft Approach to Urbanism' in Chinese journal Landscape Architecture (风景园林)

Interview in Chinese journal Landscape Architecture 风景园林, with backgrounds and principles of The Delft Approach to Urbanism, illustrated with applications of this method by projects

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Nov 1, 2020

Inclusive Urbanism published

Volume six published in the Research in Urbanism Series (RiUS), edited by Wolfgang Wende, Steffen Nijhuis, Angela Mensing-de Jong, Melanie Humann

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Sep 16, 2020

Paper awarded 'Springer Nature 2019 Highlight'

The paper ‘Exploring Spatial Relationships in the Pearl River Delta’ from Liang Xiong and Steffen Nijhuis has been awarded as 'Springer Nature 2019 Highlight', a recognition for most popular papers, and reflecting top research that made an impact

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Sep 16, 2020

Keynote lecture & Executive meetings Adaptive Coastal Design, 1-7 March 2020, West Coast Florida

Keynote lecture & executive meetings on adaptive coastal design and resilient urban landscapes in Mexico Beach, Tallahassee and Sanibel-Captiva, Florida. In collaboration with Brian Cook, USF, SCCF, COTI, CEPTD, City of Sanibel

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Mar 18, 2020

TV News-item about Sanibel-Captiva, Florida

Evening news-item at WINK TV Southwest Florida providing input on strengthening coastal resilience of Sanibel-Captiva Island Florida (USA), 5 P.M., 6 March 2020

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Mar 20, 2020

Invited workshop 'If the Past Teaches, What does the Future Learn?' SESYNC, 22-25 October 2019, Washington D.C.

Multidisciplinary workshop with leading archaeologists, anthropologists, urban designers and landscape architects at National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), USA

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Feb 7, 2020

Keynote lectures Annual Planning Conference China 2019, Chongqing & Landscape Forum 2019, Beijing

Two invited keynote lectures at Annual Planning Conference China 2019, 18-21 October, Chongqing (China) and Landscape Forum 2019, 12-13 October, Beijing (China) on landscape-based regional design

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Nov 6, 2019

True-colour 3D laser scan Park Rosendael

Field experiments with true-colour 3D laser scanning resulting in high-resolution point cloud of Rosendael Park and Castle

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Aug 5, 2019

AUT-project meeting 15-17 July 2019, Delft

Consortium meeting NSFC-NWO-EPRSC funded project 'Adaptive Urban Transformation' at TU Delft with lectures, workshops and fieldtrips. TU Delft, SCUT and UoS on adaptive planning and design of the Pearl River Bay Region

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Aug 5, 2019

Invited lectures Chengdu & Nanjing, China, 13-18 June 2019

Two Invited public lectures at Southwest Jiaotong University, School of Architecture and Design in Chengdu & Southeast University, School of Architecture in Nanjing in period 13-18 June 2019

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Jul 2, 2019

Interview TU Delft TV: The return of the herring

Interview on the possibilities for landscape development as result of the opening of the Dutch Haringvliet sea lock

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Jul 2, 2019

Invited workshop ‘Landscape, City and Water: Regional Design and Planning’, Hangzhou, 11-15 March 2019

Research and design workshop organised by Institute of Landscape Architecture, Zheijang University (Hangzhou, China) and Department of Urban Planning and Design, Xi'An Jiatong Liverpool University (Suzhou, China)

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Apr 3, 2019

Kick-off project 'Design Atlas Heritage Estate Landscapes Gelderland'

This project aims to create a spatial design atlas for the sustainable conservation and development of Gelderland's castles and historic country estates in a landscape context

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Apr 8, 2019

Invited lectures Florida, USA, 11-15 Feb 2019

Two Invited public lectures University of Miami, School of Architecture (Miami) & University of South Florida, Florida Center for Community Design + Research (Tampa)

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Mar 22, 2019

Interview Les Echos Week-End

Interview on Pearl River Delta in Les Echos Week-End, a weekly magazine by France's largest business newspaper

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Apr 3, 2019

Paper 'Teaching Urbanism' awarded Reed & Mallik Medal 2018

Steffen Nijhuis, Egbert Stolk and Maarten-Jan Hoekstra have been awarded the Reed & Mallik Medal 2018 for their academic paper: Teaching urbanism: the Delft approach

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Oct 12, 2018

Winning entry competition ‘Water as Leverage’

Winning competition entry ‘City of 1.000 Tanks’ by Ooze architects (lead partner), TU Delft (Han Meyer, Steffen Nijhuis, Verana Balz), and others

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Oct 12, 2018

Visiting Professor Harbin Institute of Technology, 19-25 June 2018

Workshops and lectures on various topics in urban planning and landscape architecture at the School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology (China) and Graduation School Shenzhen, Harbin Institute of Technology SZ

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Jul 6, 2018

PhD Excellence Course Landscape-based Regional Design,  Politecnico di Torino, 22‐24 May 2018

The course addresses landscape‐based regional design as a strategy for urban development. The objective is to get to know concepts for understanding, planning and design sustainable development of a region, as well as setting the scene for local projects

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May 20, 2018

Kick-off project Adaptive Urban Transformation

The project aims to develop an integrative and multiscale design and planning approach for adaptive urban transformation in fast urbanizing deltas with Pearl River Delta as case study

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Dec 27, 2017

DSL Boekpresentatie ‘Landschapsarchitectuur: Tussen ontwerp en onderzoek’

In deze publicatie reflecteren onderwijsinstellingen, bureaus en opdrachtgevers in de landschapsarchitectuur op ontwerpend onderzoek

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Sep 16, 2020

Start project ShoreScape: Designing adaptive coastal built environments

The projects aim to develop principles for designing adaptive coastal built environments that enhance BwN-processes and contribute to the natural adaptation and sustainable development of urban coastal zones

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Dec 27, 2017

Boekpresentatie Spot On: Landschap als vestigingsvoorwaarde

In deze publicatie staat het landschap als vestigingsvoorwaarde centraal. In het bijzonder hoe Nederlandse regio’s aan het onderwerp werken, en experimenteerruimte creëren door middel van concrete pilots

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Dec 27, 2017
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