Inaugural Address 'Landscape Logic'
Inauguration Ceremony Professorship Landscape-Based Urbanism TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture and The Built Environment, 2 February 2024
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International Design Workshop with Politecnico di Torino
Research collaboration on designed heritage landscapes in Piedmont (Italy), 8 to 12 May 2023
Missie 2070 Kennisregio aan Zee
Keynote Ruimtelijke voorwaarden voor een leefbare toekomst van de Zuid-Hollandse kustregio 17 Maart 2023 ism Gemeente Delft, Den Haag, Leiden en Zoetermeer en de Provincie Zuid-Holland
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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’
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
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
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
Interview on Chinese Pearl River Delta
Backgrounds on project Adaptive Urban Transformation with Pearl River Delta (China) as case study
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
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
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
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
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
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
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