Last week, Renée and Sven published a new paper in the open access journal Sustainability. In the paper, we discuss three energy transitions in Europe – the town of Güssing in Austria, the village of Jühnde in Germany, and the island of Samsø in Denmark – from a landscape architecture perspective. Because energy transition poses new challenges and opportunities to the discipline, we address the following questions: (1) what can...

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On Monday the 5th of May, Silvia Minichino successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Landscape architecture and sustainable energy transition. Designing for renewable energy policies from the Italian perspective” at the University of Florence, the department of Architecture. The thesis committee existed of Giampiero Donin, full professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Reggio Calabria, Leone Manfredi, assistant professor of...

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March 21st Renée was invited for a guest lecture and case study exercise on energy transition for 2nd year landscape architecture students at the Academie van Bouwkunst in Amsterdam. After a ‘pressure cooker’ introduction into the design of sustainable energy landscapes, the students developed visions for sustainable energy futures for the municipality of Overbetuwe. The students worked with the five-step approach for planning and design...

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We are happy to announce that the NRGlab guest lecture with Prof.dr. Sören Schöbel-Rutschmann is rescheduled for Tuesday 21 May. He is Professor of Landscape Architecture and Regional Open Space at the Technical University Munich, Germany. During his talk he will address one of his core research interests: renewable energy and landscape aesthetics. The lecture is embedded in the Wageningen University BSc thesis course but open to a wider...

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Silvia Minichino MSc is a phd candidate in landscape architecture from Florence University, Italy. She visits Wageningen from January till July this year and her research focusus on possible links between renewable energy policies and landscape design. The lecture is embedded in the Wageningen University BSc thesis course but open to a wider public.   Event: NRGlab guest lecture by Silvia Minichino MSc Date: Wednesday 8th of May...

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