Merel Enserink started working as a PhD researcher at the Landscape Architecture chair group of Wageningen University & Research and joined the NRGlab team. Before this, Merel worked for several years as landscape architect and project leader with Het Oversticht. Her latest job there being program manager for sustainability, with special attention on the impact of renewable energy on the Dutch landscape and its inhabitants. The focus of her...

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In July 2018, the French journal Urbanisme published a special issue entitled “Les nouveaux paysages de la transition énergétique” [The new landscape of energy transition] to celebrate the first three years of the ‘Landscape and Energy’ chair at the National School of Landscape Architecture in Versailles. This issue explores how several territories are engaging in energy transition processes and how the ongoing transition could be...

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Dirk Oudes started working as a PhD researcher at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture Amsterdam. He will be part of the new research group ‘high-density energy landscapes‘. His research will be in close affiliation with chair group landscape architecture at Wageningen University. Before joining the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture, Dirk worked on several energy related projects at Wing, a Wageningen based...

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Sven Stremke has been appointed professor of Landscape Architecture at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture and will lead the research group High-density energy landscapes. He has been appointed for a period of four years. His research at the Academy focuses on the development of sustainable energy landscapes with special attention for the roles of design and the designer in energy transition. Earlier this year, Sven Stremke hosted a first...

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NRGlab member Paolo Picchi took part in the 2017 Training School hosted by the RELY Cost Action program. The second edition of this Training School took place from May 22 to 26 on Iceland, hosted by the University of Iceland and the Municipality of ‘Arnes. The main theme of the 2017 edition was ‘Questions of Power and Participation: Renewable Energy and Landscape in Policy and Planning’. Paolo Picchi, Finn Arler and other researchers...

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From 11 to 14 September 2016, the ECLAS conference named Bridging the Gap will be held in Rapperswil, Switzerland. NRGlab member Roberta Pistoni’s contribution entitled “Application of urban metabolism approach in energy landscape design” has been accepted for presentation. Roberta will attend the conference organized by European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools and represent the NRGlab in Switzerland....

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