Sven Stremke, Paolo Picchi & Dirk Oudes curated an exhibition on energy landscapes for the 2021 Dutch Landschapstriennale. The (online) poster exhibition and the 3min video pitches of the selected 9 projects from young researchers can be accessed here. Over the past years, these young designers conducted outstanding research in dedicated design studios and Master thesis projects both at Wageningen University and the Amsterdam Academy of...

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The Handbook on the Geographies of Energy edited by Barry Solomon & Kirby Calvert (Elgar Press) featuring a chapter co-authored by Sven Stremke and Paolo Picchi has been published. Our chapter ‘Co-designing energy landscapes: Application of participatory mapping and Geographic Information Systems in the exploration of low carbon futures’ presents the results of the DEESD project on renewable energy and ecosystem services. The...

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Recently, a new peer-reviewed paper entitled Energy landscapes in a crowded world: A first typology of origins and expressions has been published in the Energy Research and Social Science journal. The paper by Martin Pasqualetti and Sven Stremke examines the definition of energy landscapes, proposes a classification of energy landscapes and describes the key characteristics of energy landscapes that help to define an over-arching typology of...

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The results of the ‘National Perspective Energy and Space’ project have been published. The book entitled Energie & Ruimte – een nationaal perspectief can be downloaded for free in high- and low-resolution (in Dutch only). Vereniging Deltametropool. ISBN:978-90-76630-21-2 About the project: Four design companies, Deltametropool and the NRGlab/Wageningen University collaborated in a project that aims to inform the Dutch...

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Ecological Urban Architecture (edited by Thomas Schroepfer) has been published recently by Birkhäuser. The books focuses on qualitative approaches to sustainability and features a chapter entitled Sustainable energy landscapes: The power of imagination authored by Sven Stremke from the NRGlab. Book abstract: The goal of advancing eco cities often remains confined to political or technological issues. This book establishes a focus on...

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