In the 10th edition of the Eo Wijers competition, NRGlab member Dirk Oudes was part of the winning consortium. The team of Wing, H+N+S landscape architects, FABRIC, Witteveen+Bos, Marco.Broekman and CE Delft won a shared first prize in the Eo Wijers competition. The assignment was to develop a strategy for the Stedendriehoek to become energy-neutral by 2030, a region in the east of the Netherlands. The consortium proposed a plan, named S3H-BTK,...

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Tim Snippert MSc is a Wageningen University graduate in landscape architecture and winner of the Eo Wijers Stimuleringsprijs Jonge Vakgenoot 2012. During the lecture he will elaborate on his MSc thesis and Eo Wijers competition entry ‘Verborgen kracht: Veenkoloniën 3.0’ which envisions a renewable energy future for the Veenkoloniën region in the north of the Netherlands. His lecture is embedded in the Wageningen University...

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Social media for crowdsourcing ideas, local knowledge and narratives for SEL design – Paper accepted for 2013 DLA conference (Bernburg/Dessau Germany, 6-8 June) The paper Application of social media in a regional design competition: a case study in the Netherlands authored by Renée de Waal, Annet Kempenaar, Ron van Lammeren en Sven Stremke, has been accepted for the 2013 Digital Landscape Architecture (DLA) conference. The paper describes...

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Recently, our analysis of the 36 entries for the regional design competition was published online by the Eo Wijers foundation. In the 9th edition (2011-2012), sustainable energy was one of the core themes and WUR was asked to perform the analysis. Title: 9e Eo Wijers prijsvraag 2011-2012, Nieuwe energie voor de Veenkoloniën, op zoek naar regionale comfortzones, Plananalyse (only available in Dutch) Authors: Annet Kempenaar, Renée de Waal and...

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