May 18, Sven Stremke will give an invited presentation at the Eco-Energy Town Symposium in Seoul, upon invitation by the Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. His talk will be on research conducted with NRGlab member Renée de Waal on three European communities that have transited to renewable energy sources (De Waal and Stremke, 2014) and more recent research with NRGlab member Dirk Oudes on sustainable energy transition at the...

Read More

In July 2014, the NRGlab finalized and presented the ZonB research project to the Province of Noord-Brabant. The Province had asked us to develop a spatial framework to inform the development of large PV parks (or solar field). In this project, the spatial integration of solar fields was tested and discussed for four different landscape types in Noord-Brabant. The research was structured along three principal questions: WHAT? WHERE? and HOW? A...

Read More

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...

Read More

Presentation entitled ‘Interpreting Narratives in Design for Sustainable Energy Landscapes’ as part of the LASP Doctoral Colloquium on Landscape Architecture Methods & Methodology (5 July 2012)

Read More