In September 2020, the second edition of the Masterclass High Density Energy Landscapes took place in Amsterdam. Civil servants from different teams in the municipality of Amsterdam (Space and Sustainability Department) and the municipality of Diemen worked for one week on the complex landscape infrastructure of the Diemerscheg – the green landscape corridor in the East of Amsterdam. This year’s assignment called for the application of...

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On the 12th of February 2020, the national newspaper Volkskrant published an interview with Sven Stremke on high-density energy landscapes and energy transition in Amsterdam. Access the full interview (in Dutch) here.   Figure: Urban energy landscape with multiple functions (Van Heeswijk and Stremke,...

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On the 27th of January 2020, the national newspaper Algemeen Dagblad published an interview with Sven Stremke et al. on the Energy Garden project. The full interview (in Dutch) can be accessed here.   Figure: Concept design for the Energy garden in Wijhe, The Netherlands (drawing by Merel Enserink and modified by AD)....

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A new peer-reviewed paper by members of the NRGlab has been published recently. The paper by Roberta Pistoni and Sven Stremke is entitled Practices in transition: A comparison of how Dutch and French landscape architects contribute to energy transition and is published by the Landschap journal. The original paper is in Dutch and an English version is available. The paper is a result of a joint research effort between Wageningen...

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September 16th, NRGlab member Paolo Picchi presented recent work at the ECLAS UNISCAPE Conference “Lessons from the Past, Visions for the Future” in Oslo, Norway. Paolo’s presentation was entitled “Pedagogy in transdisciplinary approaches to landscape: training public administrations in renewable energy transition, the case of Amsterdam”. The conference presentation featured the first insights of the METRO research project:...

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