Co-Designing Mangrove and Livelihood Restoration in Quelimane

Photos of the participative workshop and Bairro Novo, Quelimane

From February 25-27, VE-R facilitated a participatory design workshop in Quelimane focused on mangrove restoration and livelihoods. Bairro Novo faces growing challenges—floods, lack of economic opportunities, and environmental degradation. Community members from Bairro Novo, students from Eduardo Mondlane University, and key stakeholders, including the Quelimane municipality, collaborated to create a (flood) resilient future. Participants mapped…

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Bloemendaalseweg, Public Presentation of three potential design directions

Photo of discussions at the panels with the design visions

At February 11th VE-R presented the outcome of a participatory design process with stakeholders group from the Bloemendaalseweg area leading up to three potential models for renewal of the full street profile of this main street in the village of Bloemendaal. Under the title Nieuw Authentiek Bloemendaal (New Authentic Bloemendaal) these three different visions were…

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Project Grachtbrug in Lisse proceeds!

Grachtbrug Lisse

On the 29th of May, VE-R assisted the municipality of Lisse in organizing an information market for the vision development on the Grachtbrug, a viaduct in the centre of town. For this purpose, we designed a series of panels summarizing the results of the previous studies and the outcomes of the series of participant’s group…

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“A New Peace of Münster” documentary now on screen abroad

After the exhibition “Plan D” at the University of Münster and a series of workshops organized by Simon Richter and Patrick Nederkoorn, a documentary directed by Maria Kolossa has now aired internationally; it is following these initiatives and showcasing large-scale concepts and ideas developed by landscape architects and climate experts on their cross-border visions of…

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++Water Heritage on display at the Nieuwe Markt, Groningen

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From 5th to 7th November 2021 our project ++Water Heritage (++Watererfgoed) together with MORE Landscape is on display in the exhibition Sponsland on the Nieuwe Markt in Groningen during Let’s Gro. The project was one of the eight proposals to adapt the area from the Hunze Valley to Schiermonnikoog to climate change looking ahead to the year 2121, but…

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Method for abandoned agricultural buildings in Breda

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One of the emerging topics in spatial quality situation of the Netherlands is the rapid change in agricultural yards and lands. Dorp, Stad & Land (Spatial Quality organization for South Holland, Zeeland and West-Brabant regions) have asked VE-R to assist in the research to come to a method of approaching farmers in early stages in…

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++Water Heritage on Sponsland and Act&Adapt

Rietdiep ++Water Heritage vision

Our project “++ Water Heritage” is part of the Sponsland online exhibition opened on 21st January 2021 and part of the Climate Adaptation Summit Act &Adapt. In “++ Water Heritage” together with MORE Landscape we created a vision for the future of the Rietdiep river area with a scope of 100 years ahead. A regenerated robust fresh water system, based…

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Amstel Open in online forum, exhibition and magazine

Amstel open vision

Our project “Amstel Open” was presented on 20th November 2020 in an online seminar at Pakhuis de Zwijger, presented at ARCAM and published in the magazine “Het Stadsranden-lab: nieuwe typologieën voor de kreukelzones van de stad”, which can be ordered via this link: https://bna.nl/producten/het-stadsranden-lab  Together with Clubhaus Architecten, M3H and ROC Amsterdam we created a vision for the Amstel area as an urban fringe open and accessible for all. Through the creation of a…

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Schalkwijk verbindt!

Schalkwijk verbindt Gebiedsontwikkeling

VE-R, together with VAST, MOVE Mobility and Field Factors have made the submission “Schalkwijk verbindt!” for the competition Panorama Lokaal. In “Schalkwijk verbindt!” we show how to steer a positive shift from ‘coming and going to and from the neighbourhood’, with the emphasis on the car, to ‘moving within the neighbourhood’, with the emphasis on…

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Excursion to Reitdiep, Groningen

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For the International Climate Adaptation Summit, planned to be held in the Netherlands in January 2021, a series of support events are organized. One of them is the Climate Adaptation Design Exhibition in which eight teams have been asked to develop a vision for parts of the urban and rural regions in and around Groningen.…

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