The Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment will play host to this year’s Urban and Landscape Week on October 12 to 16, 2015.
Organised by the TU Delft urbanism and landscape architecture study association Polis, the five-day event aims to create an international platform for dialogue and discussion through a series of lectures, workshops and symposiums. Originally named “Urbanism Week”, the fifth edition of the annual conference will give equal importance to the practices of urbanism and landscape architecture. This year’s theme, “Draw the Line”, focuses on the border between these two disciplines and on special topics relevant to the discussion.
“During the week, many different issues will be addressed, but all are directed to inspire the audience to (re)think their position in the fields of urban and landscape design,” said Polis sSpeakers and wWorkshops organiszer Jan-Maarten van Hemert. The event also draws the line between significant issues such as the ethics of design and planning, the differences between drawing and sketching as well as top-down and bottom-up design processes. “The structure of the week is set up to create a mix of inspiring stories and interactive workshops. We believe that a mix of listening and participating, indoor and outdoor activities, and debating and creating results in a coherent program to discuss the boundaries in our profession.”
Among the list of international guest lecturers in attendance from both academia and industry, this year’s speakers include Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) Managing Partner David Gianotten, UNStudio Associate Director Imola Berczi and Zones Urbaines Sensibles (ZUS) founder Kristian Koreman. TU Delft’s Dirk Sijmons, Fritz van Loon, Paul de Ruiter and both Paul Broekhuisen and Fritz Palmboom of the Van Eesteren Chair will also be speaking during the event.
With more than 17 lectures and workshops, Urban and Landscape Week 2015 seeks to understand the routes, practices and issues of contemporary urbanism, while trying to discover its future possibilities. “[The event focuses] on engaging in debate with each other, to search for boundaries, positions and viewpoints together, to discover for ourselves where we would ‘draw the line’,” Van Hemert said. “We believe that being aware of your own boundaries can help in developing as a designer or planner but also as a human being.”
Tickets for the event are available online via the Urban and Landscape Week website. For more information, visit http://urbanismweek.nl.
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