I had the honour to be invited to the What is the Future of Cities Podcast. “Are you interested in finding the real problem of the urban fabric? What...
At RIXARCH 2026 in Riga, I my lecture [LIV]-[IN], the Hyphen between housing and living, I spoke about the expansion of living beyond housing and the architectural question of...
BMG, a Georgian news outlet interviewed me about my view on the City of Tbilisi and what problems need to be solved there. Comparing international urban development concepts like...
During COP16 in Riyadh in December, 2024 – People’s Day – the Quality of Life Initiative delivered a thought-provoking Side Event hosted by UN-Habitat and UNDP: Our Land. Our...
On 28 November 2023 I had the pleasure to be part of a discussion at Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam on the topic of “Living with Landscape”. The panel...
I had the pleasure to participate in a panel discussion at Cityscape Global in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in August 2023. The discussion focussed on the question, how renewables can...
In August 2023, I gave a lecture at Cityscape Global Conference and Fair in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In the brief presentation, I highlighted the need to look beyond architecture...
On 05 October 2023 I bid farewell to the role of Head of Urbanism at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture. In my speech, I looked back on six years...
Our role as humans on this planet has to change. Until now we saw ourselves as the pinnacle, ruling over the rest and exploiting nature at our pleasing. This...
The massive changes our cities need to undergo in the coming decades ask for rethinking of planning practices and profound changes in planning systems. The two-day conference organized by...
Invited by TU Vienna and sponsored by STO Stiftung, I was invited to speak about public space in cities. In my lecture, I highlight the focus of city making...
The Bijlmer was one of the great experiments of the 1970’s in the Netherlands. In the South-Eastern outskirts of Amsterdam a city of the future arose with all the...
Celebrating its 25th anniversary, archined, one of the most influential websites on the thinking around architecture, invited Thijs van Spaandonk and me to contribute to a special publication around...
Following a letter I was co-authoring that raised concerns about the state of affairs in urbanism at TU Delft when it comes to links with practice, I was invited...
How does the city of the future look like, and what are the big drivers? I was investigating these questions in a lecture delivered at the occasion of a...
I was one of the track leaders of the 55th ISOCARP world planning congress in Jakarta 2019. In that role I was co-authoring the Jakarta declaration – a call...
For two years, I worked in a team with great colleagues on a planned city extension for the Greater Accra Region in Ningo Prampram. When completed, it can house...
For almost a quarter of a century, I have been working in Shenzhen. In that time, the city has been growing from around 8 million to more than 20...
