Excursions day: Next is not just a place—it’s a responsibility
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Weiterlesen "Excursions day: Next is not just a place—it’s a responsibility"Where do you want to go to get a deeper view?
Weiterlesen "Excursions day: Next is not just a place—it’s a responsibility"Our fourth day of SketchCity 2025 began with Rotterdam’s famously unpredictable weather: a steady rain that sent us from the streets into museums, cafés, and classrooms. But the sketching didn’t stop—it simply changed atmosphere. Between cappuccinos and exhibition walls, students continued to observe, reflect, and draw. Indoors, we shifted the focus to refining sketches, adding […]
Weiterlesen "Fourth day of sketching 2025 – Sketching Inside and Out – From City Streets to Celebration"The first day of the tenth edition of the sketchcity studyweek is opened. 170 student and 7 lecturers from both countries, The Netherlands ans Switzerland celebrate this event with a guest lecture of Jan Rothuizen. Renu Jagernath, Head of Urban Development at Hogeschool Rotterdam, welcomed us with a warm and inspiring speech on the importance […]
Weiterlesen "First Day of Sketching and Keynote 2025"10th Edition of sketchcity studyweek
Weiterlesen "Topics of Sketchcity 2025"What are the challenges of the future liveable city?
Weiterlesen "First Day on the Floating Pavillion"These are our five topics: 1 Architecture | 2 Biodiversity | 3 Climate Change | 4 Social Impact | 5 Water
Weiterlesen "Topics of Sketchcity Study Week 2024"The Sketchcity study week in Rotterdam 2023 generated many exciting ideas on how to transform urban spaces to make them more attractive, environmentally friendly and people-friendly.
Weiterlesen "My idea is …"Pick up inspiration from the artist Jan Rothuizen. Understand what the week is about. Know what is expected at the end. And then a treasure hunt.
Weiterlesen "Day 1 Kickoff & Intro"Overview of the sketchcity study week
Weiterlesen "Sketchcity 2023 in Rotterdam"Ultimate need for actions are on scope. Here some background information. Update 2023
Weiterlesen "What are the challenges of the future liveable city?"The Sketchcity week is almost over. For the last time, all students and lecturers met at the university. All the posters with the ideas are finalised. An exhibition took place where all the innovative and creative ideas were viewed. The best projects were highlighted and discussed. Some very great work has been done! This was celebrated with a final BBQ! Now this wonderful week is over again and everyone is on their way home.
Weiterlesen "Exhibitions of Ideas | 10th June 2022"This morning the research event – stroll with cognitive map – took place. After the 30 minute walk through Rotterdam, the students met again at the starting point and drew their route from memory.
Weiterlesen "Idea development and lots of sketching | 9th June 2022"There was also a lot of sketching in the art museum. In the evening we visited the Rotterdam Rooftop walk, which highlights very exciting and important topics.
Weiterlesen "sketch – sketch – sketch | 8th June 2022"First day in Rotterdam. Happy Sketching!
Weiterlesen "First Day in Rotterdam | 7th June 2022"It has always been the great trick of devil, to make man believe, he didn’t exist.
Weiterlesen "What is the Benefit of sketched visual Storytelling in Social Media by Ideasketches?"We are happy to announce the Sketchcity Studyweek in Rotterdam 2022 This year’s study week is again an Erasmus plus project and financed by the EU. It will take place from 6.-10. June 2022 in Rotterdam. This is a presser cooker week with almost 150 Students from Switzerland. The students are joined by Dutch students […]
Weiterlesen "Happy sketching in Rotterdam 2022"Sketching Cognitive Maps as a tool for research in climate change
Weiterlesen "Sketch&Draw at the Erasmus+ Project Impetus at Coimbra University in Portugal"Rotterdam is home to the largest seaport in Europe and is the most important trading location for oil in Europe. During the Second World War, the city center was almost completely destroyed …
Weiterlesen "Heritage & culture students‘ research"Urban water encompasses the management of a sufficient supply of clean drinking water and the disposal of wastewater.
Weiterlesen "Urban water students‘ research"The number of challenges: dirty air, heavy traffic, and high rents. The boundaries between city and hinterland have dissolved.
Weiterlesen "Urban, agglomeration & hinterland students‘ research"Urban Green explores the ways in which future cities can help people feel good and stay healthy – both physically and psychologically.
Weiterlesen "Urban green students‘ research"Shared communities organize themselves, pop-ups emerge and art projects are implemented.
Weiterlesen "Hands-on art interventions students‘ research"What will the future of housing and co-living look like? The „generation project“ addresses questions like this.
Weiterlesen "Generation project students‘ research"Bringing color, life, and farming traditions back to urban cities: That’s the main goal of Urban Gardening.
Weiterlesen "Urban gardening students‘ research"During four days the students sketched their stories around Corona. The sketched reports were written before the end of the first lockdown in Switzerland, i.e. before 8 June 2020. We all spent 12 weeks in self-distancing and lived according to the motto „stay at home“. Have a look at the nearly 100 stories here, which […]
Weiterlesen "These are the sketched Corona Stories of June 2020"After almost a week of sketching, the drawn reports are now available. What is the story behind? Find it out here. Silvan K. Viktoria B. Selina S. Alexanda M. Julia K. Angela S. Estella M. Jael F. Jana H. Jonas Geruscha L. Alessia S. Julia B. Laura K. Lea Z. Lisa H. Luana F. […]
Weiterlesen "Day 4: the sketched Corona reportage"It is the images that recall our memories that are strong. So let us work with this kind of images.
Weiterlesen "Day 3: work on sketches & texts of the individual Corona reportage story"The challenge is to wrap up the story in sketches and text. So there was a lot to think about.
Weiterlesen "Day 2: Sketch sketch sketch"How to make a story out of the experiences during Corona?
Weiterlesen "Day 1: Sketch a storyboard @ home"How do you experience this time with Corona?
Weiterlesen "Sketch @ home: Drawn reportage on the subject of Corona!"„impetus“ is the acronym for Innovative measurement tool towards urban environmental awareness.
Weiterlesen "„Sketchcity“ is part of the Erasmus+ project „impetus“"Desktop Exhibition and Video Presentations
Weiterlesen "Presenting the ideasketches"Ideas Sketchcity – Results and concepts of the different group themes
Weiterlesen "Ideas Sketchcity Study Week 2019"Skechting ideas in search of sustainable concepts
Weiterlesen "Ideasketches in search of sustainable concepts"Sketchcity studyweek kick-off at RDM Campus Rotterdam
Weiterlesen "Day 1: What are the benefits of ideasketching for the city of Rotterdam?"Dutch earthquakes and its impacts as starting points for documentary drawing and art interventions
Weiterlesen "Day 2: Documentary drawing and art interventions"Best practices in sketching and documentary drawing
Weiterlesen "Day 3: Sketches project future"Jakarta and its problems with rising sea level
Weiterlesen "Day 4: Seeing the case"Show the best idea you generated during the Sketchcity studyweek
Weiterlesen "Day 5: Presenting the ideasketches"urban gardening | urban forest | heritage&culture | generation project | urban & Hinterland | hands on art inventions | urban water | art&culture | street livability | handmade urbanism | multimedia intervention / communication | interactive game |
Weiterlesen "Sketchcity Themen 2019"GROSS, GROSSER, AM GROSSTEN
Weiterlesen "Futureland: Deine Turnschuhe waren mit grosser Sicherheit schon da! Dein T-Shirt auch!"First: We inform us about the triggering climate change and the topic of climate adoption.
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Tenth: We share the experience in social media.
Get ready for the challenge: sketch your idea for the future liveable city!
Weiterlesen "Sketchcity 2019 6. – 10.5.2019"SDG 11: Sketching the future of our city
Weiterlesen "Sketching Reportage"Rotterdam ist eine Stadt am Puls der Zeit. Mehr auf Digezz!
Weiterlesen "Reiseführer auf Digezz"Understanding the Challenges of the Livable Future City. Guest Lecture Prof Dr Gerhard Schmitt, Future City Laboratory ETH Zürich. 17.5.2016 Siemens Auditorium, HIT, ETH Hönggerberg, Zürich.
Weiterlesen "Input: Challenges of the Livable Future City"Dear students, professors, volunteers, I welcome you to this special week, to the sketchcity week. The topic of this week is resilience, I believe, resilience as a core concept of our future. Resilience is the capacity of a system to recover from perturbations, von Störungen. Maybe you are not aware, in our Federal Constitution of […]
Weiterlesen "Good Morning"Bring your idea to a certain shape.
Weiterlesen "Day 5: I have a dream – and I sketched it here for you"Speaking about resiliency means to know that we will be hit by the changes. The issue is about being prepared.
Weiterlesen "Day 4: Resiliency means to bounce back after being hit"