Exhibitions of Ideas | 10th June 2022

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.

Idea development and lots of sketching | 9th 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.

sketch – sketch – sketch | 8th 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.

First Day in Rotterdam | 7th June 2022

First day in Rotterdam. Happy Sketching!

What is the Benefit of sketched visual Storytelling in Social Media by Ideasketches?

It has always been the great trick of devil, to make man believe, he didn’t exist.

Happy sketching in Rotterdam 2022

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 […]

Sketch&Draw at the Erasmus+ Project Impetus at Coimbra University in Portugal

Sketching Cognitive Maps as a tool for research in climate change

Heritage & culture students‘ research

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 …

Urban water students‘ research

Urban water encompasses the management of a sufficient supply of clean drinking water and the disposal of wastewater.

Urban, agglomeration & hinterland students‘ research

The number of challenges: dirty air, heavy traffic, and high rents. The boundaries between city and hinterland have dissolved.

Urban green students‘ research

Urban Green explores the ways in which future cities can help people feel good and stay healthy – both physically and psychologically.

Hands-on art interventions students‘ research

Shared communities organize themselves, pop-ups emerge and art projects are implemented.

Generation project students‘ research

What will the future of housing and co-living look like? The „generation project“ addresses questions like this.

Urban gardening students‘ research

Bringing color, life, and farming traditions back to urban cities: That’s the main goal of Urban Gardening.

These are the sketched Corona Stories of June 2020

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 […]

Day 4: the sketched Corona reportage

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. […]

Day 3: work on sketches & texts of the individual Corona reportage story

It is the images that recall our memories that are strong. So let us work with this kind of images.

Day 2: Sketch sketch sketch

The challenge is to wrap up the story in sketches and text. So there was a lot to think about.

Day 1: Sketch a storyboard @ home

How to make a story out of the experiences during Corona?

Sketch @ home: Drawn reportage on the subject of Corona!

How do you experience this time with Corona?

„Sketchcity“ is part of the Erasmus+ project „impetus“

„impetus“ is the acronym for Innovative measurement tool towards urban environmental awareness.

Goodbye Rotterdam sketchcity study week 2019 ended – Have a safe trip home

Last Impressions

Presenting the ideasketches

Desktop Exhibition and Video Presentations

Ideas Sketchcity Study Week 2019

Ideas Sketchcity – Results and concepts of the different group themes

Ideasketches in search of sustainable concepts

Skechting ideas in search of sustainable concepts

Day 1: What are the benefits of ideasketching for the city of Rotterdam?

Sketchcity studyweek kick-off at RDM Campus Rotterdam

Day 2: Documentary drawing and art interventions

Dutch earthquakes and its impacts as starting points for documentary drawing and art interventions

Day 3: Sketches project future

Best practices in sketching and documentary drawing

Day 4: Seeing the case

Jakarta and its problems with rising sea level

Day 5: Presenting the ideasketches

Show the best idea you generated during the Sketchcity studyweek

Sketchcity Themen 2019

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 |

Futureland: Deine Turnschuhe waren mit grosser Sicherheit schon da! Dein T-Shirt auch!

GROSS, GROSSER, AM GROSSTEN

Sketching projects future

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.

Sketchcity 2019 6. – 10.5.2019

Get ready for the challenge: sketch your idea for the future liveable city!

Sketching Reportage

SDG 11: Sketching the future of our city

Reiseführer auf Digezz

Rotterdam ist eine Stadt am Puls der Zeit. Mehr auf Digezz!

Input: Challenges of the Livable Future City

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.

Good Morning

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 […]

Day 5: I have a dream – and I sketched it here for you

Bring your idea to a certain shape.

Day 4: Resiliency means to bounce back after being hit

Speaking about resiliency means to know that we will be hit by the changes. The issue is about being prepared.

Day 3: How to prevent liveability to move out of the city!

Seeing the city as a hoodie for everybody! Sketching in the city with focus liveability.

Day 2: What story of the future city will you have to tell later?

What story do you want your children to be told about today’s cities? Sketching in the city with focus streets, squares and people

Day 1: What does it mean to be a „resilient city“?

Observation on location: Reportage means to carry back

Program Sketchcity Study Week 2018

Timetable

Sketchcity Locations 2018

Feyenoord City – Fenix Food Factory – Het Schieblock – De Peperklip – Nieuwe Binnenweg  – Winkelcentrum Zuidplein – Winkelcentrum Zuidplein – Lijnbaan and Coolsingel – Beijerlandselaan – Dakpark Rotterdam – Vreewijk

This is my idea for the resilient liveable city

@ Abstracts Wall The random part of the rich ‚my idea is‘ abstracts of the students study week 2017 projects from the Sketchcity Wall. A documentation of all students projects will be published later. A sample Sketchcity Design Sketchidea Process Here are some good ideas presented as a one-page presentation. Not only the sketches are of great value, […]

My idea for the resilient city as a videoabstract

All ideas for the resilient city explained by the students in two minutes. Sketches present the ideas in a visual way.

Tot ziens Rotterdam!

Thank you all for your contribution to this exciting study week „Sketching ideas for the resilient future city 6.6. – 9.6.2017 “ at the remarkable RDM Rotterdam Campus of the Rotterdam University. Tot ziens Rotterdam! Tanja Hess, lecturer & Sketchcity project leader HTW Chur University of Applied Sciences & BFH Bern University of Applied Sciences Andreas […]

Day 4: Presenting the ideasketches

Friday is all about finishing the ideasketches and exhibiting our ideas.

Day 3: working hard on the ideas

First ideas come to paper and evolve digitally. Meret tells her story with sketches Marc Verheijen about urbanism principles and best practice Marc Verheijen tells is about the city planning tool functional ambiance. The key point of view of his understanding of city planning is that there are always two two perspectives to a […]