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 […]

Day 2: Ideasketching for Resiliency

Program Thursday Morning and Afternoon 8.45 – 9.30 Walk-in with coffee and tea at Baai 2 in Innovation Dock Sketching time at RDM Rotterdam 12.00 Lunchbags 12.30 – 13.00 PLENARY SESSION: Janneska Spoelman Congress room ID 0.210 Innov.Dock 13.00- 14.00 PLENARY SESSION by Marc Verheijen, architect, infrastructure and mobility expert, city of Rotterdam Sketching time […]

Day 1: What are the challenges?

Program Tuesday Morning We start the sketchity.ch Studyweek at RDM Rotterdam A warm welcome from the dean of Rotterdam University, Wijnand van den Brink to the Swiss and Dutch students of the sketchity studyweek. What are we going to do in the sketchcity.ch studyweek? Presentation by Tanja Hess, Introduction to the topic of the week: ideasketching […]

The Resilience Strategy will ensure that Rotterdam will be prepared

Resilience is more than robustnes.

Architektur wird in Zürich auch verhandelt

Die Stadt wächst nach innen.

Study week 2017 June 6 to 9 Timetable overwiew

Then the groups visit their assigned locations to sketch in the city.

Posters

In the meantime, while you are sketching, you will develop your ideas and you have the time to rethink and alter your focus.

Sketching the challenges of the future resilient city

The sketchcity studyweek 2017 in Rotterdam is a joint project at the Rotterdam University between the two Swiss Universities of applied Sciences Chur and Berne, and the Rotterdam University, the Netherlands. For Multimedia Producers it is most important to have great and interesting content, important topics and material to communicate. The students from the Rotterdam University are the experts for resiliency.

Where the Sketchcity. ch Studyweek 2017 takes place: RDM Rotterdam

Cooperation in the field of knowledge and innovation at a historical location.

Guest Lecture – „Resilient is the new Sustainable“

Input and know-how from the smartest port and the city of Rotterdam.

Rotterdam is much more then a harbour

A city where farms float in the harbour.

Future Flux Festival

„SPECTACULAIRE TECHNOLOGIE EN NIEUWE KUNST“

Design district event

Liveability means both in a city, indoor and outdoor.

Switzerlands contribution to the topic: Future Energy

Visitors measure their personal energy balance and the extent to which their daily involvement with energy has consequences on the environment they inhabit.

The power of art is communication

Art has since ever been an attractor for people. But art is even more: it is a topic for everybody to bring in his or her view or point of view. Art became a platform for city discussions and even more. Mothership is a cooperation of artists who want to interact with the city. So they […]

Twitter Timeline

Twitter Timeline of the Sketchcity Study Week Project 2016 Amsterdam & Rotterdam

Output: my idea is …

First random part of the rich ‚my ideas is‘ abstracts of the students study week 2016 projects from the Sketchcity Wall (will be updated and completed soon). The complete documentation of all students projects will be published later.

Day 5: LAST GLANCE AT ANCIENT TIMES

Young people, actually everybody is responsable to go on with this tradition of beeing open minded and learn from history. It is always a bit of both of them. But not only looking at the old things – transporting them in a new mannor to our times is the challenge.

Day 4: What do you want next?

Good Morning Rotterdam Today we are going to the vibrant city Rotterdam and we will see there the THE urbanisation-exhibition that takes place every second year in Rotterdam. Since 2001, the IABR was focussing the exhibitions on the latest tendencies in urbanisation.

Day 3: Next Round – Lead your idea to a form

NEXT ROUND – LEAD YOUR IDEA TO A FORM
The future is the consequence of what we do now. Finding Solutions.

Day 2: Appointments & Working Sessions

Sketch Essays & development of ideas in progress. Die Suche nach Ideen und Umsetzungen. Ideen werden kühner & Lösungsansätze smarter.

DAY 1: Take-off & Input Sessions

Die Fähre „Port of Amsterdam“ hat am Montagmorgen im schwimmenden Undercurrent Sketchcity-Campus angelegt. Die Studierenden und der Contributor/Illustrator Mattias Adolfsson treffen ein und wählen ihren Sketching-Desk.

ready for take off

In the meantime while you are sketching, you will develop your ideas and you have the time to rethink and varay your focus.

Not only fancy stuff!

Check your ideas with the Creativity Check Card to find an innovative solution for your Sketches … Download the CREATIVITY CHECK card as PDF …

Reporting from the front – la Biennale di Venezia

La Biennale asks every second year for the most imortant tendencies. The questioning is always from the point of view of an architect, that builds houses for menkind and houses for the soul of all of us.

Urban Sketchers are the storyboarder for the future livable city

Why we need the creative ideas from Urban Sketchers to improve the cities. And why they have so many good ideas.

Kreativ-Trend „Urban Sketching“: Mein Bild der Welt

Urban Sketching ist die Gegenbewegung zum massenhaften Bilderpflücken. Ein Trend, der allerdings Mut braucht bekommt zunehmends Zulauf.

NEST – Gemeinsam an der Zukunft bauen

Nest – ein Gebäude für das Konzept der Zukunft. Neue Technologien, Materialien und Systeme werden unter realen Bedingungen getestet, erforscht, weiterentwickelt und validiert.

GET THE POSTERS

Our Event Location in Amsterdam at UNDERCURRENT CREATIEVE NDSM TERREIN:

How are cities around the world tackling air pollution?

If we ban the cars and lorries from where we live, we expand not only our livability, but our livingrooms towards social interaction. Readings | More cycling, better public transport and car bans – cities from Delhi to Zurich are using a range of initiatives to lower traffic pollution and improve health. Black and greasy […]

What is Urban Sketching?

The biggest advantage of the sketch is, that it is able to show the future. Urban Sketchers want to take a closer look at the things to understand how they are and what these things mean to us.

„WHAT’S NEXT?“ International Biennale of Architecture Rotterdam

The International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam is the show of „What’s Next?“ Influence from the pioneers, the inventors and the early adopters is important that new ideas can spread.

The City as an Open System

Listen to the session at re:publica 2016: „They dream of the smart city“ … „but they are learning very quickly that all these fantasy worlds just aren’t going to happen.“ Richard Sennett

Our Common Future – Brundtland Bericht

The Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development is the guideline for all of us.

See what the neighbour does

Have an eye on the creative pond, where good ideas grow and creativity is a lifestyle that leads to innovation. We need new solutions for the new generations on a sustainable background.

The DO School Berlin for designthinking

„Dream – focus – plan – do and dream on – focus again – plan on and do it all again!“ Learn to apply „design thinking“ and solve problems by rethinking again and again.

International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam

How should we design and govern our cities? Although we are not prophets, we can investigate and imagine tomorrow’s city, research it by design. IABR–2016–THE NEXT ECONOMY focuses on the challenges.

Statistik der Schweizer Städte 2016

Die Statistik zeigt, dass zwischen 2004 und 2014 nur vier der 173 untersuchten Städte und städtischen Gemeinden einen Bevölkerungsschwund hatten, den grössten verzeichnet Arosa mit minus 1,7 %.

Amsterdam: European Capital of Innovation

With this award, the European Commission’s aim was to celebrate the city that is building the best “innovation ecosystem”- connecting citizens, public organisations, academia, and business.

Mercer Quality of Living

Western European cities dominate the top of our 2016 Quality of Living Rankings, with Vienna remaining in the No.1 spot. Luxembourg earns the top spot for personal safety.

„Line//Shape//Space“ an Initiative from Autodesk

Autodesk and it’s software sketchbook is a huge help in sketching and afterwards designig our tomorrows world. Take a look at the students opportunity.