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.

Designing an urban backpack tent

This student made his idea of the future needs in urban living come true. Read about Backpack-cum-tent designed for urban camping on Design Indaba

HUMAN+ The future of our species

We are living in a paradox of technology. Technology provides us with the richest smartness ever. But only a few of us are capable to create new things with these tools – but they do it for all of us. Exhibition | Barcelona exhibits the topic of the future human and ethics of mankind. At the […]

Europe City Urban Public Space

Readings | The book presents a multifaceted and diverse platform of ideas about European public space and its social, cultural, economic,and historical significance. Approached from a variety of different disciplines—with essays by sociologists and novelists; architects and anthropologists—this discussion is focused on seven lessons that have been learned through the prolific construction of public spaces across […]

Slow Urbanism at its best

Antwerpen made an investment in art and architecture, but took care of their roots. Now they enjoy a good mixture of livability.

City Sense – Shaping your world with real time data

It is not the sensor filled high-tech city that will shape our future. It will be our creativity to find new solutions for the domanding questions of today.

Tiefgaragen reloaded: Pilzgarage

Best Practice | In der Stadtgärtnerei Zürich steht die Pilzgarage, die es uns vor macht, wie die vielen Tiefgaragen genutzt werden könnten, wenn diese nicht mehr von den Autos gebraucht werden. Aus Petflaschen wachsen Pilze, die man täglich ernten und essen kann. Hier geht es zur Führung. Film …

Luchtsingel Rotterdam

Best Practice | The Luchtsingel connects Rotterdam North to the center and revitalizes a forgotten area. This part of the city did not count for years and was dominated by vacancy and neglection. With the realization of the Luchtsingel we reconnect the Central Station, North and between North and Binnenrotte. Besides that the Luchtsingel is a […]

Technologist.eu on Mobility

Urban Mobility: How technology will keep us moving in congested cities

Knowledge Mile

De slimste straat van Nederland zien wij als een creatieve leeromgeving, waar iedereen slimme oplossingen voor de uitdagingen van de stad kan ontwikkelen, testen en tonen.

Hackable City Manifesto and Toolkit

Readings | THE HACKABLE CITY: A RESEARCH MANIFESTO AND DESIGN TOOLKIT The Hackable City is a research project on the role of digital media in the process of citymaking that resulted from a cooperation between One Architecture and The Mobile City Foundation. The proj- ect investigates the opportunities of digital media technologies for the empowerment of citizens […]