Hope is to be done! Creating Positive Cities – opening session

Students and Teachers from TU Dortmund University – Urban Design Unit – will kick off their 3-day Workshop with a discussion on the possibility of creating positive impact on neighborhoods by design. After an introduction on the theme by Sebastian Schlecht and Renèe Tribble and on the the toolkit “Building with a positive footprint” by Dutch architect Vincent van der Meulen we will start a discussion on how to use the power of hope in defined sectors of design practice. Join us and get involved!  

"Hope is to be done! Creating Positive Cities." is part of the Master's program Urban Design Unit at the TU Dortmund's Department of Spatial Planning in a cooperation with lala.ruhr – the landscape and architecture laboratory – and the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) 2024 program Nature of Hope. 

The spoken language is English.  

This event is free, but you do need a ticket for the exhibition. You can buy this via the website of Nieuwe Instituut. 

More about Creating Positive Cities  

Hope has always been the epitome of striving for a better world. Today, in the uncertainty of the future, we only see a memory of it. To evolve a new stance, this hope must be reactivated. Passivity is not an option.   

Our cities are catalysts for our actions and attitudes, and our impact. "Creating Positive Cities" calls for redesigning our urban landscapes collaboratively in a way that the enormous efforts unfold as a generic positive effect, eliminating blind spots and the hazards of our future.   

The concept "Building with a Positive Footprint" by Dutch architect Vincent van der Meulen will serve us as a starting point to rediscover our relationships and distilling the positions of “Nature of Hope” into tangible and visionary positions for future urban landscapes. To better understand us, ensure positive impact and lay a foundation for an active and nurturing hope. Hope is to be done!  

The results will be applied to a Masters Design Project in Bochum, Ruhrgebiet in the following Semester.  

Sebastian Schlecht (lala.ruhr)  
Prof. Renèe Tribble (TU-Dortmund)  
Jose Mauricio Velazco Londono (TU-Dortmund)