The film From Cure to Care documents the most important understandings of IABR–Atelier Utrecht: The Healthy City.
The population of Utrecht is among the healthiest in the Netherlands. There are, however, marked differences inside the city. Utrecht is doing its best to address such persistent differences in health and life expectancy, but has to operate in a force field that is in full transition. The national government is delegating care tasks to municipalities. The consolidating health economy is passing into the hands of a few large parties that add little local value.
To examine how health and urban development issues can be coupled, the IABR–Atelier Utrecht: The Healthy City investigated what innovative spatial development strategies can contribute to the creation of an inclusive, healthy city that prioritizes solidarity between different generations, cultures, and income groups. Atelier Utrecht focused on both spatial and programmatic transformations in the city as related to health and well-being, and on changes in the funding of health care. Atelier Utrecht: The Healthy City provides insights that can also inspire other cities in the Netherlands and abroad.
Director: Roel van Tour
Animations: Studio Moan together with Lotte Z., KoxRamak and Marian Venemans
Produced by iabr/UP
© IABR, 2016
IABR–Atelier Utrecht is a collaboration of the IABR and the Municipality of Utrecht. The atelier master is Joachim Declerck (Architecture Workroom Brussels). The design research has been executed by the Belgian offices Architecture Workroom Brussels and De Smet Vermeulen Architects, and MUST Urbanism from Holland.
New Coalitions for the Healthy City is one of three videos in which IABR–Atelier Utrecht has interviewed local stakeholders on the Healthy City.
In this video Jet van Zwieten (initiator at the Vechtclub XL) and Emilie Vlieger (location Marketer at Meer Merwede) talk about their experiences with healthy city making. Both are actively involved in developing the Merwede Canal Zone together with small scale local initiatives and large scale investors and developers.
Director: Roel van Tour
Produced by iabr/UP
© IABR, 2016
IABR–Atelier Utrecht
The population of Utrecht is among the healthiest in the Netherlands. There are, however, marked differences inside the city. Utrecht is doing its best to address such persistent differences in health and life expectancy, but has to operate in a force field that is in full transition. The national government is delegating care tasks to municipalities. The consolidating health economy is passing into the hands of a few large parties that add little local value. To examine how health and urban development issues can be coupled, the IABR–Atelier Utrecht: The Healthy City investigated what innovative spatial development strategies can contribute to the creation of an inclusive, healthy city that prioritizes solidarity between different generations, cultures, and income groups. Atelier Utrecht focused on both spatial and programmatic transformations in the city as related to health and well-being, and on changes in the funding of health care. Atelier Utrecht: The Healthy City provides insights that can also inspire other cities in the Netherlands and abroad.
IABR–Atelier Utrecht is a collaboration of the IABR and the Municipality of Utrecht. The atelier master is Joachim Declerck (Architecture Workroom Brussels). The design research has been executed by the Belgian offices Architecture Workroom Brussels and De Smet Vermeulen Architects, and MUST Urbanism from Holland.
Socially Responsible Investment Strategies for the Healthy City is one of three videos in which IABR–Atelier Utrecht has interviewed local stakeholders on the Healthy City.
In this video Magreet Melman (project manager at Care & Culture) and Gert Beffers (social broker at Wijk&Co) talk about their experiences with healthy city making. Both set up cultural projects to involve the participation of inhabitants in the development of projects on the neighborhood level, stimulating the interaction between different groups of people. When needed, they support local initiatives by presenting them to a larger audience and potential investors.
Director: Roel van Tour
Produced by iabr/UP
© IABR, 2016
IABR–Atelier Utrecht
The population of Utrecht is among the healthiest in the Netherlands. There are, however, marked differences inside the city. Utrecht is doing its best to address such persistent differences in health and life expectancy, but has to operate in a force field that is in full transition. The national government is delegating care tasks to municipalities. The consolidating health economy is passing into the hands of a few large parties that add little local value. To examine how health and urban development issues can be coupled, the IABR–Atelier Utrecht: The Healthy City investigated what innovative spatial development strategies can contribute to the creation of an inclusive, healthy city that prioritizes solidarity between different generations, cultures, and income groups. Atelier Utrecht focused on both spatial and programmatic transformations in the city as related to health and well-being, and on changes in the funding of health care. Atelier Utrecht: The Healthy City provides insights that can also inspire other cities in the Netherlands and abroad.
IABR–Atelier Utrecht is a collaboration of the IABR and the Municipality of Utrecht. The atelier master is Joachim Declerck (Architecture Workroom Brussels). The design research has been executed by the Belgian offices Architecture Workroom Brussels and De Smet Vermeulen Architects, and MUST Urbanism from Holland.
Building the Healthy City is one of three videos in which IABR–Atelier Utrecht has interviewed local stakeholders on the Healthy City.
In this video Klaas Schotanus (designer at HIK ontwerpers) and Heleen Engbers (division manager rehabilitation & Recovery at care hotel The Wartburg) talk about their experiences with healthy city making. Both are contributing: Klaas by offering his design skills to the neighborhood, so that local inhabitants can propose neighborhood improvements to the local government. And Heleen by offering short stay caretaking in her care hotel for elderly who have left the hospital but are not ready yet to go home.
Director: Roel van Tour
Produced by iabr/UP
© IABR, 2016
IABR–Atelier Utrecht
The population of Utrecht is among the healthiest in the Netherlands. There are, however, marked differences inside the city. Utrecht is doing its best to address such persistent differences in health and life expectancy, but has to operate in a force field that is in full transition. The national government is delegating care tasks to municipalities. The consolidating health economy is passing into the hands of a few large parties that add little local value. To examine how health and urban development issues can be coupled, the IABR–Atelier Utrecht: The Healthy City investigated what innovative spatial development strategies can contribute to the creation of an inclusive, healthy city that prioritizes solidarity between different generations, cultures, and income groups. Atelier Utrecht focused on both spatial and programmatic transformations in the city as related to health and well-being, and on changes in the funding of health care. Atelier Utrecht: The Healthy City provides insights that can also inspire other cities in the Netherlands and abroad.
IABR–Atelier Utrecht is a collaboration of the IABR and the Municipality of Utrecht. The atelier master is Joachim Declerck (Architecture Workroom Brussels). The design research has been executed by the Belgian offices Architecture Workroom Brussels and De Smet Vermeulen Architects, and MUST Urbanism from Holland.
10:23"
Commissioned by iabr/UP for IABR-2016–THE NEXT ECONOMY.
Production: Strawberry Fields
Producers: Marieke Francke and George Brugmans
© iabr/UP, 2016
The Nordic City: The energy transition
and the economic opportunities it offers
How can the transition from fossil to renewable energy be a string driving force for the economic and spatial development of the city and region of Groningen? And how to nourish these development perspectives into implementation?
The IABR–Atelier Groningen explored the opportunities for economic and spatial development that present themselves when city and region act on the energy transition in Groningen, in the North of the Netherlands.
Four spatial design proposals are developed: Energy Port, Biobased Economy for the North, Groningen Smart Energy City and Sustainable and Safe Villages.
Perspectives are based on a research by design driven exploration of the economic opportunities the transition to renewable energy offers by 2035, perspectives that indicate a future for Groningen as a coherent urban region ready for the Next Economy: the Nordic City.
The economic effect of the energy transition becomes substantial when the connections are taken into account that the energy sector can make with other strong urban and regional economic sectors: agriculture, chemistry, knowledge institutes, ICT, and construction.
The film The Nordic City demonstrates that the prospects the energy transition offers Groningen are excellent when the region, the provincial capital and the villages together take the lead and when all public and private parties and stakeholders involved are serious about energy transition.
Project Atelier Groningen is a collaboration of the IABR and an alliance of the Province of Groningen, the Municipality of Groningen, Eemsdelta Region and the Groningen-Assen Region. The Lead Designer is Jandirk Hoekstra (H+N+S Landscape Architects).
The research and design has been executed by the following offices: E&E Advies, Quintel Intelligence, van Paridon x de Groot (in collaboration with LINT), Maat Ontwerpers, the Atelier of the Chief Architect of the Municipality of Groningen (with MD Landscape Architects, Specht Architects and Studio MARCHA!) and H+N+S Landscape Architects.
7"24'
@iabr/UP, 2014
"This city is a car city. Los Angeles is cars. From the urbanist's point of view, in order to understand the city, you have to drive", says the architect Orhan Ayyüce in the film The Vernon City Project.
Forty years after "Reyner Banham loves Los Angeles" another architect with the gaze of the foreigner takes us on a ride through the City of Angels, or as the Turkish architect Orhan Ayyüce likes to refer to it: "La Citta Capitalista".
Ayyüce takes us to Vernon City, just south of down town LA.
Vernon is an atypical Los Angeles town, perhaps the most atypical town in the entire USA. It has only 100 inhabitants and most of them work for the town council. The majority of buildings in Vernon are big boxes: commercial or industrial buildings. Every day over 50,000 people come to Vernon to work – it’s one of LA’s most important food distribution centers and thus a key logistics hub in the metropolitan region.
An ‘exclusive industrial town,’ Vernon borders on the cosmopolitan downtown of Los Angeles. What opportunities are there in this unique city on the banks of the Los Angeles River? Are alternative forms of housing, agriculture, and nature imaginable in a town that relies solely on industry and transport?
The Vernon City Project, submitted by the LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design and run by Orhan Ayyüce, was selected for THE URBAN METABOLISM– section of the main exhibition of IABR–2014–URBAN BY NATURE–
directors: Eline Jongsma & Kel O'Neill
editor: Harm van den Berg
producer: Jos de Putter
commissioned by IABR
@iabr/UP, 2014
Planet Texel
Eric Hercules, Texel
6"51'
© iabr/UP, 2014
"That’s the great thing about Project Atelier Planet Texel: It does not catalogue the problems we have or state how our ambitions clash. No, it explored the connections. How to create added value by researching how our different ambitions can coexist?", says Eric Hercules, Texel's alderman for Tourism, Environment and Spatial Planning, in the film Planet Texel.
IABR and Texel
Since the Spring of 2013 the IABR and the Municipality of Texel have collaborated in the IABR–Project Atelier Planet Texel. The challenge was to find a way to balance the different ambitions the island has. On the one hand Texel wants to protect its beautiful landscape, be energy neutral by 2020, and attain water self-sufficiency. But it also has the ambition to make tourism grow qualitatively. Not an easy task for 15.000 inhabitants who welcome a million tourists every year.
By bringing research by design in play the Atelier worked on concrete project proposals linked to a “toolbox for governance”: instruments that the municipality of Texel can employ when implementing its new spatial policies.
The results of the Atelier are on show from 29 May until 24 August, taking front stage in A PLANET CULTIVATED–, one of the exhibitions that make URBAN BY NATURE– in the Kunsthal Rotterdam.
How is the municipality going to continue with what the Atelier has achieved when the biennale is over? What really are the results of the Atelier, and which strategies have been developed? How can the challenges Texel faces – environment, water, energy, tourism, agriculture– become opportunities for spatial and economic development?
In the film Planet Texel alderman Eric Hercules responds to these and other questions.
PLANET TEXEL is one in a series of short videos commissioned by the IABR for its sixth edition, IABR–2014–URBAN BY NATURE–
director: Alexander Oey
producer: George Brugmans
The Challenge of the Century
Maarten Hajer, PBL
6"53'
© iabr/UP, 2014
"We don't need smart cities, we need smart urbanism", says Maarten Hajer, Director-General of PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, and professor of Public Policy, University of Amsterdam, in the film 'The Challenge of the Century".
Hajer feels that we need to get rid of the modernist paradigm and reinvent urbanism for the 21st century. "We need a new form of global urbanism that strategically connects city experiments all over the world to speed up learning, so that many more urban citizens may participate in rethinking our cities for a sustainable future. The required complete overhaul of urban planning may very well be the challenge of the century."
PBL and IABR–2014–
How much water do we need each day? How many trucks delivering how many goods? How much waste is recycled? What does the infrastructure that allows this look like? How is the Netherlands connected to the rest of the world? Do improvements in the Netherlands affect global problems?
Improving our understanding of urban metabolism is a way to get a handle on the new urban planning agenda.
That's why the IABR asked the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency to investigate what key issues and bottlenecks with regard to each separate flow there actually are, both on a global and national level.
Each flow is deconstructed by a five-way analysis: the size of the flow; its import and export; the organization of its infrastructure on a national level; its international context; and the main challenge connected to the flow.
Graphic designers Catalogtree have designed infographics that represent the results and that are presented in THE URBAN METABOLISM–, one of the exhibitions of URBAN BY NATURE–.
Book
During IABR–2014–, the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency launched the book Smart About Cities – Visualizing Challenges for 21st Century Urbanism, which also contains the entire series of infographics.
PBL
PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency is the national institute for strategic policy analysis in the fields of environment, nature and spatial planning. It contributes to improving the quality of political and administrative decision making by conducting outlook studies, analyses and evaluations in which an integrated approach is considered paramount. Policy relevance is the prime concern in its studies. It conducts solicited and unsolicited research that is always independent and scientifically sound.
THE CHALLENGE OF THE CENTURY is one in a series of short videos commissioned by the IABR for its sixth edition, IABR–2014–URBAN BY NATURE–
director: Alexander Oey
producer: George Brugmans
The film Het Mozaïek van Brabant (The Mosaic Metropolis of Brabant) documents the work of the IABR–PROJECT ATELIER BRABANTSTAD.
Brabant is a "mosaic metropolis". It is in essence a dispersed city, an urban landscape. It is an extensive and flexible mosaic, with different land use both in high and low densities, with smaller cities and many villages, intensive agriculture and small industry, and with an abundance of nature and water.
BrabantStad, an alliance between the cities of Eindhoven, Den Bosch, Breda, Tilburg, Helmond and the province North Brabant, is one of the most productive regions of Europe. But it has to battle the financial crisis and administrative change.
What would joining forces bring these cities more than what they cannot accomplish on their own? What are the opportunities and which are the obstacles? What would make BrabantStad a cohesive urban metabolism, and how exactly are agendas, ambitions and actors interconnected?
Director: Alexander Oey
Producer: George Brugmans
The film was commissioned by Architectuur Lokaal, in the context of IABR–2014–URBAN BY NATURE– and produced by iabr/UP.
6"08'
© iabr/UP, 2014
Dirk Sijmons, curator of IABR–2014–URBAN BY NATURE: "If we want to address the real and oppressive issues of the urban planet of the twenty-first century, a moralistic message that amounts to saying that we humans have gone too far and therefore have to reverse course is of little use. There is no going back. Welcome to the Anthropocene!"
This film is one of a series of short videos commissioned by the IABR for its sixth edition, IABR–2014–URBAN BY NATURE.
director: Alexander Oey
producer: George Brugmans
