Initiated by Mathias Lehner and Maike van Stiphout in 2014 nextcity’s vision offers Quality of Life in the City to all species. Our mission is to develop and share knowledge by research, practice and university teaching. Tools include the symposia and exihibits held at Arcam Amsterdam, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the HNI and the Dutch Design Week. In 2019 the 'First Guide to Nature Inclusive Building' was published.
September 19th we celebrated a fully booked expert meeting to discuss the first 10 years of nextcity.nl at the International Architecture Biennale exhibition in the New Insitute in Rotterdam. The event was ‘silent disco’ style amidst the exhibition ‘Nature of Hope’ with intimate earphones and the audience appropriately sat down on the pieces of the celebration cake installation.
After a lecture by Mathias Lehner on 10 episodes of 10 years nextcity in 10 minutes Maike van Stiphout walked with the group through the expo and Sophie Floor Wartenbergh lectured on the development of urban ecology (see picture). A panel with young talent Bas Tibben and Michael Rikkelman led my Mathias concluded the informal expert meeting before the group mingled for drinks and networking on the sunny terrace.
We kindly invite you for a little gathering celebrating 10 years of nextcity.nl!
Thursday, September 19th, 2024 @ 15:30 hrs, New Institute
We are looking back with friends, but also 10 years into the future of nature inclusive cities with experts, practitioners and young talents. Enjoy a summerly program with little lectures, an informal panel and nature inclusive networking.
The session takes place right in the middle of the main IABR (international architecture biennale Rotterdam) exhibition ‘The Nature of Hope’ in the New Insitute in Rotterdam’s Museumpark. Haven’t seen the IABR exhibiton? This is an excellent opportunity (ticket/museum card required).
At 17:00 hrs we invite you for informal drinks on the terrace.
Join us and dive into the nature-inclusive city, meet inspiring colleagues and make connections!
There is a limited number of seats. Please let us know if you will join us via a short message to 10@nextcity.nl, so we can treat you for drinks and a special gift!
NEDERLANDS
Hallo allemaal!
Wij nodigen je van harte uit voor een bijeenkomst ter ere van 10 jaar nextcity.nl!
19 september 2024 om 15:30 uur, Nieuw Instituut
We blikken terug, maar ook 10 jaar vooruit naar de toekomst van natuurinclusieve steden met vrienden, experts, professionals en jonge talenten. Geniet met ons van een zomers programma met korte lezingen, een informeel panel en natuurinclusief netwerken.
De kennissessie vindt plaats midden in de hoofdtentoonstelling van de IABR (internationale architectuurbiënnale Rotterdam) ‘The Nature of Hope’ in het Nieuwe Instituut aan het Rotterdamse Museumpark. Heb je de IABR-tentoonstelling nog niet gezien? Dan is dit een uitstekende gelegenheid om een kijkje te nemen (entree- of museumkaart vereist).
Om 17:00 uur nodigen we u uit voor een informele borrel op het terras.
Kom langs en duik in de natuurinclusieve stad, ontmoet inspirerende collega’s en leg verbindingen!
Er is een beperkt aantal plaatsen. Laat ons via een kort berichtje aan 10@nextcity.nl weten of je erbij bent, dan kunnen we je trakteren op drankjes en een speciaal cadeautje!
Working on Common Ground Closing conference of Have we met? Humans and non-humans on common ground November 29 from 14:00 until 18:00, Salone d’Onore, Triennale Milano.
If design can help us to counter the ongoing ecological devastation of the earth, and can support the cultivation of mutually supportive relations between humans and non-humans, this should inform not only the cultural imagination, but also governmental policies, legal frameworks, and broader social infrastructures. With this aim the conference Working on Common Ground takes the ecological realities of Dutch and Italian environments as points of departure to explore the potential for fostering multispecies communities.
Working on Common Ground is the closing conference of Have we met?, the Dutch contribution to the 23rd Triennale Milano International exhibition, curated by Het Nieuwe Instituut. The conference is organised in collaboration with cheFare, agency for cultural transformation from Milan.
Register to attend for free or livestream the conference through the website of Het Nieuwe Instituut.
‘The Road to Absolute Sustainability’ is this year’s theme at Building Green Copenhagen on 2-3 November in the Forum. You will learn why we need to act now and why it is important that we make the discourse on sustainability about the carrying capacity of the planet and the fact that all people must be able to meet their needs. You may hear about Absolute Sustainability as a necessary concept to bring into the conversations, as it is urgent that we only use solutions in construction and architecture that do not harm the planet, the atmosphere and humanity unnecessarily.
Through debates and keynotes, you can help investigate and discuss which materials take up the fewest of the planet’s resources, how digital solutions can be part of the solution, why collaboration across the value chain is necessary, how our legislation should support ‘The road towards Absolute Sustainability’ through updates and adaptations to what has to become our new reality.
With the participants from businesses, real estate management, planning actors, local and federal politics, nature conservation associations, and science, the EU BooGI-BOP project wants to advance the mainstreaming of biodiversity-oriented premises and lay the foundation of a Europe-wide initiative for biodiversity-oriented design of company premises.
Join the online conference at the 14th of September. The 15th is off line. This day Maike van Stiphout will lecture about the 5 basic tools to make a biodivers area development.
This could be one of the more-than-human stories gathered in “The Book of the Ten Thousand Things” created for documenta15 by La Intermundial Holobiente. “Inbetweenery” is the proposal by artist Claudia Fontes, philosopher Paula Fleisner, and writer Pablo M. Ruiz to translate “intermundial” into English. This book will partly
be read in the Between Us and Nature’ reading club in the wonderful Zabriskie
Book Shop on August 10th, 2022, 1830 hrs.
The book is a publication written and edited in a polyphonic way among fourteen artists and writers from Argentina: Erica Bohm, Virginia Buitrón, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Tulio de Sagastizábal, Lucas Di Pascuale, Carla Grunauer, Reynaldo Jiménez, Guadalupe Lucero, Anahí Rayén Mariluán, Leticia Obeid, Sergio Raimondi, Luis Sagasti, Ral Veroni, Susana Villalba, and the “intermundiales” themselves. The Book of the Ten Thousand Things, Quilmes, Buenos Aires, 2022,
Zabriskie chooses texts related to natural sciences, art, anthropology, postcolonialism and the (post)anthropocene from a female perspective. Attendees read passages together out loud, and share experiences and thoughts about the nature they live in. Looking beyond disciplines, the group creates a space to learn from and with bacteria, algae, fungi, soil and multinaturalist narratives.
What: Between Us and Nature – A Reading Club is in English language Where: Zabriskie, Reichenberger Str. 150, 10999 Berlin When: Wednesday August 10 , 2022 18:30 CEST -20:30 (sharp!) Who: small group of lovely, people reading collectively Why: to read together, be inspired and meet people Hosts: Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, artist, and Sina Ribak, researcher for ecologies and the arts
Personal rsvp is necessary: please register by email.
Listen to this podcast! What does it mean to be a wildlife gardener? What are the trials and tribulations of wildlife gardening? Fergus Garrett, head gardener of Great Dixter, takes a walk around the garden, where he discusses the habitats he and his team have created to help wild species. He points out various habitats that work for different species, including the pond, the flowering meadows and the giant piles of waste that serve as nesting and hibernation habitats for all sorts of species. The podcast ends with the notion of the immense importance of gardens and porous buildings to increase biodiversity. Nice to hear him use the word “Porosity”. It is one of the three design tools to build for biodiversity, besides variation in size and scale, and diversity in use and maintenance activity (First guide to nature inclusive design).
Friday 24th of September 2021 the Biotope City conference took place with more than 160 participants from Austria, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, Greece, Italy and other countries. Now the recordings are avaible online. Please see the little movies per speaker below, or watch the entire conference moderated by nextcity.nl’s Mathias Lehner here (4 hours).
In the document-link you can find the program and the link to follow the english spoken series of 5 lectures about design and biodiversity, organised by Van Hall Larenstein. Designing with nature is an important part of the work of the landscape architect. The first lecture on the 2nd of September at 19h will be given by Maike van Stiphout. She’ll give a theoretical frame for nature inclusiveness, and learn you the tools to make your projects for all that lives. She’ll present the tips and tricks, distilled from a recent research of older nature rich neighbourhoods in the Netherlands, some interesting realised projects of her office DS and other good examples of building with biodiversity. The series is organised for the third year bachelor landscape design, but open to whoever likes to learn more about designing for all that lives with us.
Biodiversity experts Anne Blokker and Geert Timmermans of the Amsterdam Municipality compiled a brochure with 20 ideas how to integrate biodiversity in urban planning and development. The insightful publication was originally published in Dutch, but is now also available online in English.
From nesting bricks for birds, over green roofs and eco-friendly banks up to an interconnected ecological structure these richly illustrated 26 pages make it easy to explain the benefits, and paths of action to clients, spatial designers and colleagues.
