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Planning is a messy, time and energy-consuming business of trial, error and failure. Success is not a certainty and even when the result is successful, it is often a surprise, not what was actually being sought. Jane Jacobs Masterclasses MSc students THE RESPONSIVE CITY: ISTANBUL - RANDSTAD Why? The Responsive City: Istanbul-Randstad* focuses on new approaches to the 21st city. Theories of complexity and their application onto the field of urban design and architecture form its core. Here, the city is seen as a dynamic open system, constantly influenced by interacting bottom up and top down players. Who? How? The course requires a hands-on approach with two intense on-site masterclasses in Istanbul and Almere. Agent-based mapping and responsive design game are main tools of the course. Knowledge/interest in GIS mapping, informal city, Istanbul and/or Almere is highly appreciated. *The Responsive City: Istanbul-Randstad is part of a larger international research on informal versus planned new towns. The University of Amsterdam [faculty of social and human sciences], Istanbul Mimar Sinan University [department of planning], Istanbul Bilgi University [department of architecture] and the International New Towns Institute [INTI] are contributing partners. Important information Presentation masterclass I: October 3rd Cultural centre Corrosia Markt 1 Almere Haven.
Masterclasses are run by ir. Ekim Tan, Prof. Arnold Reindorp, Prof. Juval Portugali. For registration and further information please contact mrs. Ekim Tan: r.e.tan@tudelft.nl and visit www.theresponsivecity.org. Click here for more information. Masterstudio IJmeer The International New Town Institute (INTI) in Almere organises a Masterstudio IJmeer for students in Delft, Wageningen and Amsterdam, who consider IJmeer as a thrilling design commission and would like to work on it in a setting that includes professional expertise from and dialogue with various disciplines. For this reason INTI co-operates in Masterstudio IJmeer with the Faculty of Architecture and the Faculty of Civil Engineering (Climate Adaptation Lab) in Delft, the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences in Amsterdam and the Landscape Architecture group and Land Use Planning group of Wageningen University. The various Faculties will support and supervise student work according to their own educational programmes in their own universities, while INTI will offer a common programme of lectures, excursions, workshops and interdisciplinary dialogue in Almere. The context of this planned transformation of IJmeer is that (a) IJsselmeer, Markermeer and IJmeer together play a vital role in the water management of the northern half of the Netherlands and national water policy is currently under review with regard to climate change, (b) all waters between the ‘Oranjesluizen' (the locks between IJ and IJmeer) and Schiermonnikoog (an island on the north-eastern boundary of the country) has been declared a nature reserve by the EU and (c) national urbanisation policy is aiming at ongoing expansion of the metropolitan region Amsterdam in an eastern direction, transforming the boards of IJmeer from a backside position into urban waterfronts and IJmeer itself into the main recreational area for a million people living around it. IJmeer thus embodies a classical example of a policy, where urban and landscape design is needed to conceive unity in a set of mutually contrary requirements. It also is a typical Dutch example, as water, the water-land interaction and the direct interaction of nature and city life is accommodated in a manmade landscape. Sign up Masterstudio IJmeer October 23 2008 Second meeting 10h00 - 11h00 press conference, Schouwburg, Esplanade 10 Almere Please sign up by sending an email to info@newtowninstitute.org before 20/10/08. September 17th 2008 Introduction Masterstudio
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