urban transformation dimension
Circular Urbanism is about how to bring circularity thinking into city-making. It develops a design research approach to connect dynamics between space and society for urban transition towards climate-neutrality and sustainabilty. Focus is on linkages between structural change in the urban fabric and processes of change, the activation and engagement of stakeholders with the manifest change of public, community, and private space, their experience and cultural expression. Oriented towards the New European Bauhaus Principles, Circular Urbanism targets specifically a creative and cultural dimension in order to reach sustainability as well as social inclusiveness and economic innovation.
The research targets four 3 themes to bring circularity thinking into city-making:
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An understanding of the city as material for change combines larger territorial strategies for the activation and networking of places, neighbourhood intensification and densification, and the re-use and maintenance of building stock.
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Organisation of flows to recycle building elements and building networks for existing and new bio-materials are investigated in a perspective of territorial innovation with spatial, economic, social, cultural, and ecologic impact.
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Process design for urban change links activation and empowerment to mechanisms between bottom-up and top-down initiatives, governance, policies, and participation, and highlights co-creation to change frameworks for planning and building towards urban regeneration.
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