Urbanism Week 2013
Symposium, Workshops, Lunch lectures
Location: University of Technology Delft, the Netherlands, Faculty of Architecture
Date: 7 – 11 October 2013
In October POLIS, the student association of the University of Technology in Delft, is organizing the third edition of the Urbanism Week. This yearly event is an attempt to strengthen the connections to the field of Urbanism by understanding its routes, practices and contemporary issues, while trying to find its future possibilities. In a five-day program Urbanism Week aims to form a platform for dialogue and discussion through a series of activities.
The Urbanism Week is a five-day program for students, starters and professionals, which will start with an introduction lecture on Monday 7 October. From 8 until 10 October lunch lectures will take place followed by various master classes, which will elaborate on the lunch lectures. These three days give students the opportunity to learn about the profession and orientate them at the start of their career.
The Urbanism Week will end with a symposium on Friday. This symposium will reflect on the topics which were addressed the previous days and key note speakers will lecture about the main theme: Designing Lifestyles: influences of big players on future cities. The day consists of lectures of key note speakers, a presentation of the Urbanism Alumni research, discussion and debate. The last lecture will elaborate on a Urbanism Alumni research which is executed by Dutch universities and academies. The day ends with a network drink and a book auction.
Announced speakers so far are:
Young Wook Joung‐ Deputy manager, Samsung C&T Corporation
Louis Bekker ‐ Business Development / City Account Manager Amsterdam, Siemens
Henk Snoeken ‐ Director Spatial Development, Ministry Infrastructure & Environment
prof Han Meyer, dr Machiel van Dorst, prof H. Bekkering – Presentation report ‘Beroepspraktijk’
Jan Willem Bouman – Strategic Advisor, Royal Haskoning DHV
Simon Giles ‐ Accenture, Intelligent Cities Strategy Lead
Gijs Raggers ‐ EGM architects
Kai van Hasselt – Sinskai Analysis
Jorick Beijer & Marije Blok – Blossity
Bas Kalmeyer ‐ CEO A‐Lab
Vincent Ariens ‐ mindz.com, seats2meet, Society 3.0
Ticket sale and a concept schedule of the programme can be found on the website: www.urbanismweek.nl. Here you can also find more information on the speaker concerning.
CLICK HERE to download the programme.
