Veneto 2100: Living with Water investigates how the Veneto region can transform starting from the actual and forecasted environmental threats caused by increasing urbanisation and climate changes. The territory, subjected to more frequent flooding and drought, has been investigated trough spatial and ethnographic surveys. Universities, experts from various fields and local actors, has been involved to share their personal point of view to demonstrate the importance of local stakeholder and the social aspect that influence region's vulnerability. Starting from water issues this multidisciplinary methodology led to the construction of a new set of urban tools and landscape strategies to rethinking and restructuring the territories of Veneto region towards more resilient cities.
Claim Industrial Surfaces, Act One: Asiat Depave is held at Asiat Site in Vilvoorde (Belgium) from 31 August – 08 September. It is the first act of the Green With Grey (GWG) project which envisions the industrial platforms of Flanders’s Nevelstad—or Nebular City—(Belgium) as progressively and surgically softened areas (Green) that concurrently function as source and place of production (Grey). As part of the “Proeftuinen Ontharding” (tests projects concerning desealing) launched by the Departement “Omgeving” of the Flamish Government, GWG obsessively seeks for strategies to de-seal the industrial sites of Flanders while increasing their productivity.
Tutoring includes the GWG team Latitude Platform, UCLouvain and KU Leuven, in collaboration with 51N4E, Plant en Houtgoed, and Onkruid. The Summer School is addressed to master and bachelor students, and young professionals and it is constellated by a number of activities that involve also local players such as municipalities, manufacturers and the general public. The Act One of Claim Industrial Surfaces coagulates onsite concrete actions and initiates the de-sealing pilot project. Participants will enact the production stages of desealing (demolishing, materials sorting, reuse/recycling) while also testing the socio-technical devices associated to each phase (labour and tools, processing, phases).
Candidates should apply by sending a PDF file-portfolio (two pages, A4 portrait, 7MB maximum size)at: info@latitude-platform.eu
