The executive programme on Designing Cities For All is a 1-week course organised by My Liveable City Academy in cooperation with IHS. The course will be held at IHS on the campus of Erasmus University Rotterdam from 10-14 July 2023.
- Date
- Monday 10 Jul 2023, 09:00 - Friday 14 Jul 2023, 17:00
- Type
- Course
- Spoken Language
- English
- Building
- Mandeville Building
- Location
- Campus Woudestein
About the course
A multi-disciplinary programme conducted by experts from various countries will explain how thinking simultaneously on issues of housing & urban planning, landscape, and infrastructure can lead to equitable cities for all. The course is specially crafted for mid to senior-level professionals from the public and/or private sector – government, developers, architects, urban designers, financiers, consultants and academicians who together constitute the symbiotic ecosystem for designing inclusive and climate-resilient cities. While the faculty of IHS will expound/expand on their academic knowledge, the professionals of the MLC Academy will help ground these ideas in the reality of cities. Onsite visits have been organised to various infrastructure and sustainable urban projects.
The course would cover these broad themes:
- Ethics and processes of designing cities for all
- Social housing around the world
- Principles of equitable urban planning
- Landscape and ecology for inclusive cities
- Designing public spaces for all
- Nature-based solutions
- Sight visits within the Netherlands
IHS lecturers
Programme schedule
9.00-9.30: Introduction to the Programme
9.30-9.45: Participatory Processes & Planning
10.45-11.00: Coffee break
11.00-12.30: Access to housing for different minority groups, including migrants/refugees
12.30-13.30: Lunch break
13.30-17.00: Excursion: visit the city of The Hague
- Lecture at the Town Hall by Urban Designer Eugene Sauren on the development of the city
- Guided walking tour of the central area followed by a visit to the sea and dunes abutting The Hague
9.00-9.30: Reflections on the content and proceedings of the previous day and prospects for the day
9.30-10.45: Social Housing in the Netherlands and in South Africa: content, processes and finance
10.45-11.00: Coffee break
11.00-12.30: Social Housing in Austria: case study Vienna
12.30-13.30: Lunch break
13.30-17.00: Excursion: Visit a Social Housing Corporation near Rotterdam
- Meeting with the officials and their explanatory lectures
- Visit social housing projects
9.00-9.30: Reflections on the content and proceedings of the previous day and prospects for the day
9.30-10.45: Designing complex urban projects
10.45-11.00: Coffee break
11.00-12.30: Principles or Urban Planning
12.30-13.30: Lunch break
13.30-17.00: Excursion: Urban Walk led by Alonso Ayala in Rotterdam
- Interactive session
- Principles of urban planning and making the city useable for all are explored in group-session
9.00-9.30: Reflections on the content and proceedings of the previous day and prospects for the day
9.30-10.45: Nature-based solutions
10.45-11.00: Coffee break
11.00-12.30: Designing for more than human & climate
12.30-13.30: Lunch break
13.30-17.00: Excursion: visit the renowned project Kerkenbosch in Zeist
- lecture and guided tour by Evert-Jan Roelofsen on How citizen participation has led to a nature-inclusive development
9.00-9.30: Reflections on the content and proceedings of the previous day and prospects for the day
9.30-10.45: Streets for All: the role streets can play as public spaces for building socially, economically and environmentally resilient cities for all
10.45-11.00: Coffee break
11.00-12.30: Practical Tools to incorporate human experience into urban mobility
12.30-13.30: Lunch break
13.30-16.00: Interactive session
- Designing cities for all: group exercise to apply conclusion from the lectures and excursions on the earlier days
16.00-17.30: Concluding ceremony
Costs
For participants from India - the course fees will be INR 125,000 (plus taxes).
For participants outside India - the course fee will be € 1,500.
Erasmus University has offered a limited number of single occupancy hostel rooms at a modest cost of around €225 for this programme. This cost will have to be settled directly with the University.
Find out more
- More information
Please get in touch with Mitali Choudhary at academy@myliveablecity.com for further information.
