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Nature Based Metropolitan Solutions
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24 h
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- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 6 Sequences
- Advanced Level
Course details
Syllabus
Week 1: Introduction
General introduction to the course, the problem area and nature-based solutions. Challenge your ‘relational thinking’ and learn about the potential of nature-based metropolitan solutions.
Week 2, 3 and 4: Three elements of NBS
- Service design Any innovation such as a NBS is subject to governance. Learn how policies in your region limit or can facilitate and maintain NBS by investigating synergies between stakeholders.
- Spatial design NBS have a spatial dimension. Master the spatial application by exploring the multi-scalarity and site specificity of NBS through an analysis of your surroundings and local environment.
- Business model Eventually NBS include a business model to harvest its benefits. You will study environmental economics and develop the tools to assess and evaluate the range of benefits provided by ecosystem services to society and the environment.
Week 5: Implementation
This is where service design, spatial design and the business model meet and become operational in time. Discover the synchronization of the three elements, their temporal dimension and their multifunctionality in short-term, mid-term and long-term scenarios.
Week 6: Upscaling
The upscaling of strategies to the regional level as well as city-to-city knowledge transfer is key for understanding and mainstreaming NBS. A final practical assignment aims at developing a critical approach towards the issues, theories and contexts using the lessons learned in the course.
Prerequisite
Bachelor or undergraduate level of education or interest in related fields of concern: Architecture / Urbanism / Landscape Architecture / Civil Engineering / Geosciences / Social Sciences / Economics / Public Sector / Governance / Policy making / Environmental studies / Water management
Instructors
Arjan van Timmeren
Professor of the Chair in Environmental Technology & Design
Delft University of Technology
Taneha Kuzniecow Bacchin
Assistant professor at the Chair of Urban Design, Theory and Methods of the Department of Urbanism
Delft University of Technology
Filippo Lafleur
Researcher at the Chair of Urban Design, Theory and Methods of the Department of Urbanism
Delft University of Technology
Geert van der Meulen
Researcher at the Chair of Urban Design, Theory and Methods of the Department of Urbanism
Delft University of Technology
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Delft University of Technology (in Dutch: Technische Universiteit Delft), better known as TU Delft, is the oldest and largest public university in the Netherlands.
It is based in Delft, in the Netherlands. In the QS World University Rankings 2022, it is ranked among the top 10 engineering and technology universities in the world. In architecture and civil engineering, it was ranked 2nd in the world, after MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
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