This exploration, initiated by George Brugmans (IABR), Derk Loorbach (DRIFT) and Thijs van Spaandonk (RAvB), will take a year. The results will be shared during the next edition of the IABR, SHOCK AND ROLL and we will kick off with an online mini-conference on Monday, June 22.

For now, we are calling it development by design. But what exactly is it?That’s the question that the IABR, the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT) and the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture (RAvB) will be exploring together in the coming year.

Both the IABR, especially through its IABR–Ateliers, and the RAvB have extensive experience with research by design: the targeted use of spatial design tools to explore how major challenges and living environments are connected as well as what, from the spatial domain, the action perspective is for concrete transformative change. At the same time, we realize that research by design does not nearly often enough succeed in actually setting transitions in motion – a serious issue that we have tabled in the 2018 edition THE MISSING LINK. By connecting DRIFT’s transitional thinking to IABR’s and RAvB’s research by design practice, we expect to be able to make strides and devise a transitional design practice.

Programme and panel

In this programme there will be two lectures: Research by Design by Eric Frijters and Transitional Thinking by Derk Loorbach. In the panel we have Derk Loorbach, Eric Frijters, Eva Pfannes and Thijs van Spaandonk. The moderator is Mark Minkjan.

Watch via zoom

You can view this mini conference via Zoom. Please note that Zoom via browser will not work. Use the app or call in.

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