Events: Studio workshop 2 (BE)
The Studio project has been running since July 2016 and the project partners have been slowly getting to know each other and find their place…
The Studio project has been running since July 2016 and the project partners have been slowly getting to know each other and find their place…
Temporary use, ‘pop-ups’, test sites and a vast number of other terms have been given to projects that appear in the in-between period, from land…
Urban Books #39: Bridges to local economies Held on June 14th | 19.30 hs | Kleine Zaal | Overview Who is a bridge builder? Is…
In May 2016 – in collaboration with BYRRRH & Skate, Congres, Entrakt, Superlab* – OSMOS bid on the temporary use of a 22,000sqm former pharmaceutical plant almost in…
Time needed: 90-120 minutes. Participants: 5-8 per group. Materials Pencils (1 per participant) Rubbers / erasers (1 per table) A5 post-cards on 300gsm paper (~3…
During the Studio Workshop 2, we were trying to define the overall visual identity and some of the communication language for the Studio. We decided to…
The massive amount of double glazing windows that cities like Brussels discard every year has already sparked our RELUX. The LIGHT FARM takes the idea of…
Design and development of a modular glass kiosque from reclaimed double glazing Circular economy is about avoiding waste, often by imagining ways that allow resources…
Time needed: 1-3 hours, depending on the level of research. Participants: 4-8 people per group, depending on the complexity of the topic. Overview The ‘Project-Environment Canvas’ a simple…
Growing up in Brussels in one of Europe’s most culturally diverse neighbourhoods, between Dutch and French, the grandson of butchers and entrepreneurs who lived for…
Eric Haas reflects on a trip to Nottingham for the “Resilient and Sustainable Cities Symposium’ and to visit the Trent Basin. Mid December 2016 I…
As part of The Studio (BE), we successful gained support from the King Baudouin foundation* with the Urban Ecology Centre and WAUW* to research techniques for…
OSMOS’ first book is hot off the press! Based on some five years of European research within the TURAS program on transitions, resilience and sustainability, “Bridges to Local Economies” is…
The dream of a large house and garden with a double car garage is but a fading memory we’re reminded of when watching the opening…
With an adieu to TURAS in September 2016, we have had the good fortune to be on the winning team of another large international consortium showcasing projects…
Eric is a dynamic thinker, has an entrepreneurial spirit and loves team development based on collective value. He is a keen listener, a diplomatic facilitator and impassioned communicator: qualities that make…
Dr Stephan Kampelmann‘s presentation at the TURaS “Collaborating Communities” workshop held in Dublin in September 2016. Stephan discusses the issues and objectives of the…
The Solfatara is a project that we have been developing since 2014 with local partners BIC Lazio and the Università Agraria di Manziana. After extensive…
Time needed: 30 minutes- 3 hours, depending on the level of research. Participants: 4-8 people. Posters are a great way to sum up an issue. It forces…
Convincing a crowd of planners, academics, municipal employees and a sample of community organisations from the Dublin region that there are meaningful and effective ways…
The laundry list of limits that most cities are about to hit is long: transport networks are on their knees almost everywhere; resources are lost…
Eva-Maria is a researcher and spatial planner, working mainly on the urban-regional level with expertise in governance processes. She seeks to connect expert and local knowledge…
Time needed: 60-90 minutes, depending on the level of discussion. Participants: 4-8 people per group, depending on the complexity of the topic. The richest part of an…
Time needed: 30-90 minutes, depending on the level of research. Participants: 4-8 people per group, depending on the complexity of the topic. Emotions are a significant driver…
The 2016 City Makers Summit was headquartered in Amsterdam’s compound of creativity – Packhuis De Zwijger*. On the final day of the event, OSMOS’s Adrian Hill gave…
OSMOS, helped Brussels University Alliance* – through support from the TURaS programme and partners Brussels Environment* and Bio Azul (ES)* – with their vision for the reconversion…
Cities are dynamic and complex places however over the last decade there has been an increasing emphasis on maximising use of space. Temporary use and ‘access’ based…
Diego is a designer and urban planner with a sharp eye for the politics of space. What distinguishes ‘place’ from ‘space’ is an invisible socio-cultural veneer – making…
Elena is an EU policy specialist focusing on how high level policy hits the ground. Governance and policy is a messy tool – especially at a…
Tel Aviv is an intriguing place. An epicentre for creativity and innovation. A fusion of cultures. A liberal island in a country juggling tension on almost…
A beautiful summary of a three day workshop held at the Parco Agricolo di Casal del Marmo in Rome. Read more here.
Liana is a great teacher. Patient, direct, open, dynamic, warm spirited and acutely sensitive of group dynamics. She is a compassionate facilitator with a strong…
Opening speech by OSMOS’ Stephan Kampelmann at the QED Circular Economy round table discussion in Brussels on the 5th of April. More information here.
OSMOS was invited by BIC Lazio (co-organisers of the Parco Agricolo di Casal del Marmo) to help host a vision making event with local and regional stakeholders.…
Public forum 5th April 2016, Brussels. Hosted by QED* policy platform and moderated by OSMOS’ Stephan Kampelmann. With the Circular Economy on many people’s lips…
The focus of Michael’s work may come across as simple – what is or generates “meaning“. Actually this is one of the fundamental driving factors behind…
May 4th marks the 100th birthday of one of most widely influential urban thinkers – Jane Jacobs. Jacobs wrote a series of books that took a very…
Julia bridges both an academic and practice sides of urban planning with experience across the world. She draws on the capacity of residents to fashion their place –…
Adaptation to structural economic change is a major challenge for urban economies: the secular decline of crafts, retail and industry has still not been digested…
Urban regeneration projects are often a complex undertaking – complexity that people often take for granted. They often involve physical changes to buildings and neighbourhoods and related technical…
Sedaile is a researcher, urbanist and architect specialized in Human Settlement and Strategic Urbanism. She has developed her practice as architect and urban designer working in…
Manziana is a town about an hour north-west of the Vatican on the FL3 train line just a whistle from the shores of Lake Bracciano. The…
Contemporary parks are often considered to be clean, green areas where one can go for a walk, meet others in a neutral place and escape from the confines of…
Can industry return to cities? If so, how will it be different from the past? Until the second half of the twentieth century many products…
The Urban Ecology Centre BXL is a non-profit and community based organisation that is closely connected to OSMOS: in spirit and in practice. Where OSMOS…
The potential of circular economy for reducing waste and reinjecting valuable ressources into economic processes has been recognised for a long time. Less attention has…
Porte de Ninove is a site at the fringe of Brussels’ former medieval centre. It is a hight density neighbourhood with a the poorest population in the municipality which…
January – the Romans consecrated the new year to Janus. Janus the Roman god of time, gates, doors, beginnings, passages and transitions. He marked the beginning…
Hélène is an urban planner with a background in architecture and urban scale sustainability. She has a strong interest in local managing stakeholders and years of experience…
Jan is a real believer getting one’s hands dirty. Over the last four decades he has worked in education, agriculture, energy, vision making and now transition…
A stakeholder workshop, hosted at the recently inaugurated Centre Pompidou in Malaga (ES). The event consisted of some 30 participants from across Malaga’s business, academic,…
Engagement of local actors and stakeholders in urban areas is increasingly considered a prime leverage point for transitions towards sustainability. In practice it is a field…
The hilly topography along the coast south of the touristic centre of Malaga lies a number of quarries that have either been abandoned or are in…
Stefan refers to himself as a ‘serial-entrepreneur’ who after many years leading businesses and projects in IT, communications and renewable energy is now focusing on organic…
Time needed: ~1-1.5 hours. Participants: min 3-max 5 per group. The Solbosch university campus garden (Jardin des Semeurs) involved an experiment in designing a garden…
In a corner of the Université de Bruxelles’ Solbosch campus lies a vacant site where once one of the original university buildings stood but was demolished…
Julian is an international legal consultant (PhD) and councillor overseeing finance, commerce, environment, urbanism and European projects at the Municipio 14 in the Comune di Roma. Since…
Context Based on the context and complexity of the site (read more here) – where ownership, finance, accessibility and public power were not aligned –…
Clementina is a user experience designer, art lover and a visual communicator. She applies design skills to people’s needs, business goals and technology (in the broadest sense of…
The way stakeholders are engaged can make a great difference in how a project is developed, in how a problem is perceived and can distinguish between…
The Site The site contains deep layers of topsoil that have been cultivated over millennia – the soil is referred to as “terra romana” and…
Many of the ideas, processes and tools that OSMOS uses have been developed by TURaS, a large-scale research programme on urban resilience and sustainability. TURaS…
Adrian is a researcher, designer and planner in the broadest sense. He is interested in processes and tools for transversal planning: connecting economic, spatial and…
Stephan is a social scientist with a PhD in economics. He has studied at the universities of Maastricht, Lille, Paris, Brussels and Berlin. He is…
OSMOS Transition Planning is a spin-off with origins at the Institute of Landscape Planning and Ecology, a department of the University of Stuttgart. We maintain close…