REGENERATING BEKKERVELD DISTRICT

For twenty-one days eight European Academies and more than sixty-five persons - among IBA staff, professors, experts, teachers, researchers, phd students, master students - coming from four different countries, joined the international studio 2016 in Delft and Venice. It has been an incredible first step that this experimental partnership between EU Academies and IBA Parkstad achieved together. The reason is to promote innovative methods and tools for spatial planning and urban design, according to some specific issues of the ongoing Internationale Bauausstellung in the Netherlands. The aim of the international studio was, and will be, to establish a common dialogue and a shared platform of knowledge stressing the meaning and the role of regions and urban areas in cross-border european territories.