Veldacademie

  • Nl
  • En
  • What we do
  • Find a project
  • For students
  • Meet the team
  • Up to date
News

Training Integral strategy planning with in Urban Development

HOW CAN YOU ACTIVELY ENGAGE EXPERTS FROM DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES IN AREA DEVELOPMENT?

share this page

24-09-2020

There is an ever-growing need in urban development to come up with cohesive strategies. But what does the planning process look like when experts from different domains work together to form integral development strategies and which competences are needed for this? To support and stimulate integral planning processes, Veldacademie and the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies  (IHS) joined forces and are developing a practice focused training programme. The first participants started this year at the municipality of Rotterdam. The training will continue next year with even more participants.  

During the training broad social themes in connection with ‘physical’ urban development play a central role. For example, these are loneliness, welfare, health, education policy, employment and urban poverty. Addressing these themes in connection to spatial planning on the level of the neighborhood demands a multidisciplinary and integral approach. One that take into account knowledge and experiences of all policymakers from all domains. 

Learning objectives 
The aim of the training is that participants recognize the interactions between urban planning and social development and that these can be addressed in a multidisciplinary team by means of future scenarios and strategies. Next to this, participants learn what (in the interest of) spatial quality is in relations to future developments. 



Structure of the training  

The training is based on the method of research by design. We work in an iterative process on integral problem analysis (network analysis included), visions and scenarios for the future and (input for) strategies around the task. This cycle of designing consists of three building blocks (analysis, vision and ideas, strategy) and a continuous working principle (stakeholder engagement & learning). The design cycle in this course has been cut into two blocks with a short interval. 

“The balance between working in practice and working with theory is organized very well. Really working together towards an end result. What we found out in such a short time surprised me.”



Practical applicability 

The training is focused on practical applicability in the working environment. We alternate between a short introduction from theory to workshops where we apply several hands-on methods of analysis and research. During the course we deal with themes that were agreed upon in advance (formulated based on the intake forms) and we work on several levels in a specified area. 

 Participants are divided into interdisciplinary teams and each team works with several comparable tools and complementary methods. The learning process focuses on, on the one hand, learning how to apply different methods and tools, and, on the other hand, on learning from interaction and shared reflection with participants from different disciplines. 

The teams gradually work towards a product which will be further developed during the training so that at the end of the training the process from problem analysis until strategy has been gone through and we can end with a collective presentation of the end product. 



“The composition of the group really appealed to me. Most of the time when you work on a project you work with one specific group of people. Now it was much broader and you worked with people who have ‘different glasses,’ which is an enrichment for everyone.”



Time investment and conditions  

We offer the training for two blocks of 3,5 days. To make use of the time as optimally as possible the participants will get individual and/or collective homework exercises.  

Since the training is addressing working in multidisciplinary teams it is important that the composition of participants be diverse. This is why we maintain a selection based on discipline and personal learning objectives.  

“Thinking interdisciplinary in this way about area problems is interesting. How can you use this in everyday practice? I would like to explore how you can create such a climate.” 

More News and Blogs

  • News

    ‘STAD ZOEKT TOGA’ VELDACADEMIE AS A CASE STUDY FOR LOCAL COOPERATION BETWEEN CITY AND KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTES

  • News

    Training Integral strategy planning with in Urban Development HOW CAN YOU ACTIVELY ENGAGE EXPERTS FROM DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES IN AREA DEVELOPMENT?

  • News

    "You have to translate the identity of a neighborhood into a building" Interview Architecture students Guus Speelberg and Anne-Sophie Wouters

  • News

    "Health isn't just about eating apples"

  • News

    Spring 2020: students from various study programs return to work on urban issues

  • News

    Sociology students participate in Monitor Resilient BoTu2028

  • News

    "If you look one-sided, nothing changes." Report of the 'Gezond in Beverwaard' seminar, 31 January 2020

  • News

    How do playground associations deal with changes in the neighbourhood?

  • News

    ‘Nu is voor iedereen duidelijk dat gezondheid meer is dan een appel eten!’

  • News

    'Iedereen kan op welke manier dan ook, een stadmaker zijn of worden.' Het Stadmakerscongres door de ogen van Ymkje en Sophie

  • News

    A training of trainers for staff & volunteers of Lebanese youth-led non-governmental organization NAHNOO and blueprint for training Rotterdam Training Urban Development

  • News

    New MSc 2 studio ‘On-site Graduation studio Rotterdam’ Learn more about the new MSc 2 studio and our MSc 3 studio

  • News

    As of today we can be reached by boat!

  • News

    Hoe ziet het urbane samenleven van de toekomst eruit? SUMMERSCHOOL WERKSTATT MULTIHALLE

  • News

    Bijna 200 studenten werken mee aan stedelijke programma’s

  • News

    Newsletter July 2019

  • News

    Veldacademie Magazine

  • News

    De invloed van de leefomgeving op de gezondheid

  • News

    “Kinderen steken elkaar aan met ongezond gedrag”

  • News

    ‘Helpers’ #4 Arie Vlot, lid Pelgrimskerk

  • News

    Veldacademie @ International Summer Academy Mannheim 2019 Join our interdisciplinary team!

  • News

    'Helpers' #3

  • News

    Engaging stakeholders in making cities work

  • News

    ‘Helpers’ #2 Corrie Biezepol-IJdo, lid Pelgrimskerk

  • News

    Start new graduation studio Architecture in September

  • News

    ‘Helpers’# 1

  • News

    Newsletter February 2019 February 2019

  • News

    Living Lab Meetup #04 - Just City Design The continuing search of social responsibility in the design profession

  • News

    Reyeroord geselecteerd voor ontwikkeltraject ‘Anders werken aan stad, dorp en land’

  • News

    Hoe kunnen we op een toekomstgerichte manier aan zorgzame buurten bouwen?

  • News

    Van de wijk een dorp maken

  • News

    ‘VAN DE WIJK EEN DORP MAKEN’ # 2 Orsine Muntslag, vrijwilliger Speeltuin Pascal

  • News

    ‘Van de wijk een dorp maken’ # 1 Cary, vrijwilliger wijkrestaurant Lomba

  • News

    Stadmakerscongres 2018

  • News

    Research 'Waste-free Rotterdam: what do citizens think?' completed

  • News

    Masterclass Design for the Just City

  • News

    Start minor cities, migration and socio-spatial inequality in September

  • News

    Masterclass with Tiit Tammaru Workshop with students of Veldacademie on social inequality and meeting places

  • News

    Start new graduation studio Architecture in September

  • News

    Debate Brooklyn at Stadmakers­congres 2017 Students challenge the audience

  • News

    Sign up for our design & build workshop

  • News

    Report meeting Fieldlab Social Resilience Rotterdam 2017-2020

  • News

    Het gesprek met de stad op markt Asterlo

  • News

    Het gesprek met de stad in de Onderzeebootloods

  • News

    Het Gesprek met de stad tussen de hockeysticks en limonadekannen

  • News

    Veldacademie visits Vienna

  • News

    Start Veldacademie @Flevo Campus

  • News

    Veldacademie start trainingen voor Gebiedsgericht Samenwerken

  • News

    Public buildings

  • News

    inventarisation of mental health care housing

  • News

    Reflection on meeting about the role of care institutions for Aging in Place

  • News

    Learning course area oriented cooperation at home for longer

  • News

    Meeting: The role of care housing for ageing in place

  • News

    Discussing the future of apartment blocks

  • News

    RESEARCH SUPPORTED HOME TECHNOLOGY IJSSELMONDE JUST STARTED

  • News

    Cities build citizens - collaboration CRU(x) New York

  • News

    Two urbanism students did their graduation project at Veldacademie: "Very pleasant we could control everything ourselves"

  • News

    six steps to live longer independently in IJsselmonde

  • News

    Entrance square Sluisjesdijkpier finished by 'lijn72'

  • News

    Geslaagd festival op de Sluisjesdijkpier

  • News

    Knowledge Bank South starts with Maashaven collection

  • News

    The history of Rotterdam's community buildings

  • News

    how do people experience the Pleinweg

  • News

    neighbourhood research De Provenier

  • News

    Training acting in a different interplay

  • News

    Requested: Intern Energy-lab business pier Sluisjesdijk

  • News

    The Mathenesserweg alive!

  • News

    A great deal of interest for the Knowlegde Market of the Energy Lab

  • News

    Getting down to work on Amsterdam

  • News

    Official opening Energy Lab

  • News

    Veldacademie is looking for an intern

  • News

    Students do master urban sociology at Fieldacademy

  • News

    Advice 'social return' for Havenbedrijf completed

  • News

    Lively discussion on civil management

  • News

    1st SOFIE-loan granted to Stichting Handelscompagnie Sluisjesdijk

  • News

    Pilots on healthcare accommodations expose rapid mutations of V&V

  • News

    INVENTORIES HEALTHCARE AND WELL-BEING

  • News

    final design entrance sluisjesijk

  • News

    Retail vacancy in the neighbourhood

  • News

    RET location as an study- construction site

  • News

    Veldacademie visits Terras aan de Maas

  • News

    Subsidy given for 'Wonen zonder zorg(en)?'

  • News

    Perception of safety of Sluisjesdijk

  • News

    Interdisciplinary meeting on relocation tendencies in Carnisse and Tarwewijk

  • News

    Veldacademie Pecha Kucha event 2014

  • News

    Graduate students working on the city

  • News

    Completion monitor Living-service areas

  • News

    MBO-students at work in the former RET bus depot

  • News

    Merging in District Noord

  • News

    Prospect for the Provenier

  • News

    Charlois’ youngsters assist in evaluating the youth policy

  • News

    Justus van Effen block, an island in Spangen?

  • News

    Inventory of healthcare accommodations for the disabled started

  • News

    Talent in development at RET depot

  • News

    Interdisplinary team of students wins competition for the entrance area of the sluisjesdijk pier

  • News

    Research Zicht op Zorghuisvesting published

  • News

    Starting-subsidy for the research 'Living without (a) care'

  • News

    Creatief Beheer starts activities in the RET-building

  • News

    Assistance Vacancy in the Plinth

  • News

    250 senior citizens talk about their living environment

  • News

    Jurrian Arnold graduated with a 10!

  • News

    An insight into healthcare accommodations

  • News

    Start of the school year well-attended

  • News

    Charlois' youngsters evaluate Youth Policy

  • News

    Kickoff competition Sluisjesdijk

  • News

    Feast at Gouwplein

  • News

    Conference "Who cares then?!"

  • News

    Loes wins Grant with product for Kralingen Crooswijk

  • News

    Final Report available Network analysis Hart van Zuid

  • News

    Publication available Talent development in sub-municipality Prins Alexander

  • News

    New location Veldacademie

  • News

    Lessons from the Gouwplein

  • News

    Seminar and exhibition ’Kijk maar uit het komt van Zuid’

  • News

    Model dwelling opened by City Council Member Karakus

  • News

    Redevelopment RET-building progressing

  • News

    Collective Private Commissioning for seniors in Carnisse - Wessel Jonker

  • News

    The AVR reactor - Antal Bos

  • News

    Start development Monitor Assited Living Areas

  • News

    Research into service provision by district service points completed

  • News

    Rural park Buijtenland van Rhoon

  • News

    Field academy Seminar

  • News

    Survey Pedestrian flow city centre visitors

  • News

    Students improve district service points

  • News

    Redevelopment existing housing stock by rMit

  • News

    Safe space according to Daniel Vos

  • News

    Social networks Hart van Zuid

  • News

    Walking through Bloemhof and Tarwewijk

  • News

    Honourable mention Pieter Graaff

  • News

    Burcin Korkmaz on Kwaliteitssprong Zuid

  • News

    Daniel Otterspeer on Gouwplein

  • News

    Students examine financial flows in healthcare and welfare

  • News

    Urban Monitor Assisted living areas

  • News

    District lecture for TU Delft Industrial Design students

  • News

    Assisted living areas Kralingen-Crooswijk

  • News

    Office transformation De Boompjes

  • News

    Honorable mention for Karin Snoep

  • News

    RET Depot as economic focus

  • News

    The Accessible Neighbourhood

  • News

    Urban greenhouse as social accelerator

  • News

    Toolbox Merging for owners

  • News

    Housing Transformation in Lombardijen and Feyenoord

  • News

    Towards a beating heart

  • News

    Alderman recieves high-rise report

  • News

    Activities in 9 Assisted Living Areas

  • News

    TNO and Veldacademie join forces

  • News

    Looking for Rotterdam cases | studytrip

  • News

    Merging houses in Oud Charlois

  • News

    Alderman opens exhibition highrise

  • News

    Rotterdam residents followed by GPS

  • News

    Presentation report ‘De Nieuwe Belangstelling’

  • News

    Feyenoord as a socially-sustainable district – Final Presentation Minor

  • News

    Publications Veldacademie study magazines B nieuws & Credo

  • News

    Assignment on merged housing by graduate studio ‘Existing Housing Stock’

  • News

    Start Research on Accessible Districts

  • News

    Start research on assisted living in Kralingen-Crooswijk

  • News

    Alderman of public spaces visits redevelopment of Gouwplein

  • News

    Kick off new graduates TU Delft

  • News

    Presentation minor Social-Sustainable neighborhood

  • News

    Result research Urban Interfaces

  • News

    Assisted Living Area Oud-Charlois

  • News

    Start Minor Social Sustainability

  • News

    New Minor at the Veldacademie

  • News

    Graduation student wins the first prize 'That's how I want to live'

  • News

    The first graduates of Veldacademie!

  • News

    Progress conversion RET Remise Sluisjesdijk

  • News

    Presentation Graduation Studio Fieldacademy

  • News

    Residents Join GPS-tracking Research

  • News

    Municipality and Residents Join to Create New Gouwplein

  • News

    TU Delft and Erasmus University set up Minor

  • News

    Pupils Draw Mental Maps of Oud Charlois

  • News

    Old Incinerator as Incubator for District Economy

  • News

    Kick-off for living-service-area Oud Charlois

  • News

    Positive Feedback Community Profile Carnisse

  • News

    Workshop Gouwplein

  • News

    Historic Museum Rotterdam at the Veldacademie

  • News

    New graduation research at the Veldacademie

  • News

    Architecture Meets Social Sciences

  • News

    Strategies for Districtimprovement

  • News

    Veldacademie at Living-Service-Areas Conference

  • News

    Urban Interfaces at Assistend Living Conference

  • News

    Invitation Presentations Confrontation Lecture

  • News

    Graduation Lab progress

  • News

    Final results studio's online now

  • News

    Video report Confrontation Lecture

  • News

    The everyday life in Oud Charlois

  • News

    Results Assisted Living Studio

  • News

    Invitation Confrontation Lecture

  • News

    Veldacademie wins second price with “Shelters for Oud Charlois”

  • News

    District Arena Gouwplein: Hanging Around Obliged!

  • News

    ExploreLab Veldacademie

  • News

    Assisted Living

  • News

    Redesign RET Remise

  • News

    Surprising perspectives

  • News

    Field Academy in B-News

  • News

    Urban Design & City Analysis

  • News

    Designworkshop Pulbic Space april 09

  • News

    ConfrontationLecture: The results

  • News

    Explore Lab Extern

  • News

    Lectures by inhabitants

  • News

    Event park Rotterdam

  • News

    Park Zestienhoven

  • News

    Zevenhuizerplas in transition

  • News

    Groenjaar Lage Bergse Bos

  • News

    Zuid Boulevard

  • News

    Results Groenjaar

  • News

    Atelier Groenjaar

  • In the media

    Agenda Stad 2018

  • In the media

    Feeding Cities

  • In the media

    Let's Talk About Public Participation

  • In the media

    Studying at Veldacademie

  • In the media

    NRP Gulden Feniks 2017

  • In the media

    Article competition 'Entrance Sluisjesdijk'

  • In the media

    Article B_Nieuws

  • In the media

    Article Credo 2011

  • In the media

    Article B_Nieuws

  • Blog

    VELDACADEMIE VISITS COPENHAGEN #3

  • Blog

    VELDACADEMIE VISITS COPENHAGEN #2

  • Blog

    Veldacademie visits Copenhagen #1

  • Blog

    Alumni in the picture: Lhamo Meyer

  • Blog

    Veldacademie visits Brussel

  • Blog

    Veldacademie visiting Brussel 3#

  • Blog

    Veldacademie visiting Brussel

  • Blog

    Veldacademie visiting Brussel

  • Blog

    The role of community resilience in sustaining home Blog by Lhamo Meyer

  • Blog

    Alumni in the picture: Ferry Barnhoorn

  • Blog

    Alumni in the picture: Edwin Veerman

  • Blog

    Alumni in the picture: Dorris Derksen

  • Blog

    Alumni in the picture: Tjeerd Leijten

  • Blog

    Alumni in the picture: Lisa ten Brug

  • Blog

    Alumni in the picture: Kim Bijman

  • Blog

    Alumni in the picture: Melanie Domeni

  • Blog

    Youth working on the topic of connection

  • Blog

    Alumni in the picture: Milou Joosten

  • Blog

    Alumni in the picture: Daniël Vos

  • Blog

    Alumni in the picture: Lars van Hoeve

  • Blog

    Alumni in the picture: Stef Bogaerds

  • Blog

    Alumni in the picture: Anne Schaap

  • Blog

    Alumni in the picture: Timo van de Ven

  • Blog

    Alumni in the picture: Fabian van Aerschot

  • Blog

    Conversation with the city at the Coolsingel

  • Blog

    Conversation with the city at the debate centre Arminius

  • Blog

    Conversation with the city at the Erasmus University

  • Blog

    Conversation with the city at the Arentschool

  • Blog

    Conversation with the city at the Erasmiaans Gymnasium

  • Blog

    Conversation with the city in 'village' Middelland

  • Blog

    Het gesprek met de stad op het Visserijplein

  • Blog

    'civil management doesn't come on it's own'

  • Blog

    cocreation of the Gouwplein

  • Interested in our e-mail updates? Click here.
  • Privacy statement
↓