NETWORK CITIES

Day for day, people in metropolitan areas exercise what will become an everyday experience for European cities:  an individual daytrip through the network of nodes and “Zwischenstädte”.
 
This “Zwischenstädte” or “transit towns” are characterized by an complex and dynamic network. With this understanding a network city not necessarily means uprooting and (emotional) chaos, but can be one important source for productive rethinking and for the creation of new qualities of nature and the built environment. In this respect, network cities offers an immense spatial talent for the transformation of the industrial society into the “post-oil” society - now there is the chance to untie it, to communicate it and to realize it. In real-labs we analyze new life styles and research the spatial consequences of sharing communities. We locate the labs in the regional context and define a procedural approach to strengthen the identification of the inhabitants with their region and to enable possibilities for academic and economic support.
 
Recently the IBA Thüringen „Stadtland“ (2013-2023) researches about the transformation of a rural landscape into an urban landscape and develops instruments to design the transformation process. Settlements and landscape should be regarded as an entity and therefore designed integrally. Invented design instruments will be reflected critical, as well as new governance principles.
 
Urban Nomads takes up this aspects and  researches about new design instruments and design strategies to create this densified urban landscape in network regions. The chosen integral and interdisciplinary research methodology enables different stakeholders to identify themselves with sketched developments of the city and the region. Together with universities, regional stakeholders and inhabitants of the region,  urban nomads creates an dialogue platform to discuss the sustainable transformation of an futureproof development of the urban cityscape.
Urban Nomads presented and evaluated the results of this project at the „Global Cities and Cosmopolitan Dreams“ conference at June 2015 in Barcelona. It is online publish at „Global Cities and Cosmopolitan Dreams“.
Case Studies
Case Study Tirol City
Case Study Campi Flegrei
Case Study Terraced Landscapes
Case Study Public Places in Hybrid Territories
Case Study Ecocity Brennero 2030
Research Partner
Saxion University, department of Urban Design
Prof. Lucija Ažman Momirski, Ph.D., faculty of architecture, University of Ljubljana
Prof. Jose Pagés y Madrigal, University Fernando Pessoa, Porto
Dr. Massimo Lanzi, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, DP of regional planning
Prof. Dr. Arnold Klotz, director urban design of Vienna and Innsbruck (retired)
Dr. Wolfgang Andexlinger, Universität Innsbruck
Dipl. Ing Olaf Köhler, architect, Bolzano
Publications
LOEPER Nicoline, MOMIRSKI AŹMAN Lucija, OTT Matthias: Terraced Landscapes: New Design Solutions for Artificial Landscapes. In: Annales (2016), Nr.3, p. 523-536
LOEPER Nicoline, MUSZYNSKA Marta, OTT Matthias: Aan de hand genomen door de held
Aeneas onderneem je een zoektocht naar het landschap – en naar jezelf.
In: de Blauwe Kamer (2015), Nr.4, p. 52
LOEPER Nicoline, OTT Matthias, VAN KAMPEN Jelle: Een duurzaam ontwerp voor het kwetsbare landschap van een wintersportresort in de Oostenrijkse Alpen.
In: de Blauwe Kamer (2015), Nr.4, p. 53
Lectures
“Almere”, Matthias Ott, Urban Design Studio „Urban Landscapes“,
Saxion University Deventer, January 2016
“Randstadt Amsterdam”, Matthias Ott, Urban Design Studio „Urban Landscapes“,
Saxion University Deventer, September2015
“Tirol City”, Matthias Ott, Nicoline Loeper, Design Week,
Architectuurcentrum Rondeel, Deventer, June 2015
“Die Schweiz, ein städtebauliches Portrait”, Matthias Ott, Urban Design Studio „Urban Landscapes“, Saxion University Deventer, March 2015
“Netzstadt”, Matthias Ott, Urban Design Studio „Urban Landscapes“ ,
Saxion University Deventer, March 2015
“Burning Fields”, Matthias Ott, Nicoline Loeper, Design Week,
Saxion University Deventer, February 2015
“Vinex”, Matthias Ott, Nicoline Loeper, Design Week,
Saxion University Deventer, November 2014
„Stadtentwicklung in Europa, Case Randstadt Rotterdam“, Matthias Ott,
FH Osnabrück, Fachbereich Landschaftsarchitektur, Oktober 2009
Research period: June 2009 – September 2015
Research volume: € 170.000.-
Landscape analyses Tirol City, Bjorn Mensink, Jelle van Kampen
Sketches for Campi Flegrei by Jelle van Kampen
Concepts Brennero 2030, Ruben Ferwerda
Scenario for selfsufficient farming, Goriska Brda by Ruud van der Maas