Urbanism & Landscape Week 2025

Program

Talks

We are exploring how spatial, social, and environmental impact can extend beyond design through multidisciplinary initiatives and approaches— and how creative collaboration and co-creation can become powerful tools of landscape transformation.

The guest contributions will address experiences of working within challenging and often resistant contexts — examining ways to confront issues of neglect, mismanagement, contamination, and debilitating design. They will highlight how to build meaningful collaborations with stakeholders and actors, and how to initiate and sustain projects at local, municipal, and national scales. This conversation invites students to engage with urbanism and landscape beyond academia and conventional practice, revealing a diverse set of tools through which

meaningful and lasting change can emerge.

Speakers

Rahul Srivastava

Maria Giulia Cantaluppi

Gergana Ilieva

Architect and member of The Collective,

a foundation uniting citizens, experts, and institutions

to transform neglected urban spaces across Bulgaria

into vibrant, inclusive public places. 

Workshops 

Together, we will talk about a set of topics that are central to the fields of spatial practices. Throughout this process, we will reflect on our role and position within the future of these professions—considering the challenges we face, the values that guide our work, and the impact we aim to create. This exploration encourages us to connect theory with practice, address current social and environmental challenges, and identify shared patterns in problems, obstacles, and solutions. Throughout the process, we will equip you with methods and exercises designed to strengthen your skills

in teamwork, negotiation, and professional practice.

PEP Talk

We will be addressing the post-graduate trajectory known as the Professional Experience Program (PEP). This program offers a two-year, part-time curriculum designed to run alongside your professional work as a junior designer. Completing the PEP is a prerequisite for registration in the Dutch Architecture Register, qualifying you to become an officially recognized landscape architect or urban designer. The presentation will feature two representatives from the Bureau Architectenregister, and possibly two TU Delft alumni who have recently completed the program and will share their personal experiences and insights.

Tentative schedule 

5th of November

9.00 - 9.30

Slow welcoming session with morning coffee

9.30 - 10.10 

Positioning workshop 'Where do you stand'? 

- we will be asking the participants to form gradients based on a prompt. 

10.10 - 10.30

Announcement of the results of the UL Challenge

10.30 - 11.30

First session

Talk with Rahul from Urbz

11.30 - 12.30

Second session

Talk with Maria Giulia Cantaluppi about Co-Design

12.30 - 13.15

Lunch break

13.15 - 14.30

'Small talk' workshop

 participants will join conversations based on given topics:

Environment and Climate

Society and Power

Economy and Resources

and will discuss based on some queries

14.30 - 15.30

Third session

 Talk with the Collective, Rivers of the city 

15.30 - 16.30

PEP Talk,

organized by Eric Luiten, Professor Landscape Architecture

16: 30 - 17.00

Closing session

6th of November 

9.00 - 9.30

Slow welcoming session with morning coffee

9.30 - 12.00 

Talk by Victor Muñoz Sanz

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Workshop on advices for the young designers 

12.30 - 15.30

Lunch break

15.30 - 17.00

Q1 Exhibition and visit from the Municipality

17.00

Closing Borrel

(drinks and small snacks provided)