DESIGNING ECOLOGIES FOR RESILIENT URBANISMS

Abstract

This article encapsulates the recent work of OSA, a practice-based urbanism situated in an academic environment (KU Leuven, Belgium). In the contemporary era of increased social, ecological, and spatial injustices, OSA’s work attempts to create resilient urbanisms through designing robust ecologies. Its worldwide sites of research and interventions are primarily addressed through three themes: water urbanisms, forest urbanisms, and creating new social ecologies as resistance. The first part of the article provides an overview of the ambitions of OSA with a number of examples. The second component consists of four excerpts of recent and on-going design research.

Keywords

Onderzoeksgroep Stedenbouw en Architectuur / Practice-Based Design Research / WaterUrbanisms / Forest Urbanisms / Social Ecologies / Resistance

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Higher Education Press