Summer and Winter schools

Circularity in the Built Environment

27 - 29 June 2025 or 27 June - 04 July 2025

The fourth edition of the Summer School on Circularity in the Built Environment focuses on the topic of REUSE. 

Participants will be given the opportunity to select between two options for the duration of their stay: it will be possible to sign up for the lectures and the design workshops only (27-29 June) or for the entire program of the summer school activities including prototyping and site visits (27 June-04 July). 

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Summer School Planning and Design for the Just City

30 June - 11 July 2025

This Summer School combines spatial planning, urban design and environmental technology to tackle issues of spatial justice, sustainability, climate adaptation and water management in urban transitions to sustainability. It invites students to put spatial justice at the centre of urban development. It enables students to understand the theories and practices that bring together spatial justice and sustainability and to apply the knowledge acquired in elaborating a vision and a spatial strategy and design for an area in the city of Rotterdam in The Netherlands.

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Sustainable housing from a European perspective

1 - 11 July 2025

This summer school will give insight into the European perspective on the development of a sustainable housing stock, and speeding up energy transition goals, by presenting European and national goals, policies, regulations, assessment tools, process innovations, behavioural, institutional and management approaches. It will shed light on emerging economies and institutions in a similar context.

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