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- Synoptic Assemblages Guiding Urban Metabolic Transitions
- Abstract
- This contribution discusses synoptic urban landscape design drawings of an evolving project for sustainable mobility transformation in Houthalen-Helchteren. The drawings combine plans, transects and diagrams of process and actor constellations relating multiple transition dimensions crossing scales and space-time perspectives. As such they construct and simultaneously integrate multidimensional perspectives on territorial urbanisation and resource interplays with the stakeholders involved. As a whole, the drawings might offer starting points for landscape and urbanism drawings beyond conventional representations such as blueprint master plans or functional land use zoning. As assemblages, they attempt to create synopsis: visually constructed synthesis. While acknowledging recent and renewing an interest in older urban design drawing and diagram formats to represent contemporary issues, their recalibration and synoptic assemblage as representational format is attuned and tested for contemporary challenges as guiding metabolic transitions.
- Citation
- Marin, J., & De Meulder, B. (2020). Synoptic Assemblages Guiding Urban Metabolic Transitions. The Drawing in Landscape Design and Urbanism, OASE, (107), 97–102. Retrieved from https://www.oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/107/SynopticAssemblagesGuidingUrbanMetabolicTransitions
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- Editors of this issue
- Frits Palmboom, Bruno Notteboom, Kornelia Dimitrova, Bart Decroos
- Authors
- Nitin Bathla & Sumedha Garg, Paul Broekhuizen, Chiara Cavalieri, Kees Christiaanse, Elke Couchez, Roberto Damiani, Koenraad Danneels, Gini Lee & Antonia Besa, Gianna Lobosco, William Mann, Julie Marin & Bruno De Meulder, Frits Palmboom, Sandra Parvu, Pieter Schengenga, Holger Schurk, Marialessandra Secchi & Marco Voltini, Heidi Svenningsen Kajita, Marc Treib, Bram van Kaathoven
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- Karel Martens & Aagje Martens
- November 2020
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