Boost the area
Urban Regeneration
- Level
- Language
- English
- Credits
- 30 ECTS
- Startmonths
- Start: February
- Locations
- Groningen
Urban Regeneration is about renewing and improving existing urban areas, with the aim of strengthening livability, the local economy, and spatial quality. During this minor, you will work on a specific area facing challenges related to livability, future resilience, and the needs of its users. Your goal is to give this area a new impulse and make it more resilient to future developments.
You will start by observing and analysing the area. In addition, you will engage with residents and other users to clearly identify the real underlying issue. Next, you will explore relevant trends and developments and, together with your group, translate these into a future-oriented vision. Based on this vision, you will design an intervention for part of the area. You present this design to the users to gather feedback and further refine your plan.
The final result is a design that aligns with user needs, contributes to a resilient and future-proof living environment, and reflects your own ideas and insights.
In this minor, you will develop practical and design-oriented skills to address urban challenges, both for and together with the people who use this area.
About this minor
After a short introduction period, during which you get to know your fellow students and complete a first urban regeneration exercise, you will start working on the central question:
How do we design and organise a future-proof built environment that meets the needs of its users?
By the end of this minor, you will be able to answer this question independently. You will learn how to analyse an area, how to engage with residents and users, and how to clearly define the underlying issue. By working with designs, concepts, and visualisations, you will learn to systematically analyse and evaluate challenges and to justify your choices.
When improving or renewing an area, you always take future developments into account. To incorporate uncertainty and ongoing developments into your plans, you will work with scenarios. These help you develop a strong and future-proof vision. Based on this vision, you will create a design for part of the case study area, which you will test with users to ensure it truly meets their needs.
This minor is open to students from all fields of study. No prior knowledge of spatial or social issues is required, and you do not need a design background. In fact, the diversity of knowledge, experience, and perspectives enriches collaboration and strengthens the quality of the solutions.
In addition to working on a relevant and real-world topic, you will develop skills such as creative and innovative thinking, collaborating with students from different backgrounds, and understanding the interaction between people and their living environment. In this way, you learn how to co-design a future-proof living environment.
Educational approach
In this minor, you will work together with your group on a concrete challenge within a case study area. You will be supported by a mix of lectures, tutorials, guest lectures, design sessions, fieldwork, and excursions.
What makes this minor particularly valuable is the active contribution of students. You will not only learn from lecturers, but also from each other. By collaborating and combining different perspectives, you will develop stronger and more creative solutions.
Student experiences
Before you can start
Available to
- students following the Built Environment programme at Hanze University of Applied Sciences (minor enrolment via Osiris);
- other students at Hanze University of Applied Sciences (minor enrolment via Osiris);
- students from other institutions in the Netherlands
- students from institutions abroad. For more information visit hanze.nl/io. The application deadline for the winter semester is 15 May.
Admission & application
Please check with your home university whether there is an agreement set up with the Hanze School that is offering the exchange programme of your choice. To apply for and be admitted for our exchange programme you should take the following steps
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1. Be nominated by your home university
Once you have been nominated, your nomination will be checked by us and confirmed to your home university by email. You will receive your application link during our application period.
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2. Submit your online application
Once you have been nominated by your home university you will receive a personal application link and the application instructions during our application period. The application is fully digital and documents do not have to be send by email or postal mail. Make sure you do not miss our application deadline!
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3. Letter of Acceptance
Once you have submitted your application we will check your documents. If you have to re-submit any documents, we will let you know. We will be sending out Acceptance Letters from the beginning of May when you start in September and from the middle of October when you start in February.
Find out more about our application process and practical matters.
