Delftsestraat 33, 3rd Floor
3013 AE Rotterdam
Netherlands
Summerschool - Let’s Be R€AL!: July 19–30, 2021
Exploring new strategies for collective affordable housing with Urban-Think Tank Design Partners and Crimson Historians & Urbanists.
Film & Architecture Studio: September 7 – October 7, 2021
An online crash course on filmmaking in relation to the city and architecture, with Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam.
Into the Woods: October 18–22, 2021
Exploring strategies for radically greening our cities together with Peter Veenstra of LOLA Landscape Architects.
City of Comings and Goings: November 15–19, 2021
Mapping the manifestations of migration with Crimson Historians & Urbanists.
Urban Tissue Weaving: December 10–12, 2021
A hands-on studio understanding the principles of weaving as a metaphor for urban planning.
Dirty Old Town: Act Now: January 31 – April 22, 2022
An intensive 12-week education programme dealing with the contradictions and complexity of the contemporary city: open to all disciplines. Application deadline: October 31, 2021.
The Independent School for the City is extremely happy to announce its new educational programme for 2021–2022.
We are excited to start our new programme with the Summer School Let’s Be R€AL! exploring new strategies for collective affordable housing with Alfredo Brillembourg, and in September we’ll have the third edition of our (online) Film & Architecture studio with the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam. In October and November, we’ll look for strategies for radically greening our cities together with Peter Veenstra of LOLA Landscape Architects, and we will be mapping the manifestations of Migration in Rotterdam with the School’s founders Crimson Historians & Urbanists. Last but not least, we will offer our intensive three-month programme on contemporary urbanism again dealing with the impact of superdiversity, climate change and crime, for which you can apply until October 31, 2021. We are looking forward to meeting you, right here in Rotterdam, very soon.
What is the Independent School for the City?
The Independent School for the City is a platform for urban professionals to explore the complexity and contradictions of the modern city. Social sciences, economy, planning, design, history and other “urban studies” are brought together in a trans-disciplinary community of learning. The School has deep roots and a strong presence in the city of Rotterdam and is part of a wide and diverse international network of practices and institutions.
The Independent School for the City builds on the belief that strategies for the city should be based on real, firsthand, empirical research. Today’s cities demand a new kind of urbanism, both as a practice and as a field of research. Urgent challenges such as climate change, migration and inequality will be at the heart of the School’s programme. These topics have not only intensified in recent years but have also become inextricably linked. To withstand the onslaught of reality, our cities do not just need to be redesigned but also re-thought. We can no longer afford to separate the conceptual from the practical, the political from the technical, the form and the content when dealing with today’s cities. Cultural identity and physical resilience, technological innovation and new narratives are different dimensions of our approach.
