Check the link on TU Delft Stories: https://www.tudelft.nl/en/stories/articles/water-crisis-looms-in-the-netherlands-but-the-tide-turns-on-the-drawing-board.
Archiprix 2025!
Honourable Mention
Charlotte Delobbe
From the jury report: “The project speaks to a solid study with well-developed principles that are clearly translated into a straightforward design that is mindful of the population’s way of life. … In addition to the thesis, the presentation includes a graphic novel in which a local voice is fictionally connected to the community, revealing the project’s reality-based qualities in a surprising way.”
Indigenous Intelligence: Ancient knowledge in the current design!
Exhibition April 1st to April 30th, 2025
Circular Drawing
Long-lasting water landscapes made by indigenous people are mapped and documented using the illustrative method. This method has been developed to describe the relationship between landscape and human-made systems and illustrate people’s engagement in making, using, worshipping and managing these water landscapes over decades. One could say that people who create and adapt water landscapes daily are true landscape architects. They understand the rhythm of the weather, seasons and landscape, including flora and fauna and act accordingly, considering that the land will be passed on to the next generation. Being part of such a community is hard work since the system mainly feeds its people without making a profit. Circular Drawing is one of the most comprehensive drawings within the series of maps.
A curated selection of works from the exhibition, including contributions from this lab and short interviews of the designers in their language, is featured at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Italy 2025, underscoring the increasing significance of Indigenous knowledge in shaping forward-looking design discourses.
Xiaolei Ma, Tobias Macchione, Carolina Estefania Marquez Luna, Kanako Inai, Camila Rosado, Nicola Vollmer, and Houxuan Zhang (CWS-lab #7 from left to right) sitting in front of their Circular Drawing.
The exhibition was held at the Orange Hall of the Faculty in April 2025.
Lecture series “Liquid Narratives” comes to an end!
“Liquid Narratives. Mapping Shifting Landscapes” lectures series, part of the Circular Water Stories graduation lab 2023-24 in Landscape Architecture (@landscapearchitecturetudelft) at the Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment of TU Delft (@bk.tudelft). The idea behind the monthly lecture series is to engage with young scholars – PhDs and doctorates – advancing relevant research in the discipline of Landscape Urbanism and providing master students with key examples when it comes to describing waters.
Thank you Carolina Fiallo, Elena Longhin, Catalina Rey-Hernàndez, Sylvie Nguyen, and Johanna Just for having brilliantly contributed!
The latest Circular Water Stories graduation projects are now online!
The projects by the Circular Water Stories graduates Ran Yan, Xinyu He, Farnoosh Bazrafkan, Emmanouela Armoutaki, Yunshu Jiang, Pingyao Sun, Yuan Yuan, Nicole Filippoli, Keng Ching Chen, Wenting Gao, Xenia Georgiadou, Wanning Liang, Javier Sanchez Jimenez, Maozhu Zhang, and Zhiyun Zhang are now online!
You can find their final dissertations here and in TU Delft Education Repository!
“A Hidden Water-Harvesting System: The Sassi di Matera” in Blue Papers!
“A Hidden Water-Harvesting System: The Sassi di Matera” by Dr. Inge Bobbink, ir. Wenting Gao and ir. Isabella Banfi has been successfully published in Blue Papers. Water & Heritage for Sustainable Development (Vol. 2 No. 2, 2023).
Check the link for an overview of the issue.
“Water Narratives: Exploring the convergence of the Canal du Midi and its coastal landscape” in Shima!
“Water Narratives: Exploring the convergence of the Canal du Midi and its coastal landscape” by Pingyao Sun, Inge Bobbink and Amina Chouairi has been successfully published in Shima (Vol. 17 No. 2, 2023).
Check the link for an overview of the issue.
The latest Traditional Water Systems projects are now online!
The latest analysis by the students from 2022-23 cycle are on display here!
“Visualizing Water” in Blue Papers!
“Visualizing Water. Using the Illustrative Method to Learn from Long-Lasting Water Systems” by Dr. Inge Bobbink, ir. Amina Chouairi and ir. Camilla Di Nicola, CWS graduates, has been successfully published in Blue Papers. Water & Heritage for Sustainable Development (Vol. 1 No. 1, 2022)
Check the link for an overview of the issue.
Save the date: online presentation of two “SPOOL – Circular Water Stories” issues!
Save the date for the SPOOL – Circular Water Story Symposium!
On April 21st 2022, from 3 to 5 PM (CET/GMT +1), two issues of SPOOL – Circular Water Stories, edited by Dr. Ir. Inge Bobbink (TU Delft), Ir. Suzanne Loen (LILA Living Landscapes) and Dr. Fransje Hooimeijer (TU Delft), will be presented online!
Many of the contributors will join the presentation and the lively discussion.
Discover here “SPOOL – Circular Water Stories Landscape Metropolis” issues Vol. 7 #2 and Vol. 8 #3!
SPOOL is an open access journal initiative in the field of “Architecture and the Built Environment” published by TU Delft Open.
To participate and receive the Zoom link please register here!
