This webinar on Defining Spaces for Manufacturing and will take place online, you can join the session Online, 28 March 2025, 12:00 – 13:00 CEST here.
About the lecture:
Are cities meant for making?
As kids and students, we all learnt about the industrial revolution and how it started in European cities. Now, more than 200 years after the fact, urban manufacturing has been offshored and European cities have become service-oriented and resource-dependent.
Urban industry will need to grow again, however, if we wish to establish a circular economy and offer important jobs to our entire population. What could future-proof urban industries look like?
Birgit Hausleitner (architect, urbanist, and lecturer at TU Delft) will dissect this question in the upcoming book Cities of Making, which she co-authors. What technologies do we need for new urban manufacturing? Where should we locate all of this and what resources should we use? Birgit and her team are working hard to find answers to these questions by examining the urban regions of Rotterdam, London, and Brussels.
About the speakers:
Birgit Hausleitner is lecturer at the section Urban Design at TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Department of Urbanism. She is an expert in spatial analytics, with a focus on urban and socio-spatial conditions that enable living and working to coexist.