UPCOMING COURSES

The Independent School for the City is a school in, of, and for the city. It builds on the conviction that strategies for the city - architectural and economic, spatial and social - should be based on real, first hand, empirical research. The Independent School for the City offers a variety of post-graduate educational programmes ranging from shorter one-day workshops and masterclasses, one or two-week studio's to an intensive 3 month programme on contemporary Urbanism. Below we'll give you and overview of our upcoming activities.

A hands-on studio exploring strategies for radical greening our cities by creating a micro forrest, with Peter Veenstra of LOLA Landscape Architects. Taking place between 14 - 23 March 2025.

Into the Woods

Planting trees has become a popular project for local and national governments all around the world to combat climate change and to increase biodiversity. This simple objective contributed to expanding, regenerating and rewilding large natural areas, and creating diverse and healthy carbon-storing ecosystems. At the same time, there are also many reasons to radically green our urban areas: trees capture CO2 and clean the air, they cool down our cities, they can help regulate ecosystems, they improve our health and give people a sense of well-being. In this workshop we will follow an ecological and hands-on approach and used the natural reproductivity of nature by harvesting and replanting seedlings. We will create our own micro forest, taking a layered approach starting from the soil up to the top of the trees, while specifically looking at the biodiverse value of what we are planting and what a new forest needs to survive. Taking place between 14 - 23 March 2025. More info here