My current research focusses on skills required and developed in practices of citymaking and placemaking. Often, such community-led initiatives are started through coincidences, personal engagement, and on-the-spot improvisation, but nonetheless focus on long term development and sustainable goals as well. Dealing with these two very different rhythms often comes naturally for citymakers and placemakers - but for spatial planners such skills come less naturally. As such, my research focusses on exploring these citymaking and placemaking skills, my educational projects focus on training spatial planners for complexity, self-organization and improvisation.
