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For this year’s final AMS Science for the City in Pakhuis de Zwijger, we’ll dive into the complex dynamics of the energy transition. For Energy & Spatial Change we’ve invited active stakeholders in Amsterdam to talk about how the energy transition changes our cities and landscapes. What are the societal, spatial and technological questions the transition to sustainable energy raises for the city of Amsterdam, the metropolitan region and the country as a whole? What is the impact of the changeover on the living environment, urban areas and rural landscapes? How much space does the transition require, and are we able to accommodate this in densely populated cities like Amsterdam?

With amongst others

Sven Stemke | AMS PI | Associate Professor Landscape Architecture Wageningen University & Research
Andy van den Dobbelsteen | AMS PI | Professor Climate Design & Sustainability TU Delft
Pauline Westendorp | Director NEWNRG | 02025
Pallas Agterberg | Director of Strategy | Alliander
Bob Mantel | Ruimte en Duurzaamheid | Gemeente Amsterdam
Marco Broekman | marco.broekman | Urbanism Research Architecture

About AMS Science for the City
Set up by Pakhuis de Zwijger and AMS Institute, AMS Science for the City, is a bi-monthly evening highlighting and discussing how scientific innovation can help solve the complex urban challenges Amsterdam faces. Upcoming and established (inter)national urban professionals from AMS Institute and its academic partners (TU Delft, Wageningen University & Research, MIT) introduce the newest research and practical solutions within urban themes like water, energy, waste, food, data and mobility.

The Soluxio solar street light developed by FlexSol Solutions will light the streets of the Smart Community Aruba: an experimental residential area where the latest sustainable innovations are demonstrated.

For more information on the public lighting products that will grace the streets of the Smart Community Aruba, visit www.soluxio.lighting.

UN predictions indicate that in 2050, the demographics of urban areas will be fairly equal to the total population of the world in 2002. With constant development of the cities, economic, social and creative opportunities increase which forms the major attraction for the inflow of population.

As per the estimates from McKinsey, the top 600 cities in the world will account for 60% GDP by 2025. In no time, the smart city industry will be a $400 billion market by 2020. But the fact still remains that urbanisation comes hand in hand with some major challenges which are faced commonly by the world’s fastest growing cities.

As a young entrepreneur I notice that others always try to convince me to take a certain role in society. As a student however, I have the privilege of enjoying open eduction and professors who know what is right and valuable in the near future.

Together with some peer students at the IE business school in Madrid we have decided that the Spanish youth could be informed in a more modern manner about innovative ideas to enhance our quality of life. However, our main goal is to portray the fact that this life enhancing possibility can go hand in hand with a green and sustainable future.

I sincerely hope you will take the time to read some of our article, enjoy it and subscribe to our blog. More traffic means more exposure! Lets make sure this Dutch mentality takes hold in Spain! Please do not hesitate to share our webpage with friends and family with an alike mindset!

With kind regards,

Jan van Wassenaer

www.weglobots.com

The second edition of Powering the future – the network sessions, will take place on 11 December, at the Amsterdam Innovation Arena.

In this lively talk show the Amsterdam ArenA and its partners will share innovative case studies in the field of Cybersecurity. What new digital cybersecurity tools are relevant for event organisers? What new digital dangers are lurking in the shadows? And what kind of cybercriminal is targeting the likes of the Amsterdam ArenA? From digital attacks to the dark web, from malware to ransomware, from phishing to data breaches, this session will show you what can go wrong, and what to do about it.

Case studies will come from the partners of the Amsterdam Innovation Arena: TNO, KPMG, Honeywell and KPN.

What new digital dangers are lurking in the shadows?
Date and time: December 11, 15.30 – 17.30
Location: Amsterdam ArenA

The Amsterdam Innovation Arena connects a community of innovators who collaborate to create the most innovative stadium in the world, powered by the Amsterdam ArenA. The Amsterdam Innovation Arena brings together its network once a month to exchange ideas. The Network Sessions bring in experts from The Netherlands and beyond, for an exchange of ideas in an informal setting. The events are free of charge.

Energy efficiency is an integral part of a smart city. How you reduce resource consumption and how you produce resourceful innovation while you advance the city stands as the fundamental foundation for every city infrastructure.

But why talk only about energy efficiency? Well, if you have a closer look, from the sensors to the big data and vehicles to the buildings every bit of infrastructure has a link with energy. And if this energy is pulled out of exhaustive resources there wouldn’t be anything to rely on by 2050.

The weekend promises to be cloudy, windy and rainy. So it is time for an excellent book that enables to take some distance from our daily smartification efforts.
People have always been longing and looking for their ideal city. Quite a number of urbanists, politicians of utopians have tried to realise their dreams: Thomas More’s Utopia, Campanella’s Town of sun, Bacons Nova Atlantis, Fouriers Phalanstère, Haussmanns City of Boulevards, Howards Garden city and Le Corbusiers Ville Radieuse, to mention some examples.
My former colleague prof. Nico Nelissen (Radboud University) has collected, documented and illustrated about 100 examples of city related ideals. If you are interested, download his book: Hemel en Aarde; Stadsidealen (2015) for free.

We are a cleantech IoT Company based out of India and Europe. We are into environmental data acquisition. We have developed, Airowl a D-i-Y (Do-it-Yourself) kit which helps you to build your own personal Air Quality Monitoring device.
It gives you real-time air quality data on the app and updates you of the air around you. Through crowd-sourced data, we envision to inculcate the importance of environmental awareness. We are seeking for partners and institutes who would like to support us for the initiative in Netherlands.

Questo is a free mobile app which offers playful city tours for both travelers and locals. The platform invites users to go out and explore less popular areas of the city by going on a quest that requires them to solve interactive clues. Then, with each solved clue, they receive the story of the location they've discovered plus a recommendations of a local business (restaurants, art gallery, craft shop etc)

In the night of October 3rd, city councillor Mario Jacobs officially revealed two very special street lights in the city of Tilburg, the Netherlands. The two Soluxio solar light posts are the first off-grid solar light poles in Tilburg: a city that's one step closer to the future of smart cities.

Street lighting will play an important role in the cities of the future. A light post that generates its own energy can serve as a charging station for smartphones, notebooks or electrical vehicles or bikes. “In the future of the smart city, street lights will regulate traffic and measure air quality” says Lennert van den Berg, founder of FlexSol Solutions. The two Soluxio solar street lights could therefore play an important role in the city of Tilburg.

Like all Soluxios, the two solar street lights in Tilburg are connected to the internet wirelessly. The software and lighting scheme will receive updates through the online management platform. The masts indicate when maintenance is due automatically. Other smart city applications such as cameras or air quality sensors can be integrated in the future using the integrated data bus, giving the municipality maximum flexibility. The Soluxio is truly sustainable and ready for the future.

Read more about the solar street light installation in Tilburg.

Do you want to learn how to make circular economy business as usual? Jan Jonker, Professor Corporate Sustainability, will tell you all about this during his special Zuidas lecture.

Jan Jonker is a renowned expert on circular economy. He will share his ideas on circular business models, their potential and what it takes to move from talking to acting in accelerating the transition yourself. To illustrate how circular economy can be brought into practice Circular Office Supplies will share their story.

Accenture, ABN AMRO and Green Business Club Zuidas look forward to welcome you at CIRCL, to inspire and encourage you to apply circular thinking within your own organization and/or those of your clients.

Do you want to learn how to make circular economy business as usual? Jan Jonker, Professor Corporate Sustainability, will tell you all about this during his special Zuidas lecture on the 7th of december from 18.00 till 19:30, followed by drinks.

Jan Jonker is a renowned expert on circular economy. He will share his ideas on circular business models, their potential and what it takes to move from talking to acting in accelerating the transition yourself. To illustrate how circular economy can be brought into practice Circular Office Supplies will share their story.

Accenture, ABN AMRO and Green Business Club Zuidas look forward to welcome you at CIRCL on the Gustav Mahlerplein, to inspire and encourage you to apply circular thinking within your own organization and/or those of your clients.

Sign up at the link below:
https://www.circl.nl/programma/becoming-a-circular-economy-intrapreneur

Wij zijn momenteel in het kader van een executive MBA opleiding aan de Antwerp Management een onderzoek aan het doen rond de feasibility van een smart city business model. We evalueren onder andere of Nederlandse steden klaar zouden zijn om een aantal processen i.v.m. “Ontheffing RVV en TVM aanvragen” te digitaliseren. Momenteel denken we aan een online platform waarop inwoners en bedrijven uit Amsterdam een ‘openbaar domein’ voor een bepaalde tijd kunnen reserveren tegen betaling bijvoorbeeld om een verhuiswagen voor de deur neer te zetten. Dit platform regelt ook alle back-end processen waardoor er heel wat administratieve taken efficiënter worden gemaakt. Dit kan evt gecombineerd worden met ‘Smart traffic signs’.

Wij zouden graag in contact komen met de verantwoordelijke dienst binnen uw stad die zich met “Ontheffing RVV en TVM aanvragen” bezighoudt. Kan u ons verderhelpen? Wij zouden heel graag een afspraak maken om met hen in dialoog te gaan.

Alvast bedankt !

Veerle Limbos en Toon Dirckx
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Amsterdam to pilot Mobility as a Service in 2018

The Amsterdam region is challenging mobility service providers to offer innovative mobility solutions for citizens and employees of companies that are based in the Zuidas business district. The City of Amsterdam, the Transport Authority Amsterdam and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management are organizing a market consultation on the 29th of November, with the goal of innovation within the field of mobility that triggers users to stop using their own cars.

The Randstad-area, and the Amsterdam region in particular, is facing serious accessibility challenges the coming ten to fifteen years. On one hand because of the rapid growth of the city, on the other hand because of major infrastructural works such as construction of the (enlarged) tunnels for the A10-south. One of the ways to keep Amsterdam and the northern part of the Randstad-area an attractive place to live, visit and work is the reduction of car traffic. We believe that the possession of a car becomes less attractive when users can contract mobility services that provide seamless access to public transport, taxi services, shared cars and bikes, shuttle services, parking solutions and easy ways of payment; also known as Mobility as a Service.

The City of Amsterdam, the Transport Authority Amsterdam and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management invite innovative mobility and service providers and technology partners to take part in the market consultation and accelerate Mobility as a Service solutions in and around Amsterdam. Our goals:
1. Satisfied users (employers, employees and inhabitants) who get to know and appreciate the benefits of paying for the use, rather than the possession of means of mobility.
2. Less congestion, by digitally matching the supply and demand for mobility and thus reducing the use of public space for transport.
3. A platform open to any provider of a means of mobility and usage data that is shared in a transparent way, to accelerate innovation in the mobility market and the way we facilitate mobility as a government.

Interested?
Date: Wednesday 29th of November,
10.00 – 15.00
Location: Stadsgehoorzaal Leiden,
Breestraat 60, 2311 CS Leiden
Register: http://maas.spitz.nu/

'How bicycle architecture improves our urban environment'

The world’s first Bicycle Architecture Biennale celebrates a new wave of architecture corresponding with the revival of bicycle transport. During the biennale we will exhibit cutting edge and high profile building designs. On the 22nd of November we also want to give the opportunity to some of the architects to present their designs and talk with the audience about their vision on the role of the bicycle in cities and in architecture.

With: NEXT Architects, KuiperCompagnons, StudioSK and the new Bike Mayor of Amsterdam Katelijne Boerma.

Moderator: Susanne Heering

NEXT Architects: Dafne Schippers bridge
This design integrates a bicycle and pedestrian bridge with a school and a park into one cohesive whole. The bridge, which crosses the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal in Utrecht, is the main link in the express cycling route that connects the historical city centre with the new neighbourhood of Leidsche Rijn. Cyclists travelling from the city centre to Leidsche Rijn will cycle to a height of nine metres as they veer around Victor Hugo park in a wide bend, taking them across the roof of the school and over the canal. The Dafne Schippers bridge was nominated for the Roof of the Year Awards 2016.

StudioSK: bicycle parking facility Mahlerplein
For this project studioSK and BAM worked together to design and build a bike parking facility at Mahlerplein (next to CycleSpace and Circl) for three thousand bicycles. This parking facility has the size of a small football field and with the spacious entrance hall; it looks like a 'ballroom'. Because of the daylight entering the facility trough the entrance and a serie of colorful windows, the space is very light and that creates a very special atmosphere.

KuiperCompagnons: Bike Apple
The Bike Apple can host 970 bicycles in a structure of 15.5 meters high with a diameter of 27.5 meters. The object appears to have a simple design, but, on closer inspection, no single detail of this three-dimensional structure appears the same.

Entrance: Free
Sign up for this event on the website of Circl or send an email to folkert@cyclespace.org

At the University of Amsterdam, in the course of Heuristics, we have a case on SmartGrids. The assignment involves writing algorithms to optimally configure a grid of energy consuming and producing entities.

Houses with solar panels with different outputs must be linked to batteries, all placed on a grid, with minimal wiring cost. In a later stage, alternative locations for batteries might also be obtained.

Check out the case on heuristieken.nl.

India has uncountable problems like the growth of its population and its dysfunctional infrastructure. Two years ago prime ministers Modi announced the building of 100 new smart towns to deal with the problems. Now most plans have been disclosed one thing is clear; they will not solve the problems.

Humans love measuring things, for thousands of years we've measured all sorts of items and phenomena from dress sizes to earthquakes so we could better understand the world, and get more context, context that can multiple or reduce a variety of emotions like happiness and despair.

With this exposition I (Andy Essem) wanted to create work that brings attention to the ways in which our daily lives are presently measured and quantified beyond just numbers. And by then removing the item of measurement from my images, just leaving the orange void, I ask viewers what is the item of measurement that's been removed? And how would it's absence effect the every-day moment that I've captured in the image?

I hope this series will help viewers question the need to measure certain things in their life. The saying goes "Less is more" and maybe that's relevant for measurement too.

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BRINGING THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY & CONSUMPTION TO THE ART WORLD

Amsterdam is pushing to become the world’s first fully circular city. So rather than make my work about the circular economy I wanted to see if I could make my work part of the circular economy by using the method of Product as a Service. This is a concept used by Phillips to provide light instead of lightbulbs to Schipol airport.

I'm trying to address the lifespan and environmental impact of my work by making it available using this new economic model. All of the work at my show will NOT be for sale, but you can pay €5 per month to enjoy my work at your home or office for as long as you like, at which point you can return the work to me and receive a refund on your deposit. Once all pieces are returned to me they will become the basis for my second series of work.

The WOODY is a studio designed for young people solving the housing deficit in a quality and affordable way by applying sustainable materials and a modular building system, a circular business model, end-user co-housing operation etc.etc. made possible by technology.
The production is designed in a modular way, too, which enables the shortest possible production close to (temporary) locations to further reduce logistic handling on the road and on location.
The WOODY's shown in th factory are designed with integrated subsequent uses and show two different types (size and use).
Please register by sending an e-mail to info@woodyshousing.com for adres and instructions.

Dichter naar de burgers en ondernemers. Slimmer opereren als overheid. Hierover hebben we al veel gehoord maar het wordt minder vaak in de praktijk gebracht. De SIG IT & Overheid van KNVI .nl agendeert inspiratie vanuit het “Gebruiker Centraal” netwerk en de Amsterdamse “FIXX methode”.

Gebruiker Centraal.
Edo Plantinga vertelt over het belang van user centered design en hoe je voortdurend het belang van de eindgebruiker in beeld houdt. Met blije burgers en lagere kosten als resultaat.

FIXXX methode.
Burgers èn ambtenaren zijn gefrustreerd over de matige digitale producten en diensten die de overheid voorschotelt. Verouderde, ondoordachte of simpelweg onbruikbare "one-size-fits-none" oplossingen. Maarten Geraets van TiltShift laat ons zien hoe de Gemeente Amsterdam innovatie in huis haalde en hoe enerverend het is om samen met eindgebruikers nieuwe digitale diensten te ontwikkelen.

24 januari 14:30 in Amsterdam.
Je bent welkom op woensdag 24 januari in Amsterdam (locatie wordt binnenkort bekend gemaakt). Inloop vanaf 14:30 uur, start om 15:00, 17:15 afsluitende borrel. Aanmelden via de link of via iemke.idsingh@i4Urban.com (ook voor meer info).