ASSET Webinar: Meet & Learn #Defining spaces for manufacturing: Cities of Making

Defining Spaces for Manufacturing: Cities of Making

Online webinar, 24 January 2025, 12:00 – 13:00 CEST

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.

Join our next Meet & Learn webinar to hear more about how the project’s ins and outs.

When: Friday, 24 January 2025, 12:00 – 13:00 (CEST)

Where: Online via MS Teams (use this link)

Costs: Free to attend for anyone interested

About Asset 

ASSET stands for ‘A Spatial Strategy for the Eurodelta, boosting the circular transition of the builT environment’. This project, funded by Interreg North-West Europe, brings together people from cities, regions, and organizations across the Eurodelta who are passionate about accelerating the circular economy in this densely populated area. What do we need for the circular transition? And how do we organize it spatially?

Every month, we invite a different expert to share their view on these questions in one of our Meet & Learn webinars. Have a look at this page for upcoming sessions and past recordings.