Use case · 2024–2025 · Netherlands
Climate-Sensitive Blue and Green Spaces, Enschede
Blue-green options weighed against flood policy.
As a named partner in the VU–UT Collaboration Fund project on climate-sensitive blue and green spaces, co-design workshops were carried out with vulnerable residents of Twekkelerveld, a disadvantaged Enschede neighbourhood: participants directly altered photographs of their own streets in the tool — adding trees, benches and water features — working alongside the Municipality of Enschede and the UT DesignLab. The collaboration fed four research outputs co-authored by the practice, including a scoping review in Wellbeing, Space and Society.
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Who took part
Vulnerable and disadvantaged residents, Municipality of Enschede decision-makers and a research team across UT-ITC, UT-BMS, the VU Athena Institute and the UT DesignLab; a pilot workshop had students role-play personas of vulnerable residents to surface needs around thermal comfort, mobility and safety.
What the tool did
AI-supported alteration of real Twekkelerveld street photographs, integrating the needs of groups often excluded from planning processes into urban climate-adaptation research.
What changed
The portfolio’s clearest practice-to-publication arc: two posters, a conference abstract at ICUC12 and a peer-reviewed scoping review, with the tool tested in close collaboration with residents and the municipality.
We delivered this project under the brand name of UrbanistAI, in our previous collaboration.
Reports, media and links
On the record.
What others wrote about this work, and where to read more. Each entry opens the original.
Reports4
- ReportDec 2025ULA Labs distributed-learning workshop on Twekkelerveld, Enschede ULA Labs
- ReportJul 2025Engaging Vulnerable Urban Populations in Co-Designing Climate-Resilient Public Spaces Copernicus / ICUC12
- ReportJun 2025Enschede scoping review, Wellbeing, Space and Society Elsevier
- ReportMay 2024UT ITC — Blue/Green Spaces project page University of Twente