The 'Parlement van de Scheggen' was a significant 2019 program by Architectuurcentrum Amsterdam, dedicated to the city's vital green wedges. It brought together a diverse group of designers, researchers, and community members to discuss strategies for their preservation and sustainable redevelopment. Learn about the proposals and manifesto developed to ensure these important urban landscapes contribute to Amsterdam's well-being and environmental goals.
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The 'Parlement van de Scheggen' was a 2019 program by Architectuurcentrum Amsterdam focused on the city's green wedges ('scheggen'). It brought together designers, researchers, users, and activists to discuss and develop proposals for the preservation and redevelopment of these vital green spaces.
Initiated in 2019 by Architectuurcentrum Amsterdam (ARCAM), the 'Parlement van de Scheggen' program aimed to address the critical importance and ongoing development of Amsterdam's green wedges. These wedges, stemming from Cornelis van Eesteren's 1930s Algemeen Uitbreidingsplan (AUP), are essential green and park landscapes that provide recreation, contact with nature, and ecological benefits like cooling and water storage. The program assembled a diverse 'parliament' of designers, researchers, users, businesses, residents, and activists to contribute to discussions about the future of these spaces, which are facing pressure from urban development and infrastructure projects. Four architectural firms—Karres en Brands, BOOM Landscape, Flux Landscape Architecture, and LAMA landscape architects—developed future-proof proposals for the scheggen under the guidance of the Parlement. These proposals were compiled into a manifesto, advocating for active green policies and investments to match urban development. The manifesto emphasizes that the quality of these green areas is eroding and that inaction is not an option. Key recommendations include scaling up the scheggen structure to a metropolitan level, recognizing them as cultural heritage, unique development, strengthening the coherence of the system, gathering more data, fostering design research, giving the scheggen a voice through representation, making them carriers of the sustainable region, increasing their visibility, fostering collaboration across municipalities and stakeholders, and investing financially in their preservation and enhancement. The program stressed that the scheggen are crucial for achieving sustainability goals and maintaining the city's well-being and prosperity.
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