Nout Verhoeven is Director Engineering at the municipality of Amsterdam. He is responsible for a great variety of projects concerning public spaces in Amsterdam. As a physicist, he is trained to model and understand where constraints and opportunities of an approach lie.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Looking back at the Japanese Knotweed Symposium
Knotweed on a pedestal
We look back at a two-day gathering with researchers, designers, and artists, which aimed to explore Japanese knotweed and our relationship with this contested plant. Japanese knotweed was put on a...