The municipality Enschede organises so called 'Ontwerpateliers' (Design workshops). On 12 September, HERITAGE members Marjolein van Esch (TU Delft) and Wim Timmermans (University of Twente) were at the municipality to give a design-workshop on urban thermal heat stress.
The purpose of these design workshops is for the municipality to inform and involve their employees on topics relevant for their city. The workshop took place at the Municipality Enschede Stadskantoor. Key message of the HERITAGE team? Firstly, to combat the complex phenomenon called urban heat stress, a multi-disciplinary approach, involving urban designers, planners and policymakers as well as hydrologists, meteorologists, (geo)metrologists and (solar) engineers, is literally vital. Secondly, we need a uniform definition of urban heat stress. Currently both the multi-disciplinary approach and the uniform definition are lacking.
Participants of the workshop responded enthusiastic and were actively involved in the workshop, which consisted of two parts; an introduction to the urban heat stress phenomenon, its underlying physics and how to determine urban heat stress for humans, followed by a session on design for human thermal comfort in urban areas, where participants were invited to think about design solutions to combat heat in a real case (design of Van Leeuwenhoekpark near Delft central train station).
Find below a few slides that give an impression of the workshop (click on the image for a better quality)
