Opening of the Academic Year 2024-2025: Out of the Ivory Tower, into the City

Event

When:
  • September 12th, 2024, 3-6 PM
Location:
  • AMS Institute, room: Amsterdam
Address:
  • Kattenburgerstraat 5, Amsterdam

Are you ready to kickstart the new academic year with inspiration, valuable contacts, and fresh energy?

Please register via this link

The opening of the academic year 2024-2025 at AMS Institute promises to be an inspiring gathering centered around this year's theme, "Out of the Ivory Tower, into the City." As we embark on this new journey filled with opportunities, we will explore diverse perspectives from urban innovators and experts on creating better future cities.

During this event, we will delve into how the urban innovators of tomorrow can devise solutions to complex urban challenges by immersing themselves directly in the urban environment. We will investigate how solutions arise from the dynamic interplay between research and practice, with AMS Institute as the perfect launchpad. By listening to inspiring stories from our community and fostering meaningful dialogue and exchange, we aim to uncover new insights and forge new relationships for a productive and collaborative academic year ahead.

(Preliminary) Program

  • 15:00 - 15:15: Walk-in
  • 15:15 - 15:30: Welcome by Eveline van Leeuwen (Scientific Director AMS Institute): Introducing this year's theme, "Out of the Ivory Tower, into the City"
  • 15:30 - 15:50: Andy van der Dobbelsteen (Professor of Climate Design & Sustainability at TU Delft and PI at AMS Institute): The importance of collaboration, knowledge sharing and showing possible solutions in the field of sustainable buildings and energy systems (including 5 min Q&A)
  • 15:50 - 16:10: Jess Wreyford (Coordinator Living Labs MSc MADE Education Team): Educating future urban engineers by exposing them to real urban challenges in AMS Living Labs (including 5 min Q&A)
  • 16:10 - 16:30: Joe Llewellyn (MIT Research Fellow at AMS Institute): Participatory research into energy poverty as a steppingstone to engage vulnerable homes within the energy transition (including 5 min Q&A).
  • 16:30 - 16:40: Closing remarks by Zwanet van Lubek (Managing Director AMS Institute) and Stefan van der Spek (Program Director MSc MADE)
  • 16:40 - 18:00: Getting ‘outside’ for drinks

Registration
This event is aimed at students, tutors, researchers, staff, and partners of the institute and is open to all other urban innovators. Interested in joining? Please register via this link.