Planning lecture

decorative image — Planning Lecture with Ben van der Meer

Calendar

The next Planning Lecture will take place on September 26th, 2025. This lection is in collaboration with the Academie voor Bouwkunst Hanze. Speaker is Ben van der Meer, Stadsbouwmeester gemeente Groningen. His lecture is titled: Groningen en het Sprezzatura van de duurzame planologie.

Date: 26 September
Time: 16.00-17.30 (walk in from 15.30)
Location: Harmony complex Groningen, room 1314.0026

We also have a Planning Lecture on October 30th, 2025 at 15.00h in the Blauwe Zaal of the Duisenberg building, Zernike Campus Groningen. Speaker is prof. Marko Hekkert, director of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. The title of his lecture is 'Op weg naar een duurzame ruimtelijke ontwikkeling'.

The previous Planning lecture took place on June 18th, 2024, and was given by Delta Commissioner prof. Co Verdaas. This lecture is titled 'Water heeft ruimte nodig - intelligent vooruitstruikelen naar een toekomstbestendig Nederland'.

Planning lecture

The Planning lecture is organised by the Department of Spatial Planning and Environment of the Faculty of Spatial Sciences. The idea of the Planning lecture is to have an informative an discipline related presentation on state-of-the-art debates in Planning and/or Geography either in planning practice, or in academia. We hope that visitors get inspired by a lecture that makes it possible to generate new reflections on existing ideas and concepts. The lecture series invites the audience to develop new perspectives and to get beyond business-as-usual.

For whom?

The Planning lecture is public. First of all students and staff from the Faculty of Spatial Sciences are very much welcomed. The very same is true for students and staff from other disciplines. And last but not least, we do also warmly invite professionals and simply those that are interested to join the lecture series.