What happens when designers do not immediately begin by solving, but first learn how to look? In this exhibition designers of the future explore Stadspark West as a landscape of encounter, ecology, edges and collectivity.

For the past three years, students from different design disciplines have been researching Stadspark West. Through landscape architecture, urbanism, art and ecology, they investigate how this unique urban fringe is read, used and experienced. With one shared starting point: what is already here?

The exhibition brings together sketches, maps, observations, sound works, photographs and research material. Work that reveals what grows, lives and emerges in and between infrastructure, allotment gardens, sports fields, parks, recreation and spontaneous nature. Together, the projects show how design can help make hidden qualities, collective practices and existing ecologies visible.

In collaboration with residents, gardeners, researchers and designers, the exhibition contributes to ongoing discussions around urban landscapes, in-between spaces, intertwined histories, rough edges and the role of design. The exhibition offers an impression of the curious and unconventional perspectives of a new generation of designers.

The exhibition takes place in the canteen of allotment garden association Streven Naar Verbetering, in the middle of Stadspark West itself. Visitors are invited to wander, engage in conversation and look again at what is already there.

In collaboration with students and alumni of TU Delft, Wageningen University & Research, Rotterdam Academy of Architecture, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Willem de Kooning Academy.

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