Speaker 1: Maurice Harteveld

Maurice Harteveld is affiliated with the Chair of Urban Design at Delft University of Technology, leader of the Design of Public Spaces research group, and is a visiting professor at various institutes and universities abroad. He also works at the Bureau Architectenregister.

Maurice has an uninterrupted focus on public space, in particular related to urban design and the architecture of the city. This focus has shifted over time to a more intercultural understanding of ‘human space’, in particular architectural and urban design for people in different places all over the world. His work continues to contribute to the repositioning of design theory. Publications on ‘interior public space’ and ‘interior urbanism’ (since 2005), and e.g. on ‘the city of the future’ and ‘port-city futures’ (since 2016) bear witness to his work. His international oeuvre, both in research and in education, brings urban design back to its fundamental interdisciplinary character; – in the overlap of responsibilities; – in a non-structural way and – with involved users. Of course, he crosses the disciplinary boundaries of cultural anthropology, urban sociology and environmental psychology, and as such he teaches a wide range of related methods. In doing so, he specifically helps to clarify future challenges for designers based on socio-spatial dynamics. He also does this for and with governments and numerous stakeholders. Synchronously, he helps to reframe history from the questions we have today.