Introduction Arjan van Timmeren

Newly appointed Professor of Environmental Technology & Design

History

• Born in Groningen, the Netherlands• Studied at TU Delft, best graduate 1994• 20 years of working in NL, Italy and Spain,

including for Renzo Piano• Now back as freshly inaugurated professor

Inaugural speech

• 17 april 2013, not yet published• Vision and ambitions

Reciprocity

• Corresponding concepts• Fossil fuels and energy• Human beings and the living environment

• Urbanism: the city and its surroundings• Better to have a badly designed building in a

well designed city than vice versa

Focus on the living environment

• 2050: 70% of human population in cities• New emerging problems after that:– Rising sea level– Abundance of raw materials

• Flexilibility the solution– Therefore focus of the chair -> resilience