VE-R has moved!

A new office for VE-R

Since 04/07 VE-R is housed at a different address. Our new office is now located at Stationsplein 118 in Haarlem, right across Haarlem station. Come meet us there to discuss ways to improve your landscapes and cities through sustainable, inclusive and participatory designs.

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DASUDA celebrates 10 years

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In 2012 Mark Hendriks, Robert van Kats and Remco Rolvink got the idea of setting up an umbrella organization for SME with expertise in spatial development and design, focusing on sub-Saharan Africa. In 2013 the DASUDA foundation was established. 10 years later we look back on many interesting collaborations, challenging endeavors and successful projects with…

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++Water Heritage featured in Blauwe Kamer 2022 Yearbook

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Our project ++ Water Heritage (++Watererfgoed) together with MORE Landscape is featured in the Blauwe Kamer 2022 Yearbook as part of the Sponsland design project. Eight proposals were created to adapt the area from the Hunze Valley to Schiermonnikoog to climate change looking ahead to the year 2120, but also to enrich the landscape and highlight its…

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LMUP feasibility study completed

LMUP city park

Stage 1 of the Lower Msimbazi Upgrading Project (LMUP) in Dar Es Salaam, including the Feasibility Study with an Integrated Spatial Plan, is completed. Further detailed design of urban greening and nature revitalization, city park design and urban development for this 400 ha area in the centre of Dar es Salaam has a clear guideline…

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Preliminary design for OTP Accelerator presented to KCCA

Old Taxi Park as an important transport hub and a vibrant public space

The OTP Master Plan for the Old Taxi Park in Kampala is agreed by the city authority KCCA and shared with all stakeholders. Together with the DASUDA team, VE-R is proud of this achievement. Phase 2 of the project is nearing completion with the Preliminary Design for Old Taxi Park in Kampala including the structural…

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VE-R in collaboration with Young Experts Programmes

VE-R in collaboration with Young Experts programmes

VE-R will collaborate with Young Experts Programmes! This collaboration makes it possible for Josje Hoefsloot of VE-R to to work ‘in situ’ from Tanzania on our African projects, including the “Msimbazi Opportunity” in Dar es Salaam. This fulfills her wish to work on climate adaptation and liveable cities in East Africa. Josje is aware of…

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HVC Alkmaar works in progress

Restructuring of Topaasweg and removal of fraxinus trees

Works are progressing rapidly in the terrain of HVC in Alkmaar with the restructuring of Topaasweg, now property of HVC, for facilitating incoming and outgoing flows of trucks to and from the various facilities. The construction of a new weighbridge on the eastern entrance of Topaasweg meant that some of the existing fraxinus excelsior trees…

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++Water Heritage on display at the Nieuwe Markt, Groningen

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From 5th to 7th November 2021 our project ++Water Heritage (++Watererfgoed) together with MORE Landscape is on display in the exhibition Sponsland on the Nieuwe Markt in Groningen during Let’s Gro. The project was one of the eight proposals to adapt the area from the Hunze Valley to Schiermonnikoog to climate change looking ahead to the year 2121, but…

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Daar Bij Die Molen app presented for open call “Beautiful production landscapes”

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On May 11th the app of Daar Bij Die Molen was presented online as an inspiration project for the open call “Beautiful production landscapes” (Prachtige productielandschappen), an initiative of Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie inviting various parties to work together on new strategic visions or design proposals for the transition of our production landscape. The main question here is: How can extensive transition processes in the landscape be tackled from…

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Method for abandoned agricultural buildings in Breda

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One of the emerging topics in spatial quality situation of the Netherlands is the rapid change in agricultural yards and lands. Dorp, Stad & Land (Spatial Quality organization for South Holland, Zeeland and West-Brabant regions) have asked VE-R to assist in the research to come to a method of approaching farmers in early stages in…

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