Blog
18 September 2023
An Agora for the Future City Festival 2023!
24 January 2023
biennale 2022 – review of a successful debut
24 January 2023
biennale of urban landscape: future needs building culture
24 January 2023
biennale of urban landscape: a weekend of diversity
24 January 2023
the 1st biennale of urban landscape sets new standards
24 January 2023
biennale and as well a convention
24 January 2023
biennale hackathon: rethinking urban landscape
6 September 2022
40 pages biennale – the magazine!
30 June 2022
BIENNALE 2022 – Hackathon in Residence
17 May 2022
The first Biennial of Urban Landscape!
It’s official: From 10-24 September 2022 lala.ruhr is organising their first Biennial of Urban Landscape – an international festival on the…
16 March 2022
tasty ribbon ruhr: edible and drinkable cycle paths for the ruhr region
Schlaraffenband Ruhr - a vision for edible and drinkable cycle paths in the Ruhr region. lala.ruhr supports the initiative and presents…
20 February 2022
Future of City Cetners: Documentation of Cultur-Conference Ruhr published!
The future of the centres is green, inclusive and productive! This was the motto of a workshop held by lala.ruhr at the Cultural Conference…
25 January 2022
takeover*: the concept of urban metabolism
What is behind the term "urban metabolism"? As part of our Instagram takeover of the vier.ruhr channel, we get to the bottom of it...
21 January 2022
takeover*: HeimatERBE – a conservation forge for the ruhr area
Holiday trips, exotic foods and things that end up in the corner immediately afterwards are part of our everyday consumer behaviour. This…
3 December 2021
The role of urban biodiversity
Biodiversity is one of the central issues of our time and also an important topic in the work of von lala.ruhr in an urban context. For…
27 October 2021
The future of centres is inclusive, green and productive!
How do you bring more quality of stay into the city centre, how more culture and identity?
27 September 2021
Imagine Green Urban Futures at Places Festival 2021
We need images for the futures of our cityscapes. At the Places _ VR Festival lala.ruhr presented new digital solutions for urban planning.…
25 September 2021
polis AWARD 2021 for lala.ruhr in communicative urban design
3rd place in the category "Communicative Urban Design"
22 July 2021
Imagine green urban futures: the teams have been selected!
The participants in the "Imagine green urban futures" competition, which was looking for technology-savvy planners and designers, have now…
5 July 2021
Green Infrastructure Offensive: Handing over the recommendations for action to the RVR
On behalf of and in cooperation with the Ruhr Regional Association (RVR), the lala.ruhr team developed a strategic-conceptual contribution…
1 July 2021
Podcast tip: the one minute city and the Internet of nature!
At the lala.ruhr festival in February this year, there was a very special live session that was recorded and has now been released as an…
19 June 2021
Apply: Imagine green urban futures – lala.ruhr goes places!
Are you tech-savvy? Then lala.ruhr, in cooperation with the Places_Virtual Reality Festival in Gelsenkirchen-Ückendorf, has a very special…
16 June 2021
lala.ruhr – the film: On the road with the actors in the region!
We have been on the road in Essen, Gelsenkirchen and Oberhausen in recent weeks to visit innovative projects and capture exciting voices…
3 June 2021
Workshop report: Urban gardening in the Ruhr area
More community gardens in the Ruhr region - how can that be done? Jonas Runte and Nils Rehkop recently explored this question in a digital…
16 May 2021
green-blue streets: planning task at the rwth aachen
green-blue streets: Water-sensitive city Essen-Altendorf. lala.ruhr has co-developed a planning task of the Chair of Landscape Architecture…
2 May 2021
workshop report: urban biodiversity
Biodiversity in the Metropole Ruhr - a topic that is already being addressed by numerous actors in the region. An overview and introduction…
25 April 2021
New home: Arriving in the urban landscape of the Ruhr region
For lala.ruhr, Omar Mohamad reflects on his arrival in the urban landscape of the Ruhr region and draws direct comparisons to Aleppo's…
20 April 2021
Workshop “Urban Gardening” on 6 May!
Jonas Runte and Nils Rehkop will present various forms of urban gardening digitally via zoom and give an overview of the scene in the Ruhr…
18 April 2021
Project “Wild Ruhr Area” introduces itself
At first glance, the Ruhr area does not seem to be the ideal working environment for nature photographers. Nevertheless, or perhaps…
11 April 2021
Shaping space is linked to major issues for the future
The landscape architect Isabella de Medici has written down for lala.ruhr what makes her profession - a pleading for a strong landscape…
1 April 2021
In conversation with Daniel Bartel from SEND NRW
Daniel Bartel from SEND NRW talks about the opportunities and challenges of social entrepreneurship, approaches...
29 March 2021
Workshop report: creative use of brownfields – blueprints for space pioneers
The appropriation of space by creative pioneers - how is that possible, how does it work in the Ruhr region? Three activists who have been…
24 March 2021
Workshop report: Green ways, green spaces – new infrastructures for liveable cities
We need fewer parking spaces and more cycling in our cities - many city dwellers, initiatives and planners agree on this. But if parking…
21 March 2021
Workshop report: a social-ecological centre as a laboratory for a green (urban) landscape
At the interface between the question of social justice and a reaction to the climate crisis, the idea of a social-ecological centre for…
19 March 2021
Workshop report: How do we want to deal with the landscape in the Ruhr region?
Guidelines and measures are needed to protect the landscape from encroachment and to preserve its value. But what do these look like?…
13 March 2021
Workshop report: What now? Wanted: A new narrative for the Ruhr region
Admittedly, it was a cheeky attempt: In two days, lala.ruhr wanted to collaboratively develop an overview of the narratives of the Ruhr…
9 March 2021
Workshop report: Urban Re Creation – new images for inner-city open spaces
The inner cities of the Ruhr metropolises are still dominated by individual traffic. Here, car after car jostle each other, large traffic…
7 March 2021
lala.ruhr in enorm magazine
Not only was the feedback from participants on the first digital festival for landscape huge, but so was the media coverage. enorm magazine…
3 March 2021
Workshop report: Kicking around for a good cause – Environmental protection combined with football
A workshop on football at a festival of the landscape? Where, if not in the Ruhr region! Patrick Schulz from the initiative "bochumbolzt",…
2 March 2021
Workshop report: Participation and responsibility for green stations
Train stations are hubs in the urban fabric. For some, they are a transit point on the way to work or on a journey, for others they are a…
1 March 2021
The Festival of the Landscape 2021
Friday and Saturday our Festival of Landscape took place for the first time. We are quite moved by the great interest, the inspiring…
21 February 2021
Discussing the cities of the future together: lala.ruhr and The Nature of Cities Festival cooperate
5 days, 12 languages, over 100 programme items covering all regional time zones: The international The Nature Of Cities Festival (TNOC)…
17 February 2021
register for the festival for the landscape of the metropole ruhr!
Actually, we wanted to meet you on site, directly in the landscape – to work and think and envision, to go on excursions and to network…
17 February 2021
#thinklandscape
Climate change, biodiversity, green infrastructure, urban agriculture, health and quality of life, right on our doorstep? How we shape…