prof.dr.ir. S (Sven) Stremke

Sven Stremke is Personal Professor Landscape Architecture at Wageningen University. From 2017 until 2022, he was Professor at the Amsterdam University of the Arts. His research focuses on energy landscapes with special attention to post-carbon landscape design.

Sven's research is published in 40+ scientific papers and 10+ book chapters. In 2022, Sven together with Dirk Oudes and Paolo Picchi published the Power of Landscape book (nai010 Rotterdam). In 2012, Sven and Andy van den Dobbelsteen edited the book Sustainable Energy Landscapes: Designing, Planning and Development published by CRC/Taylor & Francis group.

Sven is member of the science boards of the Netherlands Energy Research Alliance (NERA, NL), the Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (ARL, Germany), and the Dutch National Network Zon in Landschap (NCZiL, NL).

In 2019, supported by the WUR-ESG director, Sven and Jeroen Sluijsmans from WEnR launched the Solar Research Programme: A One Wageningen initiative to boost solar energy research at Wageningen UR. In 2017, Sven initiated the WUR Energy Alliance: A One Wageningen platform for researchers and teachers from all WUR departments working on energy transition. From 2014 until 2022, Sven served as Principal Investigator for the Amsterdam institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS, part-time).

Since 2012, Sven directs the TwentyOneLandscapes lab devoted to research and design of sustainable energy landscapes. The members of TwentyOneLandscapes conduct research across spatial scales in the Netherlands (e.g. GAZO project with the province of Gelderland) and abroad (e.g. France). The lab is co-lead by Dr. Dirk Oudes and Dr. Ilse Voskamp from the Landscape Architecture chair group at WUR.

Over the past years, Sven has had the opportunity to present and discuss his research at various occasions in the Netherlands, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Korea, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States and other countries.

Before joining Wageningen University, Sven worked as a landscape architect in the United States, Germany, The Netherlands and Spain. Having the chance to conduct his doctoral research, Sven started working for Wageningen University and joined the WIMEK research school in 2006. In October 2010, Sven defended his PhD thesis: ‘Designing Sustainable Energy Landscapes: Concepts, Principles and Procedures’. The objective of his dissertation was to advance the planning and design of sustainable landscapes. The thesis discussed science-based design concepts (substantive knowledge) and means to organize the design process (procedural knowledge).

• Academy Territorial Development Leibnitz Association (ARL) (1-1-2020/31-12-2027)