Dr.ir. G.A. Verschuure-Stuip

Dr.ir. G.A. Verschuure-Stuip

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Heritage, landscape biography, narratives and stories, landscape architecture, participation, and participatory transformation processes, inclusive designing.

Gerdy Verschuure-Stuip, PhD, assistant professor of landscape architecture is involved in international and national research projects regarding heritage value assessment, heritage & participation, heritage & water, and innovations in agriculture. She is using narrative methods like landscape biography as a bottom-up approach to analyze and design the identity of place. Cooperation and participation of local stakeholders is essential to the transformation of urban landscapes and public spaces.

Cluster Leader Centre for Global Heritage and Development

As a cluster leader (research leader) for the inter-university cooperation LDE Centre for Global Heritage & Development, she is co-organising and steering interdisciplinary cooperation in cross-over projects (students) between academic research, local stakeholders and education in community engagement projects on heritage transformation. She is a co-editor of several books, articles, and exhibitions of heritage issues like Zuiderwaterlinie, Planted Avenues, Atlantikwall, New Dutch Waterline, Country Estates, etc.

She is involved in teaching, coordinating and managing BSc and MSc education Landscape Architecture and Urbanism at Delft University (TUD) and Archaeology at Leiden University (LEI), and in other universities and institutions. Previously, she was involved in educational committees from the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment as well as Research School Art History (OSK).

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My research focusses on heritage, landscape biography, narratives and stories, landscape architecture, participation, and participatory transformation processes, inclusive designing, public space, green heritage and defence lines.

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