Rotterdam, 2018

Furthering justice in the cosmopolitan city

The Veldacademie is a research organization that seeks to improve transdisciplinary research on city development through collaboration with different educational organizations. In June 2018, on the invitation of the Veldacademie and the Architecture Initiative Rotterdam, The Just City Lab lead a week-long masterclass titled, ‘Design for a Just City’. The workshop provided a framework and knowledge to show how design can be used as a means to achieve values of social justice. Released in June 2019, Veldacademie’s Design for a Just City publication captures a small fragment of the intensity and frenzy that took place during the week of 18 – 22 June 2018 in the written word. It has a dual purpose, as a chronicle of the masterclass and as a blueprint for other academics and professionals involved in the development of cities and public spaces to replicate such a workshop.

See below to download the report of our work.