Rauws, Dr Ward
Ward Rauws is an associate professor of Spatial Planning at the University of Groningen. He specializes in the development and planning of cities. Climate change, the energy transition, and an ageing population – these are all challenges that call for radical changes to our cities. Ward Rauws investigates how spatial planners can guide these changes despite having only limited influence. He also analyses how planners can make smarter use of the ingenuity of residents and users and the know-how they have gained from experience. This creates a new perspective on the social significance of spatial planning: planning interventions and policies serve not only to solve problems that we know and understand, but also to prepare cities for the unknown and unexpected.
Rauws is a member of the Young Academy Groningen, a group of talented, enthusiastic and ambitious young researchers at the University of Groningen. The YAG aims to stimulate collaboration between various disciplines within the University, to give a voice to young researchers and to show the outside world how much fun research is and how multifaceted it can be.
In 2024, Rauws was appointed a member of De Jonge Akademie, a national dynamic and innovative group of top young scientists and scholars with outspoken views about science and scholarship and the related policy.
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