The project “Informal River-Beings: A landscape biography of the informal urban riverine pockets in the City of Cape Town, South Africa” builds on her graduation project “Untold Waters: The integration of landscape experiences, public space, landscape qualities, and existing non-human functions”. In her thesis, Nicola explored how fragile urban landscapes can be strengthened through the rehabilitation of urban river systems. This project, supported by the Talent grant, aims to extend the graduation work by broadening its scope including other informal areas sharing similar contextual conditions by developing and applying a research methodology. The aim is to make obscured informal riverine landscapes visible as dynamic, inhabited systems shaped by water, urbanisation, and adaptation.

The project “See water burning” situated in the Netherlands builds on his graduation project “A tale of three fires in Colorado, USA” in which Jacob proposes a nuanced approach with three strategies to give forest fires space to burn again and thereby reintroduce resilience. The fire research in the Dutch context will consist of three parts: a fire walk, a fire talk, and a culminating exhibition. The project explores by studying three different types of landscape – woodlands, heathlands and peatlands - how we understand and communicate wildfire through new forms of research, mapping and storytelling.

The project “Landscape Cabinet” builds on Ken’s graduation project "The Intermotion Landscape: an experimental design on movement, place making and appreciation of the cultural landscape in the Zaanstad Area" a design for a floating public space - a boat, annex museum, school, greenhouse, meeting place - that familiarizes people and intervenes in the peat landscape. With the grant, the idea to bring the knowledge and work of a landscape architect to the public is explored with the help of a self-designed moveable landscape cabinet. The cabinet is filled with analytical drawings of the landscape it crosses through, traveling from place to place. Materials, sketches and models are collected on the way by engaging young and old citizens, colleagues and other professions.

The graduation project “Freshwater farms on a salty seabed” is a complex and coherent landscape plan that gives shape to a symbiosis of nature and agriculture. Implementation of the proposals requires good cooperation with and integration of interests of, among others, farmers and local authorities. Lieke Jildou has been working on a strategy to achieve this.

The graduation project “A Fire-scape, a new form of a fire resilient landscape” is a strategy for a regional approach in the forests of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. To translate this approach to the Dutch situation, Hanna has created a ‘Manual for designing climate-proof forests’.

Project: “Weg naar Zee, Paramaribo, Suriname”. The coast of Suriname is seriously suffering from erosion. In the last thirty years, the coast has already retreated several hundred meters. The restoration of mangrove forests and the construction of foreshores is the key to protecting and restoring the coastline. Teodor Barna has drawn up an integrated development plan for this. Together with representatives of the local population. In addition to preventing coastal erosion, the plan improves Paramaribo's water safety, restores biodiversity and creates opportunities for sustainable land use in the coastal zone. Teodor is now working with various parties on a follow-up to his study.

“Trees First, the public spaces of the forest-city”, Research of root systems of trees in the city, monitoring of two pilot sites, online platform ‘Trees first’