Abstract

The TREAT workshop aims at providing a platform for participants to critically assess the impacts of temporary use and adaptive reuse within urban environments, considering the temporal dimension and different scales. Understanding how urban spaces evolve over time can open new perspectives for more sustainable and adaptive urban transformations. Being one specific type of adaptive reuse, short-term interventions can have long-lasting urban effects and impacts.
The workshop aims to explore decision-making processes for temporary use strategies, the effects and impacts of temporary management, and how monitoring and evaluation tools can facilitate stakeholders involved in a temporary use process development and implementation to foster creativity and collaboration, and make the values produced evident.
Thus, the primary goal of this workshop is to foster a comprehensive understanding of how to deal with the challenges and opportunities inherent to the temporary use and adaptive reuse of public or private real estate at different scales, in urban (re)development and regeneration. For this purpose, TREAT workshop aims to explore new approaches, methodologies, methods, and tools for evaluating the impacts of uses and adaptive reuse processes within urban spaces, considering their effects over time.

The proposed studies, cases and experiences should consider:

• Innovative methodologies to delve into the collection, analysis, and/or visualization of data related to temporary uses and adaptive reuse.
• Exploring the role of urban actors and local communities, and their involvement in the planning of temporary uses and adaptive reuse. Emphasizing the importance of participatory approaches and stakeholder engagement in urban development and real estate management, ensuring to integrate community perspectives in decision-making.
• Sustainability and circularity, considering how temporary uses and adaptive reuse can contribute to the sustainability and circularity of urban areas
• Data integration to discuss the challenges and opportunities of integrating various data sources, such as geospatial data, social data, and economic data, to provide a holistic view of the impacts of temporary uses and adaptive reuses.
Starting from these research themes, the TREAT workshop aims to be a place of knowledge, confrontation and plural discussion among researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.

Keywords

Real estate management, temporary use, adaptive reuse, urban analysis, impact assessment, multidimensional evaluation, community, new urban actors.

Organizers

Chiara Mazzarella TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Department of Management in the Built Environment (Netherlands).
Hilde Remoy TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Department of Management in the Built Environment (Netherlands).
Maria Cerreta University of Naples Federico II, Polytechnic School of Basic Sciences, Department of Architecture (Italy).