Ina Klaasen

Shortly after finishing her studies Ina Klaasen started working in Delft as assistant professor in the Urban Design chair of Niek de Boer. In the 1980s she chaired the Interuniversity Planning Study Group Organisation, became a member of the Board of a Dutch Planners Organisation (BSP, linked to NIROV; later on she became one of the editors of the Journal  Stedebouw en Volkshuisvesting (now Stedebouw en Ruimtelijke Ordening). She represented the Faculty of Architecture in the task group Technische Bestuurskunde from which the present Faculty TBM evolved. In 2002 she received an Aspasia grant from NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research). Her dissertation Knowledge-based Design – Developing Urban and Regional Design into a Science dates from 2003. She supervised/s, as co-promotor, several Phd candidates.

She became politically active (for D66) both in the provincial council of North-Holland and as advisor of her Party members in Parliament on Spatial Planning. She participated/s also in the board of a number of social organisations. 

Physical Geography, University of Amsterdam (additional subjects: Environmental Studies (Ibid.) and Physical Planning (Wageningen University) and  Interdisciplinary Study Group Urbanism (Delft): 1965-1974

Core Program Philosophy (Open University of the Netherlands) 1995 -1997

• Associate Professor Spatial Planning and Strategy since 2002   
• Public servant Municipality of Amsterdam (part-time) from 1987 to 1991
• Assistant Professor Urban and Regional Design from 1975 to 2002
• Member of the Provincial Council North-Holland for Democrats 66;  two periods: 1978-1987
• Member of the Amsterdam Advisory Council for Urban Development from 1998 until 2006
• Co-initiator and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Design Research
• Initiator and editor of the series Design/Science/Planning (Amsterdam:Techne Press)

Urban & Regional Design and Planning from a ‘Network City’ Perspective, i.e. focussing on the role of ‘time’ and societal (and ecological) processes that should be accommodated; Urban and Regional Theoretical Models; Scientific Aspects of Urban & Regional Design and Planning; Philosophy of Science; Methodology.

2011

• ‘The Dutch Layers Approach to Spatial Planning and Design: A Fruitful Planning Tool or a Temporary Phenomenon?’. European Planning Studies (19) 10. Also available at www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09654313.2011.614387

2008

• ‘Introducing Urban Networks – Network Urbanism.’ In Urban Networks – Network Urbanism, a Compilation of Articles by Gabriel Dupuy. Series Design/Science/Planning. Amsterdam: Techne Press. pp.11-16
• Networks – Network Urbanism, a Compilation of Articles by Gabriel Dupuy. Series Design/Science/Planning. Amsterdam: Techne Press

2007

• ‘Exploring 24/7 environments’. In Town Planning Review, 78-6, pp. 699-723
• 'Research by Design in Urbanism', Poster in Conference Proceedings of Delft Science in Design (DSID) conference, April 4, 2007, Delft, edited by Eekhout, M., Visser, R. & Tomiyama, T.; pp.314-315, Delft: DUT.
• 'The Deltametropolis after the RPB-report'; In Atlantis 18-01, pp.32-37
• 'About the Relation between Spatial Planning and Urban and Regional Design'; Atlantis 18-2, pp.42-45.
• 'Hoeveel misverstanden over wetenschap kan een mens verdragen.....'; B-nieuws (Faculteit Bouwkunde), No.10, p.11.

2005

• ‘Shifting Sense in Spatial Planning – Looking Back to the Future'; Amsterdam: Techne Press 
• ‘Putting Time into the Picture; the Relation between Space and Time in Urban Design and Planning'; in Shifting Sense in Spatial Planning – Looking Back to the Future', edited by Edward Hulsbergen, Ina Klaasen and Iwan Kriens, pp 181-195; Amsterdam: Techne Press 
• ‘Urban Design: Not Just ‘Delight', but ‘Commodity' and ‘Firmness' as Well'; in: Volume 2: Proceedings Futureground , International Conference Design Research Society November 17th - 21st, 2004, Monasch University Melbourne Australia, edited by John Redmond, David Durling & Arthur de Bono (CD-ROM: file 446f.pdf; see also [start.html]) 
• 'Design as a Practical-Scientific Research Method' in The Architecture Annual 2003-2004 Delft University of Technology; 010 Publishers, Rotterdam (Neth) pp. 104-111
• 'Focussing on the Use Value -The Relevance of Urban and Regional Design for Society' in: Proceedings Nordic Design