Tatiana Armijos Moya

After many weeks of hard work and research about Texel, finally the time of visiting island arrived. I had many expectations about Texel and the Texelaars. I was wondering: Is it going to be too windy? Is it going to be too cold? Is it that quite? How are the Texelaars? So, the day arrived and after a long trip from Delft, finally we arrived. It was windy and cold and we picked up our bikes.  The…

Interviews Texel Tuesday 13 January 2015 On the afternoon of the 13th of January, we interviewed several inhabitants of Texel in the village of De Koog. The village was quite quiet, especially compared with the crowded streets during summertime. Most bars and shops were closed and despite of the relative good weather, not much people were walking down the streets. The interview questions were…

5.   Proposal The main propose of this project s to promote a new way of public space within the island by fostering the identity of Texel and its seven villages and promoting the interchange of products and knowledge. The idea is to promote the interchange of knowledge and products within specific nodes through iconic elements that promote the identity of the island. As a consequence, it is…

Public space: in relation to other sub-systems: Our proposal is to generate a platform of awareness will reach out to many sub-systems in a positive way. Our proposal of reduce- reuse – compensate, on the other hand, generates also more people on less square meters compared to current system. This may have positive and negative impacts that we have to be aware of: Leisure and Knowledge and Public…

Public Space The sub-system public space is one out of eight sub-systems that are analyzed in order to perform a sustainable transition of the Dutch island of Texel. The other seven sub-systems have the same goal of transforming Texel into a sustainable island. Besides, each of these sub-systems is - to some extent - related to each other.   Texel is the biggest island out of 5 Wadden islands and…

Nowadays is possible to plant a garden within your kitchen. Light is indispensable for plants growth. In fact, natural sunlight is the cheapest source available; however, it is not always available in sufficient quantities because of location and seasons. For instance,in areas between 40 and 80 degrees latitude the amount of daylight requiredfor appropriate plant growing is limited during the…

GMOs: Advantages vs. Disadvantages   According to the World Heath Organization (WHO), Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are defined as organisms, which DNA has been altered in a non-natural way. For instance, Genetically Modified plants (GMplants) are usually altered to be resistant to insects, virus and tolerant to herbicides. With these changes come some potentially problematic…

  Oudeschild: The fishing harbor   Oudeschild is a village of the municipality of Texel within the Dutch province of North Holland. It is the fishing harbour of the island, and it is situated at the Wadden Sea dyke. Next to the harbour, the windmill Traanroeier marks the site of the Maritime and Beachcombers Museum, which shows collection of objects found on the beaches of Texel. Regarding public…

Oosterend: The fisherman village   Oosterend is a village of the municipality of Texel within the Dutch province of North Holland. Actually, Oosterend is the second largest village on the island. One important thing about Oosterend is that although it's situated further from the sea than Oudeschild, it's the hometown of most fishermen on Texel. What is more, Oosterend is built around a church…

  Texel as an (Eco) system In order to develop a sustainable island, Texel needs to be considered as a system, where the social, economic and cultural systems are close related between each other and they can not avoid the rules of abiotic and biotic elements of the nature.   Regarding all these factors, Jón Kristinsson, within this book named Integrated Sustainable Design, shows, for instance

Questions for Texelaar Where do you come from (which village)? Den Burg How do you feel about that village? (gezellig/jaren '70/dorps/community/etc) Den Burg heeft alle eigenschappen van dorpsheid. Eén winkelstraat die rondom de kerk en het park loopt. De uitspraak “even een rondje dorp gaan” komt hier dan ook vandaan. Toen mijn ouders er kwamen wonen was er nog uitgestrekt weiland achter hen.

FACTS ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY   “It has been said something as small as the flutter of a butterfly's wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world.” Chaos Theory The Index for a Sustainable Society (ISS) is an index that integrates the most important aspects of quality of life and sustainability of a society. In fact, it indicates how sustainable a society behaves. For instance, on…

MEETING ONE - NOV 12. 2014 Texel sustainable island Tatiana Armijos Moya, Pinal Desai, Truke Zeinstra   The first meeting of Engineering for a Sustainable Development was held on Wednesday, November 12 th from 13:45 to 17:30 on TPM building, room C. During the introduction we met our course coordinators Bertien Broekhans (course manager), Eefje Cuppen, Caroline Nevejan, Lucas Florez Atehortua and…

Regarding rules and regulation for public space, currently, local and international governments and policies have included many regulations that attempt to improve nature management, however it is important to include some inclusive regulations within these existing policies that allow protecting nature and at the same time generating recreation, education and income for the locality. Thus

'Nature for people, people for nature'.   As it was mentioned before, more and more initiatives between public and private parties are coming off the ground and benefiting local economies. That is why the Dutch Government set out a plan to realize a national ecological network made up of large, interlinked nature areas. The aim is the network comprises 750,000 hectares, or roughly 18% of the…

Public space. Education. Recreation. Nature  Duinen van Texel On 1st of May 2002, Duinen van Texel (4,300 ha) was established as a national park.Each year, five million people visit the island of Texel and the National Park. The island is also a popular destination for school trips. Walking and cycling are popular activities, and there are wheelchair trails for the disabled.   Dutch nature policy…

Development: The rise and decline of an ideal By Wolfgang Sachs Reviewed by Pinal Desai and Tatiana Armijos Moya In this literature, the writer highlights in great detail the definitions of the terms developed and underdeveloped. He defines how the definition of development changed from a process of maturation in history to the actions proposed by planners and engineers: those who set out to…

  Tatiana Armijos Moya, Pinal Desai, Truke Zeinstra Relation : the texelaars vary in age groups. The relation to one another, in respect to public space is mainly familial, friendly and in rare extended cases, professional. It is thus a place where family friends and sometimes colleagues meet for a hang out or a good time together. The role they play, as a family person or a friend, defines their…

Innovation politics post-Rio+20: hybrid pathways to sustainability? Reviewed by Tatiana Armijos Moya   “States should cooperate to strengthen endogenous capacity-building for sustainable development by improving scientific understanding through exchanges of scientific and technological knowledge, and by enhancing the development, adaptation, diffusion and transfer of technologies, including new…

Creating fresh water Seawater Greenhouse Creating a cool and humid growing Environ­ment: Water harvesting Tatiana Armijos Moya     Biomimicry is a powerful tool that is generating a new way of thinking around the world; thus, cre­ating sustainable solutions and harmonizing with nature. Therefore, it is important to amalgamate biomimicry principles, architectural and structural require­ments and…

Tatiana Armijos Moya, Pinal Desai, Truke Zeinstra Events Many popular events are held on Texel during the year, famous for their friendly atmosphere. Too many to mention here.  Here is a selection we have made specially for you: Struûn Texel : 21-23 November 2014; cultural festival in Den Burg and Oosterend. Christmas market : 20 December 2014 in Oosterend 2015 New Years dive : 1January 2015.

YUTPA ANALYSIS - TOURIST Tatiana Armijos Moya, Pinal Desai, Truke Zeinstra The YUTPA framework, acronym for being with You in unity of Time, Place and Action, sheds light on specific presence configurations in which a person performs presence with YOU, in the NOW, being HERE, with a specific potential to DO certain things. (Nevejan 2014) In this analysis, we understand the value of design in…

Eco-Island . Circular Flow Land Use Management . Creative Island Tatiana Armijos Moya, Pinal Desai, Truke Zeinstra SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA According to Huang Baorong, Ouyang Zhiyun, Zheng Hua and others in their scientific article Construction of an eco-island: A case study of Chongming Island, China; it was stated that Eco-island is a sustainable concept characterized by integrating ecosystem…

  According the biologist Janine M. Benyus, biomimicry can be defined as imitating or taking inspiration from nature’s forms and processes to solve problems for humans. Indeed, she claims that it is necessary to imi­tate nature to ensure a more sustainable future. Regarding all these factors it is possible to say that biomimicry intro­duces an era based not on what people can extract from the…

MEETING ONE - NOV 12. 2014 Texel sustainable island Tatiana Armijos Moya, Pinal Desai, Truke Zeinstra   The first meeting of Engineering for a Sustainable Development was held on Wednesday, November 12 th from 13:45 to 17:30 on TPM building, room C. During the introduction we met our course coordinators Bertien Broekhans (course manager), Eefje Cuppen, Caroline Nevejan, Lucas Florez Atehortua and…

Tatiana Armijos Moya   Through my short but amazed experience within the sustainable world I came up with many questions about sustainability and all the concepts involved with it, specially regarding the ecological footprint concept. I realized how difficult was to explain this concept within people who have never heard about it a month ago during a workshop in Hanoi-Vietnam, so I dedicated this…