Dr. ir. Rob Roggema is Landscape Architect and director/founder of Cittaideale, office for adaptive design and planning, and distinguished visiting professor at Western Sydney University. He held several professorship positions at VHL University (Professor of Design for Urban Agriculture 2014-2016), University of technology Sydney (Professor of Sustainable Urban Environments 2016-2018) and Hanze University Groningen (Professor of Spatial Transformations 2019-2021).

 

Between 2010 and 2013 he was inaugural visiting research fellow of the Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research, University of Melbourne. Before 2010 he worked for the province of Groningen and municipalities such as Almere, Breda and Rotterdam. Rob is currently series editor of ‘Contemporary Urban Design Thinking’ (Springer).