About the project
Cities are potential engines of the transition towards a circular economy. The City of Amsterdam is one of the early adopters of the circular economy concept at city level. Closed loops, value generation, innovative business models, and modular designs – those are not only principles to guide the transition to circular cities, but also principles distributed designers have been working with for years. In our series Distributed & Regenerative Design, we introduce you to some of the creative talents making an impact. In this article, we interview N. Tayfun Yalcin who is part of the permaculture design, consultancy, and landscaping company Towards Nature where they create naturally balanced environments and sustainable lifestyles.
Towards Nature Permaculture is a design, consultancy and landscaping company, based on the Permaculture concept. It has now developed a design for a ring of “volkstuinen” (allotments) around Amsterdam, including food forests, growing beds, community managed areas with flowers, herbs, berries, perrenial and edible flowers. The design is based on expanding the productivity, community building, education, childcare, diversity and edible landscaping.
Click here for the interview with designer Nuri Tayfun Yalcin from Pakhuis de Zwijger