On Wednesday 17 December the Public Presentation of our graduate Lesley Thoen will take place. He graduated in september 2025 as a landscape architect at the Academie van Bouwkunst, with his project The encounter. His project explores whether solutions for biodiversity and water management can be integrated into neighbourhoods like De Banne Buiksloot, using the adjacent landscape as a foundation. For hidden within many post-war neighbourhoods lies a beautiful underlying structure, a network of green spaces connecting to the surrounding landscape. Yet in much of this greenery, that landscape connection remains barely visible.