WEAVING
PARK LINGEZEGEN 2

PROTOTYPES
PARK LINGEZEGEN, NL

2025

Project status
Ongoing
Client
Park Lingezegen
Year
2025 - Ongoing
Location
Park Lingezegen, NL
Co-funded by
Stimuleringsfonds’
Architecture Grant Scheme
In collaboration with
NL Adviseurs
Gemeente Lingewaard
Gemeente Overbetuwe
Gemeente Arnhem
Gemeente Nijmegen

MULTI-PERSPECTIVE
PARTICIPATIVE
FEEDBACK

After completing the Young Innovator program, studio audal engaged a diverse panel of experts to review our research by design. Our detailed species catalogs, needs fact sheets, and landscape recommendations were carefully evaluated by ecologists from NL Adviseurs, local nature organizations, farmers, and other site stakeholders.

This collaborative review deepened our understanding, refined our findings, and strengthened the foundation for the next phase: project implementation. It also fostered strong partnerships with key decision-makers in nearby municipalities, as well as motivated farmers and landowners.

Supported by the Park Lingezegen board, we had the valuable opportunity to connect with community members, gather insights, and identify suitable locations for pilot experiments.

Through inclusive dialogue and participatory processes, several promising sites emerged for diverse pilot projects, as prototypes. Each ambassador species defined specific guidelines, conditions, and opportunities for implementation, setting for everyone the rules of the game for thoughtful collaboration among designers, caretakers, and future visitors.

FROM RESEARCH
TO PROTOTYPES

Some prototypes take place on public land owned by the municipality or the Park. These projects enable us to apply the ecological landscape catalogue collaboratively, creating opportunities to co-design natural spaces with clear maintenance and monitoring plans.

Over time, this could build valuable knowledge about how these spaces affect local biodiversity—and how that biodiversity, in turn, influences surrounding land uses, especially farming practices.

On private land within the park’s territory, there is a unique opportunity: the Linge river and surrounding ditches form what Dutch farmers call “geeren”—triangle-shaped leftover patches in their fields that yield few or no crops due to limited accessibility. These “geeren” can be transformed into a network of tailored ecological pockets along waterways.

This approach also opens the door for land-use exchanges with farmers. By trading these less productive patches, farmers gain the chance to experiment with nature-inclusive farming on other land managed by the park and monitored for insights.

This would make Park Lingezegen an ideal living laboratory for studying the Dutch territorial transition ahead.