Dirk van Peijpe (1962) is urban designer and director of De Urbanisten. He studied urbanism at the Academy of Architecture and Urban Design in Rotterdam. He advocates an engaged polytechnical urbanism in which the agenda of climate adaptation and ecology is integrated in the design of our urban landscapes and the daily environment of people. Dirk van Peijpe was responsible for the Rotterdam Climate Adaptation Strategy, initiated the ZOHO-Climateproof District in Rotterdam and participated in Rebuild By Design in NY (US). With De Urbanisten he realized Watersquares in Rotterdam and Tiel. He is involved in numerous climate sensitive projects in cities like Rotterdam (NL), Nijmegen (NL), Copenhagen (DK) and Antwerpen (BE). Dirk van Peijpe lectures at the Academy for Architecture in Rotterdam and is a keynote speaker at international conferences on the topic of climatesensitive urbanism and landscape architecture.