What CityLAB alumni are saying...
"CityLAB was a very insightful and rewarding week. My favorite aspect was the multidisciplinary nature of it. In terms of lectures, it gave us a good holistic view of the different aspects of a city to consider. Putting together our learnings for a group project with diverse fields was also such a great learning and application opportunity and made me truly understand the importance of it. Highly recommend the summer program!" (2025)
"The summer school was a great experience in the lovely city of Antwerpen. Good quality of lectures with very approachable professors made it fun to participate. Most enjoyable was the interdisciplinary backgrounds of the fellow participants. During breaks and in the evening we were discussing many aspects of sustainability, which was lots of fun." (2024)
"I liked the fact that it is an interdisciplinary and 100% international summer school. The concept and programme were great, as well as the food and care!" (2019)
"The way the lectures were given was very involving and organizers welcomed questions and discussion right in the process of the lecture. Very diverse students helped to see the problem from the angles I would never even imagined existed." (2018)
"An excellent course. I would highly recommend similar courses to colleagues." (2017)
"The summer school had a very interesting and diverse group of participants; a programme that crosses disciplines; and a good combination of talks and field trips." (2018)
Previous themes
- 2013: CityLAB I: Interdisciplinaire summer school ‘Naar een duurzame Grootstad’
- 2014: CityLAB II: Suburbanism
- 2015: CityLAB III: The productive City
- 2016: CityLAB IV: The City as a Market Place
- 2017: CityLAB V: The Smart City: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
- 2018: CityLAB VI: City Aesthetics and Citizenship
- 2019: CityLAB VII: The Sustainable City
- 2022: CityLAB VIII: Creating Healthy Cities
- 2023: CityLAB IX: Cities and States
- 2024: CityLAB X: The Sustainable City
- 2025: CityLAB XI: The Sustainable City