| Transform by design, NEED, ShoreScape, IJssel river, and more... |
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| Dear Sir/Madam,
Design theory, practice and education are more relevant to delta development and water management than ever, for four reasons. First, design envisions and communicates pathways through tough complexity: climate change and anthropogenic pressures require landscape transformations and infrastructure innovations, under interacting top down governmental coordination as well as required bottom-up citizen and activist pressures. |
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| Second, design integrates local identity and practices within regional, national and global change by the concept of site-specific radicant design. The act of design, becomes then an act of simultaneous translation and transposition of values – a multidimensional (transdisciplinary) and cross-scalar effort, disclosing and staging life. Third, to navigate such complexity, design studios act as a platform for cross-over collaborations. In a design studio the ties between designers, experts, stakeholders and citizens build networked bridges between expertise and political-administrative hierarchies. In the Delta Futures Lab and the Transitional Territories Studio in Delft we prepare students for working in a studio setting. For example, the new cycle of Transitional Territories Studio ‘Inland-Seaward: The transcoastal project’ is studying the present and future of urban and territorial design in lowlands regions, focusing on cultural values, socio-economic and political change in highly dynamic landscapes. Salti Solutions is a five year project where salinisation modelling is improved to support design of ecologically and economically favourable freshwater distributions under rising sea levels. In Socially Inclusive Adaptation Pathways for Urbanizing Deltas a multi-disciplinary team addresses the complexity of inclusive development. Next to disclosing complexity, addressing site and building bridges, a fourth contribution by design is reinventing reality. The selection of research projects and graduation theses presented in this DeltaLinks edition shows the agency of design in understanding urban change and projecting radical pathways forward that rehabilitate, resist or transform – exploring alternative forms of coexistence and care.
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| Taneha Kuzniecow Bacchin |
Assistant Professor Urban Design Theory and Methods,
Delta Urbanism Research Group |
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| Current approaches to riverine climate adaptation aim to accommodate all functionalities of rivers within one singular riverbed. Cas Goselink argues that spatial segregation in parallel systems throughout a larger territory offers a widening of solution space much needed within an integral approach. |
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| Creative imagination is a tool for visualizing the future of our cities and landscapes and should be an ingredient of national plans like the Draft National Environmental Vision (De Nationale Omgevingsvisie-NOVI), Aikaterina Myserli attests. Learn how the poetics of experimental scenarios and large-scale visions illustrates possible futures for the Randstad and how this invites citizens to partake in the unfolding of radical change. |
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| Faced with the existential threat of sea-level rise, the Netherlands must do away with incremental sectoral adaptation and embrace transformative modes of governance and transdisciplinary strategies. A diverse group of TU Delft researchers proposes to use the power of spatial design to tackle the climate, biodiversity, and resource crises of our time and the uncertain future. |
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| Sand nourishments counter the effects of sea level rise and strengthen the coastal buffer of urbanized shores. Janneke van Bergen explains how the Shorescape project has developed nature-based design principles to maximize nourishment transport to the dunes. Towards new spatial arrangements of the coast: preventing coastal erosion by understanding sedimentation patterns of beach buildings and vegetation. |
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| Joannes Visser explores the what, why, and how of ‘integrated design’ - an oft-used term in the fields of civil and urban infrastructure. This article advocates for the establishment of a platform for discussion and development of integrated design in order to bring the term beyond the buzz. |
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| Too little too late… where do we turn when climate mitigation efforts fall short? Sjoerd Groeskamp and Joakim Kjellson envisioned massive dams closing off the North Sea from the Atlantic Ocean. This article explores the possible consequences of such a drastic measure for the North and Wadden Sea, mainly the reduction of tidal elevations and currents, gradual freshening, and greater seasonal variation in water temperature. By Laura de Vries and others. |
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| How to plan the transformation of territory under climatic, social and economic uncertainty? How to investigate the spatial possibilities for carbon drawdown in the Dutch delta territory? Filippo la Fleur, Isabel Recubenis, and Taneha Bacchin present a novel approach to Research and Design as a tool to answer these questions - a methodology based on three pivotal concepts: land use systems, transcalarity and transformative design. |
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| Gepokt en gemazeld in het ontwerponderwijs plaatsen Mark Voorendt en Mark de Boer een academisch ontwerpend en integrerend systeemperspectief naast wetenschappelijk onderzoek. Ze vatten het ontwerpen op als aan de ene kant een creërende activiteit gericht op een oplossing voor een probleem en aan de andere kant als een onderzoekende activiteit voor toekomstverkenning en strategieontwikkeling. |
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| Lucas di Gioia explores the impact on urbanization systems in the Xingu River where the Belo Monte Dam was constructed. He proposes a synchronization framework, drawing and mapping spatial interactions to identify the systemic elements which dictate certain social, economic, and ecologic conditions. The project questions the role of urbanism in such “not so obvious” territories, demanding an approach which can reposition the field of urbanism. |
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| The International Levee Performance Database contains data from 1529 failure cases in 20 countries. After a four-year development period sponsored by NWO, the ILPD is ready to support levee research and design around the world - and looking for partners. A Flows production for TU Delft by Ties Rijcken, Bas Jonkman, Robert Lanzafame and Rex Steward. |
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