Deltaic Interventions
This graduation cluster in the track Urbanism works in the context of political ecology that supports the aim for adaptive interventions around, degrowth and nature in deltaic areas where the environmental crisis is due to imbalance between the natural environment and human settlements, including urbanization and infrastructures. This imbalance is created due to the fact that the spatial system in place is under pressure of climate change that both increases the frequency and severity of floods, storms, and droughts in deltaic water and soil systems.
The deltaic system is where the coastal, riverine and regional/urban water and soil systems co-evolve and interact with spatial development patterns. There is a demand to rethink urbanization and infrastructures from an interdisciplinary design perspective, integrating the genius loci of the spatial assembly of the system to reach an adaptive capacity in relation to natural risks.
ARIT1512 Delta Infrastructure & Environment Design
This course is dedicated to international research project of the Delft Delta community. In this work students from different backgrounds (engineering, design and governance) work on deltaic locations that are illustrative forglobal challenges of climate change that we consider in the context of political ecology. The projects both aim at reparative interventions in thesedeltaic areas and focus in restoring the imbalance between the naturalenvironment and the urban infrastructure. This is specifically aninterdisciplinary design challenge, integrating the genius loci of the spatialassembly of the system to reach a resilience in relation to natural hazards.Resilience can only be achieved in a precise interdisciplinary design processin which students with backgrounds in spatial design and students withbackgrounds in engineering collaborate intensely.
Delta Futures Lab: Multidisciplinary education with research and practice platform
The Delta Futures Lab is a multidisciplinary interfaculty platform for MSc-students and staff that fosters a close relation to the delta community in practice with the ambition to educate interdisciplinary leaders in spatial design, engineering and governance of deltas. The Lab unites master students, researchers and professionals in multidisciplinary MSc 3 and graduation projects. It enriches and supports master students in becoming the mission-oriented engineers that future delta societies need.
