Morning Session | Welcome and Opening Keynote
8:00 – 9:00 AM | Registration and Welcome Coffee
9:00 – 9:15 AM | Opening Remarks by the Dean and the organisers
9:15 – 10:15 AM | 2 Keynote lectures
Port city regions in transformation: listening to the voice of the delta
By Han Meyer, TU Delft
On networked space, hubs, and urban transformation
By Alain Thierstein, TU Munich
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10:15 –10:30 | Q&A
10:30 – 10:45 AM | Coffee Break and Networking
Mid-Morning Session | Two MSCA projects on port cities at TU Delft Chair: Carola Hein
10:45 – 11:15 AM | Global flows and local impacts: Navigating a European taxonomy and glossary for port-city-regions – RePortFlows Project
By Mina Akhavan
11:45 AM – 11:45 PM | Contested port cities. A global geography of community struggles
By Francesca Savoldi
11:45 PM – 12:00 PM | Q&A
12:00 – 1:30 PM | Dutch lunch Break
Lunch project presentation: Small Ports projects
Afternoon Session | Methodology and data in a globalising world
Panel session 1. Mapping and open data in a globalising world. Chair Maurice H.
1:30 – 2:00 PM | Mapping: Where academia meets practice?
By Michael Rodrigues, TU Delft
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2:00 – 2:15 PM | Mapping European Port City Territories Beyond the Case Study Approach
By Yvonne van Mil and Carola Hein
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2:15 – 2:30 PM | Q&A
2:30 – 2:45 PM | Coffee Break and Networking
Panel session2. Flows and Footprint: Navigating Urban Currents. Chair Reinout Kleinhans
2.45- 3:00 PM | Hamburg, Germany: The reluctant maritime metropolis
By Markus Hesse, University of Luxembourg
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3:00 – 3:15 PM | Flows of people, overtourism and cruise tourism in Venice
By Silvia Sivo, IUAV
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3:15 – 3:30 PM | Flows of knowledge: Rotterdam as port centres and innovation hubs
By Paul van de Laar, Erasmus University Rotterdam
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3:30 – 3:45 PM | Flows of Money and Power
Contribution: Genoa (title TBC)
By Paola Giampietri and Vittorio Lagomarsino - Port of Genoa
3:45 – 4:00 PM | Women in Ports redefining the port city relationships: the case of Livorno
By Barbara Boniciani
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4:00 – 4:15 Q&A
4:15– 4:30 PM | Coffee Break and Networking
Evening Session: Multi-stakeholder Workshop
4:30 – 6:00 PM | Workshop: collaborative idea generation - engaging academics and practitioners
Stakeholders’ perspective is collected around the following themes:
- Development strategies for spaces embedded at the interface between the port and the city (port-city-region)
- Main factors/drivers essential for sustainable development of spaces affected by commodity and passenger flows
- Port as a driver for knowledge creation, innovation and human capital development
Each city has a separate table with various experts:
Rotterdam
Hamburg
Genoa
Venice
Livorno
Antwerp
Amsterdam
6:30 – 7:30 PM | Networking reception/ dinner