PortCityFutures brings together a highly engaged research community of researchers from Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam universities, who are interested in the spaces, the governance and the culture of port-city regions.
Finding shared values and common understanding are necessary first steps for cooperation and places to shape ongoing multiple transitions - in energy, technology and society - in a meaningful way. PortCityFutures argues that we need new ways for integrating and governing port city regions, not only at the waterfront or at the interface of port and city, but throughout the region. The complex social, cultural and spatial structure of the port and its neighboring city and region requires multidisciplinary investigation that can only be provided through collaboration among researchers from the LDE universities. At PortCityFutures, we dedicate our Thematic Research Groups to this goal.
Taking a socio-spatial approach to the challenges of port city regions provides a much-needed framework for addressing contemporary urgencies, a framework for building inclusive, healthy, sustainable societies that make use of the latest digital and other technologies. We put focus on themes like Culture, Space, and Society. Here, we can apply multiple methods from archival to action research, from design studios to stakeholder workshops needed to produce local and global knowledge and approaches.
