Paolo De Martino TU Delft What if the edge between land and water—the fragile strip where rivers meet cities and tides meet walls—became our laboratory for the…
Maurice Jansen Erasmus University Rotterdam During my PhD defense, the committee asked a provocative question: “Is the port really in such a positive state…
Yi Kwan Chan TU Delft The port summons different views. For some, the cranes, like a forest of steel, roar with progress and human ingenuity. For others, the…
Drs. Jaap de Goede Game designer What if you could have a tool that would increase resilience in citizens to face unexpected disasters and calamities? What if…
Hilde Sennema On January 30th, 2023, a small basalt pillar was placed on Plein 1953, a square in one of the post-war neighborhoods of Rotterdam. The pillar is…
Celine Tarabay In the free online course (Re)Imagining Port Cities: Understanding Space, Society and Culture, which ran between May 26 and July 7, 2021…
Riwa Abdel Khalek After the blast in Beirut in August 2020, Lebanon’s second port city - Tripoli - quickly took over the capital’s port functions. Tripoli’s…
Nadia Alaily-Mattar and John Hanna In the aftermath of the devastating explosion in Beirut in August, 2020, many ideas for reconstruction surfaced in the media…
Hilde Sennema and Paul van de Laar This year, the Eurovision song contest takes place in the port city of Rotterdam. Hundreds of millions of viewers - in Europe…
John Hanna Natural and man-made disasters usually come with a very high cost of lost lives, physical assets and heritage. At the same time, historically…
