Sara Berahman and Irene Curulli Over the past 30 years, several interventions have had a disastrous impact on the flow of the Khoshk river in Iran. Uncontrolled…
Francesca Savoldi PortCityFutures co-organised the international conference Law and the Infrastructure of Global Commerce together with the University of…
Gaetano Di Tommaso and Dario Fazzi In the last few years, the humanities experienced a “blue” turn. As an effort to think critically about the role of water in…
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…
Marcel Andrzejczak Water-related heritage can play an important role in creating a sustainable future for various kinds of landscapes. As an intern at the…
Rutgerd Boelens Understanding the world’s diverse, on-the-ground water worldviews and cultures - in the past and the present - is essential to value the…
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…
Han Meyer Next year, 2022, will be the 150th anniversary of the New Waterway. This artificial access from the sea to the port of Rotterdam was put in use in…
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…
Harry den Hartog Since the beginning of the 21st century, Shanghai has started to relocate its ports far outside the urban core to accommodate the expected…
