Abstract
at TU Delft started in 2005, with the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdamon ‘the Flood’, the Katrina disaster in New Orleans and the start of the new Delta Program in the Netherlands as important driving forces. Important in the Delta Urbanism program is the search for a new ‘Darwinistic’ approach, emphasizing the evolutionary character of delta regions, and adaptivity as a main strategy to survive. This approach should substitute the traditional. Reductionist ‘Einstein’ approach, which is fitting in the dominating paradigm of the industrial society.
Delta Urbanism itself can also be considered an evolutionary field of interest: it is under construction continuously. For the future, we can appoint four important issues to be elaborated: a more radical approach of the new adage ‘working with water’, water as a leverage for a complex society in transition; making delta landscapes adaptive, and design as an explorative method.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 15-35 |
Journal | Journal of Delta Urbanism (JDU) |
Volume | 1 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Keywords
- postindustrial
- design
- interdisciplinary collaboration
- evolutionary
- adaptivity