Student exhibition of spatial strategies for the Eurodelta

This exhibition presents results of the Research & Design studio Spatial Strategies for the Global Metropolis, part of the MSc Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences/Track Urbanism programme at Delft University of Technology.

Students of the 2023-2024 edition of the studio explored how sustainability transitions affect peri-urban areas in a selected Dutch sub-region of the Rhine, Meuse and Schelde delta region. Taking as a starting point the challenges around the CO2 and Nitrogen balances, they observed how the multiple and often interrelated spatial claims that transitions lay on these areas unfold above, 
on, and below ground, envisioned how claims can be accommodated within scarce space, and how they can be reconciled with other competing demands for this space. 
Using the concepts of circular economy, decentralisation, and sustainable land use, students addressed core issues in ongoing Dutch national spatial planning. The resulting projects, presented in this exhibition, set out visions and strategies for a more sustainable and just future.
The responsible section of the quarter Spatial Strategies for the Global Metropolis is Spatial Planning & Strategy. 
Results of the studio feed into the Democratising just Sustainability Transitions (DUST) project, funded under the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme; and the project A Spatial Strategy for the Eurodelta, boosting a circular builT environment (ASSET), led by the municipality of Amsterdam and cofunded by the European Union through the INTERREG 
program. PortCityFutures, an initiative of the Leiden Delft-Erasmus (LDE) collaboration between universities in Southern Holland, supports the studio.