Delta Infrastructure and Environment Design/Delta Futures Lab

Initiated by staff members from the Department of U, this research and design project is a collaboration grounded in the Delta Futures Lab, with the Faculties of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, and Technology, Policy and Management. It aims at reparative interventions in deltaic areas where the environmental crisis is apparent due to imbalance between environment and infrastructure. In the course, students with backgrounds in spatial design and in engineering rethink these infrastructures from an interdisciplinary design perspective, integrating the genius loci of the spatial assembly of the system to reach a resilience in relation to natural hazards. The course will respond directly to societal challenges (working for a ‘client’).