Students crafting flood resilience during hackathon
During the 182nd Dies Natalis of TU Delft, we delved into the theme of "Redesigning Deltas" to underline that we need rethink our approach to keep deltas around the world safe and liveable in the future. As part of the preceding Delta week, we organised a hackathon.
On 9 January, students joined forces and took up the challenge: Crafting flood resilience in the Rotterdam region. Students set to work with great enthusiasm and experienced what it is like to take work together at such a complex issue. “It seems like a very straightforward problem, but there are so many parties involved”, says one of the participants. “To have a transdisciplinary experience makes me grow a bit and think more diverse”, adds another participant.
Supervisors and illustrators supervised the entire process and the students came up with a great variety of ideas. Should we give up Gouda? Build houses on poles? Create more wetland and meandering rivers for fish passage? Or make an underwater cage along the North Sea coast to reduce wave energy, that has a potential for shell farming as well? “Some of my teammates have some brilliant ideas, something that I’ve never thought about.”
Watch the six illustrated end results here.
