Seminar: Designing for Extremes
20 June 2024 18:00 till 21:00 - Location: Berlage room 1 - By: Communicatie BK | Add to my calendar
On 20 June, the public seminar 'Designing for Extremes: Heritage Strategies to Sea Level Rise in Scheveningen, The Hague' takes place.
This public seminar is part of nXr | designing for extremes _ heritage strategies to sea level rise adaptation international workshop, which takes place in Scheveningen between 17 and 21 June.
The workshop is part of a >10 years of fruitful collaboration between the Netherlands and Brazil on Water as heritage - visions and strategies to Sea Level Rise in both countries. This year, the Netherlands eXchange Recife (nXr) is diving deeper into how to protect and adapt the political capital of the Netherlands, Den Haag. “If to live safely in the Dutch delta in 50 years’ time, we need to look a hundred years ahead”, so what are the visions for the Port of Scheveningen in 2124?
Onboard, the frontline team is mainly composed of the RCE (Agency of Cultural Heritage of the Kingdom of the Netherlands - Ministry of Science, Culture and Education), the Municipality of Den Haag and TU/Delft, along with Brazilian counterparts: Climate-Network of Brazil (Ministry of Science and Innovation of Brazil), Recife City Hall, and Federal University of Pernambuco.