Dialogue
Red&Blue: Who pays the bill?
The challenge of making existing urban areas climate proof
Share your thoughts and insights during Red&Blue’s interactive session. Using two cases, with each other you will discuss the costs and benefits of making existing urban areas climate proof. What is just?; Who pays the bill?; What conditions apply? These are just some of the questions that will be discussed.
During the workshop, different organisations including universities, municipalities, investors, housing corporations and banks will come together and share their thoughts. By sharing knowledge and experiences, common obstacles can hopefully be identified and concrete steps towards solutions can be found. This way hopefully research can be translated into practise, there is opportunity to learn from each other and there is space to create a shared platform for future collaboration.
Program
- 14:30 – 15:00 | walk in
- 15:00 – 15:10 | welcome and introduction of Red&Blue
- 15:10 – 15:55 | pitches from four perspectives
- 15:55 – 16:00 | coffee break
- 16:00 – 16:30 | discussing predefined questions at discussion-tables
- 16:30 – 17:00 | value discussion, reflection and wrap-up
- 17:00 – 18:00 | borrel and networking
Do you want to participate? Please sign up (for free) via the link below.
Speakers
Paul Gerretsen
Paul Gerretsen is a leading designer in the fields of spatial planning, urban design, and architecture. He studied at the renowned universities TU Delft and ETH Zürich. He graduated with honors in 1999 from TU Delft with a Master of Science in Architecture. After his education, he worked for the Dutch National Spatial Planning Agency, where he was involved in studies for the development of a strategic spatial plan for the Netherlands. Since 2003, Paul Gerretsen has worked at Maxwan A+U on both urban and regional designs and studies.
He was the project leader of the prestigious Barking Riverside Master Plan, a new urban district for 25,000 people in the London Thames Gateway (East London), and he worked on the regional project ‘Deltametropolis,’ a study on the future of the Randstad.
Since 2008, he has been the agent of the Deltametropolis Association, the platform and laboratory focused on metropolitan development in the Netherlands. In his role, Paul Gerretsen guides the direction of the association, leads the executive agency, and is a sought-after opinion leader and moderator in the field of large-scale urban and spatial development. Additionally, he is frequently consulted by foreign governments and institutions as an advisor.
Ted Veldkamp
Ted Veldkamp works on water and climate-related issues at global, national, and local scales. Central to her work is researching and developing water-resilient, climate-adaptive, and climate-just urban deltas.
Ted Veldkamp graduated in 2013 from the Vrije Universiteit with a degree in Earth and Economics and earned her PhD Cum Laude in 2017 from the Institute for Environmental Studies with her dissertation “Water Scarcity on Global and Local Scales.” Between 2013 and 2019, she worked as a researcher (PhD, Postdoc, Assistant Professor) in Water and Climate Risk at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA, Austria), and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK-Potsdam, Germany). In 2019, she transitioned to higher professional education. At the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, she has contributed as a lecturer-researcher in Climate Resilient Cities, theme director Designing Future Cities. She regularly speaks in research, educational, or practice-oriented settings.
In addition to her role as a professor at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, Ted Veldkamp is also a lecturer-researcher in Climate Resilient Cities at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and a pioneer for the Amsterdam Climate Neutral Knowledge Ecosystem on behalf of Amsterdam’s knowledge institutions VU, UvA, and HvA.