In this workshop we take the opportunity to proudly present the project that has been maturing over a year with all the experts’ guidance and your recommendations. As the name 'groundwork' suggests, during this event, we will be debating the fundamentals of the Dutch planning and development policies, how they have changed and whether they are adequate for our future challenges.

We strongly believe that this gathering will initiate the desired co-creative process towards an effective model of spatial planning. Thus, apart from insights we get from our expert panel, we expect a lot of opinions and core involvement from all the participants in an interactive workshop.

This is the first event of The New Planning Dialogue, in the series of eight inspiring activities in the upcoming years. The workshop is being developed by Vereniging Deltametropool along with Delft University of Technology, European Policy Research Centre and University of Groningen.

We would like to ensure the participation of all the involved organisations in this event. Kindly confirm your presence or any  representative from your organisation.

Register here or by sending an email to oploop@deltametropool.nl before 30 June 2019.

The event will be in English.

In case you want to invite any other person/ organisation, kindly request them to register through this mail. For any other information regarding this, contact Alankrita Sarkar

"Architecture of Labour" - Deltametropool is organising another interesting event on the same day, same location at 19:00 hours. The debate will be responding to questions like "How do we tackle the transition to a circular economy at different scales and who's turn?" For more information click the link and register.

Note: Dinner will be available between the two events at Het Nieuwe Instituut (Thursday bites). For vouchers, click here.

thursday 4 july, 12:30 - 17:30, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam

12:45 – Walk-in and registration

13:00 – Welcome by Paul Gerretsen (Vereniging Deltametropool)

13:15 – Keynote presentation (challenges + planning system + NOVI + need for change)

13:45 – Project introduction “The New Planning - Empowering Resilient Societies” by Vincent Nadin (Delft University of Technology)

14:15 – Case study of Municipality/ Regional Environmental Vision

14:35 – International planning and policies (Henk Bouwman, METREX)

15:00 – Coffee break

15:15 – Interactive workshop with experts

16:00 – Panel Discussion + Conclusion - chaired by Paul Gerretsen

16:45 – NWO process + further activities timeline

17:00 – Drinks

You will be receiving more information regarding the detailed programme and speakers in couple of weeks.

Photo: Luuk Boelens presenting at The New Planning Matchmaking event, Nov 2018