Workshops

Find out more about our workshops and their facilitators. Indicate your preferred workshop in the registration form.

Navigating Risk and Resilience: Climate Adaptation for Urban Waterfronts

What role can insurers and financial actors play in climate adaptation for urban waterfronts? In this session, participants work through a shared case and practical task to make adaptive housing decisions under climate stress and shock scenarios. Facilitated group negotiation and live AI-supported analysis help surface trade-offs, financial implications, and lessons for practice. 

Please note: this session will use AI-based recording methods.

Facilitated by:

• Tom Daamen - Associate Professor, TU Delft

• Adela Agnew - Junior Research Fellow, Resilient Delta

• Joost Hakhoff - Program Manager, TU Delft

10 New Cities: At What Cost?

This session explores three spatial development strategies for the Netherlands: building new cities, expanding existing towns, or revitalising current urban areas. Drawing on economic geography and climate adaptation, participants assess how these approaches relate, where they may succeed, and the compromises involved. Guided brainstorming focused on three existing design cases enables participants to assess these approaches, the trade-offs involved, and how to translate them into practice.

Facilitated by:

• Jeroen van Haaren - Senior Researcher, Erasmus University Rotterdam

• Fransje Hooimeijer - Professor, TU Delft

Fair Flood Financing: Dilemmas in Water Safety Investments

Rising sea levels will require major investments in water safety, with uneven regional costs that may challenge existing principles of solidarity in the public water finance system. Economic models and climate scenarios will be used to spark a reflective dialogue about how risks and costs are shifting and what this means for solidarity principles in the future.

Facilitated by:

• Hielke van der Aa - Sustainability Analyst, NWB Bank

• Theodoros Chatzivasileiadis - Assistant Professor, TU Delft

• Siobhan Airey - Assistant Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam 

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