Circular City Ports - Workbook

1 Makers District Rotterdam
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Location Scale Tag
Industrial Port City Port Orgware
“ The further development of the Makers District fills
a gap in the regional and national innovation ecosystem.
This ecosystem consists of overlapping, interactive
and open networks in which companies, investors,
knowledge institutions and public parties
support each other. ”
Regional Economic Network
Regional Economic Network
InnovationQuarter
InnovationQuarter
Delta Region
Delta Region
Port Region
Port Region
Innovative ecosystem
Innovative ecosystem
Makersdistrict
Makersdistrict
Port of Rotterdam,
Municipality Port of Rotterdam, of Rotterdam
Municipality of Rotterdam
New/existing companies
New/existing companies
flow of goods flow of knowledge or influence industrial symbiosis other
flow of goods flow of knowledge or influence industrial symbiosis other
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City Port
City Port
Entity
Entity
What’s happening? How does it happen?
Formulation of vision and strategy for a specific
area of the Stadshavens: the M4H (Merwe-
Vierhaven) area and the RDM on the other side
of the Maas. The large-scale port-related activities
that have marked the area so strongly (fruit
port & juice cluster in M4H, the shipyard in RDM)
are gradually moving to other locations further on
in the (industrial) port. In the wake of this transition,
smaller, more innovative makers have settled
here - because of cheap rental costs, low noise or
odour nuisance requirements, good accessibility,...
In the coming decades M4H will be developed into
a mixed living-working area, therefore a Spatial
Framework is being drawn up.
Why is this an interesting circular initiative for
circular ports?
On the one hand this port-city area is interesting
and inspiring for its strategy how to development
the area. The ambition was to do this in an incremental
way, looking at different time slots (now-5
years, 5-10 years, 10-30 years, >30 years) so existing
and new dynamics are brought together leaving
room for changes and unforeseen opportunities.
Also the ambition was to develop a variety of different
milieus that sometime exclude housing or industrial
activities.
On the other hand, circularity was a guiding concept
that allowed for a development framework based on
circularity principles, both for materials (buildings)
as for infrastructure and people (agents of change).