Circular City Ports - Workbook 1, Circular initiatives in the Delta
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1 Makers District Rotterdam<br />
150<br />
Location Scale Tag<br />
Industrial Port <strong>City</strong> Port Orgware<br />
“ The fur<strong>the</strong>r development of <strong>the</strong> Makers District fills<br />
a gap <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> regional and national <strong>in</strong>novation ecosystem.<br />
This ecosystem consists of overlapp<strong>in</strong>g, <strong>in</strong>teractive<br />
and open networks <strong>in</strong> which companies, <strong>in</strong>vestors,<br />
knowledge <strong>in</strong>stitutions and public parties<br />
support each o<strong>the</strong>r. ”<br />
Regional Economic Network<br />
Regional Economic Network<br />
InnovationQuarter<br />
InnovationQuarter<br />
<strong>Delta</strong> Region<br />
<strong>Delta</strong> Region<br />
Port Region<br />
Port Region<br />
Innovative ecosystem<br />
Innovative ecosystem<br />
Makersdistrict<br />
Makersdistrict<br />
Port of Rotterdam,<br />
Municipality Port of Rotterdam, of Rotterdam<br />
Municipality of Rotterdam<br />
New/exist<strong>in</strong>g companies<br />
New/exist<strong>in</strong>g companies<br />
flow of goods flow of knowledge or <strong>in</strong>fluence <strong>in</strong>dustrial symbiosis o<strong>the</strong>r<br />
flow of goods flow of knowledge or <strong>in</strong>fluence <strong>in</strong>dustrial symbiosis o<strong>the</strong>r<br />
...<br />
...<br />
<strong>City</strong> Port<br />
<strong>City</strong> Port<br />
Entity<br />
Entity<br />
What’s happen<strong>in</strong>g? How does it happen?<br />
Formulation of vision and strategy for a specific<br />
area of <strong>the</strong> Stadshavens: <strong>the</strong> M4H (Merwe-<br />
Vierhaven) area and <strong>the</strong> RDM on <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r side<br />
of <strong>the</strong> Maas. The large-scale port-related activities<br />
that have marked <strong>the</strong> area so strongly (fruit<br />
port & juice cluster <strong>in</strong> M4H, <strong>the</strong> shipyard <strong>in</strong> RDM)<br />
are gradually mov<strong>in</strong>g to o<strong>the</strong>r locations fur<strong>the</strong>r on<br />
<strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> (<strong>in</strong>dustrial) port. In <strong>the</strong> wake of this transition,<br />
smaller, more <strong>in</strong>novative makers have settled<br />
here - because of cheap rental costs, low noise or<br />
odour nuisance requirements, good accessibility,...<br />
In <strong>the</strong> com<strong>in</strong>g decades M4H will be developed <strong>in</strong>to<br />
a mixed liv<strong>in</strong>g-work<strong>in</strong>g area, <strong>the</strong>refore a Spatial<br />
Framework is be<strong>in</strong>g drawn up.<br />
Why is this an <strong>in</strong>terest<strong>in</strong>g circular <strong>in</strong>itiative for<br />
circular ports?<br />
On <strong>the</strong> one hand this port-city area is <strong>in</strong>terest<strong>in</strong>g<br />
and <strong>in</strong>spir<strong>in</strong>g for its strategy how to development<br />
<strong>the</strong> area. The ambition was to do this <strong>in</strong> an <strong>in</strong>cremental<br />
way, look<strong>in</strong>g at different time slots (now-5<br />
years, 5-10 years, 10-30 years, >30 years) so exist<strong>in</strong>g<br />
and new dynamics are brought toge<strong>the</strong>r leav<strong>in</strong>g<br />
room for changes and unforeseen opportunities.<br />
Also <strong>the</strong> ambition was to develop a variety of different<br />
milieus that sometime exclude hous<strong>in</strong>g or <strong>in</strong>dustrial<br />
activities.<br />
On <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r hand, circularity was a guid<strong>in</strong>g concept<br />
that allowed for a development framework based on<br />
circularity pr<strong>in</strong>ciples, both for materials (build<strong>in</strong>gs)<br />
as for <strong>in</strong>frastructure and people (agents of change).