Morning Session | Welcome and Opening Keynote
8:00 – 9:00 AM | Registration and Welcome Coffee
9:00 – 9:15 AM | Opening Remarks by the Dean and the organisers
9:15 – 10:15 AM | 2 Keynote lectures
Port city regions in transformation: listening to the voice of the delta
By Han Meyer, TU Delft
On networked space, hubs, and urban transformation
By Alain Thierstein, TU Munich
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10:15 –10:30 | Q&A
10:30 – 10:45 AM | Coffee Break and Networking
Mid-Morning Session | Two MSCA projects on port cities at TU Delft Chair: Carola Hein
10:45 – 11:15 AM | Global flows and local impacts: Navigating a European taxonomy and glossary for port-city-regions – RePortFlows Project
By Mina Akhavan
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11:15 AM – 11:45 PM | Contested port cities. A global geography of community struggles
By Francesca Savoldi
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11:45 PM – 12:00 PM | Q&A
12:00 – 1:30 PM | Dutch lunch Break
Lunch project poster presentation: ‘Small Porta Projects’ | chair Yvonne van Mil
Film ‘PORT CITIES AND HEALTH - Part 1: ROTTERDAM’
Duration: 31 minutes
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Afternoon Session | Methodology and data in a globalising world
Panel session 1. Mapping and open data in a globalising world. Maurice Harteveld , TU Delft
1:30 – 2:00 PM | Mapping: Where academia meets practice?
By Michael Rodrigues, TU Delft
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2:00 – 2:15 PM | Mapping European Port City Territories Beyond the Case Study Approach
By Yvonne van Mil and Carola Hein
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2:15 – 2:30 PM | Q&A
2:30 – 2:45 PM | Coffee Break and Networking
Panel session2. Flows and Footprint: Navigating Urban Currents. Chair Reinout Kleinhans
2.45- 3:00 PM | Hamburg, Germany: The reluctant maritime metropolis
By Markus Hesse, University of Luxembourg
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3:00 – 3:15 PM | Flows of people, overtourism and cruise tourism in Venice
By Silvia Sivo, IUAV
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3:15 – 3:30 PM | Flows of knowledge: Rotterdam as port centres and innovation hubs
By Paul van de Laar, Erasmus University Rotterdam
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3:30 – 3:45 PM | Flows of Money and Power Contribution: Port Planning Office, Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority
By Vittorio Lagomarsino - Port of Genoa
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3:45 – 4:00 PM | Women in Ports redefining the port city relationships: the case of Livorno
By Barbara Boniciani
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4:00 – 4:15 Q&A
4:15– 4:30 PM | Coffee Break and Networking
Evening Session: Multi-stakeholder Workshop
4:30 – 6:00 PM | Workshop: collaborative idea generation - engaging academics and practitioners
Stakeholders’ perspective is collected around the following themes:
- Development strategies for spaces embedded at the interface between the port and the city (port-city-region)
- Main factors/drivers essential for sustainable development of spaces affected by commodity and passenger flows
- Port as a driver for knowledge creation, innovation and human capital development
Each port city has a separate table with various experts and a selection of public audiences:
Rotterdam: Vinzenz Baumer Escobar (Resilient Delta), Paul van de Laar (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Lucy Gilliam (OnePlanetPort / Seas at Risk), Karel van den Berghe (TU Delft), Winnie Pocoroba (BP), Wouter Jacobs (UPT /EUR), Jouke Goslinga (Port of Rotterdam) and others TBC
Hamburg: Christoph Strupp (Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg), Maskus Hesse (University of Luxumburg) , Alain Thierstein (TU München) , Lukas Holler (TU Delft), and others TBC
Genoa: Vittorio Lagomarsino (Port Authority of Genoa), Chiara Nifosì (Politecnico di Milano), Francesca Pintus (One Works Milano), Alberto Grassetti (Università di Bologna), and others TBC
Venice: Alessandra Libardo (Port Authority of Venice), Silvia Sivo (Università Iuav di Venezia), Paolo di Martino (Università Iuav di Venezia / TU Delft), Hadi El Hage (Università Iuav di Venezia), and others TBC
Livorno: Barbara Bonciano (RETE Italia, former Livorno city councillor for port and city integration), Fulvia Pinto (Politecnico di Milano), Angelo Roma (Interporto Toscano Amerigo Vespucci), Francesca Savoldi (Università Ca' Foscari), and others TBC
6:30 – 7:30 PM | Networking reception/ dinner (upon invitation)