The team Harcourt Habitat from Denmark has won the Delta City of the Future design competition that was organised on 27 September by the city of Rotterdam in cooperation with UNESCO-IHE's Flood Resilience Group.
After an initial elimination round, seven teams were invited to participate in a 24-hour pressure cooker session in which they worked on a new design task. This task consisted of creating a safe-haven located in the Rotterdam unembanked area combined with an international disaster center from which aid can be shipped to any part of the world.
The winning team presented their ideas at the Deltas in times of Climate Change conference that was held that week in Rotterdam and will receive support by Dutch Delta Design to further develop their ideas.
Other participating teams were:
- We are Delta (India)
- Fluid Foundation (Netherlands)
- Delta lifE (United Kingdom)
- Think Tank (France)
- The Delta Wall (Belgium)
- Multiple Lines (United States)
This video shows an impression of the final session:
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