Presentation RGA
Kick-off SEEDSCPH 12 September 2012
SEEDS at RGA
General update
� Consultation process
Hero been talking to the sub-partners
Sometimes difficult
Lesson learnt (#1): bottom-up
Lesson learnt (#2): reality changes rapidly
� Ball is rolling
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Leek: Leeksterhout - Position in NL
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Leek: Leeksterhout / waterstorage
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Leek: Leeksterhout / waterstorage
� Industrial area along A7 (north + south)
� High-speed rail prepared
� Water from south to north
� Drainage problems
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Relevance to SEEDS
� Watermanagement still changing (Natura 2000, long-term, water board, climate change)
� Hope that the rail is coming
� Situation lends to transnational work
� (we need a water project)
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(near-by Tolberter Petten Polder in January 2012 - no pictures from problems at Leeksterhout)
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Matrix
What: place and context → 4
Why: ideas and plans
� Watermanagement solves a problem
Demonstration for area
Experience
Ecological aspects
Matrix
How: process and partners
� Use expertise within SEEDS
Deltares
Funding
Cooperation with public and private partners
Matrix
How: process and partners
� Transnational cooperation
Marcel van der Meulen
Assen
Assen: Harbour area - Position in NL
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Overview
Assen
Harbour site (1910)
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Harbour site
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Harbour site
Assen
Harbour site
� We see many parallels to Køge
� Position to large city
(work Groningen / live Assen)
� Put in touch with each other
� Practical issues
(short-term rental income)
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Added value of SEEDS
� Comparable approach
� Creativity
� Think outside box
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Groningen: Suikerunie
Groningen
Overview
Groningen
Suikerunie site
� 133 Ha.
� Contest what to do?
Flower exhibition
Plot for an idea
City garden
Artisanal food
Groningen
Most serious idea (gaining traction)
Groningen
Groningen
Relevance to SEEDS
� Temporary use until temporary use
� Links to Creative City Challenge
� Position to Dutch national economic policies ('top sectors')
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