Print Email Facebook Twitter Restoring Systemic Proximities Title Restoring Systemic Proximities: Towards the re-territorialization of the Dutch Rivierenland Author Recubenis Sanchis, Isabel (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment) Contributor Sepulveda Carmona, D.A. (mentor) Kuzniecow Bacchin, T. (mentor) van der Meulen, G.J.M. (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences Date 2020-07-02 Abstract Uncertainty posed by Climate Change brings control approaches to environmental processes and dynamics into question. In the Netherlands and particularly in the Dutch River area (Rivierenland in Dutch) narratives have already shifted towards an adaptive planning (Davoudi, 2013). However, there is still a need to go beyond the physical cultural and programmatic separation between rivers -active areas in flood management- and the urbanized territory -passive areas in flood management-. The definition of these dualities in the Dutch territory not only feeds a model based on vulnerability, but it also leaves the problem of a fragmented landscape unsolved. Aiming at the enhancement of adaptive territories and the embracement of uncertainty, the thesis proposes the operationalization of an approach based on enhanced connectivity throughout the territory, where every part of the urbanized territory takes a role in the active management of floods and ecosystem restoration. An approach aiming at restoring systemic proximities between culture and nature and between local land management and territorial water safety. The main design outcome of the thesis is a transformation pathway towards the hybridization of the territory by increasing ecological densities and buffer capacities per land management unit. A pathway where synergistic coupling of functions are activated locally, triggering processes of innovation and cultural appropriation of the proposal, as opportunities for emerging ecosystem-based production models. The graduation research is positioned within an emerging urban paradigm, one that re-defines the act of urbanization as an act of re-territorialization (Deleuze and Guatari, 2000), where land uses are associated to evolutionary land roles that different occupation patterns perform in the establishment of a more symbiotic relation with the ecology in which these are embedded. Sources: Davoudi, S., Brooks, E., & Mehmood, A. (2013). Evolutionary resilience and strategies for climate adaptation. Planning Practice & Research, 28(3), 307-322. Guattari, F., & Deleuze, G. (2000). A thousand plateaus: capitalism and schizophrenia. London: Athlone Press. Subject Climate AdaptationFlood risk managementenhanced connectivitywatershed managementmaintenance regimesAdaptive Planning and Design To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:2d79ab24-9ac8-4b1f-8bca-ed4eeb999e71 Embargo date 2020-07-03 Coordinates 51.8425, 5.85278 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2020 Isabel Recubenis Sanchis Files PDF P5_Report_4803973_IsabelR ... anchis.pdf 62.36 MB PDF P5_Presentation_4803973_I ... anchis.pdf 25.82 MB PDF Reflection_4803973_Isabel ... anchis.pdf 39.71 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:2d79ab24-9ac8-4b1f-8bca-ed4eeb999e71/datastream/OBJ2/view