Overview

The Delta Futures lab is a multidisciplinary network for MSc-students, staff and practice with the ambition to become interdisciplinary leaders in spatial design, engineering and governance of deltas. The Lab unites master students, researchers and professionals in multidisciplinary projects. It enriches and supports master students in becoming the mission-oriented engineers that future delta societies need. With the Delta Futures lab, TU Delft presents itself as interdisciplinary leader in spatial design, engineering and governance of deltas. Deltas worldwide are under accelerating pressure of climate-induced sea-level rise and hydrological extremes and unprecedented economic growth and urbanisation. Former high-end scenarios rapidly become thinkable futures that push delta interventions outside state-off-art delta management practice. The Delta Futures lab joins scientific, public and private forces in its mission to maintain urbanising deltas as sources of economic, social and ecological prosperity. It aims to deliver the next level of delta management technology, spatial designs, institutional arrangements, and management concepts and implement them with our public and private partners in the global delta community. The goal of Delta Futures Lab is to enhance your skills and competences in integrated spatial and engineering design, governance and management of urbanizing deltas. Interdisciplinary leaders have the skills and competences required to effectively work in multidisciplinary teams addressing climate change, energy and transport in the socially most vibrant, ecologically most vulnerable but productive and economically most dynamic parts of the globe. With the Delta Futures Lab TU Delft and its students present themselves as an interdisciplinary leader in spatial design, engineering and governance of deltas. University staff will use the lab to further develop methods in interdisciplinary design and research-by-design.