This conference is part of a larger assignment by the Dutch Ministry Infrastructuur en Waterstaat to strengthen the Valuing Water initiative. This initiative continues earlier initiatives such as the Day of the Castle (paper: https://dagvanhetkasteel.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/20210604-samenvatting-engels-Symposium-Dutch-Castle-Foundation-and-ICOMOS-Netherlands-Def.pdf), the concept Zienswijze for the Nationaal Programma Water 2022-2027 (attached) and the Blue Papers published at https://www.portcityfutures.nl/blog. We established the Blue Papers to provide a platform for participants to outline their ideas in preparation for the conference. If you would like to contribute, please send additional texts and proposals.
Please mail prof. C. Hein if you plan to attend as soon as possible, as places are limited due to Covid regulations. We aim for the possibility to “Zoom in” to the conference, but cannot assure a fully hybrid discussion yet. Hope to meet you on the 5th!
Programme
10.15-10:45 - Coffee in front of the Ketelhuis.
10.45 - 10.55 - Welcome/Brief introductions. Prof. Carola Hein, Chair History of Architecture TU Delft, Charlotte van Emstede, President ICOMOS NL, ICOMOS ISC.
10.55 - 11.10 - Introduction Henk Ovink (Netherlands Water Envoy).
11.10 - 11.25 - Eelco van Beek (TUT).
11.25 - 11.40 - Petra Hellegers (WUR).
11.40 – 12.20 - Roundtable discussion: What are values of water and water-related heritage? Elyze Storms-Smeets, Frans Wijsen, Maarten Ouboter, moderated by Sabine Luning.
12.20 – 12.30 - Exploring Values: Positioning the work field of the participants to explore value-related working fields. Including comments by the writers of the Blue Papers. What are key questions to be addressed, past, present, and future? What disciplines, approaches are needed to explore the multiple spiritual, cultural, material, financial and other values, moderated by Hilde Sennema.
12.30 – 13.30 lunch - Short films from the WaterWorks course: What is water?
13.30 – 14.30 - Breakout groups: Working in small groups to identify and define water related heritage values for water managers and for heritage professionals, e.g. material, conceptual and spiritual, political, economic, etc. at a time of climate change. Reporting out in plenary session.
14.30 – 15.30 - Breakout groups: Operationalizing heritage values (indicators, methodologies) into the Valuing Water Framework and other Frameworks e.g. IWRM. Reporting out in plenary session.
15.30 – 16.00 - Follow up steps/work towards UN Water Decade MTR.
16.00 – 17.00 - Game ‘Water values’ Presentation of current state.
17:00 - Drinks and presentation of online open course WaterWorks: Activating heritage for sustainable development.
Preparation
BluePapers: https://www.portcityfutures.nl/tags/blue-papers
Delft Design for Values:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL5I5orMDIM
MOOC on values in Port Cities:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R41f-ke3RuE
Ingrid Mulder on Values and Design:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPYC56t6llw
Value cards:
https://www.delftdesignforvalues.nl/2018/research-through-design-for-values-first-exploration/