Water Works: Activating Heritage for Sustainable Development

Carola Hein

Prof. Dr.-Ing.

Delft University of Technology

Carola Hein is Full Professor and Chair, History of Architecture and Urban Planning at Delft University of Technology. Her research interests include the transmission of architectural and urban ideas, focusing specifically on port cities and the global architecture of oil. She leads the PortCityFutures research program that focuses on evolving socio-spatial conditions, use and design of port city regions, in particular exploring areas where port and city activities occur simultaneously and sometimes conflict. Among other major grants, she received a Guggenheim and an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship. She serves as Vice President of the International Planning History Society (IPHS), Editor of PORTUSplus the journal of RETE, co-editor of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes (CPCL), IPHS Editor for Planning Perspectives and as Asia book review editor for Journal of Urban History.

Her books include: Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage: Past, Present and Future, The Routledge Planning History Handbook (2017), Uzō Nishiyama, Reflections on Urban, Regional and National Space (2017), Port Cities: Dynamic Landscapes and Global Networks (2011), The Capital of Europe. Architecture and Urban Planning for the European Union (2004), Rebuilding Urban Japan after 1945 (2003), and Cities, Autonomy and Decentralisation in Japan. (2006), Hauptstadt Berlin 1957-58 (1991). She has also published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, books, and magazines.

Hilde Sennema

Ph.D. candidate

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Hilde Sennema, MA studied the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Groningen. She specialized in post-war urban planning and governance. After working in the heritage sector, she started her PhD research at the Erasmus University with Paul van de Laar. Her topic is the public-private governance network that modernized and rebuilt the port city of Rotterdam between 1930 and 1970. Her dissertation is co-supervised by Carola Hein (TU Delft) and business historian Ben Wubs (EUR).

She is particularly interested in communicating scientific research to the general public. In the PortCityFutures project, she is the editor of the blog and outside of the academy, she writes a weekly column in the Dutch financial daily paper Het Financieele Dagblad. Hilde loves to swim and works on a blog series about the use of water as a public space with fellow. PCF team members

Gül Aktürk

Ph.D. candidate

Delft University of Technology

Gül Aktürk is a Ph.D. in the Department of Architecture at TU Delft in the Netherlands. Her Ph.D. research deals with the impacts of climate change on rural built heritage. Her research interest lies in the intersection of climate change and cultural heritage. Prior to starting her Ph.D. research, Gül has worked in several architectural conservation, restoration projects, and archaeological excavations for over 5 years. She holds MSc in Architectural Conservation from the University of Edinburgh in the UK with a master's thesis titled "The Conservation of Ottoman Era Neighborhoods in Istanbul: A Case Study of Arnavutköy, Besiktas." She is a member of the ICOMOS Netherlands, ICOMOS-IFLA ISSCL and the Centre for Global Heritage and Development under heritage& environment. She is a visiting fellow at The Arctic Institution for the period of 2020 and 2021. As a recent Ph.D. candidate, she worked as a teaching assistant, published papers in peer-reviewed journals, reviewed articles, attended conferences, symposiums, and presentations in the field of cultural heritage and climate change.

Tianchen Dai

Dr.

Delft University of Technology

Tianchen Dai was born in October 1989, Nanjing, China. She holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the Southeast University, China. She received M.Arch from Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK, and B.Arch from Department of Built Environment, University of Nottingham, UK. She worked as a visiting researcher from 2016 to 2018 at Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft Technical University, The Netherlands, where she is working now as a postdoctoral researcher. She researches how the cultural and social identity of urban landscapes are shaped and delivered to people. Her specific research interests lie in the spatial narration of urban landscapes, and its impact on the formation of mindset, city image, and behavioral intention. She is currently working on the project “Port City Futures”, initiated by the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centers.

Kaiyi Zhu

Msc, PhD Candidate

Delft University of Technology

Kaiyi Zhu is a Ph.D. candidate at TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment, Chair of History of Architecture & and Urban Planning. She is trained as an architect with interests in conservation and transformation of heritage, and received the master degree in Conservation of Historic Buildings at the University of Bath (UK). Kaiyi’s doctoral research project is titled as "In the Name of Conservation”, and mainly focuses on three aspects: transnational exchanges of ideas, pedagogies, interpretation of heritage conservation discourse in China and related policy making, and practical approaches adopted in historic neighbourhoods transformation in big cities. She authored paper Temporalities and the conservation of cultural relic protection units: legislative, economic and citizen times of the Bugaoli community in globalising Shanghai for the Journal of Built Heritage, and The Social Dimension of Urban Transformation in Shanghai: Population Mobility, Modernity, and Globalization for the Journal of Urban History.

As a Ph.D. candidate, she worked as a teaching instructor and assistant at TU Delft, published papers in peer-reviewed journals, and attended conferences and symposiums. Kaiyi has extensive research interests, the scope including water heritage, adaptive reuse of modern architecture in the Netherlands, sustainable waterscape, temporalities of urban development and urban justice. She presented papers related to the complexity of urban transformation and conservation of historic neighbourhoods, and chaired conference sessions for IPHS 2020 (postponed) and IVR World Congress 2019. She is an editorial staff of the European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes, and a reviewer of the Journal of Architecture. She is also a member of the Centre for Global Heritage and Development under the heritage & environment section.

Paolo De Martino

Architect and PhD Candidate

Delft University of Technology

Paolo De Martino graduated in Architecture with top marks in July 2008 at the Department of Architecture of University of Naples Federico II (DiARC). After graduation he has collaborated with an architectural firm in Naples, focusing mainly on reuse of existing architectural heritage and urban regeneration. Since January 2015 he lives in Delft. He is currently a PhD candidate in Architecture within a dual PhD program between Delft University of Technology and the University of Naples Federico II.

He is investigating port cities from a spatial and institutional perspective, comparing the Italian port-system in the Campania Region with port clusters in the Hamburg-Le Havre range, with particular reference to the cities of Rotterdam, Antwerp and Le Havre. Some of his research – which touches upon the complex relationship between ports, cities and regions – have been discussed in conferences and published in international journals.

In 2017 and 2018 he was involved with teaching, tutoring mastering students in Delft during the Design Studio “Architecture and Urbanism beyond oil” run by Prof. Carola Hein.