Abstract
Disruptive change is often seen as a risk to many regions around the world. Uncertainty around the future, unprecedented events and a general belief in the past induces this problematic situation. Almost everywhere this problem is tackled with traditional planning approaches. In many cases this does not lead to satisfying solutions but offer solace only for the short-term. When a longer time horizon is taken into account, subsequent policies increase risks and decrease the quality of the land. Especially when uncertainties increase transformational planning approaches should be applied. In the Groningen region incremental planning has led to an increased vulnerability of population, nature and the land. People no longer trust their governments. At the same time, policies and people’s ideas in Groningen focus on the short term and minimal uncertainties. This discrepancy can only be overcome with a creative, design-led process, in which a positive future can be envisioned, and the alternative projects are conceived as the new points of departure for a development process towards that desired future. In Groningen building with nature of the Wadden sea in combination with growing healthy food locally establishes the first novel ideas to start this process.
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Roggema, R. (2021). Le Fouture de Groningen; Towards Transformational Food-Positive Landscapes. In: Roggema, R. (eds) TransFEWmation: Towards Design-led Food-Energy-Water Systems for Future Urbanization . Contemporary Urban Design Thinking. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61977-0_8
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