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TRANSITION MANAGEMENT IN
CITIES
Transition Management in Rotterdam City
‘Sustainability as a win-win’
Lecturers: Dr. Niki Frantzeskaki, DRIFT, Erasmus
University Rotterdam, NL
Email: [email protected]
Nico Tillie, TU Delft
Email: [email protected]
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This lecture is based on research with Transition
Managementapplication in the city of Rotterdam that was conducted
with theMUSIC project
http://www.themusicproject.eu
Photos, icons and material from these slides should not be
usedwithout gaining permission of the lecturers.
Source: Tillie N., M. Aarts, M. Marijnissen, L. Stenhuijs,
J.Borsboom, E. Rietveld, D. Doepel, J. Visschers, and S. Lap.2012.
Rotterdam – People make the inner city, IssuedGemeente Rotterdam.
5th International Architecture BiennaleRotterdam. (downloadable
from Rotterdam City website)
http://www.themusicproject.eu
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Transition management approach
Organizing a joint searching and learning process
focused upon long-term sustainable solutions
Envisioning, learning, and experimenting
Creating new ways of thinking
Questioning
Assumptions, problem perceptions, solutions
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• Process design proposition: frontrunners can initiate a
transition when given thinking and action space
• Transition arenas are facilitated spaces that bring together a
frontrunning group of actors
from creating a niche
to create an agenda to its empowerment
• A step-wise participatory process to create a vision and
strategic transition pathways to provide routes for action in order
to initiate a
transition
Transition management approach
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Types of Interventions searched and co-
created with Transition Management
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Transition
Team
•Experimentation
& Implementation
•Partnerships
& Broadening•Preparation
•Exploration
•Problem structuring
& Envisioning
•Backcasting
& Agenda Building
Transition
Arena
Transition
Experiments
Transition
Networks
MUSIC Project – Guidance Manual
Download: http://www.drift.eur.nl/?p=2796
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Lecture 3
• Transition Management in Aberdeen city, United Kingdom
• Insights on how to open-up sustainability dialogues
Lecture 4
• Transition Management in Rotterdam city, the Netherlands
• Insights on co-creating a densification strategy in tune with
sustainability goals
Lecture 5
• Transition Management in Port Villa city, Vanuatu
• Pathways for urban sustainability and urban water management
in South Pacific’s capital
Lecture 6
• Transition Management in La Botija region, Honduras
• A regional application of Transition Management
Lecture 7
• Transition Management in Carnisse neighborhood in Rotterdam,
The Netherlands
• How to create social capital and empowerment for
sustainability transitions in neighboorhood scale
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Aberdeen(United Kingdom)
Ghent(Belgium)
Montreuil(France)
Rotterdam(The Netherlands)
Ludwigsburg(Germany)
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According to New York times, Rotterdam is the
10th listed place to go in 2014
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Looking across at the complex that houses the nhow hotel. Robin
Van Lonkhuijsen/Agence France-Presse -- Getty Images
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Step 2: formulating a transition challenge
Analysing system
Problem analysis
Projected on to future
Translating problem into
Challenges & opportunities
From…. (problem)… to… (desirable)
list of things that need to be “transitioned”
Domains of Change
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Urban Challenges in Rotterdam
Now only 15.000 people live in city center
Quality of public space and green is an identified social
need
City as a working space, not a living space
Desirable target:
30.000 more inhabitants + 141 HA green
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Rotterdam’s Context
• Rotterdam is a city that innovates from the bottom up
• Cradle of new ideas, culturally diverse city (> 147
nationalities in one
city)
• Legacy of good planning, good experience that fosters
collaboration
of the city’s planning with citizens and businesses
• Co-create sustainability with frontrunners in the city
• Citizens’ contribute with their innovation capital (knowledge,
ideas,
initiative, energy) and city contributes with the
overarching
knowledge and facilitating an organic relationship and growth
of
sustainability innovations
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Step 3: formulating guiding principles
From… To…
• effectiveness
• circularity
• decentralised
• interdependency
• integration
• what are the benefits?
• netocracy
• facilitate
• efficiency
• linearity
• centralised
• (in)dependency
• fragmentation
• what are the costs?
• hierarchy
• control
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Densification + Greening = Urban Sustainability
Sustainable transformation of urban space by communities,
practitioners and businesses
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Step 4: Envisioning a desirable future
Imagining the future
visualising and specifiying
Out-of-the-box thinking
Attract and inspire through a living vision
Compass, ‘Leitbild’
not ONE image, ‘basket of images’
Imaginaries but not utopias
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Creating a Sustainability Vision
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Step 5: generation of transition pathways
Distinguish different images
Connecting the future and the present
(combining “forecasting” and “backcasting”)
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DENSIFICATION PATHWAY
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GREENING PATHWAY
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Insight the Transition
Pathways
Which pilots and innovations from
citizens and small businesses were
taken up for scaling within the
transition pathways?
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DENSIFICATION PATHWAY
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GREENING PATHWAY
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Urban greening / Urban farming on empty lots
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Step 6: transition experiments
Pilot projects
targeted and specific
Starting small
try out and learning
Transforming existing, old projects
and creating new experiments
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DENSIFICATION PATHWAY
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Floating Pavilion
Pilot on floating
urbanisation
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Group picture of participants of the short-course
on urban transition management by DRIFT, in
Sept. 2015
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Governance for transitions
• action needs to tap into and be in confluence with on-going
dynamics in
order to steer the system with incremental steps towards a
new
sustainable (system) state (confluence dynamics)
Examine what inhibits transitions and inform
governance action to overcome hurdles
• small-scale action needs to be directed to domains in which a
small
intervention can result in tipping towards larger changes or
simply, seek
for such changes that can cascade towards broader system’s
innovation
(tipping innovation’s cascade)
Design governance interventions based on early
lessons from emerging or tested innovation
• action needs to also refer to processes that will couple with
or reroute
on-going processes in a co-evolutionary continuum (feed in and
onto co-
evolutionary processes).
Steer on-going processes to a sustainable direction
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read more @ www.drift.eur.nl
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read more @ http://transitionsnetwork.org/
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Design governance interventions based on early
lessons from emerging or tested innovation
- Empirical case from City Ports case Rotterdam-
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