Morocco, Tangier, 11-13 May 2022
Dr Roudaina was happy to participate in this cutting edge conference and moderate the session ‘New Port City Interface – Rethinking the Waterfront and Valorising the Maritime Identity’.The session gathered highly-esteemed panelists from Dublin, Sevilla, Morocco, Bahía Blanca and Oslo.
The relationship between a living city and an active port and their interfaces is a very complex and multilayered issue, involving physical, environmental, functional, and cultural relationships. The session reinforced the importance of ports and cities collaborating around sustainable projects to address the most urgent challenges and strengthen both the port and the city, rethinking activities that can cohabit together rather than separate them. The session discussed challenges facing collaborative governance and sustainability and potential solutions.
We had great presentations from the renowned panel participants on ports’ and cities’ efforts, plans, and various new thinking approaches ranging from large-scale holistic, sustainable adaptations of coastlines to more focused strategic interventions, the inclusion of innovative buffer zones, meanwhile uses, and shared spaces that city residents enjoy too. The presentations demonstrated several aspects of how these multiscale spatial interfaces are being thought to benefit the cities, the ports, the inhabitants, and visitors.
The session addressed the new maritime identity of the port city, which our conclusions highlighted not only about the vital reuse and adaptations of marine structures but also about making the residents familiar with the port heritage, the port activities, and spaces. It is also about developing new cultures around the sustainability of shores and waterways, integrating circular and climate-resilience approaches, promoting new collaborations enabling green and Blue Futures and the SDGs implementation.
Panellists: James Kelleher, Dublin Port Company, Imad Barrakad,Chairman, Moroccan Society for Tourism Engineering, Angel Pulido, General Manager Autoridad Portuaria de Sevilla, Natalia Urriza, Consorcio de Gestión del Puerto de Bahía Blanca, Cato Johansen, Plan Chef Port of Oslo.
We will be happy to help your organisation draw on the world and our experience in sustainable blue futures and port and city collaboration.
We can help develop shared port and city strategies involving diverse stakeholders, and we can curate discussion forums and workshops to help you refine your vision.
You are welcome to contact Dr Roudaina Alkhani (roudaina.alkhani@platforms.uk.com) for a non-comital discussion.
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