Water and Room Atelier Sleenerstroom and Delftlanden
The district water board and the municipal authorities of Emmen aim to realise a surface water storage area, and to restore a brook in 2015. The total storage area required involves some 1.3 million m3, spread across both urban and rural areas. Additional taskings involve a review of the housing schemes (Delftlanden phases 2 and 3) and Nature compensation (phases 1, 2 and 3: a maximum of 60 hectares of meadow bird area).
Results
Maximum substantiation has been pursued for each sector. Subsequently, combinations have been devised for the water storage tasking, the Nature compensation tasking, and the Delftlanden housing scheme.
Incorporation of the 1.3 million m3 total storage tasking turns out to be feasible.
Two-day atelier (expert workshop), during which widely supported models have been designed for integrated area development (combinations of peak water storage, urban development environment, and Nature compensation).
Urgency and momentum are essential factors in both the support for and the spin-off of a workshop. Urgency indicates the policy concern underpinning the quest for solutions to a tasking or issue, the momentum should indicate that the time is ripe to start such a quest.
We call this workshop an atelier because it, almost literally, involves a creative process: amassing a great deal of expertise and achieving concrete and accepted results in a creative manner (sketching, brainstorming, out-of-the-box thinking).