TU Delft Deltaweek - Student hackathon: Crafting Flood Resilience in the Rotterdam Region

On 9 January, students joined forces ‪@tudelft‬ and took up the challenge during the hackathon: Crafting flood resilience in the Rotterdam region. Students set to work with great enthusiasm and experienced what it is like to take work together at such a complex issue.
“It seems like a very straightforward problem, but there are so many parties involved”, says one of the participants. “To have a transdisciplinary experience makes me grow a bit and think more diverse”, adds another participant. They came up with a great variety of ideas. Should we give up Gouda? Build houses on poles? Create more wetland and meandering rivers for fish passage? Or make an underwater cage along the North Sea coast to reduce wave energy, that has a potential for shell farming as well?