Description

Prior to this, from 19.00 - 19.30, the annual General Members' Meeting will also take place, to which interested TME members are of course also welcome (see below for the agenda).

The meeting will be introduced by Ties Rijcken.

In his lecture, Ties Rijcken will explain how his involvement with the Delta Committee and the Delta Programme led to 'SimDelta', and how the project is currently progressing. He will also briefly look back at his activities in the field of floating construction, for which he won the KIVI-NIRIA TME thesis prize in 2004.

SimDelta: the Dutch main water system in an interactive model or even serious game.
The Dutch main water system can be seen as a gigantic apparatus that encompasses 20% of our country and provides the rest with all kinds of services. Over the centuries, this apparatus is constantly adapted to changing conditions from climate, desired safety against flooding, freshwater supply, ecological health, port and shipping developments, and so on. But how do we decide which interventions to make? Designers come up with concepts, researchers calculate alternatives, stakeholders indicate what they think is important and politicians take decisions. This process is a vortex full of misunderstanding, misunderstandings, lost information and hierarchical structures.
Internet and interactive models with an attractive interface, offer new possibilities to support this vortex elegantly. Interactive maps show the coherent system of scenarios, problems, solutions and opportunities and provide insights into possible developments. Involved space users fill in their profiles, can compile their own delta and criticise and suggest alternatives on local forums. Internet communities are the future: they enable well-informed and structured interaction wherever and whenever a user wants.
The step from interactive maps to a 'serious game' follows when users can work with budgets and base their choices partly on interaction with other players. Recording and aggregating choices and user comments provides information for decision support and model improvement, similar to market research.

We would be delighted to welcome you to this evening. Registration is from 7.30 pm

AGENDA AGM DEPARTMENT TME
7pm-7.30pm

1. Opening and announcements;
2. Report of General Assembly 19 April 2011 (for the meeting);
3. Activities last year (orally);
4. Financial report 2011 and budget 2012 (for the meeting);
5. Board: During the year under review, Mr Hendrik van Asselt stepped down as a board member due to frequent stays abroad. Messrs Ronald van Duijvenvoorde and Rob Steinbuch are due to step down at this annual meeting, according to the rotation schedule, but are eligible for re-election.
6. Plans for 2012 (oral);
7. Questions and closure.

Speaker(s)

Ties Rijcken works at Delft University of Technology in two interfaculty groups, aimed at bringing together different academic disciplines and valorising research in society. In 2008, he wrote an advisory report for the Delta Committee with HKV, line in water, among others. From this, this committee(-Veerman) included the concept 'Closable Open Rijnmond' in their advisory report (which led to the current Delta Programme). Further intensive interfaculty research followed in 2009 and 2010, commissioned by Rotterdam Climate Proof and Knowledge for Climate. During this research, the ideas for 'SimDelta' emerged.
Rijcken studied among others geophysics, philosophy, civil engineering and industrial design in Utrecht, Delft and Stanford (USA). He graduated in 2003 with a grade of 10, worked in business, government and university and won a number of awards, including the 'Leonardo da Vinci art and science prize' from Rotary Europe, and the 'TME prize' from the Royal Institute of Engineers. He is currently conducting PhD research at the Department of Hydraulic Engineering on integrated and participatory development of national water infrastructure

Location

KIVI NIRIA building, Great Hall

Prinsessegracht 23, 2514 AP The Hague

Organiser

Technology, Society & Economy

Name and contact details for information

Further information via the e-mail address below.

tme@kiviniria.nl