The harbour in 2056: a Valhalla for recycling” titled the Parool, the Amsterdam newspaper. The municipality, the harbour, companies, urban planners and many work hard to realize this ambition. On Tuesday 14th of June 2016 we will take you around this ambition and how it can be realized. Please join us at the first floor of the Central Library of Amsterdam, where the exhibition Volksvlijt 2056 about the dream of inhabitants of Amsterdam about the future of the city and the region takes place. One of these dreams is about the circular economy and what it can mean for the future of the harbour. Each week of the exhibition is dedicated to one of the topics. In the week of 13th is all about the circular economy with workshops, debates, lectures, plastic fishing and more surprises.
Tuesday june 14th will be about the circular harbour with the following program:
19:30-19:45 Intrrduction by Pepijn Verpaalen (urban planning and design office URBANOS) about Volksvlijt 2056 and the circular harbour
19:45-20:00 Dominique van Ratingen (Economic Board Amsterdam) will tell us how knowledge institutions, government and companies work together in the region towards a circular economy
20:00-20:30 Eveline Jonkhoff (gemeente Amsterdam) will show us the most promising value chains, like waste, and the relation between Amsterdam and its harbour
20:30-20:45 Eduard de Visser (Haven van Amsterdam) knows everything about the future plans of the harbour
We will round up the evening with concrete examples which work towards the realization of this Valhalla
20:45-21:00 Wieteke Weenink from the AEB Amsterdam takes us to urbanite where the last bit of waste is certainly not discarded
21:00-21:15 Andre Struker from Waternet rouds up the evening with the biocompost table and the bench from roadside trash and water-plants. Because also your garden and kitchen waste can be part of the circular economy.
21:15-21:30 Questions and round up
Please be welcome at the OBA, the central library of Amsterdam at the Oosterdok.
Children can go fishing for plastic in the canals on Wednesday afternoon 15 june 2016. The Plastic Whale departs every hour on Wednesday afternoon from the OBA with children to go fishing for plastic in the canals of Amsterdam. While fishing, children hear stories about how plastic can become something new, even a skateboard.
Come and dream about a Fossil Free harbour on the evening of thursday 16th of June 2016. From 20:00 Sven Jense from Amsterdam Fossielvrij takes us around the question about how to accelerate the energy transition of the harbour of Amsterdam. The mayor and aldermen of the city want a fossil free Amsterdam, but this means a huge challenge for the harbour, currently based on oil and coal storage. How fast can the harbour become fossil free?
More informaiton about Volskvlijt (The people’s palace) and the program at http://www.volksvlijt.amsterdam
