The temporary citizen

The temporary citizen: and the spatial implications of the next mode of energy in Vlissingen

Klapwijk, Anouk (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Urbanism)

Emmerik, M.J. (mentor)
Muñoz Sanz, V. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

Design as Politics

2017-06-29

With a new scale of operating and constructing large offshore wind farms, harbours and adjacent cities are facing a transition. This transition will include an increase of work migration and temporary citizens within the area. The construction of a wind farm from the port of Vlissingen-Oost will result in a comings and goings of all kind of high- and low-skilled migrant workers and expats within the next five years. This raises new questions about the role of the city of Vlissingen and the adjacent port.

The design is an attempt to make the global factors of energy and migrant workers comprehensible and visible, while using this as a catalyst for local urban change. This book shows the idea that services for the temporary needs of migrant workers can be combined with long term improvements for the local population. The temporary citizens are seen as a window of opportunity for the
transformation of the urban area, as well as the industrial port area.

migrant worker
Vlissingen
wind farm
harbour
transformation

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Student theses

master thesis

© 2017 Anouk Klapwijk