European Future Congress
The cultural landscape of the Ruhr metropolis in 2010
Zollverein colliery rail tracks / Photo: RVR/Maier-Jantzen
Once a mere vision of the future, it now stands for real-life structural change: Today, the Emscher Natural Park is the largest regional park in Europe. An international congress of experts looks at the park’s future as a model for the transformation of man-made cultural landscapes.
High art and top quality landscape architecture were used to systematically transform the urban core area along the Emscher river into a post-industrial landscape and a popular recreation area that is increasingly drawing tourists. Projects like the Tetraeder steel monument in Bottrop, the landscape park Duisburg-North and the former mining stockpile Halde Hohenwald in Herten/Recklinghausen have become landmarks of the Ruhr metropolis. Now the Emscher Natural Park enters a new stage with the reconstruction of the Emscher system and the steadily advancing development of the New Emscher Valley.
"The European Future Congress: The cultural landscape of the Ruhr metropolis in 2010" looks into the future and discusses the Emscher Natural Park as an international role model for developing a metropolis through open spaces September 30 - October 1, 2010. The program includes visionary presentations, shows the first results of so-called future workshops and offers insightful excursions and related cultural events.
Project sponsor: Regionalverband Ruhr
Partners: Ministry for the Environment & Environmental Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection of North Rhine-Westphalia state, scientific institutions, universities and the 20 cities of the Emscher Natural Park: Duisburg, Oberhausen, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Bottrop, Gladbeck, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Herten, Herne, Bochum, Recklinghausen, Castrop-Rauxel, Waltrop, Dortmund, Lünen, Werne, Bergkamen, Kamen, Bönen, Holzwickede
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