How questions, guidance and unseen work help teams before the final pitch.

When teams step onto the stage at the Grand Finals of the Nature-based Future Challenge, the audience sees the finished version. Strong visuals, clear storylines, and students presenting future visions for the Mississippi River Delta with confidence. What often rem...

What could the future of the Mississippi River Delta look like?

Over the past two months, student teams from around the world have been working on a difficult question: how do you design a future for a landscape that is slowly disappearing? ...

When Wageningen turned into New Orleans for a night

For one evening, Wageningen briefly felt a lot more like New Orleans. A live band playing classic Louisiana tunes filled Plus Ultra II, and before anyone opened a slide deck, the room was filled with anticipation and curious students. Host Nathalie Mangelaa...

A Fragile Giant: Challenges and Opportunities in the Mississippi River Delta

At the southern edge of the United States, where the continent meets the Gulf of Mexico, lies one of the world’s most dynamic and troubled landscapes: the Mississippi River Delta. Once a land of abundance, this vast region of wetlands and waterways faces a...

The Netherlands in 2120

Climate change, urbanisation, biodiversity, rising sea levels, extreme weather and increasing food production: these are just a few of the factors that help shape the spatial planning of the Netherlands. There appears to be a need to look to the fu...

New challenge has students design a ‘nature-based future’

During the Nature-Based Future Challenge, students learn that nature is key to a hopeful, green future. This international challenge has students collaborating in a pressure cooker to develop a future perspective for a delta. How can the flames be fanned? ...