IGA Metropole Ruhr 2027 Dortmund

The north of Duisburg along the Emscher River to Huckarde is marked by the industrial development of the last century. The former Deusenberg landfill and the site of the Hansa coking plant are important testimonies to this heavily deformed landscape. The result is a man-made landscape rife with technological structures, traffic routes and other relics of the coal and steel industries.

The infrastructure landscape is colliding with a dynamically developing, largely unstructured post-industrial nature landscape. These exciting contrasts create a worthy point of departure for the development of a future park in the north of Dortmund – one that combines water management, phytoremediation, climate resilience and biodiversity in an exemplary way. Both the existing relics of industrial culture and the recultivation processes already underway will be integrated into the future park as legible traces of the past and will be supplemented by new recreational uses.