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Ilse Vansevenant

Ilse Vansevenant

City of Bruges public-domain design and water management expert working on the Blue4Green urban water-resilience project, and guest on the Cities Reimagined podcast.

Sep 21, 2026

Cities Reimagined

Cities Reimagined

Reimagining Bruges' Historic Waters - with Ilse Vansevenant and Frederik Roelens

Sep 21 · 36m

Johannes Riegler
Johannes RieglerHOST
11:43
What's the challenge with the water for Bruges?
Ilse Vansevenant
Ilse VansevenantGUEST
11:47
Yeah, well, there's a lot of challenges.
Ilse Vansevenant
Ilse VansevenantGUEST
11:49
We are one of the...
Ilse Vansevenant
Ilse VansevenantGUEST
11:51
Flanders is one of the driest regions in Europe.
Ilse Vansevenant
Ilse VansevenantGUEST
11:55
So we also have a problem with that.
Ilse Vansevenant
Ilse VansevenantGUEST
12:00
It's double.
Ilse Vansevenant
Ilse VansevenantGUEST
12:02
We have the water in the rain, but we don't do anything with it.

20 MINS LATER

Johannes Riegler
Johannes RieglerHOST
32:32
What would you recommend?

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