Editorial Team

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Carola Hein

Carola Hein is Professor of History of Architecture and Urban Planning at Delft University of Technology, Professor at Leiden and Erasmus University and UNESCO Chair Water, Ports and Historic Cities. She has published widely in the field of architectural, urban and planning history and has tied historical analysis to contemporary development. Among other major grants, she received a Guggenheim and an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship. Her recent books include: Port City Atlas (2023), Oil Spaces (2021), Urbanisation of the Sea (2020), Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage (2020), The Routledge Planning History Handbook (2018) and Port Cities: Dynamic Landscapes and Global Networks (2011).

ISSUE EDITORS

Matteo D’Agostino

Matteo D’Agostino is a researcher at Delft University of Technology, a member of the PortCityFutures research group, and is affiliated with the UNESCO Chair for Water, Ports and Historic Cities. Matteo is a cultural anthropologist experienced in the analysis of perceptions and relational dynamics between public and private actors. His research focuses on understanding multiple structural, spatial and socio-economic factors as the basis for spatial planning and social interventions. Other interests include policy implementation for granting access to basic resources, such as water, and strategic reinterpretation of heritage by institutional and activist organizations.

Zuzanna Sliwinska

Zuzanna Sliwinska is a researcher with a background in architecture and urban planning. She focuses on the intersection of heritage preservation and water systems, with interest in climate change adaptation and socio-ecological interactions. Following her master’s degree at Delft University of Technology (cum laude), she did an internship at the World Heritage Centre focusing on World Heritage and climate change. She has since collaborated with the UNESCO Chair of Water, Ports, and Historic Cities on projects that develop frameworks for integrating water heritage into climate-resilient urban planning. She has also worked with interdisciplinary initiatives such as the PIREN-Seine scientific program at Sorbonne University, alongside leading self-initiated research projects. Zuzanna has been involved with the Blue Papers journal since its establishment and has held an editor role for the past two years.

Michele Tenzon

Michele Tenzon teaches and conducts research in architecture and architectural history. His work focuses on the history of global architecture, with particular attention to the ecological transformations shaped by the direct and indirect, tangible and intangible actions of imperialism, as well as by postcolonial relations and conditions. He is the author of the short book Designing the Rural-Urban Continuum (LetteraVentidue, 2024) and co-author of Architecture, Empire, and Trade (Bloomsbury, 2025).

SPECIAL GUEST EDITORS

Tino Mager is Assistant Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Groningen and President of ICOMOS Germany. Previously, he worked at the Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment at Delft University of Technology and has been a fellow of the Leibniz Association and the University of Queensland. He studied media technology in Leipzig and art history and communication science in Berlin, Barcelona and Tokyo. Tino is Secretary General of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Water and Heritage and has published widely on cultural heritage.

Mila Avellar Montezuma

 

PREVIOUS EDITORS, AND ASSISTANT EDITORS

Carlien Donkor: Vol. 3 No. 2 (2024), Vol. 3 No. 1 (2024), Vol. 2 No. 2 (2023), Vol. 2 No. 1 (2023), Vol. 1 No. 2 (2022), Vol. 1 No. 1 (2022)

Queenie Lin: Vol. 3 No. 1 (2024), Vol. 2 No. 2 (2023), Vol. 2 No. 1 (2023), Vol. 1 No. 2 (2022), Vol. 1 No. 1 (2022)

Julia Korpacka: Vol. 3 No. 1 (2024)

Hilde Sennema: Vol. 3 No. 1 (2024), Vol. 2 No. 2 (2023), Vol. 2 No. 1 (2023), Vol. 1 No. 2 (2022), Vol. 1 No. 1 (2022)

Foteini Tsigoni: Vol. 3 No. 2 (2024)

Kaiyi Zhu: Vol. 4 No. 1 (2025), Vol. 3 No. 2 (2024)

DEVELOPMENTAL EDITING: Molly Mullin.

GRAPHIC IDENTITY & LAYOUT: Zuzanna Sliwinska, Pelin Yalçin, Douwe de Jager, and Erkan Mestan, with the help of Conor Hunter.

Editorial Committee

  • Sarah Ahmed (Living Waters Museum)
  • Samuel Amos-Abanyie (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology)
  • Mila Avellar Montezuma (Delft University of Technology)
  • Vincent Baptist (Delft University of Technology)
  • Maaike van Berkel (Radboud University)
  • Teddy Chifumbano (World Youth Parliament for Water)
  • Arjan Conijn (Witteveen+Bos)
  • Tianchen Dai (East China Normal University | Delft University of Technology)
  • Paolo De Martino (IUAV | Delft University of Technology)
  • Bruno De Meulder (KU Leuven)
  • Eriberto Eulisse (Global Network of Water Museums | UNESCO Chair “Water Heritage, and Sustainable Development at Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
  • Sabina Favaro (University of the Witwatersrand)
  • John Hanna (Delft University of Technology)
  • Said Madani (University Ferhat Abbas of Setif)
  • Tino Mager (ICOMOS ISC Water Heritage | University of Groningen)
  • Rodrigo Manzione (UNESP | FCTE-Ourinhos)
  • Hélène Noizet (Université de Paris)
  • Christa Reicher (RWTH Aachen | UNESCO Chair Cultural Heritage and Urban Development)
  • Simon Richter (University of Pennsylvania | UNESCO Chair in Learning and Literacy)
  • Stephen Ramos (University of Georgia)
  • Kelly Shannon (KU Leuven)
  • Diana Suhardiman (Leiden University)
  • Mike Turner (Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem | UNESCO Chair in Urban Planning and Conservation Studies)
  • Karl Matthias Wantzen (Université Francois Rabelais | UNESCO Chair River Culture)