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Tropicana used to be an iconic building on the Maasboulevard in Rotterdam. Since 1988 functioning as a recreation resort and ment to give the people of Rotterdam an opportunity to go on a day trip without spending the night. It was a promise of a tropical experience, a true aquatic paradise. Due to deferred maintenance the building was fined in 2007 by the government, it was not safe anymore to enjoy your morning dive here. Some restoration repairs were done to maintain the happy activities. In the summer of 2010 Tropicana closed it's doors to be renovated to an in 2011 opening Events Hall. That never happened. Eventually a few factors caused bankruptcy in 2011. The aquatic paradise was never to be experienced again, which was and still is a big disappointment by it's visitors.
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=== Tropicana, from a dream in decay to an opportunity for change? ===
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Over the past century, most cities have become agglomerations of monofunctional districts which are basically disconnected from each other. Residential neighbourhoods, industrial estates, office complexes, farming districts and recreational areas are spatially delimited by administrative boundaries, making it harder to make good use of their mutual presence. The ever-increasing flow of goods, energy, water, food and even capital is disconnected from the location where these are created, contributing to endless transportation, traffic congestion, waste of energy and pollution. In a special masterclass at the WdKA Redesigning Business event (November 2014), an interdisciplinary group of students sought ways to promote the exchange between existing flows by making smart new connections: the main requirement of an ecosystem. The host of this masterclass was Rotterzwam, a local mushroom farming business which grows mushrooms on left-over coffee grounds. We used their business case as a starting point for a proposal in which a former sub-tropical swimming paradise is turned into a centre for innovation: sustainable, connecting and regenerative.  
  
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It looks very different nowadays compared to what it was. Tropicana as well, has become a tropical island which is trashed. A dream in decay. It became a failure because industrialization, business strategies and self-eager money-loving people made the word unable to deal with the consequences. What once was a paradise became a symbol of needed change.
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The masterclass took place in Tropicana, an iconic building on the river Maas in Rotterdam that was built in 1988. It was a promise of a tropical experience, a true aquatic paradise. The lack of maintenance and plans to redevelop it into an event centre meant that Tropicana closed its doors in the summer of 2010. Bankruptcy in 2011 meant that the redevelopment never happened and the building became a dream in decay. At the moment though, smaller scale, but maybe more interesting, developments are happening on the site. It now serves as a temporary location for various businesses and has a restaurant and a bar as well as facilities for roasting coffee and farming oyster mushrooms on left-over coffee grounds. Can this landmark become a metaphor for new ways of thinking, sharing, working and relaxing all with an important focus on recycling as well as on research into flows of goods, energy, water, food and even capital? Can we make smart connections between local surpluses, shortages and bottlenecks, thus creating new functions and business cases for Tropicana?
  
  
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Mark Slegers & all co-workers of Rotterzwam, host and inspirator
 
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Rechtstreex, for the lovely local lunch
 
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Norbert Bol, Director of Grondmij capital invest.
 
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Mark Bode, WDKA
 
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Hans Huurman, gemeente Rotterdam
 
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Dave Geensen, poppodium Rotterdam
 
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The participating students Bouwkunde minor dIB, Minor social practice WDKA en studenten social economy, erasmus universiteit
 
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Superuse Studios
 
  
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=== Trashure island ===
 
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During the past century, most cities have become agglomerations of monofunctional districts which are basically disconnected from each other. Residential neighbourhoods, industrial estates, office complexes, farming districts and recreational areas are spatially delimited by administrative boundaries, making it harder to make good use of their mutual presence. The ever-increasing flow of goods, energy, water, food and even capital is disconnected form the location where these are created, contributing to endless transportation, traffic congestion, waste of energy and pollution.
 
  
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In Trashure island  we  learned how to promote the exchange between existing flows, by making smart new connections – the main requirement of an ecosystem. You will also be learning which business models are relevant to these strategies.The former tropical swimming paradise Tropicana is now the temporary location for various businesses including a restaurant and a bar, as well as facilities for roasting coffee and farming oyster mushrooms. The host of the  master class is Mark Slegers, cofounder  Rotterzwam,  the local mushroom farming business which grows mushrooms on coffee grounds. This is a working business case which we took as a starting point for transforming Rotterdam’s Topicana into a centre for innovation: sustainable, connecting and regenerative. This Rotterdam landmark is a metaphor for new ways of thinking, sharing, working and relaxing, with an important focus on recycling as well as research into flows of goods, energy, water, food and even capital. The masterclass resulded in connections between local surpluses, shortages and bottlenecks, thus creating new functions and business cases for Tropicana.
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During the master class, experts in blue economy,  finace, city farming and metabolim visit the masterclass in Topicana  to share their expertise, to question ideas, and to provide these ideas with ‘feed-forward’.
 
  
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The city of Rotterdam has high ambitions for sustainability. Why not use Tropicana as a building that represents sustainable development and give the building back its iconic status?! Tropicana could become 'Trashure Island', an island which will share and show sustainable ideas, mainly focussing on how to reuse waste flows. This would create a circular economy. It will be an ecosystem consisting of a lab and a knowledge centre where local people can learn by doing and where innovation and experimentation can take place. This way the mindset of people can change and it will be a new kind of education. This results in BIY: a Blue It Yourself economy. The waste flows of a concert stage, which will soon be added to the building, and the restaurant will also be a part of the circular ecosystem. The building's waste flows and trash and unemployed people become the new gold. Trash becomes treasure.  It is an innovative way of creating awareness for sustainability for the people of Rotterdam and eventually for the rest of the world. This way, people can be introduced to the blue economy in an innovative and educative way (further explained in our video & images) and presentation of a case study in which we present Treasure Beer, a new beer brand that could be consumed as well produced in Tropicana (see video advertorial).
  
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One of the major problems in the world is waste. Wandering materials that are not absorbed back in the earths ecosystems, neither after incineration. Let´s take the tropical islands for example. When you think of tropical islands, you often imagine white beaches, a clear blue sea and lots of palm trees. However, reality is different. There is a lot of pollution because of the oil industry, the production of plastics but also trash that´s being dumped into the oceans and other places around the world. All these waste problems mostly occur from the acts of the linear economy. In case of a linear economy a big amount of products are being produced to fulfill our over-consumerist needs but we do not consider thinking about these waste flows. This results in a huge plastic soup in the oceans and washed materials, which used to be treasures in a previous life. A very different picture of our tropical islands than we imagined. We, the people who produce all this waste, are responsible for the consequences. We are trashing our Mother Earth.
 
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Rotterdam has recently been chosen as main capital of Europe, mainly because the city is a leader in sustainability. Why not use Tropicana as a building that represents sustainable development and give the building the iconic status back?!
 
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Tropicana will be Trashure Island, an island which will share and show sustainable ideas, mainly focussing on how to reuse waste flows. This creates a circular economy. It will be an ecosystem consisting of a lab and a knowledge centre where local people can learn by doing and where innovation and experiments can take place. This way the mindset of people can be changed and will be a new kind of educating. This results in BIY: Blue it yourself- economy. The waste flows of the the poppodium, which will soon be in the building, and the restaurant will also be a part of the circular ecosystem. This way, waste flows, trash and unemployed people become the new gold. Trasher becomes treasure again.  It is an innovative way of creating awareness for sustainability for the people of Rotterdam and eventually for the rest of the world. This way, people can be introduced to the blue economy in an innovative way of education.
 
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This schedule shows how the ecosystem functions and which flows are a part of this system. It consists of a natural and a social flow. The natural flow has an input existing of waste, sunlight, water and air. These flows enter the system and transform into products, made by different stakeholders. These stakeholders can benefit from each other’s products, waste and rest flows. In this way, a circular ecosystem emerges.
 
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The social circle shows how people asinput, create knowledge and experience. The people that participate in the system transform energy into value. This value is very important for the social system of Rotterdam and can eventually reach the rest of the world. The value here is global knowledge, local awareness, and social prosperity trough sustainable thinking.
 
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Trashure Island is positioned in the iconic building Tropicana. The location has many special qualities, like the positioning of the building by the Maas. The most iconic element of the building is the glass dome, turning the building into a greenhouse. Because of the vast amount of space there are opportunities for the less fortunate cultures such as housing meetings.
 
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Because of the many possibilities with the available space this will be the ideal place to start an educational lab. The basement is very useful for producing certain types of products with remained parts of the installation of the former swimming pool. The qualities are connected on Trashure Island. If you combine all these qualities, you will get a circular ecosystem in which waist flows will be transformed into useful resources.
 
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The height differences (as seen below) are useful when dividing the available space in areas for walking space and areas for growing products.
 
  
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[[File:mcce afbeelding 3.jpg|This schedule shows how the ecosystem functions and the flows that are a part of this system. It consists of a natural and a social flow. The natural flow has an input consisting of waste, sunlight, water and air. These flows enter the system and transform into products, made by different stakeholders. These stakeholders can benefit from each other's products, waste and other flows. A circular ecosystem will emerge in this setting. The social circle shows how people become input, and create knowledge and experience. The people that participate in the system transform energy into value. This value is very important for the social system of Rotterdam and can eventually reach the rest of the world. The value here is global knowledge, local awareness, and social prosperity through sustainable thinking.]]
 
   
 
   
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[[File:mcce_hights.jpg|Trashure Island benefits from natural resources such as the sun, rain and water of the Maas that provide the building with energy and heat and regulates the temperature.]]
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[[File:mcce_stream1.jpg|Flows of production; The leftovers of the restaurant can be recycled in the lab of Trashure Island and recreated into new products. The time and effort that will be invested in the building will make it possible to produce knowledge for the workers and visitors. This information and knowledge can be passed on to other people and so on.]]
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Trashure Island profits from natural sources such as the sun, rain and water of the Maas that provide the building of energy and heat and regulates the temperature.
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[[File:mcce_stream2.jpg|The restaurant provides waste, urine (from which valuable phosphorous can be harvested) and thermic for the lab. The concert stage provides energy and CO2. The dance floor of the concert stage provides electricity that we use for production in the lab.]]
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The leftovers of the restaurant can be recycled in the lab of Trashure Island and recreated to new products. The time and effort that will be invested in the building will make it possible to produce knowledge for the workers and visitors. This information and knowledge can be passed on to other people and so on.
 
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The restaurant provides waist, urine (from which valuable phosphor can be harvested) and thermic for the lab. The poppodium provides energy and CO2. The dance floor of the Poppodium provides electricity that we use for production in the lab.  
 
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The lab provides the restaurant and poppodium of visitors, oxygen, food, drinks and energy.
 
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Trashure Island generates food, drinks, compost, biogas (for cars) and knowledge for the people. Money is generated when visitors who pay an entrance fee and when what is produced is sold to small businesses and individuals.
 
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The area under  the dome can be turned into a greenhouse and thus be made more attractive for visitors. The swimming pools could be used for production cases for plants or house water with fish that can be used as compost or food for later use elsewhere in Trashure Island. The more multi-functionality is mixed within the lab, the better a circular ecosystem could be realized. Examples of using the swimming pool are shown in the drawing.
 
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=== Program ===
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After subdivide all participants into four different groups, program group had the task to think about processes that could be placed within the concept of Trashure Island. Tropicana was once an icon and we would like to give the iconic status back in a different way.  
 
  
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We figured the ability of the Tropicana building was like a greenhouse, because of the dome of glass and the capability of the basement to storage and filter rainwater.
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We will explain different processes and projects that we could put in the building of Tropicana. We had a few possibilities that we could apply there. First of all Trashure Island will serve as an institution with lectures, what could educate people and companies from Rotterdam. Trashure Island will become a hatchery of knowledge.
 
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• Tropicana: serve of basic need of clean water, fresh air and fertile soil.
 
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* Mushrooms (Rotterzwam)
 
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An already existing concept is Aquaponics. This is a food production system that creates an ecosystem with the vision less is more. You can create a closed ecosystem where the only thing you will need is sunlight, water and air.
 
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Now in our system we have the advantage that we can use the waste of the city Rotterdam. Now you will get even more products with no costs whatsoever. For example: Beer made out of leftover bread and sugars from leftover fruits. The only thing you will have to add is water and with that you can make your own Trashure Beer.
 
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If you have a working ecosystem the basic needs are sunlight and rainwater to produce products. We will also have the luxury to use the leftover food from companies in Rotterdam. These leftovers will be divided in two groups.
 
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Food that is still useable will be served in the Aloha bar and you can be used for certain products. For example you can use orange peel, coffee –grounds, fruits, potato peels etc.
 
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And the second group will be food that has started to rot witch can be used as compost for farming.
 
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We will collect rainwater from the 10.000 m2 roof surface witch will filter and use in our products as well as for farming. Animals like chickens, fish and insects will live in our ecosystem and we can also harvest products from them.
 
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Next to the ecosystem we will process waste. Such like biological waste what we will compost if it’s rotten or give a new life as meal. In this way we make treasure from trash. There are a lot of supermarkets, restaurants, school and house holdings in Rotterdam which throw away on date or damaged food. We could collect that by ‘bakfiets’ and we will process it in Tropicana.
 
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In our lab we will classify the food as edible or compostable. The meals could be served to less fortunate people and the compost will we use for growing our own vegetables / agriculture.
 
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How can this ecosystem create value for the society?
 
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Surpassing dominant organizations in the industrial process and focusing on local and sustainable production.
 
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Create a win-win-win-win situation: cheaper, local and sustainable production in a circular economy.
 
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For people to take responsibility of their whole company or household.
 
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Creating a knowledge center for experimentation and education. Give people the tools to take responsibility and reduce their waste themselves.
 
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What’s the problem
 
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The problem is waste. We use our resources and throw away products that can be used again.
 
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We will make local citizens aware of their waste problem. For example, when they are financially short at the end of the month we will give them Re- and upcycle tools to help them save money. The way they view their trash has to be turned around in seeing it as a resource. By giving them jobs throughout the whole circular production process, the time they create waste at home: in both talent, energy and in terms of resources, will be reduced.
 
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A Possible idea:  a form of ‘deposit fees’. Show them the value of their waste.
 
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To turn this into action they need proof that it really saves money. Show them a fun, easy and accessible way to do this.
 
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Within the ecosystem there is room for initiatives by anyone who sees them.
 
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The local companies pay to get rid of their waste. This ecosystem would like to take those waste products for free. This is an advantage for both parties. Besides that, the involvement in sustainable and blue economy activities might be good for the brand and image of these companies.
 
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Entrepreneurs can start a business here when they have an idea that fits within the ecosystem.
 
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Because of the advantages there could be support from the municipality. Local can get incentives to support this ecosystem, for example through tax incentives.
 
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Knowledge and Education
 
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A lot of things are still unknown within the bleu economy. There is a lot of room to grow. There will be room for scientists to come up and test new ideas.
 
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The knowledge that is produced within this ecosystem will be exchanged with the outside world.
 
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Children are the future. This is why it’s so important that they will be educated about the circular and blue production process.
 
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Knowledge will be shared through workshops and by creating a podium for discussions and debates.
 
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This new way of production could also attract a new kind of tourists. This eco-tourism will consists of people who love to see the idea of bleu economy in reality. In the long-term this could turn into the demand for (eco)hotels, food and souvenirs.
 
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Everythin will come together in our business case.
 
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Tourists and companies bring income as money and get information and knowledge in return.
 
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Unemployed people give time and get knowledge in return.
 
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Schools can come so the youth can be educated.
 
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Products produced in Tropicana can be sold.
 
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A circular economy will be created within Tropicana and with its surroundings.
 
  
  
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''The participating students came from: Bouwkunde minor dIB, Minor social practices WdKA and Cultural Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam.''
  
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Tropicana, a true aquatic paradise
New strategies such as the Blue Economy (Gunter Pauli) and Sustainism (Michael Schwarz and Diana Krabbendam) propose solutions to ecological, economic and social crises. These movements see local materials (waste products, local communities & expertise) as valuable assets, transforming linear processes into circular processes and valuing long-term performance over short-term gain. What are working business models for these types of reorganisations?

Author: Students Masterclass The Circular Economy

Tropicana, from a dream in decay to an opportunity for change?

Over the past century, most cities have become agglomerations of monofunctional districts which are basically disconnected from each other. Residential neighbourhoods, industrial estates, office complexes, farming districts and recreational areas are spatially delimited by administrative boundaries, making it harder to make good use of their mutual presence. The ever-increasing flow of goods, energy, water, food and even capital is disconnected from the location where these are created, contributing to endless transportation, traffic congestion, waste of energy and pollution. In a special masterclass at the WdKA Redesigning Business event (November 2014), an interdisciplinary group of students sought ways to promote the exchange between existing flows by making smart new connections: the main requirement of an ecosystem. The host of this masterclass was Rotterzwam, a local mushroom farming business which grows mushrooms on left-over coffee grounds. We used their business case as a starting point for a proposal in which a former sub-tropical swimming paradise is turned into a centre for innovation: sustainable, connecting and regenerative.

The masterclass took place in Tropicana, an iconic building on the river Maas in Rotterdam that was built in 1988. It was a promise of a tropical experience, a true aquatic paradise. The lack of maintenance and plans to redevelop it into an event centre meant that Tropicana closed its doors in the summer of 2010. Bankruptcy in 2011 meant that the redevelopment never happened and the building became a dream in decay. At the moment though, smaller scale, but maybe more interesting, developments are happening on the site. It now serves as a temporary location for various businesses and has a restaurant and a bar as well as facilities for roasting coffee and farming oyster mushrooms on left-over coffee grounds. Can this landmark become a metaphor for new ways of thinking, sharing, working and relaxing all with an important focus on recycling as well as on research into flows of goods, energy, water, food and even capital? Can we make smart connections between local surpluses, shortages and bottlenecks, thus creating new functions and business cases for Tropicana?


From a sub-tropical paradise to a dream in decay


Trashure Island

The city of Rotterdam has high ambitions for sustainability. Why not use Tropicana as a building that represents sustainable development and give the building back its iconic status?! Tropicana could become 'Trashure Island', an island which will share and show sustainable ideas, mainly focussing on how to reuse waste flows. This would create a circular economy. It will be an ecosystem consisting of a lab and a knowledge centre where local people can learn by doing and where innovation and experimentation can take place. This way the mindset of people can change and it will be a new kind of education. This results in BIY: a Blue It Yourself economy. The waste flows of a concert stage, which will soon be added to the building, and the restaurant will also be a part of the circular ecosystem. The building's waste flows and trash and unemployed people become the new gold. Trash becomes treasure. It is an innovative way of creating awareness for sustainability for the people of Rotterdam and eventually for the rest of the world. This way, people can be introduced to the blue economy in an innovative and educative way (further explained in our video & images) and presentation of a case study in which we present Treasure Beer, a new beer brand that could be consumed as well produced in Tropicana (see video advertorial).

This schedule shows how the ecosystem functions and the flows that are a part of this system. It consists of a natural and a social flow. The natural flow has an input consisting of waste, sunlight, water and air. These flows enter the system and transform into products, made by different stakeholders. These stakeholders can benefit from each other's products, waste and other flows. A circular ecosystem will emerge in this setting. The social circle shows how people become input, and create knowledge and experience. The people that participate in the system transform energy into value. This value is very important for the social system of Rotterdam and can eventually reach the rest of the world. The value here is global knowledge, local awareness, and social prosperity through sustainable thinking.

Trashure Island benefits from natural resources such as the sun, rain and water of the Maas that provide the building with energy and heat and regulates the temperature.

Flows of production; The leftovers of the restaurant can be recycled in the lab of Trashure Island and recreated into new products. The time and effort that will be invested in the building will make it possible to produce knowledge for the workers and visitors. This information and knowledge can be passed on to other people and so on.

The restaurant provides waste, urine (from which valuable phosphorous can be harvested) and thermic for the lab. The concert stage provides energy and CO2. The dance floor of the concert stage provides electricity that we use for production in the lab.

The lab provides the restaurant and concert stage with visitors, oxygen, food, drinks and energy.

Trashure Island generates food, drinks, compost, biogas (for cars) and knowledge for people. Money is generated from entrance fees and sales of produce to small businesses and individuals.


The participating students came from: Bouwkunde minor dIB, Minor social practices WdKA and Cultural Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

This masterclass was hosted and guided by Rotterzwam, organised by Floris Schiferli (Superuse Studios Rotterdam) and located in Tropicana, Maasboulevard 100, Rotterdam.

With special thanks to: Mark Slegers & all co-workers of Rotterzwam (host and inspirer), Rechtstreex (for the lovely local lunch), Norbert Bol (Director of Grondmij capital investment), Mark Bode (Business Station WDKA), Hans Huurman (gemeente Rotterdam), Dave Geensen (poppodium Rotterdam).

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