What

This website presents four possible futures for Ghent in 2040.

These scenarios don’t come out of thin air. The were carefully scripted using different kind of building blocks collected with several experts and over onehundred local civil servants. Their insights about possible futures for Ghent in the domains of mobility, energy, labour, social cohesion, culture, leisure… were scripted into the scenarios. Additionally, we used insights from our own trend- and emergin issues-research.

We wish you an interesting read of ‘Four scripts for Ghent 2040. People and technology in the city of the future’.