Within the setup of a collaborative multi-day workshop we investigated how these networks, with a strong focus on the main energy infrastructure, should anticipate on the changing future water level dynamics in the Netherlands. We took the concept, soil and water are leading, central in thinking about new forms of central and decentralized urbanization, agriculture, energy and economic networks. Through investigative zoom-ins on the regions Rijnmond and Arnhem-Nijmegen, these concepts where rendered in time and gave productive insight in the certain shifting future between east and west, between peat and sand and between low and high ground.