Walking through Groningen is walking through the Anthropocene, this era in which man puts his fingerprint everywhere. Nowhere in the Netherlands is it more visible than here. Groningen is our foreland. But what does that word mean? Foreland is a place and a time. It is the land before the dike and it is also the future that can already be suspected, but where we are not yet. This book is an invitation to walk with us through the centuries-old cultural landscape of Groningen and to read together the signs of a time to come. Four urgent themes are kept in sight: the rising water level, the impoverished biodiversity, the disappearing heritage and the warming earth. In Foreland, residents and experts collaborate on local solutions to these global problems. This book does not pretend to predict what tomorrow will be like, but is open as the landscape itself. The authors - researcher Christian Ernsten, journalist Marten Minkema and photographer Dirk-Jan Visser - offer a new lens through which to look at the Groningen that lies ahead.