Tag: collaboration
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Landmakerskabinet
The ‘Landmakerskabinet’ is an installation of (fictive) tools that support ways of working on a future, more sustainable, cooperative and holistic practice and environment. It makes complex challenges tangible and manageable in a visual and slightly humouristic way. As such, the ‘Landmakerskabinet’ provides language and images to address the thresholds and pitfalls in the practice…
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The Wise City – summer school
From smart to wise To widen the debate about the future of the sustainable city and the focus on developing ‘Smart Cities’, the conceptual notion of The Wise City creates space for discussion about the paradigm shift and essential assets The Wise City should entail. What is needed for and in the Wise City is tested…
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Building for Biodiversity
A research project on nature inclusive urban development and architecture on a case-study in Amsterdam, Cruquius island, organized by ARCAM (Amsterdam Architectural Centre) and DS Landscape Architects. In this context I was part of a multidisciplinary team of architects, biologists, (urban) designers, historians and landscape architects who were collaborating in gaining and sharing (practical) knowledge…
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Design Circus
A mini-festival during the Dutch Design Week that took place in the temporary public park on the barren terrain of Volta Galvani. Nine days of activities in which the paths of local residents, designers and guests of the Dutch Design Week crossed each other in and around a big circus tent. The activities consisted of,…
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Hanging Table
Jewels & Joules was an exhibition at the Salone del Mobile Milano 2009 organised by Brainport Eindhoven and Design Academy Eindhoven. As part of a design research about ‘Food’ students from the Design Academy presented the ‘Brabantse koffietafel’ and developed the food that was served during the exhibition. The ‘Koffietafel’, or coffee table, is an…
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VERS
Stichting VERS focused on projects that make the urban development more socially embedded, and hence socially sustainable, through creative thinking, social design and creating events in collaboration with local residents and/or entrepreneurs, corporations and the municipality. VERS was a foundation and a collective of designers located in a former Turkish supermarket and butchery in Woensel…
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Raw // Rotten
Conceptual lunch during a presentation on waste, re-use and sustainability. Offering various fruits and vegetables, presented in a line that showed a gradual transformation from from unripe to rotten products, we explored pre-occupations of people towards (fresh) food. What do people consider to be the most attractive? What do they consider to be waste? During the lunch…