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These design studios will tackle mixed-use areas

In already the third What if Lab in collaboration with Sweco, Starling Associates, Space&Matter, and cocosmos will each be working on their own concept or solution for future-proof living, working, and living environments in areas with friction. Areas where industry is opposed to housing, mobility to liveability or nature to agriculture, where mixed-use functions take […]

Open call: Welcome to Eindhoven Design District

A new open call is live! This time in collaboration with Eindhoven Design District. Eindhoven is the design capital of the Netherlands, but this is not (yet) adequately visible to everyone. In October, during Dutch Design Week, you see design everywhere in the city. But where in the public space do you see it the […]

Open call: Sustainable Public Spaces

Calling for Dutch and Indonesian designers! For this lab, we’re looking for designers who will work together to create sustainable solutions co-designed with residents that tackle Jakarta’s lack of public spaces. Are you who we’re looking for? Jakarta is one of the most densely populated megacities on earth. With 10,560,000 citizens on 662 km2 and […]

Multifunctional bridges for city life

Amsterdam municipality manages around 1,800 bridges and 600 kilometres of quays. The many bridges and quay walls connect neighbourhoods and districts and give the city character. Many are not meant for the heavy traffic that crosses them these days. One option to save the bridges is to close them to car and truck traffic. But […]

Totally Local summarised in three minutes

In May 2022, in collaboration with Sweco, we called on designers to design a groundbreaking application for the self-sufficient city in five years. What role does sustainability play in the city of the future? What do new living environments look like? And what new services and types of buildings can we expect? In What if […]

The self-sufficient city in five years

What role does sustainability play in the city of the future? What do new living environments look like? What new services and types of buildings can we expect? What will the system be for energy, mobility, food, clean water, nature, materials and living? In May 2022, in collaboration with Sweco, we called on designers to […]