What if Lab

Design teams for the regenerative city

On May 31, the kick-off of What if Lab: The city that gives back took place. Sweco, together with the selected designers, tackled the question: How can we reduce the negative impact of urbanisation and make cities actively contribute to a healthy and sustainable living environment? Curious about who the selected designers are? Read on! […]

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Design team for future elderly care

The kick-off of What if Lab: Caring Neighbourhoods took place on Wednesday 29 May. The selected design studio morgenmakers will spend the next two years working with three care organisations, Archipel Zorggroep, Coloriet, and Curamare, on the central design question: ‘What if… there were caring communities, living together reciprocally?’ With growing awareness of our society’s […]

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Rethinking Shared Space in three minutes

In What if Lab: Rethinking Shared Space, designers, in collaboration with Sweco, made new choices for barn areas. Areas where industry opposes housing, mobility opposes liveability or nature opposes agriculture. Space & Matter, Starling Associates and cocosmos each developed future-proof, integral and adaptive solutions to shape the mixing of functions (mixed-use) in a positive and […]

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Open call: The giving city

We’re launching our fourth lab with Sweco, Europe’s largest architectural and engineering firm. This lab focuses on the regenerative city. More and more people are moving to cities. Currently, 55 per cent of the world’s population lives in urban areas. By 2050, this is expected to be nearly 70 per cent. This shift is rapidly […]

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Decommissioning wind turbines as a second chance

The design phase of What if Lab Upcycled Turbines is complete! Over the past few months, the four design studios dove into the world of wind turbines. They analysed the characteristics of various components and had discussions with thought leaders, industry experts, researchers, and other designers. Afterwards, the designers presented their concepts to Vattenfall and […]

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Open call: Caring Neighbourhoods

We are launching a new lab in collaboration with ActiZ! ActiZ is the branch association of around 400 healthcare organisations that care and nurse over 2 million vulnerable elderly and chronically ill people. The challenges associated with ageing cannot be solved with care alone. ActiZ is convinced that the whole of society and all parties involved have a […]

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What is What if Lab?

What if Lab is a platform where collaboration between designers and clients (industry, governments and institutes) is activated and facilitated? A platform that focuses on creative thinking for the design of our common future. What if Lab allows organisations to explore how design methodology can support them in developing and researching solutions for complex issues (in the long term).

Virtual tour Sustainable Public Spaces

The exhibition of What if Lab Sustainable Public Spaces is on display Erasmus House in Jakarta! The design team, consisting of Dutch and Indonesian...

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Decommissioning a windfarm, a goldmine of resources

On Tuesday 19 March, the concept presentations of the What if Lab: Upcycled Turbines in collaboration with Vattenfall will take place. The four participating...

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Labs

The giving city

We’re launching our fourth lab with Sweco, Europe’s largest architectural and engineering firm. This lab focuses on the regenerative...

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Caring Neighbourhoods

We are launching a new lab in collaboration with ActiZ! ActiZ is the branch association of around 400 healthcare...

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Upcycled Turbines

As the move towards a zero-energy system progresses, the demand for fossil-free electricity will increase significantly. At the same...

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