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Totaal Lokaal: what does the self-sufficient city of the future look like?

Title Lab: Totaal Lokaal (Totally Local)Design Question: What if… our cities were fully self-sufficient?Commisioner: Sweco Design Studio’s: Bram de Vos, Studio Floris Schoonderbeek & Studio Tjeerd VeenhovenPeriod: May 2022 – October 2022 Too wet or too dry, too hot or too cold, a scarcity of raw materials and too stressful. Does how we arrange our living environment […]

These designers will create an iconic entry for Eindhoven

Eindhoven is the design capital of the Netherlands, but this is not (yet) sufficiently 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 rest of the year? Eindhoven Design District (EDD) wants to change that! Daphna Laurens […]

These designers will transform public spaces in Jakarta

Meet the designers of What if Lab: sustainable public spaces! In the second collaboration with Erasmushuis Jakarta, Dutch and Indonesian designers will form a team to design a prototype for neighbourhoods in Indonesia that currently lack access to shared community spaces. On the 12th of June the Dutch designers, Pim van Baarsen and el KANTOOR, […]

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 […]

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 […]

A new vision for unused space under viaducts

What will the meeting space of the future look like? With this question, Sweco, Europe’s largest architectural and engineering firm, participated in the What if Lab: Well-being in the City in 2021. Of the diverse ideas submitted, a five-member panel chose the Shadow Spaces concept of Studio 1:1 in Rotterdam. Shadow Spaces introduces various elements […]