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On Saturday November the 4th, Renny Ramakers will present her take on what is needed for the Future at the international immersive festival The Future in Dublin, Ireland. The Future invited Renny t...
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On the night of September the 7th during the 2nd edition of the Spotted public events series, the international Droog community was to Rethink Luxury by approaching it from very diverse perspective...
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This column was made for Rethink Luxury, the 2nd edition of the Spotted public events series in Hôtel Droog
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The design of Social City Beta is based on the dreams and desires which people all over the world share in our poll. It will constantly change with each new feedback. A detail of the city is the to...
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Jury members
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Co-existing architectural archetypes from around the globe become a necessity
by Editorial Team
design,
The design of Social City Beta is based on the dreams and desires which people all over the world share in our poll. It will constantly change with each new feedback. A detail of the city is the in...
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The design of Social City Beta is based on the dreams and desires which people all over the world share in our poll. It will constantly change with each new feedback. A detail of the city is the Wa...
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Imagine a micro-economy based on the exchange of values. Imagine a currency that is expressing your personal values, money that can be spend on non-monetary values of knowledge, sharing, volunteeri...
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Laetitia Smits van Oyen: "Give or Take? Technology urges Global Citizens to choose!"
by Editorial Team
reflection,
Droog invited social entrepreneur Laetitia Smits van Oyen to speak about the role of technology for ‘The Future of the Global Citizen’. Her column was part of Droog’s homonymous public event on Jun...
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The design of Social City Beta is based on the dreams and desires which people all over the world share in our poll. It will constantly change with each new feedback. A detail of the city is the Su...
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No to kitchen gardens, Yes to fruit trees, Yes to rocks, and a Big Yes for the tunnel becoming a meeting place. This is the feedback of residents in Amsterdam Nieuw-West on our proposals to enhance...
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During the Economia Festival (April 28-30) at NatLab Eindhoven visitors should prepare themselves to be flooded with cash. Not the kind of cash that we are used to in our daily lives, but a currenc...
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What would your street look like if you actually had your say? This is the question we posed to residents in and around the Derkinderenstraat in Amsterdam Nieuw-West. The replies varied from ‘a poo...
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Laying the Groundwork for the Start-up Accelerator by and for Young Dapperbuurt Entrepreneurs
by Editorial Team
news, projects,
On the January 23rd Design+Desires organized the ‘Dappere Ondernemers’ (brave entrepreneurs) public meeting in Amsterdam. Young entrepreneurs, residents, and business people from in- and outside th...
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What does it really take to be an entrepreneur? The aim of Dapper(e) Ondernemers (brave entrepreneurs) is to create a valuable connection between young entrepreneurs and experienced entrepreneurs i...
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Dapper(e) Ondernemers
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Design+Desires is commissioned by the City of Amsterdam to develop a poster campaign in Amsterdam-East to showcase the vitality and passion young self-employed individuals have in running their own...
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‘Re-dreaming the Street’ is a research-and-do project which Design+Desires is conducting in the Amsterdam Nieuw-West neighbourhood. The project is commissioned by the City of Amsterdam.
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Young people would rather be self-employed than work for a boss under fixed employment.
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At the 4th Mercado Arte Design (MADE) in São Paulo (Brazil), Droog presenterd ‘From Screw to City’. The exhibition captured Droog’s story that lives through more than 23 years, a design company tha...
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Social City beta is a first proposal for a future city designed by TD architects. They took all the the dreams and desires of city dwellers worldwide from the poll and made a first design of this d...
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Sunday June 26, the Design+Desires program and its various projects will be explained by Suki (Droog/Designs+Desires) for a live audience at the talkshow 'Kamera Kultura' in Het Nutshuis, The Hague...
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At the head of Java island in Amsterdam's former eastern harbor, against the curious backdrop of two giant floating tourist resorts, lies an improvised temporary city. It is comprised of around 50 ...
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Are you shopping online or offline? Or both? How do you see shopping change in the future?
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A competition open to all international designers, thinkers, architects, artists, creatives, city-dwellers, enthusiasts - professional or otherwise - to design a city based on real citizen desires....
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Based on the answers to the initial poll that you gave when you joined Social City, architect office TD designed "Treehousewaterboatappartmenthammocktower." It could be built! But is is what you wa...
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The city of Amsterdam has asked the Design+Desires team to use its unique research-and-do method for exploring the wishes and needs of Dapperbuurt youngsters with regard to work. We targeted more t...
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Jonas Staal: "The Stateless Parliament fuels day to day self-governance"
by Editorial Team
reflection
Social citizens want to rule their city themselves, says our poll. But how could a bottom up governmental model actually function? We talked to Dutch artist Jonas Staal about his New World Summit o...
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What does your ideal city square look like? Click below to select your preferred options or add your own ideas!
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Although endlessly diverse in demographics and urban desires, many Social Citizens consider themselves impassionate risk-takers.
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Are robots a blessing or a threat to humans? What do you think? Click the poll below to select your preferred options or add your own ideas!
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Social City would be a workshop-dotted city inhabited by creative citizens.
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Social City team went on a #STREETTALK expedition in the city of Amsterdam, to reach non web-users. Common citizens were asked the following questions: How do you want to rule your City?
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Windmills, solar panels, robots doing the work and the internet-of-everything: Social City would be well equipped with technology.
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This is one of the questions in our quiz. We received a lot of ideas. The best we share with you. What do you think? You can also add your own dreams.
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This week’s update is about urban governance. The citizens of Social City want to be in charge, instead of having national governments, big companies or computers to rule their cities. In the poll...
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This week’s update is about mobility: how would you like to move around in Social City and use space if there were no cars at all?
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Interactive installation Babel by Mark van der Net shows the urban dynamics of social media
by Editorial Team
mapping
Part of the Social City exhibition at UABB are two interactive installations by architect and computer programmer Mark van der Net. The installations describe the energy of two great neighbouring c...
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This week’s update is about the coexistence of nature and the city: the majority of Social Citizens is eager to have as much nature as possible. How do we reconnect cities to nature?
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Part of the Social City exhibition at the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture are soft maps by artist Jan Rothuizen describing the homes, lives and desires of four Shenzhen citizens.
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The Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (UABB) in Shenzhen invited Renny Ramakers to be the co-curator of Re-Living the City - the 6th edition. She curated the Social City exhibition, which c...
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Part of the Social City exhibition at the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture is a forward-looking model of a building block that satisfies the desires of all Social Citizens by architect off...
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The expression “I am a Shenzhener” embodies the optimism of the upcoming generation of entrepreneurs, high-tech experts, craftsmen, architects, and others residents of the city of tomorrow.
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This week’s poll update: streets and benches are liked, but squares score best as favourite public space. How can we use them optimally?
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A majority of Social Citizens likes social control over other safety measures, while CCTV and gated communities are both favoured by one in ten people. One in five says they don't need any control....
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Farid Tabarki: "The 21st century is not only bottom-up but also horizontal"
by Editorial Team
reflection
Farid Tabarki responds to the text "How dreams, passions and desires of city dwellers can shape a city", arguing that knowledge is key.
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In response to the text 'Borderless identities in an urban world', Koert Debeuf describes cities as places for opportunities.
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We need a system which allows for rules to be modified and changed with more ease and fluidity.
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The beta version of the Socialcities.org online platform, the predecessor of designdesires.nl, was launched during the Next City Living Lab at the Beijing Design Week (BJDW, 23/9 – 7/10, 2015) in C...
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Virtual research community Beijing City Lab recently published visualised data based on the latest census, giving insight into the dynamics and evolution of Beijing as a city. Visualising enormous ...
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In the fall of 2014 the Design+Desires team conducted a pilot study of its method via a Fall semester course option studio at the Architecture Art Planning Department of Cornell University (Ithaca,...