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Poo_David Dooghe
David Dooghe works as a researcher, strategist and designer mainly on urban questions.
The resulting projects can be temporary or long-term designs and strategies. These projects combine different scales and are characterized by their strong connection with the spatial, cultural, social and economical context of where they occur.
For David Dooghe the city is an organism. Questioning the organism and understanding its working principles is the path to a sustainable project.
For more information, click on the Project numbers:
P24_CityGallery Cool / P23_the Metropolitan Program / P22_House DDR'dam / P21_Soundpiece @ Schouwburgplein / P2o_between Space and Place / P19_the top is within reach / P18_Transformation as Inspiration / P17_the Art of an Urban Culture / P16_Youth and the City / P15_IFF@R'dam / P14_We love to build / P13_the Rotterdam urban theatre / P12_Caribbean Summer @Afrikaanderwijk / P11_Festivalscity_Rotterdam / P1o_TimeLine R'dam / Po9_Moving East / Po8_Keep it, Green it, Live in it! / Po7_Morpho-Logic / Po6_Luik, Liege,Luttich / Po5_House FDU'sel / Po4_Shelter / Po3_New Alliances / Po2_Tria / Po1_Loft for Rent
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P23_the Metropolitan Program
A design research that compares the development aspects in different metropolitan areas.What makes a big city a metropolis; it sublime location, its metro system, its inspiring history, its concentration of headquarters, its multicultural population, its exciting nightlife? With Randstad 2o4o and Randstad Urgent Program the demand for a effective spatial policy, aimed at a the forming of a metropolis is once again current.
The Metropolitan Program is a design research that investigates the development of the metropolis. By investigating different development aspects of a metropolis, at an international, regional and locale scale, Association Deltametropolis together with the Technical University of Delft and the local authority of spatial development Amsterdam, DRO acquires a better view on the possible further development of the Randstad. Deltametropolis is an association that strives to further develop the exposing metropolis in the west of The Netherlands.
DRO will focus on the local scale, TU Delft will focus on the regional scale, Deltametropolis will compare metropolises to question the development aspects and will focus on knowledge economy as one of these aspects.
2o1o, The Netherlands
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P22_House DDR'dam
A design for an urban apartment in cultural centre of Rotterdam.The owner of the apartment has a busy life and wants his apartment therefor to have a light, open atmosphere, a place to relax and to come to ease.
This L-shaped apartment therefor has a minimal of materials and colours. The spaces are open, in this space objects are placed which define different spaces. The objects are placed so the sunlight can fall deep into the apartment.
Plywood has been used as the combining factor. The floor becomes a layer above the kitchenblock, becomes a part of the built-in closet and turns up the wall to become a desk.
2o1o, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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P21_Soundpiece @ Schouwburgplein
Curating the sound gallery of the Schouwburgplein that reflects the cultural live of the city of Rotterdam.Since the NewCanvas©Poetry&Art, part of the 37 Poetry International Festival, there is a sound-installation, the Soundpiece, under the floor of the Schouwburgplein, Rotterdam. This installation was placed by the artists Jasper Niens, Kamiel Verschuren en Thijs Ewalts.
By order of Rotterdam Festivals, the new owners of the installation, a strategy was made for a sustainable use of this installation. The Soundpiece has the ability to make the Schouwburgplein the urban cultural foyer of Rotterdam. By sound, the rich and divere cultural life of Rotterdam is spread in the public space.
More information about the program / more information about the use of the Soundpiece/ to become a Facebookfriend.
2oo9, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Po4_Shelter
A design for 3 bunkers based on Plato’s allegory of the cave, that stimulates hearing, smell and touch.At the canal of Moerbrugge, 3 bunkers remain as relicts of World War II.
The bunkers are massive blocks of concrete; inside, the outside world seems vanished. After staying inside a while, the light and reality strikes you when you come out the bunker. This reminded me of the allegory of the cave, written by Plato.
Out of this allegory the design unfolds. Every bunker gets a different function, which focuses on one organ of sense.
The bunker of hearing: A room lets the sounds, coming from the industry at the other side of the canal, resonance through the room, creating the idea that the industry is bigger than it really is. Another room absorbs all the sounds immediately, giving a feeling of loneliness. In the last room all the sounds of the landscape are focussed to the place of the listener.
The bunker of smell; through the rooms of the bunker water of the canal is transferred. The roof is opened, allowing specific herbs and flowers to grow inside.
The bunker of touch shelters a sauna.
2oo4, Moerbrugge, Belgium
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P24_CityGallery Cool
A city experience exhibition in what might be the smallest gallery in the world.De Aanschouw Rotterdam started July 6th 2oo1 and is the first of art show-windows. It is located in a cultural area of Rotterdam. The show-window is attached to the exterior of a bar called 'de Schouw’. Since 2oo1, almost 4oo artists (national and international) have shown their works at 'de Aanschouw'.
CityGallery Cool sees Rotterdam as an open air museum and exhibits a new way to experience this museum, by drawing the attention of the spectator to the richness of detail that can be seen by walking through the city.
These details can be: proportions between the architecture and the details of the use of a building, personal expressions in the public space, natural versus cultural,...
De Aanschouw will be the starting point from where the total CityGallery Cool, positioned in the neighbourhood of the district Cool (Witte de Withstr., Boomgaardsstr., Kortenaerstr., Eendrachtstr.), can be experienced.
2o1o, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Defining the Metropolis
Association Deltametropolis invites interested parties to participate in the open source research about the development aspects of the metropolis: TimeLine.
Since 19oo until now, the world population multiplied by four and the percentage of people living in the city grew from 13 until more than 5o percent.
This is the century of cities!
Can we still use the word ‘city’? Because of the process of urbanisation, where cities fuse together more and more and form an urbanised region, new notions on the concept of the ‘city’ originate: World Cities (Patrick Geddes, 1915), Megalopolis (Lewis Mumford, 1938), Global Cities (Saskia Sassen, 1991),.... Together with these notions, new hierarchies on cities unfold, based on different development aspects of the metropolis.
A first quickscan of these new notions and hierarchies teach us that spatial, social-cultural, economical, political and technical-scientifical developments seem to influence the growth of the metropolis.
The first step is to put these different developments in the TimeLine (189o-2o2o), as well as on a worldwide scale and on the scale of the urbanised area between Amsterdam, Brussels and Cologne. As this TimeLine grows, the synergy between the different spatial, social-cultural, economical, political and technical-scientifical developments and the influence on these different developments on the growth of city to metropolis will be investigated.
To participate in this research, download the pdf, add your remarks and additions, together with the sources to the pdf and send it to programma@deltametropool.nl. A new adjusted version of the TimeLine will be put online every 2 weeks.
TimeLine is a part of the research: The Metropolitan Program.
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Work in progress: DDR'dam
view main room _ material floor: birch plywood
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Poetry meets Dance @ Soundpiece
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Sense & Surrounding
‘Where in society can we still use our senses to define our surroundings, instead of just being defined by them?’ Many of Olafur Eliasson’s installations are based on this question.
Photography: Bob Goedewaagen At this moment Eliasson has an exhibition is as well the Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin as in the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam. In both the exhibitions, Eliasson’s work shows the direct relationship between the viewers and their surroundings.
For the Berlin exhibition Innen Stadt Außen, Olafur Eliasson mainly focuses on the senses sight and balance. He plays with the perception of the viewers on their surroundings. Only in the mist rooms the dominant sense of sight becomes partly inactive, allowing the senses hearing and touch to define the surrounding.
The viewers of the Rotterdam exhibition Notion Motion become conscious of the possibilities for changing their surroundings. It is not the surroundings that play a central part, but the individual.
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Exhibition @ de Aanschouw
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A platform of thoughts
A new space: www.daviddooghe.com.
How can digital space be an addition to the actual space I mainly work on and live in? Thinking about this question was the start to create a new website.
More than just a digital portfolio I wanted to create a platform of thoughts, showing more profoundly the process of projects: the inspiration, the new insights during the process and the definitive realisation.
In the upper part of the webpage appear inspiring quotes I selected. The Updates column functions as the main platform of thoughts. The Concepts give more textual information about the project, the Projects more visual information. Specific information for whom and where I did the project can be found in the second column.
On the homepage the updates are ordered by time, to order them by project and to get more information about a specific project, click on the Project numbers.
The structure of the website was built by Jan Misker, the concept and visuals are by David Dooghe.
rojects
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P23_the Metropolitan Program
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P22_House DDR'dam
the L-shaped apartment
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the floor becomes a layer above the kitchenblock
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P21_Soundpiece @ Schouwburgplein
the rich and diverse cultural life of Rotterdam
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Po4_Shelter
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bunker of hearing
bunker of smell
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P24_CityGallery Cool
the experience map