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 organic. Questioning the city and understanding its working principles is the path to a sustainable project.

For more information, click on the Project numbers:

P27_the International Perspectives / P26_Economics of Beauty / P25_the Vibrant City / P24_CityGallery Cool / P23_Defining the Metropolis / 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 

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.

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2oo9, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

The International Perspectives (tIP) consist of a series of seven public lectures with inspiring international speakers, and seven private expert meetings, which displays inspiring examples of urban functions in the metropoles of the world. The series will take place from September 2o11 to March 2o12 and are organised around 7 themes: cultural clusters, knowledge clusters, flagship developments, self-organising city, social network city, international organisations and attractive city.

tIP is organised in cooperation with the various universities in Randstad Holland. The tIP results will be input for the final debate and a publication, both planned for spring 2o12

Related project: P23_Defining the Metropolis

2o11, Randstad Holland, The Netherlands

What makes a big city a metropolis; its sublime location, its metro system, its inspiring history, its concentration of headquarters, its multicultural population or its exciting nightlife? Defining the Metropolis is a design research which investigates the development of the metropolis. By examining several aspects of metropolitan development - at an international, regional and local scale - Association Deltametropolis in collaboration with the universities situated in the Randstad Holland acquires more insight into the possible further development of the Randstad Holand.

More thought given to the further development of the Randstad Holland - an urbanised area of 8 million inhabitants - from the angle of what appeals to people in a metropolis is needed. The population growth of the Randstad Holland is expected to occur by immigration and migration of youngsters out of the periphery into the cities. For these groups employment, education, acquaintances and kindred spirits are the main reasons for staying. If the Randstad Holland is to compete with other urban agglomerations employment, housing and facilities must be of top reputation.

Related project: P27_the International Perspectives

2o1o, Randstad Holland, The Netherlands

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. In the main open space objects are put which define different places. These 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

The municipality of Rotterdam wants her city to be an attractive city for the inhabitants, workers, entrepreneurs, students and visitors. The Economic Development Board Rotterdam supports this ambition and started the project Economics of Beauty to support the municipality with the realisation of this ambition. David Dooghe is a member of the team Economics of Beauty.

The project Economics of Beauty starts of the hypotheses that the quality and the beauty of the inner city has an economic surplus value. The team Economics of Beauty will work an empiric and numerous support of this hypotheses and translate this to plan of action. What manifest actions and measures need to be taken en who (public & private sector, institutions,...)  is leading in the different parts of this process?

Related project: P25_ the Vibrant City

2o11, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Photo by Fred Ernst

“Flagship Developments demonstrate a big symbolic capacity: not just through huge icons and mega events, but also as strong symbols which relate to urban histories. It is therefore important to take the individual identity of cities into account when implementing these type of projects.”

“Flagship projects exist due to the public debate surrounding them: public participation, at the right scale, combined with media, cultural and social organisations is what keeps them alive.”

“The La Défense story illustrates how, for first time ever, the working scale was altered. Unlike before, where developments were strictly run by the dominating axes, developments were now created through connections: connections between local centres of activity and between local drivers of development. For La Défense, this was a whole new way of thinking about the area: its changed the scope and perspective of development and highlighted the importance of the interdependencies between people in the local area and Central Paris. The lesson thus shows that scale can change according to the work you plan to do.”

“Seoul Downtown Renaissance has hugely impacted mobility in the city. Although there is less traffic, there is now more mobility. The city managed to achieve this primarily by working on their traffic management: they changed their bus system and introduced a new rapid transit bus, improved parking and introduced incentives to walk or use the transit bus, such as taxing cars with less than 2 passengers.”

The report of the lecture and expert meeting held at the University of Amsterdam on Novembre 03 and 04, 2011. can be downloaded here.

Christian Licoppe is Head of the Social Science Department and Professor of Sociology at Telecom Paris-Tech. Christian Licoppe has been researching the influence and potentials of locative media and games on ‘real’ urban environments. From a sociological standpoint, he has looked at the technological side of urban space, combining ‘real’ versus virtual worlds and seeing whether this combination offers a new way of social interaction. He argues that these new forms of social media can produce new environments of interaction, where urban public places can transform into ‘hybrid ecologies’.

Photo by Fred Ernst

“Locative media can be defined as media in which people interact with some kind of locative awareness. In other words, locative media always involves some configurative media in which people disclose their location.”

“A hybrid ecology manages and incorporates the interplay between a digital positional awareness of space in relation to a real, physical experience of place.”

“After all, in both places, the norm is to not address strangers in public places. The main difference between the way in which the game was played in Tokyo and Paris thus lies in the way that people made exceptions to the rule.”

The report of the lecture and expert meeting held at the Utrecht University on October 13 and 14, 2011. can be downloaded here.

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the Soundpiece logo for 2o12, formed out of the logos of the users in 2o11

the rich and diverse cultural life of Rotterdam

the L-shaped apartment



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the floor becomes a layer above the kitchenblock