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Poo_David Dooghe
David Dooghe works as a researcher, strategist and designer on urban development.
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:
P31_The New City Gates / P3o_Island Nijmegen-Lent / P29_World Port Days / P28_Water Garden / 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
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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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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. 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
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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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P19_The top is within reach
An analysis with recommendations on how Rotterdam can become an attractive, young and creative city.In 2oo9 Rotterdam was the first European youth capital. This created a lot of energy in the city around problems of youngsters and opportunities for youngsters. Within different local authorities was examined how this generated energy can be applied in the future policy.
In co-operation with Donica Buisman, project manager European Youth Capital at the Rotterdam Institute for Art and Culture, dKC, an analysis of the current situation of the problems of youngsters and opportunities for youngsters in Rotterdam was made by literature study, interviews and brainstorm sessions with different youth organisations. Next to this the tendencies of youth culture in general was investigated.
The analysis was converted in conclusions and recommendations how to make Rotterdam an attractive, young and creative city.
Rotterdam has all the potential to become an attractive, young and creative city. There is, especially within the offered cultural activities, a strong basis to attract the youngsters. The main recommendations for Rotterdam were that the authorities have to stake more on the top talent and anchor youth participation in the programming, the organisation and the communication.
The advice (only available in Dutch) can be requested by emailing to mail@daviddooghe.com
2oo9, Rotterdam , The Netherlands
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P17_The art of an urban culture
Four development scenarios on how youth culture could improve the dynamic in the central city of Rotterdam.
The Rotterdam Institute for Art and Culture, dKC, worked on advice for the strong cultural structure for central city. David Dooghe was asked to give input on how the central city can become more culturally attractive for the youth of Rotterdam.
Four development scenarios were made, each starting from a different group of young users of the central city: the youngsters growing up, the students, the starting creative class and the second/third generation allochthonous.
By creating cultural research and development facilities with spaces to interact with the public, by using the public space as podium and by connecting education and business, more possibilities are anticipated for the youngsters to develop and express their own youth culture in the central city, creating a breading ground for new art.
Culture is becoming more and more a part of identity of youngsters; it is a way to express and to identify themselves. Therefore they should always be seen as the ambassadors of their culture.
The advice (only available in Dutch) can be requested by emailing to mail@daviddooghe.com
2oo9, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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P29_World Port Days
A design study, locating a part of the World Port Days Rotterdam at the Schouwburgplein.The World Port Days is an annual festival that takes place along the river Maas in Rotterdam. The organisation has the ambition to locate the festival not only along the river, but also in the inner city.
The Schouwburgplein is one of the first squares that visitors pass on their route from the Central Station to the river and in the design of the square are many references to the Port. This makes it the perfect space in Rotterdam in the inner city to host the World Port Days.
The square becomes an open air exhibition that informs the visitor about the activities that occur in the port on one hand, this through exposing products produced in the port, and about the story behind the design of the square on the other hand, this through highlighting the elements on the square that refer to the port.
Related projects: P22_Soundpiece@Schouwburgplein, P11_Festivalcity_Rotterdam
2o12, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Soundpiece: Who? What? Where?
As curator of the Soundpiece, the sound gallery of the Schouwburgplein that reflects the cultural live of the city of Rotterdam, David Dooghe was interviewed by Idealize, creative business ideas. Idealize is a platform around innovation in The Netherlands.
In the online movie David explains his concept of the project and the experience you get by walking over the Soundpiece. He tells more about the plans and ambitions he has with the project. Next to this, David Dooghe tells what inspires him for the projects he works on. Further, he talks about his own dreams and ambitions for his future.
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Cultuurprogramma Binnenstad 2o2o
The Rotterdam Institute for Art and Culture, dKC, published her advice for the strong cultural structure for central city: Cultuurprogramma Binnenstad 2o2o.
In this advice the four tasks for the future are: consolidate, concentrate, present and generate.
Some of these tasks are specifically concerning youngsters. Rotterdam should consolidate the starting creative class by creating a policy for breading grounds and creative working places. Rotterdam should generate more by investing in talent development of youngsters. In the new culture plan talent development should be more stimulated. Rotterdam should also attract more students in the city centre, by keeping the higher (cultural) education in the city centre and by creating student housing.
The definition of youngsters in the advice is very general and therefore the specific projects concerning youngsters do not show any big surprises or innovation.
The advice gives a good survey of long term investments in cultural infrastructure that have to be done. What is missed is a good survey of strict regulations that now make cultural expressions in the public space difficult. These regulations bring a lot of initiatives of youngsters to a halt today.
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DD@VDM: the Metropolitan Functions
David Dooghe works as project manager of the Metropolitan Functions at Association Deltametropolis.
Deltametropolis is an association that strives to further develop the exposing metropolis in the west of The Netherlands.
The Metropolitan Functions 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 TU Delft and DRO Amsterdam acquires a better view on the possible further development of the Randstad Holland.
David Dooghe will compare metropolises to question the development aspects.
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Work in progress: DDR'dam
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P21_Soundpiece @ Schouwburgplein
the Soundpiece logo for 2o12, formed out of the logos of the users in 2o11
the rich and diverse cultural life of Rotterdam
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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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P24_CityGallery Cool
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P19_The top is within reach
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P17_The art of an urban culture
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P29_World Port Days
