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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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Parfum de Coolsingel
On a warm summer day at the Coolsingel a presentation was given by David Dooghe about the design project: ‘the Rotterdam urban theatre’. This was a part of Parfum de Boem Boem, the artistic route alongside building plots.
After shortly introducing the Festivalcity strategy (P11), the redesign of the Coolsingel as the central trillzone of Rotterdam with the public space as the main stage and the buildings as the scenery was explained. Being on site gave an extra dimension to the photo impressions and there was the possibility to go more into detail about the project. The proposed lowered basin surprised and inspired the public. This basin could be utilized in daily use as a water element to relax by or play in or linger along or used as lowered festival street or seats of an open air theatre.
The main question in all the groups was when project could get built.
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Transformation as Inspiration @ PdBB o9
Transformation as Inspiration, the public space dance performances, was part of Parfum de Boem Boem. PdBB is tour along building plots, combining information and artistic performances. PdBB exposes the beauty of demolishing and building.
The improvisation-based dance performance was held in front of the building plot of Vopak, which is situated next to the park of Rotterdam.
The building plot showed a building stripped to its structural essence. This created the strong image of a wood of concrete trees with an interesting perspective and depth between the trees.
The audience was placed in the park, looking up to the building. The dancers were placed in different layers between the audience and the building, creating more depth and playing with perspective. Some dancers where asked to come in contact with the audience and end behind the audience. The building being stripped to its structural essence was the base for the dance movement. The dancers moved from out of their bones and junctions.
The dancers improvised with the materials around the plot and played with the sound these materials made and created a rhythm for the dance. The sounds of the materials created a working atmosphere, this in contrast of the sounds of nature coming from the park.
The performances where made at site, 2 hours before the performance.
Choreography David Dooghe, dancers Datah; Anuska Oosterhuis, Maartje Schuurmans, Annemarie De Vries, Else Marijn Kruijswijk, Sandra Ketterings
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Coolsingel Late Night.
David Dooghe was invited at de De Unie Late Night for a debate with Arno Bonte, a member of the political party Groen Links. Groen Links had hold an inquiry among inhabitants of Rotterdam with the proposal to make the Coolsingel a traffic free street and create a park.
David Dooghe agreed that more could be done with the main street of Rotterdam but had questions about the proposal to make the Coolsingel a traffic free street. Wasn’t this just an easy solution for a very local problem? How would this effect the organisation of the whole central city? Does Rotterdam need a new traffic free area, knowing there are traffic free areas around the Lijnbaan and the Binnenrotte. “Do we really need a new Binnenrotte in Rotterdam?”
Creating a park could be nice but this would have no connection to other green structures. David suggested to make a park at the Binnenrotte and connect it with a levelled park above the Hofboogjes. This would be a nice recreational connection between the river and the landscape in the north of Rotterdam.
Arno Bonte and David Dooghe agreed to keep in touch about this subject.
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Transformation as Inspiration @ MoMo o9
Transformation as Inspiration, the public space dance performances, was part of Motel Mozaique of 2oo9, the multidisciplinary art festival of Rotterdam.
The dance performance was held in front of the building plot of the Central Station of Rotterdam. The Delftse Poort, as a tall and light building and the Groothandelsgebouw, as a dense and heavy building were the inspiration for the dancers.
The dancers moved on the rhythm of the hammering, which sounded like the familiar Rotterdam sound of driving piles. The dancers ended by connecting and forming the identifiable form of the new station.
Choreography David Dooghe, Dancers Dattah: Jan Misker, David Dooghe.
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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
