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P25_the Vibrant City
Organising and leading a co-creation process between the youngsters of Rotterdam and different stakeholders in the city to accomplish projects concerning the creation of Rotterdam as a Vibrant City.In 2oo9, a divers and motivated group of 15o Rotterdam youngsters, Rotterdamse Nieuwe, created a vision for the future development of Rotterdam. Together with different stakeholders (governmental and non-governmental), Rotterdamse Nieuwe now work on different projects to implement this vision into the development of Rotterdam.
The vision is subdivided in different themes; Vibrant City is one of these themes. The goals of Vibrant City is to create more and/or better: _cultural research and development facilities for youngsters _diverse temporary use of empty spaces _cultural activities of, for and with youngsters _inviting public space for youngsters _affordable housing in the inner city for students and young people who want to buy their first house.
As a member of the Young Economic Development Board Rotterdam David Dooghe was requested to direct Vibrant City.
Related projects: P26_Economics of Beauty / P17_the Art of an Urban Culture / P16_Youth and the City
2o1o, Rotterdam
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P26_Economics of Beauty
An advice on what is the economical surpluses of investments in the quality (architecture, public space and amenities) of the inner city.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 have 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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P11_Festivalcity_Rotterdam
An urban strategy on the symbiotic collaboration between festivals and urban development, creating a strong identity for both.With the bombing of its central city, Rotterdam lost the main part of its cultural facilities. After the war Rotterdam utilized temporarily cultural manifestations to celebrate the development of the city and the identity of Rotterdam.
The past decade Rotterdam acquired the title: Festivalcity of The Netherlands. This success caused a sprawl of festivals. The strong connection to the urban development and the identity of the city seems to be lost.
The strategy Festivalcity_Rotterdam sees the collaboration between the festivals and the city as the interaction between a tulip and its flower bulb.
The tulip is a metaphor for the festival that blossoms once a year and shows its beauty to all who want to see. The flower bulb is a metaphor for the supporting community that organizes the festival. The tulip cannot flourish without the bulb grounded in a fertile ground, the city.
The strategy is substantiated by case studies, which put principles on how festivals and the city can symbiotically collaborate in practice.
Related Casestudies: P12_Caribbean Summer @Afrikaanderwijk / P13_the Rotterdam urban theatre / P14_We love to build / P15_IFF@R'dam
2oo8, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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P13_the Rotterdam urban theatre
An urban design project about the symbiotic collaboration of the different Rotterdam festivals and city centre of Rotterdam, creating a strong identity for both.The last decade Rotterdam has been the breeding ground for many festivals. These festivals are the celebrations of a community. The celebrations of most of these festivals take place in the city centre of Rotterdam. In the time-space capsule that festivals are, the city shows its different identities to others, citizens or foreigners.
The concept of this project perceives the city centre as a theatre. The Coolsingel and the Schiedamse dijk, with their different identities as economical, political, commercial and maritime centre become the central trillzone of Rotterdam with the public space as the main stage and the buildings as the scenery. Between this trillzone and the parking garages, public transport stops is the foyer of the theatre, the chillzone of the festivals. In this zone, shops, restaurant and cafes are supporting the experience of the whole festival.
The public space creates multi-functional (in space and time) urban locations. In daily use as well as when used for a festival, this space invites you to linger.
This urban design project is part of the case studies that substantiate Festivalcity_Rotterdam, a strategy for the symbiotic collaboration of festivals and urban development, creating a strong identity for both.
Related projects: P11_Festivalcity_Rotterdam / P12_Caribbean Summer @ Afrikaanderwijk / P14_We love to build / P15_IFF@R'dam
2oo8, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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P12_Caribbean Summer @ Afrikaanderwijk
An urban design project on the symbiotic collaboration between the community, connected by the Summer Carnival, and the district Afrikaanderwijk creating a strong identity for both.The Summer Carnival is the largest festival in Rotterdam. This procession, that takes months of preparation, is taking over the central city the last weekend of July, to disappear again for a year.
This urban design project uses the preparing programme, long term and temporary, of the Summer Carnival as a catalyst for the development of a district. Looking at social, cultural and demographical data, the district of Afrikaanderwijk could be the perfect breeding ground in Rotterdam to create a cultural incubator for the community connected by the Summer Carnival.
This urban design project is part of the case studies that substantiate Festivalcity_Rotterdam a strategy for the symbiotic collaboration of festivals and urban development, creating a strong identity for both.
Related projects: P11_Festivalcity_Rotterdam / P13_the Rotterdam urban theatre / P14_We love to build / P15_IFF@R'dam
2oo8, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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P14_We love to build
An urban strategy on how the in-between-time of the transformation of an urban area can be used to develop an identity for this urban area.Rotterdam loves to build. In the former century Rotterdam could expand and built its housing demands on the unexploited areas or former industrial areas. Since the last decade these areas are harder to find. Now Rotterdam faces the transformation of existing housing areas, the time of designing starting from a tabula rasa is over and designing becomes working on a going engine.
‘We love to build’ is a strategy on how temporary functions and manifestations can keep an urban area part of the city in the in-between-time and how the temporary and long term functions and manifestations can support the identity of the new area.
This strategy is based on a toolbox with possible temporary and long term functions, differently depending on the scale of the area, the position of the area in the urban tissue and the functions the area will accommodate.
Next to the toolbox, the whole transformation process, starting from the intention of transformation until the final new use, has been catalogued and possible manifestations have been added. The strategy is the result of a design research of different transformation areas.
This urban strategy is part of the case studies that substantiate Festivalcity_Rotterdam, a strategy for the symbiotic collaboration of festivals and urban development, creating a strong identity for both.
Related projects: P11_Festivalcity_Rotterdam / P12_Caribbean Summer @ Afrikaanderwijk / P13_the Rotterdam urban theatre / P15_IFF@R'dam
2oo8, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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P1o_TimeLine R'dam
A historic and spatial research, which makes the components behind the urban dynamic of Rotterdam comprehensible.TimeLine R’dam is an overview of the economical, political, social, cultural and spatial development of Rotterdam between 19oo and 2oo6. The parallel scheme illustrates the connection between the different disciplines and clarifies the complex spatial developments of Rotterdam.
TimeLine can be read in 2 ways. There is a clear horizontal action/reaction wave. The economical, political, social and cultural evolution influences the urban thinking and the resulting spatial development of the city.
Reading the TimeLine vertical, shows the different economical, political, social and cultural time layers there have been in a specific area and how these have influenced the urban development of the specific area.
The insights originated in TimeLine have been of big influence on the further urban research, design projects and strategic thinking of David Dooghe.
2oo6, 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
