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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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Relaxed Planning
Festivalcity_Rotterdam was published in the book: ‘Ontspannen Plannen, plandag 2oo8’. The book is a bundling of papers and design projects about recreation.
Festivalcity_Rotterdam, the urban strategy on the symbiotic collaboration between festivals and urban development, together with the casestudies: ‘Caribean Summer @ Afrikaanderwijk’ and ‘the Rotterdam urban theatre’, was published in the book: ‘Ontspannen Plannen, plandag 2oo8’ (ISBN 978-90-808545-6-7).
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Presentation TimeLine @ dS+V
TimeLine, the historic and spatial research that makes the components behind the urban dynamic of Rotterdam comprehensible, was presented at the local authority of Rotterdam concerning the urban development and public housing, dS+V.
The horizontal action/reaction wave structured the presentation. The designers were fascinated by the action reaction between the economical, political, social, cultural developments on one hand and the urban thinking about the city and spatial development of the city on the other hand. Along the presentation some examples of urban areas with different timelayers illustrated the vertical reading of TimeLine.
For the designers of dS+V this presentation created a historic awareness and an insight in the different development phases of Rotterdam. The main topics in the discussion following the presentation were: the shift in the urban development task, from expanding to transformation, and the current economical, political, social and cultural developments that could influence the future spatial development.
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The urban impact of artistic festivals
Festivalcity_Rotterdam, the urban strategy on the symbiotic collaboration between festivals and urban development, was presented at the Research Workshop in Helsinki of the European Festival Research Project. The central theme of the workshop was the urban impact of artistic festivals.
In the short presentation of Festivalcity_Rotterdam, David Dooghe focussed on the symbiotic cooperation between the festivals and the city. In this way a festival can be used as a catalyst between the social and the urban structure of a city.
The report of the workshop, written by Netta Noro:
David Dooghe introduced an architectural and urban design point-of-view and presented two events as cases from Rotterdam. He argues that cities are in competition with each other. To support their identity, they use slogans as "I love NY" and "I am Amsterdam". Dooghe asks: How do you create the identity for a ‘festival city’? Events as EXPO or the Olympic games create a hub in the city, but do not lift the urban and cultural growth on the grass-root level, or in the long run. Still, there is a tradition of good co-operation of festivals with their city. Changes in a city affect the festivals as well. Festivals attract middle class to live in the city and a typical festival goer is a middle-aged person presenting middle-class interests and taste.
Case 1: Summer Carnival in Rotterdam, a little brother of the Carnival in Rio. It holds a calendar of the community with its temporary program & permanent program activities. Dooghe presents an urban plan for the community of the carnival in the Afrikaanderwijk, a quarter in the south of Rotterdam. The plan has two phases, of which there is first an experimental phase, where the festival seeks to create a needed buzz, and another phase where people accept the festival in their yearly repertoire of events to attend.Case 2: Rotterdam's major festivals. Dooghe's urban plan for the event venues seeks to shape a multi-purpose space in the city center, which can have multiple usages for urban life in between the yearly events.
Conclusions: Multi-functional urban planning is the way to help people use the urban space and to create a more functional community. Since festivals are celebrations of the community, Dooghe promotes a symbiotic cooperation between the festivals and the city. Urban planning works as a tool for developing the urban areas into ‘urban theaters’ and therefore more festivalfriendly cities. Creative zones, shaped by urban planners, should be capable of absorbing a variety of events but remain a vibrant public area between them.
Discussion:
Dragan Klaic noted that Dooghe is stretching the notion of a festival into any kind of big event. He thinks that as an architect Dooghe is able to see the challenge of space in festival production and spatial organization of sociability. A festival can be used as a catalyst between the social and the urban structures of a city.
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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
