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
For two months David Dooghe worked as a designer at SMV.
David Dooghe helped Marco Vermeulen with the project Brabantstad 2o4o

In co-operation with Willemijn Lofvers, David Dooghe wrote an article in Huig (6#11, feb 2oo9) about TimeLine. TimeLine is a historic and spatial research, which makes the components behind the urban dynamic of Rotterdam comprehensible.
In the article two timelines are described, one about the, since 19oo, repeating attempts of Rotterdam to charm the upper-class to live in Rotterdam. Another one about the successive renewals of the central city since 191o until the coming decades.
Huig is the bi-annual magazine of the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design.

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 presented for students Event Management.
Special guest at this lecture was Rik Grashoff, Alderman of Participation and Culture of Rotterdam. Alderman Grashoff liked the approach and agreed more could be done with the festivals of Rotterdam.

David Dooghe became a member of the Young Economic Development Board Rotterdam.
Young EDBR advises and makes the connection between the youth of Rotterdam, the economic organizations of Rotterdam and the Rotterdam politics.
The focus of David Dooghe in the board will be urbanization.
For four months David Dooghe worked as a designer at Urban Affairs.
David Dooghe mainly worked on Masterplan Klavertje 4, an urban design for a sustainable industrial area.

For one year David Dooghe worked as a designer at Bureau Lofvers.
He mainly worked on the projects Reference Rotterdam, a research about the current urban state of central city of Rotterdam and what are it’s further transformations and the Zilte Atlas: mapping the chances and possibilities of the salinization of the Netherlands.

photo Fred Ernst