Festival City_Rotterdam

Festival City_ Rotterdam

An urban strategy on the symbiotic collaboration between festivals and urban development, creating a strong identity for both.

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Street Talks

What makes a street attractive? Co-reference of the lecture of Ton Schaap in the series Street Talks.  

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Festival City_Rotterdam in the AIR Archive

Festival City_Rotterdam has been added to the website of the Architectural Institute of Rotterdam.

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Comparing the Carnivals

From May until August there are three big intercultural carnivals in the northwest of Europe: the Karnaval Der Kulturen in Berlin, the Summercarnival Rotterdam and the Notting Hill Carnival in London. The carnivals have their specificities: origin and program and therefore a different (temporary and permanent) impact on the urban surrounding.

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Sustainable communities @ Enviu

How to create a sustainable community? Festivalcity_Rotterdam was presented at an Enviu Workshop.

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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.

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Relaxed Planning

Article on Festival City_Rotterdam in the book: ‘Ontspannen Plannen, plandag 2oo8’.  

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Festivals and the City

What if festival organisators and the spatial planning department would co-operate? Festivalcity_Rotterdam was presented to cultural and spatial planning experts from Rotterdam

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Rotterdam has festivals, but isn’t a festival city.

Interview with David Dooghe by newspaper Metro on project Festival City_Rottterdam and Rotterdam Urban Theatre.

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Focus on Festivals

This book presents a contemporary overview of our most ubiquitous cultural phenomena - festivals. It is able to do so by taking a powerful and unique case-study focused, theoretically rigorous and pan-European approach.

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World Port Days

A design study, locating a part of the World Port Days Rotterdam at the Schouwburgplein.

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Lighting the planetarium

Torun, the Polish city inbetween Warsaw and Gdansk where Copernicus was born in 1473 celebrates its famous former inhabitant by a impressive light festival: Skyway ‘1o.

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Parfum de Coolsingel

On a warm summer day at the Coolsingel ‘the Rotterdam urban theatre’ was presented. This was a part of Parfum de Boem Boem, the artistic route alongside building plots.

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Alderman back to the school-desk

Rik Grashoff, Aldermanof Rotterdam was a special guest during a presentation for WDKA students Event Management.

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The urban impact of artistic festivals

Festivalcity_Rotterdam was presented at the EFA Workshop: the urban impact of artistic festivals.

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Coolsingel as open-air theatre

Interview with David Dooghe by newspaper Algemeen Dagblad on project Festival City_Rottterdam and Rotterdam Urban Theatre.

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