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Making an Entrance

You learn as you go along. A next step in the program strategy for the Buikslotermeerplein was improving one of the square’s entrances.

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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.

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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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Ideas Festival Buikslotermeerplein

In order to gain more ideas of the users of the Buikslotermeerplein, an ideas festival, was organised during the weekly market.

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Open, experimental and participative

How did the piecing together of different initiatives gradually give rise to the urban cultural foyer at Schouwburgplein? Article on Soundpiece in CITIES The Magazine issue #o2: “EMERGING CENTERS”.

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Poetry meets Pop

For annual Poetry International Festival Rotterdam, students of the Rotterdam Pop academy made a soundscape for Soundpiece. The students started from poems of Sirgurbjörg Tharstardóttir, Andrea Gibellini, J.A. Deelder, Oscar Pastior and Herman de Coninck. 

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Countdown to Christmas

Interview with David Dooghe by newspaper Metro on project Soundpiece.

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Growing Green _ Awareness

For centuries, the size of a city has been defined by the food production of her surrounding countryside.  A century ago, technology started to create new possibilities for faster transport and slower food decay, allowing cities to grow, mostly at the disadvantage of the surrounding countryside.

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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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The Large Square

A program strategy for the Buikslotermeerplein, created in cooperation with twenty local stakeholders via a co-creation process.

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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.

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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. 

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Soundpiece o9-13

From 2oo9 until 2o13, David Dooghe has been appointed as curator of Soundpiece, with the task to reinstall the sound installation and connect it to the cultural life of Rotterdam. Since that time, the installation got an Internet connection and an XLR plug-in point at the square, greatly enlarging its possibilities for use. Furthermore, many cultural institutions, festivals, sound artists or others used the installation. During the years the installation has become part of life on the square.

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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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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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The Mayor's Garden

Interview with David Dooghe by newspaper Metro on project Vibrant City.

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Lunch with Poetry

Enjoy your lunch with Poetry form all over the world. Every weekday between 12.oo and 14.oo the Soundpiece, in collaboration with Poetry International Rotterdam, plays (Sound)Pieces of Poetry International. Every week a different langue will be served.

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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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