Programme
Past events
Meet the next generation of worldwide designers during the Antenna Conference. Are you looking for the developments that will really make a difference? The talents that create above and beyond the normal? There are 20 international design graduates, originating from 5 continents, ready to share their social solutions with you. These innovative designers excel with idealistic values, ground breaking ideas, and cross-border visions.
NS and ProRail as owners and Bureau Spoorbouwmeester as design adviser challenge you to help design the circular station of the future.
The IKEA Foundation and its partner What Design Can Do invite you to a conversation about circularity and the role of design in solving some of the most pressing challenges of today: climate change and environmental degradation. What if designers hold a big part of the solution?
Mobile devices conquer the world and have a positive impact on all kinds of social and economic developments. However there is also a downside. Distraction during traffic participation is increasingly becoming a serious threat to global traffic safety.
On Friday 17 October 2020, a festive online premiere will be organized for all designers, entrepreneurs, researchers and policymakers who have contributed to the realization of this unique research and storytelling installation.
The Green Facades Hackathon is a four-day process in which three green facades are realized around BlueCity in Rotterdam. Through a combination of knowledge sharing and experimentation, participants of the hackathon gain knowledge about how the prototype - green facades - work and what it takes to apply this in other places.
“Daring to look radically again at designing and building a home”, that’s how the pioneers from the world of circular and biobased construction set to work.
In conversation with philosopher Henk Oosterling and designers Frank Kolkman and Mario de Zeeuw about the future of healthcare.
“Daring to look radically again at designing and building a home”, that’s how the pioneers from the world of circular and biobased construction set to work.
“Daring to look radically again at designing and building a home”, that’s how the pioneers from the world of circular and biobased construction set to work.
Through specific socio-spatial interventions, designers are researching new forms of intimacy and encounters in public spaces.
About a future of emission-free mobility, where transport movements different modalities take place around hubs.
How can design help the general public to actively play a part in research into the care sector?
What opportunities do designers see to create new forms of connection for people with and without a chronic condition?
The future of care is intimate. How do we create intimacy that allows us to reflect upon ourselves and each other?
The possibilities of biobased construction are on the rise, but we are not there yet! Many materials are still under development or do not yet meet the requirements to be used as building materials. As a sustainable residential area, Moodumo wants to focus on circular & biobased materials.
How can we utilize the energy transition to improve existing buildings, and what is the most attractive way to do this?
“Daring to look radically again at designing and building a home”, that’s how the pioneers from the world of circular and biobased construction set to work.
About dealing more inventively with available raw materials and converting waste and disposal to circularity.
Care is a collective responsibility. How can we strengthen local networks and deliver substantial support to a sustainable care community?
The future of care is inclusive. How can we, together, ensure an inclusive and caring society?
How can we improve safety in neighborhoods without losing sight of the human dimension? Without locking ourselves up and without becoming too dependent on technology?
What can we do with your poo? What are the possibilities for raw material from sewage? In this How to Biodesign meetup we dive into your poo and pee and discuss Kaumera as the next material for chemicals.
“Daring to look radically again at designing and building a home”, that’s how the pioneers from the world of circular and biobased construction set to work.
Never waste a good crisis. What opportunities does the corona crisis offer design research projects in healthcare?
About strategies to entice consumers to consume drinking water more consciously and carefully.
Tune in on DDW TV where Lucas De Man will join "For Starters" and talk about The Exploded View on behalf of The Embassy of Biobased and Circular Building & Strijp S.
Designers, councils, welfare organizations and youngsters are collaborating on new housing concepts for homeless youth and exchanging their experiences.
How can we cleverly combine the construction of houses with other challenges, like making the construction chain more sustainable, and improving existing neighborhoods?
“Daring to look radically again at designing and building a home”, that’s how the pioneers from the world of circular and biobased construction set to work.
Cirkelstad Brabant was launched during the previous Dutch Design Week in 2019. We would like to look back with you on the developments of Cirkelstad Brabant in the past year. For example, a lot of progress has now been done on a learning network of circle cities with Communities of practice. The next step is to work on a new Brabant Circular Building Standard. Together with you, we determine the ambitions to get started with circular projects in Brabant cities. The Province of Noord-Brabant cordially invites you to think along with us.
The online meeting is made possible in part by the Embassy of Circular & Biobased Building and Cirkelstad Brabant.
The event is in Dutch
About the preventive approach to undermining the rule of law through the commitment and education of citizens, recognising deviant behaviour and offering perspectives for action.
A topic that’s now more urgent than ever. How can design encourage social encounters, and how should we design and organize our environment to prevent and counteract loneliness?
“Daring to look radically again at designing and building a home”, that’s how the pioneers from the world of circular and biobased construction set to work.
About the development of a joint vision of the future by citizens and healthcare professionals, in which the human side of healthcare is safeguarded.
Cities all over the world have been creating more space for cyclists and pedestrians for some time now. Corona has made this endeavor more pressing.
“Daring to look radically again at designing and building a home”, that’s how the pioneers from the world of circular and biobased construction set to work.
During Dutch Design Week , BlueCity and BlueCity Lab organize a Green Façade Hackathon together with spatial innovation collective Scape Agency for the Biobased and Circular Embassy. During this week, a multidisciplinary group of designers, biologists, architects, gardeners, artists, horticulturalists and entrepreneurs will be working us in this to experiment how we can design green into practice. Today we speak with Nienke Binnendijk, director of BlueCity Lab and one of the initiators about the results of Hackathon.
About BlueCity Lab
BlueCity Lab is a biocircular playground for pioneers located in the heart of BlueCity. We support the transition to a biocircular economy by making work and lab space available for a growing group of pioneers. Bioniers give examples of a regenerative economy within the planetary boundaries by doing and experimenting.
About BlueCity
Where the pioneers of the circular economy gather in a former swimming pool. Since 2015, BlueCity has developed fitself rom an empty swimming pool to the hub of the circular economy in the city and the region. Anno 2020, BlueCity is a model city for the circular economy, where enterprising minds meet and develop concrete action perspectives; whether it concerns increasing your positive impact, living zero waste or developing a future-proof material.
“Daring to look radically again at designing and building a home”, that’s how the pioneers from the world of circular and biobased construction set to work.
Presentation of bio-based ecological materials by Halbe Vlietstra, senior advisor at Oldenboom. He explains the positive effects on Indoor Air Quality and shows how to apply it on the building site. Oldenboom is a supplier of building products. In their product range, they put a strong focus on bio-based, healthy and certified building materials.
Five open conversations discussing how together, we should shape health and happiness and why we needed a pandemic to finally figure it out.
Five open conversations discussing how together, we should shape health and happiness and why we needed a pandemic to finally figure it out.
Five open conversations discussing how together, we should shape health and happiness and why we needed a pandemic to finally figure it out.
Five open conversations discussing how together, we should shape health and happiness and why we needed a pandemic to finally figure it out.
Five open conversations discussing how together, we should shape health and happiness and why we needed a pandemic to finally figure it out.
How do we arrive at an economy in which exponential and extractive growth is no longer central, but the boundaries of people and the planet are respected?
The event in which students from the Rotterdam University together with Blue City and other partners in the fields share the insights acquired in the past year.