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Recently, I moved to Rotterdam. Here I discovered all kinds of new wonderful and inspiring places, amongst others Tropicana. Tropicana was a tropical swimming pool quite centrally located next the river Maas, which went bankrupt in 2010. The building was empty for a while and destined for demolition to make way for senior apartments. But in 2013 different entrepreneurs joint their powers under…

Last summer I unexpectedly but gladly became part of a very interesting initiative, called DORP at Welcome To The Village Festival. It all started with the fact that me and my friend won the D-exto design competition for sustainable festival furniture, which made it possible for us to execute our Mix & Match design and to showcase it at several festivals by traveling along with the D-exto…

During my exchange semester in Sydney, I met a guy who was building his own ‘tiny house’. He had a big steel trailer on which he had built a platform and was now adding wooden walls. It looked like a fun project, but back then I had no idea that a ‘tiny house’ was a real term and part of a bigger movement, called the Tiny House Movement. The Tiny House Movement is a famous description for…

Upcoming year, the Netherlands will hold the Presidency of the European Union during the first half of 2016. The EU Presidency meetings, where ministers and civil servants from all EU member states come together, will take place at Amsterdam’s historical naval dockyard, the Marine Etablissement. It is customary that the chairmanship is accompanied by a cultural program, in this case organised and…