A service design toolkit for a more inclusive energy transition

In project Reyeroord Aardgasvij Service designers work together with the municipality and other stakeholders to stimulate the energy transition in the neighbourhood Reyeroord in Rotterdam. Their goal is to develop interventions in the form of neighbourhood meetings, campaigns, and other activities that aim to activate the residents of Reyeroord...

Cultivating Spatial Diversity: The Nieuwe Binnenweg Forum

Today, Rotterdam’s city is observed as a mosaic of diverse cultures representing various characters and atmospheres. Recently, the research ‘Coming to Terms with Superdiversity: The Case of Rotterdam’ gives a historical account of Rotterdam’s diversity since the 1600s to present day to try and understand how diversity formed and shifted within...

Stacking Rotterdam Identity and Density

We hold the statement that Rotterdam which unlike typical Dutch cities is lacking of it's own identity because it has to many fragments of different identities. We considered this as a opportunity that we could create a new Identity of Rotterdam by stacking different urban experience together---Stacking Diversity.