Community Plastics: Designing community products by recycling locally collected plastic waste

Community Plastics is a neighbourhood initiative in which plastic waste from households is collected and recycled into small and simple products for the public spaces in the neighbourhood. Examples are street signs, birdhouses, planters and furniture. By turning the plastic waste into valuable products it becomes clear that plastic is more than...

Fever in Rotterdam: Timmerhuis

As we have seen so far, the phenomenon of extrastatecraft[2] has been reconfiguring the “urban software” in the national scale of the Netherlands, affecting simultaneously multiple municipal cores with geopolitically background of high importance. In that sense, Rotterdam’s Timmerhuis is subjected to the described reformations that have been...