Were you ever curious about how much work goes into a MOOC course? Well, here is a raw copy-paste of my term and midterm project for the Coursera course Surviving Disruptive Technology. The term project was about any industry or […]
On the 25th of September I joined a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) class about Surviving Disruptive Technology on Coursera. I did this in order to experience first hand one of the most promising disrupting technologies available nowadays. The term project […]
Some buzzwords get old very quickly. For me that one is gamification. But here are two open examples that are actually very cool, different, effective and give normal citizens a form of power they never had. Play the City (PtC) and Streetmix. […]
One of the most innovative and exciting new offices in The Netherlands is Space and Matter (SAM) - Office for architecture, urban strategies and concept development. Tjeerd is one of the three principals and we had a great talk about why and how you […]
A small update on the Marina Abramovic Kickstarter campaign with OMA. I have contacted several pledgers (people who supported the project by donating money, with in return a digital reward in this case), and it turns out these people didn’t […]
Here’s my complete Academy of Architecture Rotterdam portfolio, free to download and to do with whatever you like: All my personal work is licensed under the Creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. This means that you are free to share […]
Open Source, the built environment, TED talks and wood seem to go hand in hand. Tall Wood is another very cool, interesting and innovative open source project. The Canadian Michael Green released this research document of 240 pages, written by him while being partner […]
What were you doing that glorious April the 9th 2013, the day when UNStudio announced that they were going open source? You don’t remember? Don’t worry, it’s not that big of a deal. The announcement that UNStudio did a ‘relaunch as open source architecture […]
Thursday the 26th I had my first ‘a beer with’… with Tom Bosschaert, founder of Except. Except is a company working towards a sustainable future. Their activities range from urban masterplans and sustainability scans to a transbay terminal and software. Except has […]
Brugwachterhuisje photo by Loes de Ruiter A more in-depth view on Crowdbuilding and Webuildhomes can be found here. Space & Matter (SAM), Amsterdam, is one of the examples I used in my threshold presentation of architects using new media in their work. […]
Halfway through the disrupting couchsurfing experience I have played host three times and I can conclude: People who couchsurf are always very nice But they can be quite boring -not all of them-, even though their story might sounds ultimately […]
How would the world of arts look like when everything is open, completely unprotected by Copyrights. The book Open Design Now features -among other cool stuff- an article where Joost Smiers, Professor Emeritus in Political Science of the Arts at Utrecht […]
Crowdfunding for Designers – Pakhuis de Zwijger Wednesday the 18th of September 2013 I attended the “Crowdfunding for Designers” at Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam. It was a symposium for those who have heard of the phenomenon and wanted to know […]
The Luchtsingel (canal of air) has been praised all-over, there was no stopping the project. But it did. Just a small post since the project has been covered so many times. The Luchtsingel is a 350 meter long wooden bridge […]
Brickstarter is a concept for a crowdfunding platform for shared and public spaces, written by Bryan Boyer and Dan Hill. The complete book can be downloaded here. “[Brickstarter] proposes a new model for how we make shared decisions about shared […]
Couchsurfing part 1. You can either fight them (and lose) or join them. Darren Overby did the second with his hostel. In a discussion on the capitalization of couchsurfing.org an interesting initiative was shared. Darren Overby, a hostel owner, offers […]
By now everybody has heard of it, yet my friends and colleagues have not tried it (though they claim to “have wanted to try it for years!”). Couchsurfing (CS). In short, Couchsurfing is a social media platform dedicated to connect people […]