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  • Image: Anne Vaandrager, Droog Design

    Anne Vaandrager for Droog Design

    With this Reality Tank project, traditional leather tanning has been approached in a new, innovative and unconventional way. Through the intuitive approach of Anne Vaandrager in combination with ECCO...
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  • The Definition of Conceptual

    somewhat of a review concerning a debate on the value of concept.

    In the invitation Premsela sent out for their New Year's reception was the following: "Concept and Conceptual; the most used and especially abused words in the jargon of art, design and architecture.
  • Maurice Nio 1 Jan 2002

    Infect the Soft

    What is really wrong with euclidic geometry? Which objections can really be lodged against integers, straight lines and orthogonal structures? Why are mechanical and mechanistic principles put in the...

  • Potty Parity: what does it mean?

    And why are there always queues in front of women's restrooms?

    The lack of equal access to toilets is considered by some a subtle form of discrimination against women. It may be culturally embedded rather than consciously pursued, yet it is still there. Here is...

  • Pop-up Urinals

    Public convenience by the push of a button

    This public urinal hides in plain sight during the day, and rises for the occasion at night. With room for three, the urinal provides ample opportunity and encouragement for male citizens to do their...

  • The Big Blue

    Sustainable and financially profitable sanitation

    Three years ago, an off-grid closed-system toilet known as the Blue Diversion won an award in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Reinventing the Toilet"-challenge. It has also won the title of...

  • Pissing in the Park

    Masterclass Place Branding

    Christian Pagh is one of the top designers in Europe when it comes to public convenience for both men and women. In two weeks Christian is visiting Amsterdam to give an exclusive Masterclass on Place...

  • Mushroom Design

    A miscellaneous products collection

    How many objects have been designed with a clear reference to mushrooms? This is has been collected until now. If you have more, add it to the bucket and we'll share the pleasure.

  • Report What's up #31

    De toon van What's Up? #31 was meteen goed gezet toen ontwerper Jurjen Semeijn zijn entree maakte op een nummer van Run DMC.

  • Programma Mediamatic Fabriek

    wat hebben we nodig

    Dit is een overzicht van de functies van de Mediamatic Fabriek

  • Public Intimacy

    Pissing in the City

    The design of public toilets can tell us a lot more about society than you expect...

  • Mediamatic Travel

    Networked travel agency

    What better way to discover a city than through its contemporary art treasures? Mediamatic Travel is a network of locals waiting to show you around the backside of their cities. From contemporary...

  • Project Park Utopia

    A co-created festival of societal reinvention: Self-governance for sustainable living.

  • Inflatable Clean Lab

    Portable mycelium research area

    The Inflatable Clean Lab is a portable structure consisting of HEPA filters, a blower, and plastic material. When the Clean Lab needs to be used, it will be inflated with the same blower used to...

  • An interview with Engy Aly

    "There are much, much more Arabs and Muslims than I have ever seen in my life outside of an Arabic country."

    July 2010. Engy has been living and working in Amsterdam-Noord for a few weeks. She was kind enough to share her first impressions, and tell us a little bit about her background.

  • Living Roof project

    If you can’t beat them, join them.

    Living Roof geeft een sterke verbetering van de leefkwaliteit van golfplaten hutten in Zuid-Afrikaanse townships. We presenteren in 2014 in Kaapstad (world design capital) een eerste ontwerp waarbij...

  • TODAYSART 2011

    Festival beyond art

    TODAYSART is a festival in The Hague organized by The Generator, which profiles itself in Art, Music and Technology.
  • book: Rory Hyde 6 Sep 2012

    Future Practice

    Conversations from the Edge of Architecture

    Designers around the world are carving out opportunities for new kinds of engagement, new kinds of collaboration, new kinds of design outcomes, and new kinds of practice; overturning the inherited...

  • The Mobile City

    A conference on Locative Media, Urban Culture and Identity

    The Mobile City conference 27 & 28 February 2008 NAi (Netherlands Architecture Institute) Rotterdam, The Netherlands "The Mobile City" is a two-day conference about locative & mobile technologies

  • Carpenters

    Dev Camp Day 3

    Camilo and Thjeu are essential in making the projects work. They brought their own tools and are building the (wooden) frames to house the installations.
  • Project cedric flazinski

    MyDesigner

    User-based form-giving

    How the individual makes form more relevant in identity-related products. A brief description of Cedric Flazinski 's Master thesis project, MyDesigner, at Design Academy Eindhoven, 2008.

  • Everything is going to be alright

    Another piece for our Mushroom Design collection

    Italian designer Emmanuel Babled is exhibiting in these days his new collection in Zurich where we can find a couple of new objects for our Mushroom Collection. In particular, designboom highlight...
  • Article Jeroen den Uyl

    IJburg is "Jane Jacobs-proof"!

    De wenselijkheid om kleine doorgangen en steegjes
  • book: Liz McQuiston 1 Jan 1988

    Women in Design

    a contemporary view

    The book looks at the work of modern women designers in the areas of architecture, furniture, animation, graphic design, textiles, and industrial design.
  • project: Quinten Wolters

    Hup Holland Hoofddoek

    De beste optie voor een vrouwelijke Islamitische Holland-supporter

    De beste optie voor een vrouwelijke Islamitische Holland-supporter.

created Anna Pedersen modified Julia ter Maten

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