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Agents of Change
My favourite concept in the City of the Making was Christine and Sebastian’s house where they are breaking it down and re-building literally inside and out whilst they are living and working in it. Because of the SidM desire that […]
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Blue Economy
On Wednesday I headed back over to Pieter De Raadtstraat to meet Guido inventor of the strange concoction of oranges in huge glass jars in the Stokerij window placed next to a washing machine. Guido lives and works at the […]
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Melle and Daan
Lunch is a good time for meetings. I had been introduced to Melle Smets http://www.mellesmets.nl (he rents one the apartments in the building from SidM) at the Neverland Cinema so over lunch I chatted to him to find out more about his work. […]
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Neverland Cinema
City in the Making started from opening vacant buildings to the wider community and making them affordable. These buildings are crucial to the current economy, they are commodities rather than the speculative real estate that brought about the 2008 financial […]
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Lunch at the Stokerij – Stad in de Maak (City in the Making)
I arrived in Rotterdam on Sunday evening and headed straight to the Airbnb in Blijdorp district, a lovely ground floor flat looking out to the park. On Monday I arranged to meet Marc Neelen and Ana Džokić from Stealth Ultd […]