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Imagine a micro-economy based on the exchange of values. Imagine a currency that is expressing your personal values, money that can be spend on non-monetary values of knowledge, sharing, volunteeri...
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No to kitchen gardens, Yes to fruit trees, Yes to rocks, and a Big Yes for the tunnel becoming a meeting place. This is the feedback of residents in Amsterdam Nieuw-West on our proposals to enhance...
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What would your street look like if you actually had your say? This is the question we posed to residents in and around the Derkinderenstraat in Amsterdam Nieuw-West. The replies varied from ‘a poo...
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Laying the Groundwork for the Start-up Accelerator by and for Young Dapperbuurt Entrepreneurs
by Editorial Team
news, projects,
On the January 23rd Design+Desires organized the ‘Dappere Ondernemers’ (brave entrepreneurs) public meeting in Amsterdam. Young entrepreneurs, residents, and business people from in- and outside th...
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What does it really take to be an entrepreneur? The aim of Dapper(e) Ondernemers (brave entrepreneurs) is to create a valuable connection between young entrepreneurs and experienced entrepreneurs i...
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Dapper(e) Ondernemers
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Design+Desires is commissioned by the City of Amsterdam to develop a poster campaign in Amsterdam-East to showcase the vitality and passion young self-employed individuals have in running their own...
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‘Re-dreaming the Street’ is a research-and-do project which Design+Desires is conducting in the Amsterdam Nieuw-West neighbourhood. The project is commissioned by the City of Amsterdam.
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Young people would rather be self-employed than work for a boss under fixed employment.
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Hacking New York's luxurious 432 Park Avenue tower to create more urban diversity
by Mark Minkjan
design, projects
Four young Chinese architects transform New York's 432 Park Avenue from an icon of luxury into a manifesto of human ecology.
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The Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (UABB) in Shenzhen invited Renny Ramakers to be the co-curator of Re-Living the City - the 6th edition. She curated the Social City exhibition, which c...
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Part of the Social City exhibition at the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture is a forward-looking model of a building block that satisfies the desires of all Social Citizens by architect off...
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The expression “I am a Shenzhener” embodies the optimism of the upcoming generation of entrepreneurs, high-tech experts, craftsmen, architects, and others residents of the city of tomorrow.
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The beta version of the Socialcities.org online platform, the predecessor of designdesires.nl, was launched during the Next City Living Lab at the Beijing Design Week (BJDW, 23/9 – 7/10, 2015) in C...
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In the fall of 2014 the Design+Desires team conducted a pilot study of its method via a Fall semester course option studio at the Architecture Art Planning Department of Cornell University (Ithaca,...