Category Archives: Amsterdam
Vegetables on the Edge in Buurtproeftuin
When it comes to highly-regulated spaces on Amsterdam’s splintering city edge, the community artist opts for something illegal: a vegetable garden. After all, gardens traditionally bespeak innocence, and what better way to defy regulations and moral prejudices than with a … Read More
Posted in Amsterdam, Social Cohesion, Sustainability
Tagged community gardens, urban agriculture, urban farming
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Picnic on the Edge in Rembrandtpark
Just a few metres away from Mercatorplein in Amsterdam (written about in my previous article), lies another favourite public space at the city’s edge: Rembrandtpark. The park flanks the A10 motorway, but is quiet. It also borders social housing and … Read More
Posted in Amsterdam, Diversity, Social Cohesion
Tagged Amsterdam, eyes on the street, green space, Museumplein, park, peaceful, picnic, Rembrandtpark, Vondelpark
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Living on the edge at Mercatorplein
When your city contains such complex people, ideas, streets, buildings—when it contains so many neighbourhoods, areas and grey areas—why dwell on the city centre as a focus for design discussion? In Amsterdam, there’s a public space called Mercator Square (Mercatorplein … Read More
Posted in Aesthetics, Amsterdam, Diversity, Social Cohesion
Tagged Amsterdam, Netherlands, Public square
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OpenCity Partners With Picnic Festival 2011
We’re pleased to announce that we are a partner of PICNIC Festival 2011! PICNIC Festival is an annual three-day event that blurs the lines between creativity, science, technology and business to explore new solutions in the spirit of co- creation. … Read More
Posted in Amsterdam, News
Tagged Amsterdam, business, creativity, design, infrstructure, media, NDSM Warf, Picnic Festival 2011, science, society, sustainability, techonology, urban futures
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