Two CreativeMornings; one Empathic, one Shocking
The last Fridays of September and October the ground floors of Pieter de Raadtstraat 35-37 hosted the breakfast meetings of CreativeMornings Rotterdam. We were just a node in an international network of breakfast plus lecture meetings for creatives that take place at the same time in cities all over the…
ANA DŽOKIĆ / Politics of Space and Architecture in Belgrade
Listen to this podcast: The story of Ana Džokić ‘s (yes, one of the City in the Making founding members) journey from architecture school in Belgrade just before the Berlin Wall fell until now. She talks about the many changes Belgrade went through from the falling apart of former Yugoslavia until…
Falling in love with Rotterdam
For the last month (and some weeks to come) Alexander Prinsen has been working and sleeping in our front-office. Below his ‘love letter’ to Rotterdam, (OK, and somewhat to us too :-) Alexander in his cutom-made balcony shower. Normally he showers undressed, but occasionaly he seems to like to keep his…
The real Rotterdam
This is Roy’s last week in the Netherlands, he is returning to China. As a farewell present we took him across the Rotterdam harbour area to the tip of Europort: Maasvlakte2. Finally he has seen the real Rotterdam. As usuall we took some group photo’s. Above us inside the artwork ‘zandwacht’…
First Social Practices presentation at Bloklandstraat
Since mid-September Social Practices students from the Willem de Kooning Art Academy Rotterdam use the City in the Making groundfloor space at Bloklandstraat 190 as a headquarters. For for the minor Cultural Diversity, they do a three months research into the cultural, social, economical and political structures of the Oude…
