
PANdancing
PANdancing brings people from different parts of Porto and Matosinhos together, both physically and virtually, taking into account the social distancing measures resulting from Covid-19.
PANdancing brings people from different parts of Porto and Matosinhos together, both physically and virtually, taking into account the social distancing measures resulting from Covid-19.
The exhibition ‘Co-Machines in Eindhoven’ was on display at Onomatopee during the Dutch Design Week 2019 . It was the result of a four-day Co-Machine
This text was first published in Chepos, built environment magazine, june 27 2019. The Fall of 2016 was the start of a lengthy architectural voyage
Everybody seems to have a memory or association with these kinds of places. I am talking about the Shell refinery in the Port of Rotterdam, once the biggest refinery in the world, still the biggest oil refinery in Europe. Similar places, like DSM in the south of the Netherlands or the petrochemical complexes in the ports of Antwerp and Hamburg, bring back memories of sitting in the back of your parents’ car while driving back from a summer holiday, in awe of the magically shimmering lights of seemingly endless industrial sites, like technological cities glowing in the evening sky. Inaccessible, almost alienating environments exist behind their gates, unknown to the public yet incredibly important for our daily lives.
Walking through Oud-IJsselmonde (a peripheral neighborhood of Rotterdam) we stumble upon an odd scene. Children are rollerblading down faint asphalt hills, to a background of