2019 Dutch Design Experiences (1)
Dutch Design Week 2019, visiting Drivers of Change and Embassy of Mobility.
A Dutchman is designing a flying taxi
Stubborn perseverance is needed when it comes to convincing legislators that innovation offers opportunities rather than risks. And that it can be implemented under existing legislation. ICT specialist Erhan Kolcuoglu demonstrated this by devising a way to adapt a city…
Multi-million-euro injection for large-scale Hardt Hyperloop test track
An international business consortium led by the Dutch green energy conglomerate Koolen Industries has made a multi-million dollar investment in Hardt Hyperloop, which is to set up Europe’s first fully operational and emission-free Hyperloop test facility. This investment round is…
Start-up of The Day: Mobility solutions for the future – everything under one roof
“Mobility Solutions for the Future” is the field of expertise for FMS GmbH (Future Mobility Solutions). The company, based in Gaimersheim, Bavaria, is active in areas such as consulting, planning and development of systems for digitization and autonomous driving. This…
Dutch Design Week Hidden Gem # 9: How two cultures come together
Before she graduated from the University of the Arts Utrecht (HKU), Samira Charroud was never busy with her origins. The daughter of a Moroccan father and a Dutch mother switches effortlessly between these two worlds. She stands with one foot…
Wastewater treatment plants provide a valuable resource for growing vegetables in greenhouses
Wastewater treatment plants have the job of purifying sewage. But science also sees these as a valuable resource. Wastewater – and what it is made up of – is now being used in new agricultural solutions. As part of the…
DDW Talk: three opportunities for designing future-proof cities
“We form the public space, but the public space also forms us.” With these words on Sunday afternoon, Chief Government Architect of the Netherlands Floris Alkemade opened the first DDW Talk of this edition of the Dutch Design Week. Together…
Best read: Trial-and-error with self-driving buses
The first presentation of the Alexander Dennis Enviro200 bus back in March already attracted a great deal of interest. Several videos of this autonomous bus were circulated on the internet. It is not the size of a slow moving minibus,…
Tomorrow is good: How we fail and why it matters
I regularly speak at so-called FuckUp Nights, events where people talk about failed projects and companies. I like the format very much. To be able to talk about something implies that we have acknowledged and reflected on it. This kind…
Start-up of the week: charging your car can be done in minutes
”Your sneak preview of the future” is the slogan of Innovation Origins, and that’s just what we will highlight with our Start-up of the Week column. Over the past few days, five start-ups of the day have been featured and…