Our Activities Programme Grant Scheme is open until 15 June, 16:00 CEST 🎪

Who gets to decide what a city looks like? GRAS, the Groningen architecture centre supported through this scheme, believes that question belongs to everyone. Since 1999, they have been broadening the conversation about the built environment beyond councils, developers and designers to include all inhabitants of Groningen 🏙️

To make that happen, GRAS brings together people who would not otherwise meet. Through live podcasts, design sprints and expeditions, experts with different perspectives explore new solutions for contemporary challenges. Their online magazine goes deeper still, revealing the layers behind specific places and projects in the city. Not to celebrate results, but to show how fruitful processes come about.

This approach has had real impact. A mixed team working within their 'Nachtbrakers // Plannenmakers' format (a collaboration with the Academy of Architecture Groningen) developed a vision for Groningen's historic canal ring that is now being incorporated into actual project plans. And there are now several buildings in Groningen that would have been demolished without GRAS 🌱

Read more about GRAS and the grant scheme on our website!

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Image: HOOP at Noorderzon, photographer: Douwe de Boer

Richard Hutten, urodzony 30 marca 1967 roku, jest jednym z czołowych holenderskich projektantów mebli. Znany z innowacyjnych projektów, które często łączą funkcjonalność ze sztuką. Jego dzieła można zobaczyć w MoMA i Stedelijk Museum. Jest też częścią Droog Design, grupy która zrewolucjonizowała design. #RichardHutten #DutchDesign #Art (fot. Wikipedia)

Little blue bag I made for my selling point in Düsseldorf. The pattern fits nicely with this design.
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Fresh from the @avonduren bakery.

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Arnhem Central Station makes people look small

During my visit to Arnhem — home turf of my photo buddy Kevin — I decided to give street photography another go. Kevin makes it look so easy. With his tiny Fuji mirrorless and a 24mm lens, he just hip-shoots away and somehow always nails it.

Me? Not so much. My Canon 5DsR with the Sigma 24–70 Art isn’t exactly what you’d call “discreet.” Every click sounds like a miniature thunderclap echoing through the station. So instead of blending in, I hide in corners, under staircases, or anywhere people don’t look.

That’s where I found this shot — standing beneath the staircase, drawn first by the sweeping architectural lines. Then came the couple, walking right into the frame. Kevin called it “fishing” — waiting patiently for the scene to complete itself. It’s new to me, but I have to admit… it works.

Sometimes photography isn’t about chasing the shot. It’s about waiting for life to wander into it.

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They tried to design a stimulating experience

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