StimuleringsfondsOur 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!
#architecture #design #digitalculture #dutchdesign #creativeIndustries
Image: HOOP at Noorderzon, photographer: Douwe de Boer
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!
#architecture #design #digitalculture #dutchdesign #creativeIndustries
Image: HOOP at Noorderzon, photographer: Douwe de Boer
