‘Peripheral’ actions [socially, legally and spatially] represent a popular creative drive which offers solutions, albeit sometimes wobbly ones, to an otherwise unsustainable growth. TReCairo focuses on the diverse nature of this alternative urbanisation; cumulative, additive, corrosive, competitive, absorptive, mimetic…recording these transient ‘behaviours’ through Dynamic Mapping, image based sequences that integrate time lapses or evolutions into a single (progressive) diagram.

The scientific research part of the project is about to start and it focuses on creating an alternative vision for Istanbul. The public act part of the project will happen in Istanbul coming July and August. This part will be a mix of scientific, cultural and artistic projects. We will be based in an empty building where we will continue our work with the Istanbul residents. Currently we are in search of an inhabited building. Below I will post few alternatives we have been working on.

At this moment, the working team [the research and the public act] is being established, please feel free to jump in! We are open to work with fresh ideas on envisioning cities and organizing public acts such as interacting with the neighborhood, setting up projects with inhabitants, involving them in thinking and making process of a city. With this blog, we will keep you updated on developments of this fast emerging and evolving project.

TReC in Complexity Theories of Cities Come of Age Conference; 24-27SEPTEMBER09
Three decades of research have established the field of complexity theories of cities as a dominant approach to cities. Now that the field has come of age, it is time to stop for a moment, look back at what has been achieved, with appreciation, but also with sober criticism and then look forward at potentials that have yet to be realized. We will present the TReC’s complexity approach through the ‘city games’ Ekim Tan is developing in INTI/TU Delft. Here is a short review.

TReC IN OUDE WESTEN; 15-28AUGUST2009
‘The Responsive City Game’ in Oude Westen
Het Oude Westen Game attracted positive reaction from the Rotterdam Municipality as a not yet tested planning tool, from the Rotterdam Architecture Academy as an excellent education tool.

Client: AGORA
Title: Adaptive Design [Dynamisch design heeft toekomst]
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Client: EU
Title: STREET LEVEL DESIRES
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Client: NOVA TERRA
Title: Vermeers Wanted
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Client: NOVA TERRA
Title: Downtown Disney
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Client: Slow Management No.4 Bouwen
Title: Het paard van Troje
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Client: IFOU
Title: In search for opposing the generic identity
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Client: ATLANTIS
Title: Legibility back on the Agenda
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Client: ARCHINED
Title: Modernity in Fast-Motion -Istanbul
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for dutch

Client: ARCHINED
Title: Letters from Almere No.1
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for dutch

Client: ARCHINED
Title: Grand Bazaar of Architecture[s]
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Client: ARCHINED
Title: Noodles versus Magnum
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Client: ARCHINED
Title: More Sign than Space, Las Vegas Revisited
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Client: DYSTURB
Title: Is Almere There Yet?
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Client: Municipality of Rotterdam/Rotterdam Architecture Academy
Program: transformation of a 19th century central residential neighborhood, today inhabited by 70% immigrant residents
Site area: Het Oude Westen
Total floor space: 28 hectares
Duration: 2009 August

TReC IN OUDE WESTEN; 15-28AUGUST2009
‘The Responsive City Game’ in Oude Westen. During the Open City Master Class organized by Rotterdam Architecture Academy, TReC will facilitate self-organization of The Ultimate Oude Westen Block by simulating her residents as designers of their environment.

Oude Westen is a neighborhood located at the heart of Rotterdam. Exceptional for a central Dutch neighborhood, 73% of the residents is non-Dutch: 15%Surinamese, 14%Moroccon, 13%Turkish… This reality can also be traced in the local economy of Oude Westen: 70% of the shops in the quarter is owned by foreigners.

TReC thinks the physical space [built and non-built] of Oude Westen needs to reflect its distinct socio-economic profile.

TReC IN ALMERE SPORTPARK DE WIERDEN; SEPTEMBER2008
Client: INTI/TU Delft
Program: new urban expansion for Almere Haven by 300 new households
Site area: Almere Sportpark de Wierden
Total floor space: 45 hectares
Duration: 2008 September-October

Client: sLIM
Program: content organization of a lecture series on the complexity theories and the city
Site area: -
Total floor space: -
Duration: 2008 January-June

*as part of the -scape team