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5-days OpenStructures workshop at the Bauhaus Denkmal Bundesschule Bernau

Bernau, Germany

August, 2016




Lecturing at the ZhdK

Zürich, Switserland

July, 2016




Exhibiting OpenStructures at the Total museum of contemporary art

Seoul, Korea

June, 2016




Lecturing at Die Angewandte

Vienna, Austria

June, 2016




Presenting the ‘Compositions’ installation at Art Basel

in collaboration with the Institut Integrative Gestaltung | Masterstudio

Basel, Switserland

June, 2016




Designing OS tentbeds for the Ideas City event

commissioned by Joseph Grima / The New Museum

Detroit, USA

May 2016




Presenting ‘OS Plumbing’ at the Belgian Matters exhibition

Milan, Italy

April, 2016




Contributing to ‘Hippie modernism, the struggle for Utopia’ at the Walker Art Center.

Minneapolis, USA

October 2015 - February 2016




3-days OpenStructures workshop at the Institut Integrative Gestaltung | Masterstudio

Basel, Switserland

May 2016




Developing the Atelier LUMA concept document

in collaboration with Christiane Hoegner & Jan Boelen

Arles, France

January, 2016




Lecturing at the free university of Bolzano

Bolzano, Italy

December, 2015




OpenStructures, the game! for ‘Let’s start playing that game!’ at Onomatopee

Eindhoven, The Netherlands

October, 2015




Exhibiting OpenStructures at Arc en Rève

as part of their Constellation.s exhibition

Bordeaux, France

June, 2016




Open Modular scenography for the ‘Taxonomy’ exhibition at Z33

Hasselt, Belgium

Oct - Dec, 2015




Lecturing at the Vitra Design museum

Wheil-am-Rhein, Germany

November 2015




Exhibiting OpenStructures at the Centre François Mitterand

as part of the ‘Le design c’est ?’ exhibition

Périgueux, France

Oct - Dec, 2015




Exhibiting the Welcome to St. Gilles project at the Van Eyck academy

Maastricht, The Netherlands

June, 2015




Exhibiting OpenStructures at the Boijmans - Van Beuningen museum

as part of their Design Derby exhibition

Rotterdam, The Netherlands

July - Sept, 2015




Exhibiting various Intrastructures projects at Recyclart.

Brussels, Belgium

Sept - Oct, 2015




Presenting (and operating!) Biosk 1.0 at Recyclart.

Brussels, Belgium

July - Sept, 2015




Lecture on OpenStructures at Bureau Europa

Maastricht, The Netherlands

July 2015




Contributing to the ‘Bauhaus: design’ exhibition at the Vitra Design museum

Wheil-am-Rhein, Germany

October 2015 - February 2016




OpenStructures presentation + round table at ‘Adhocracy

Athens, Greece

April - May, 2015




OpenStructures, the game! for ‘Let’s start playing that game!’ at De Brakke grond

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

April - Mei, 2015




OpenStructures relatives at ‘Rethinking the modular

Milan, Italy

April, 2015




5-days workshop for DAE master students social design

Brussels, Belgium

January, 2015




Lecture + workshop at the Willem de Kooning academie

Rotterdam, Netherlands

October, 2014




‘Rethink the modular’ workshop with ENSCI - Les Ateliers students at Boisbuchet.

Boisbuchet, France

September, 2014




Inauguration of the Vennestraat project

Genk, Belgium

August, 2014




OpenStructures workshop at ‘Het Nieuwe Instituut’.

Rotterdam, The Netherlands

August, 2014




‘Prototyping public space’ workshop

Matera, Italy

August, 2014




‘ENSCIgraphique’ workshop at ENSCI - Les Ateliers

Visualizing + remodeling the current school system

Paris, France

July, 2014




Exhibiting OpenStructures at ‘Het Nieuwe Instituut’

Rotterdam, The Netherlands

July - August, 2014




Open Modular scenography for the exhibition ‘Designing scarcity’ at ‘Het Nieuwe Instituut’

Rotterdam, The Netherlands

July - August, 2014




Lecture on OpenStructures at Open design / Shared creativity

Barcelona, Spain

July, 2014




Exhibiting OpenStructures at MAK

as part of the ‘150 jahre MAK, von kunstgewerbe zum design’ exhibition

Vienna, Austria

June - October, 2014




Lecture on OpenStructures at OuiShare14

Paris, France

May, 2014




Guestlecture / mentoring at Design Academy Eindhoven > Social Design

Eindhoven, The Netherlands

May, 2014




Debate on ‘How will we work in the future?’ at De Brakke Grond.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

May, 2014




Exhibiting ‘Reframing ambition’, a project in collaboration with Christiane Hoegner

at Droog Hôtel

Amsterdam, Holland

May, 2014




Lecture on ‘What is social design?’ at ENSCI, Les Ateliers

Paris, France

April, 2014




Lecture on ‘Autarkytecture’ at CAST

Tilburg, The Netherlands

February, 2014




Lecture on collaborative design at BIO50

Ljubliana, Slovenia

February, 2014




Mobilotoop workshop at Conflict & Design Genk

Genk, Belgium

February, 2014




Presentation of ‘Autarkytecture’ as part of the ‘Atelier à habiter’ exhibition at Z33.

Hasselt, Belgium

December 2013 - February 2014




Presentation of the Vennestraat and Mobilotoop projects at the Triennale for design in C-mine.

Genk, Belgium

December, 2013




Lecture at Fabrica

Treviso, Italy

December, 2013




Economaat at Budalab

Kortrijk, Belgium

November 2013 - April 2014




‘Don’t Run’ OpenStructures compatible, by Eugenia Molpurgo & Juan Montero at Gallery Oh

Sydney, Australia

September, 2013




OpenStructures at the New Institute Rotterdam as part of the ‘The Ruin’ exhibition

Rotterdam, The Netherlands

June - September, 2013




Economaat at Vooruit!

Ghent, Belgium

May - September, 2013




4 days of OpenStructures thinkering! at Close, closer, Portugal’s Architecture Triennale.

Lissabon, Portugal

November 2013




Contributing to ‘Social design / Urban action’, a symposium at the University of applied Artis in Vienna that the addresses social design as integral element of communal and transcultural interaction within the urban environment. In collaboration with SlumLab magazine

Vienna, Austria

March, 2013




OpenStructures presented / (or, well ... projected) at the MAK as part of the ‘Nomadic furniture 3.0’ exhibition.

Vienna, Austria

June - September, 2013




Working closely together with the inhabitants and shopkeepers of the Vennestraat in Genk to revitalize their street through a number of adaptions and interventions.

This project is in collaboration with the City of Genk,  LoFi Studio and Lhoas&Lhoas architects

Genk, Belgium

September 2012 - December 2013




Coordinating Mobilotoop, an cross-over design research project that looks at the feasibility of networked and open mobility cultures within urban environments. Both process and outcomes will be presented at “Conflict and design” in december 2013.

Genk, Belgium

September 2012 - December 2013




Adhocracy (+ OpenStructures) is travelling to New York and will be presented as part of the ‘Festival of Ideas’ at the New Museum.

NYC, USA

May - june, 2013




Contributing to ‘Unfolding design’, a symposium on the topic of creative copying and open design at the Zurich University of the Arts.

Zurich, Switserland

March, 2013




The OS WaterBoiler, designed by Jesse Howard, is presented at “Demain c’est aujourd-hui #4” at the design Biennale of St. Etienne.

St. Etienne, France

March - June, 2013




Welcome to St. Gilles’ is presented at “Empathicity” at the design Biennale of St. Etienne.

St. Etienne, France

March - June, 2013




DOMUS magazine reports on Intrastructures in their february issue.

(966_Design Belgio.pdf)

February, 2013




Contributing to Alphabetalog, an “anti-manifesto on design teaching”.

Initiated and concept by Jan Boelen, published in Abitare magazine.

February, 2013




Delivering a visual essay for DAMN magazine + the Damn_cover.pdf(!)

(perfectly_odd_connections.pdf)

January 2013




Selected by ICON magazine as ‘design studio of the year’(!)

... we didn’t win though.

London, UK

December, 2012




Prototyping the cargocab concept for Drooglab / Identity Matters

The prototype will be on display from 17th until the 31st of November

at Z33, house for contemporary arts.

Hasselt, Belgium

November, 2012




OpenStructures talk + workshop at ‘Vienna Open’.

Vienna, Austria

November, 2012




Emily King / Frieze reports on Intrastructures ...

October, 2012




New OpenStructures explorations by Marijn Van der Poll, Christiane Hoegner, Jesse Howard, Tristan Kopp & Ricardo Carneiro and Thomas Lommée will be presented at ‘Adhocracy’.

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Welcome to the age of adhocracy. As the opposite of bureaucracy, adhocracy cuts across accepted conventions and power structures to capture opportunities, self-organise and develop new and unexpected methodologies of production. It inhabits the horizontal, rhizomatic realm of the network, in which innovation—resourceful, subversive, anti-dogmatic, spontaneous—can come from anywhere.” (Joseph Grima)

Istanbul, Turkey

October - December, 2012




The New York Times reports on Thomas Lommée / Jesse Howard / Intrastructures

September, 2012




Talking about Open Design at ‘The Filling Station’.

London, UK

August, 2012




Thomas Lommée / Intrastructures writes instructions for the travelling exhibition ‘Do it’.

July, 2012




The OS WaterBoiler, designed by Jesse Howard, as well as the research that was conducted on flexible and scalable production processes for this appliance, will be presented at the “The Machine” exhibition in C-mine Ghenk.

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“The industrial revolution was a revolution for engineers. Now designers are at the forfront of a new revolution. They are part of networks that enable them to develop new materials and systems, build their own machines, and seek new tools for production and distribution. These developments offer an alternative to mass production and open paths to a new economy and society.” (Jan Boelen)

Ghenk, Belgium

June - October, 2012




The OS ‘bike family’, designed by Jo Van Bostraeten + Unfold + Thomas Lommée will be presented at ’The Future in the Making’, hosted by Domus magazine.

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‘The future in the making’ showcases a selection of new design approaches, examining the technological, material, philosophical and economic avant-gardes of contemporary design’. (Joseph Grima)

Milan, Italy

April, 2012




The OS WaterBoiler, designed by Jesse Howard, will be presented at ‘Perspectives’.

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‘The OS WaterBoiler is an appliance that uses the OpenStructures design principles to explore an adaptable and scalable production process.’ (Jesse Howard)

Milan, Italy

April, 2012




Designing an analogue version of the Panoramagram for the Tarwewijk in Rotterdam.

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The Panoramagram proposes an online messageboard for the local community.

Commissioned by Nai + Droog.

Rotterdam, The Netherlands

February, 2012




OpenStructures picked up by WIRED-UK magazine as one of the 25 big ideas for 2012(!)

Januari, 2012




Participating in the Droog Lab on ‘identity matters?’

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‘As one of the few countries lacking a quintessential national identity, the Droog Lab believes Belgium could be a model for how individuals, companies and institutions could formulate their future identities.’

Brussels, Belgium

December, 2011




Presenting the OpenStructures project

as part of the After the bit rush exhibition in MU

Eindhoven, the Netherlands

October - December, 2011




Asked to facilitate the ‘Welcome to Sint Gilles’ project.

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‘Welcome to Saint Gilles’ is a collaborative effort of multiple regional design schools

to revitalize the Saint Gilles neighborhood in Liège through design.

A selection of school projects will be presented at the Biennale Internationale du design de Liège 2012.

Liège, Belgium

September 2011 - October 2012




Talking about DIY design at EXD’11/LISBOA,

a cultural biennale dedicated to design, architecture and contemporary creativity.

The Open Talk will be attended by Enzo Mari and hosted by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Lissabon, Portugal

October, 2011




Unfolding our vision on design

at the Design Directors exhibition, hosted by Design Flanders.

Brussels, Belgium

September - October 2011




Selected by Hans Ulrich Obrist to exhibit at the Blickfang events

in Vienna, Stuttgart, Zurich and Basel.

October, 2011 - March, 2012




Talking about the relevance of small scale initiatives within a networked society

at the Ecole nationale supérieure de création industrielle (ENSCI) in Paris.

The discussion is hosted by the ENSCI and Parsons, New school for design.

Paris, France

September, 2011




Offering assistance at the Sustainable Summerschool.

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‘The Summerschool provides a short course, aiming to provide participants with new insights

in the field of sustainability and design. The program has an interdisciplinary approach

and will be working on real case studies.’

The Summerschool is an initiative of REcentre and the Institute without Boundaries.

Hasselt, Belgium

August, 2011




Openstructures covered by Viewpoint magazine

as part of their ‘Visual essay of influential ideas’ by Kate Franklin

July, 2011




Openstructures featured in the book ‘Open Design Now’.

A book on why design cannot remain Exclusive.

June, 2011




Presenting the OpenStructures project

as part of the “Now!“ exhibition at the Marta Herford museum,

an exhibition on the experience of time and design.

Herford, Germany

September, 2011




The Domus interview with Thomas Lommée on Open Design is now online

Brussels, Belgium

June, 2011




Openstructures covered by Domus magazine

(download the_esperanto_of_objects.pdf here)

June, 2011




Openstructures covered by The Future Laboratory

(download LSNglobal.pdf here)

June, 2011




Presenting OpenStructures as part of the International Design Festival in Berlin

Berlin, Germany

June, 2011




Talking about Open design at the Milan Breakfasts

an initiative of the Design Academy Eindhoven and Premsela

Milan, Italy

April, 2011




Presenting OpenStructures as part of the New Times, New Heroes exhibition.

Milan, Italy

April, 2011




Presenting OpenStructures + cyclical kitchen

as part of the Transnatural exhibit

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

March, 2011




Commissioned by Stroom, Den Haag

to design and build a pavillion for the Foodprint Erasmusveld project

The Hague, The Netherlands

September, 2011




Commissioned by the kunstvereniging Diepenheim to design and build

the basecamp for their NILMDTE festival of the arts

Diepenheim, The Netherlands

May, 2012




Lecturing at the symposium

“I don't know where I'm going but I want to be there,
The expanding areas of Graphic Design”

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

18 december, 2010




Openstructures mentioned in Viewpoint magazine.

(download YesWeCan.pdf here .. great article by the way)

October, 2010




Testing / demonstrating our cyclical kitchen

at Micromarché

Brussels, Belgium

September - December, 2010




Presenting ‘Yes, we’re Open! A vision on Open Design’

at the Verbeke Foundation

Kemzeke, Belgium

November, 2010 - April, 2011




Presenting OpenStructures, Lifecycle Loops

and Panoramagram as part of the “Design for mankind” exhibition

at the Grand Hornu site

Mons, Belgium

November - December, 2010




Presenting Typemachine.net

at the Biennale Internationale du Design de St. Etienne

St. Etienne, France

November - December, 2010




Unfolding our vision on Open Design

with the “Yes! we’re Open” exhibition at the Budascoop in Kortrijk

this exhibition is part of the European Innovation weeks

Kortrijk, Belgium

October, 2010




Workshop OpenStructures at KHMechelen

Mechelen, Belgium

September, 2010




Teaching at the ‘Social design’ department

of the Design Academy Eindhoven (Masters program)

Eindhoven, The Netherlands

September 2010




The OpenCargoBike, designed by Jo Van Bostraeten for the OpenStructures project

was featured in ‘Velo, bicycle culture and design’

August, 2010




Exhibiting OpenStructures

as part of the “Up to You” exhibit at Stroom Den Haag

The Hague, The Netherlands

February - March, 2010




Workshop OpenStructures / Open Architecture at Z33

with Luigi Ferrara, Thomas Jomini, BrusselsCooperation, OpenSource House and db Rotor

Hasselt, Belgium

December, 2009




Workshop OpenStructures / Open Hardware at Z33

with Rob Van Kranenburg

Hasselt, Belgium

December, 2009




Exhibiting the OpenStructures project

as part of the “Bits and Pieces” exhibit at Material Connexion

NYC, USA

November, 2009




Introducing the OpenStructures project

at the Design Academy Eindhoven

Eindhoven, the Netherlands

September, 2009 - January, 2010




Taking up a teaching position at Les Ateliers

Paris, France

October, 2009




Exhibiting the OpenStructures project at Z33

Z33 is an art centre that focuses on design and contemporary art

with integrated, multidisciplinary projects.

Hasselt, Belgium

September - December, 2009




Exhibiting the system patterns timeline  at The Center for Architecture

The exhibition documents a series of contemporary experiments in planning, architecture, and design that seek to treat the city and its environment in holistic terms, as a complex social, political, and ecological matrix.

NYC, USA

May - August, 2009




Shaping a future lightrail system for De Lijn

Hasselt, Belgium

April, 2009




Lecturing at Recyclart

Brussels, Belgium

April 23, 2009




Commissioned to shape the “Kilternan Institute”,

an open innovation center.

Dublin, Ireland

February 23 - March 1, 2009




Setting up an OpenStructure

in collaboration with 20 design students

at the Media & Design Academy Genk

Genk, Belgium

Februari 18, 2009




Giving a 4-days OpenStructures workshop

at the St. Lukas Academy for Architecture and Design

Brussels, Belgium

Februari 6 - 11, 2009




Lecturing at the Media & Design academy Genk

Genk, Belgium

September 17, 2008




Lecturing at Changing the change,

an international conference on the role and potential of design research

in the transition towards sustainability.

Torino, Italy

July 10 - 12, 2008




Presenting at Design Paradigm

Leadership gathering to discuss the opportunity of future initiatives for Ireland.

Dublin, Ireland

January 24, 2008




Presenting at Backstage

Event conference highlighting the economic opportunities

within the experience economy.

Roskilde, Denmark

January 22 - 23, 2008




Exhibiting at Utrecht Manifest,

the 2nd biennale for social design

Utrecht, The Netherlands

November 24, 2007 - February 11 2008




Exhibiting at Connecting’07,

the international ICSID design congress

San Francisco, USA

October 17 - 20, 2007







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