Rotterdam | December 2014

The closing panel at DFM Summit #8 discussed how Rotterdam can become a 'Maker City'. 'Rotterdam wants to create an innovative ecosystem,' said Hans Scheepmaker. 'That is not just the maker movement; that is also the SMEs, the big companies, the whole picture.'

Rotterdam | November 2014

Erik Tempelman hosted a symposium on Circular Product Design last month at TU Delft. 'Your product is gonna come back to you,' he says. 'Design for refurbishment, design for upgrading and design for recycling will become much more important.'

Rotterdam | November 2014

Peter Troxler was one of the speakers last week at 3rd Rev Xperience conference in Rotterdam. 'Fablab has everything to do with decentralized production, with democratizing access to production, with open sourcing the production process,' he says.

Rotterdam | November 2014

Hogeschool Rotterdam tech teacher Arnold Roosch runs Stadslab Rotterdam, a Fab Lab that offers Rotterdammers the opportunity to 'make things that they wouldn't have been able to pull off in their garage'.

Rotterdam | October 2014

'They used to build ships here,' says Vincent Wegener, co-founder of RDM Makerspace. 'Now in the 21st century RDM Campus is about new manufacturing technologies, 3D printing, digital fabrication.'