Lecture i gave at cognitive cities salon organized by VURB and ccities at Trouw. Explores nature of unused space and how it can be reused and.

1. Collaborative urban redevelopment and the network

3. 7,6 million square meters of empty office space in Netherlands

4. Vacant NL

7. Abandaned unbuilt or sparsely spaces – urban fallow land

8. Approaches

9. Squatting made illegal in NL

10. Co-workers

12. Broedplaatsen (Urban incubators)

13. Temporary installation in unused urban space often for single use – “Popups”

14. Available space that can be legally be occupied in agreement with owner

15. Areas of unused terrain organized by availability

16. Connect available empty civic space to networks

17. Findable, social connected unused spaces

18. configurability and socialization

19. Contracts, regulation and legal requirements

20. Partnerships with existing Urban incubators, housing corportions , local government

21. Next Steps: analog and networked explorations into reallocating spaces

22. Part of research: what is the demand for affordable reuse of unused urban space

23. Credits http://www.geekologie.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/daleremote Megahouse – Atalier Hitoshi Abe http://openbuildings.com/buildings/place-du-quartier-des-spectacles-profile-4873 http://www.designboom.com/ In Partnership with: Archadia (Mark Dek) The Mobile City (Michiel de Lange) Contact Who: James Burke Sites: www.vurb.eu Twitter: @vurb Email: james@vurb.eu QUESTIONS?