Designing  for participation in urban challenges

Bits of Space is a strategic design studio. We research socio-spatial challenges through the lens of personal experience. Our insights take shape as spatial concepts, future scenarios, and participatory design experiments. We often collaborate with architects, area developers, and policy makers.

Creating space for the neighbourhood at an impossible location: a construction site! While cities are being densified, HEK YES provides the existing residents of a neighbourhood with flexible public space.

public space | participation | spatial study

Eight colourful, interactive artworks are installed in the streets of Buiksloterham, Amsterdam Noord. They each bring you underground or to a rooftop, to highlight the otherwise invisible technologies behind the energy transition.

Glimpses

of green energy

public space | participation | storytelling

Spontaneous encounters are important in large organisations. But now that people often work from home, they happen less. In a 4 minute sci-fi movie, we explore the office of the future, and make sure it facilitates informal interactions in hybrid teams.

scenario | spatial study | future of work

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