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Een Incubator voor een Menselijke
Stad

FutureLab is both an incubator and a development company, connecting residents, government, and partners in a new practice of democratic area development.

Amsterdamse Cultuur
VR homes designed by
young people in Holendrecht.
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Invest in people first, then in bricks and mortar. FutureLab Amsterdam is building a vital democracy.

Socratic Design. With Socratic Design, FutureLab breaks through fixed procedures, patterns, and addictions to thinking, and breaks free from entrenched practices. Residents, professionals, and the government begin their collaboration around the fundamental questions: What is a good life? What is a good neighborhood?

Socratic Design Meeting

Democratization of Area Development. Because area development is not only technical but touches upon the fundamental democratic question of “how do we want to live together?”, openness and transparency in all phases are the values that FutureLab guarantees.

Living environment Amsterdam Holendrecht

Holendrecht. In Holendrecht, a dedicated team of residents, professionals, and entrepreneurs is working on the future of the neighborhood. Residents act as partners in both design and execution. Collective ownership is the fundamental assumption.

Residents on living in Holendrecht

Tech for open development processes. Tech innovation enables a different architecture of the process. In FutureLab, Tech becomes the support for humanization in area development.

Technology as a development process for homes

Our Scenarios

Holendrecht Digital Twin

Holendrecht Digital Twin

Our Activities

Equal partnership

In Futurelab, residents collaborate with technical experts as neighborhood experts to form a collective intelligence that democratizes the process by sharing technical expertise. The black box of procedures and protocols is made transparent; residents acquire decision-making power at every stage.

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