Plate filled with home made food

Eat & Show: Story Night

Charlotte
Every couple of months, two people from Rotterdam Collectief cook dinner and two people show their work. This time, Amanda Terpstra presented her work as an architectural historian. Anthony Banks performed his songs. Erika Hirose and Charlotte van Oostrum made dinner – and presented a little thing themselves as well. When we see Amanda, she’s…
Profielfoto Piet Schmeits

Meet Piet Schmeits: Industrial designer and process facilitator

Charlotte
Rotterdam Collective is home to diverse businesses from all over the world. Meet Piet Schmeits, a Rotterdam-based industrial designer and process facilitator from The Netherlands. Piet designs and facilitates people processes. Also, Piet co-organises Think Big, a food festival that creates consciousness about loving ánd eating animals. When not behind a computer or barbecue, you’ll…

Rotterdam Collective: Where’s everyone from?

Charlotte
The Rotterdam Collective has a highly cosmopolitan culture. Our workspace is home to various businesses from all over the world. So even though the Netherlands did not qualify for the 2018 World Cup, we had plenty of teams to cheer for. Where exactly do our members come from? We dove into the numbers for 2018…
WAKEAT MISO

OOH! MISO: A Workshop by Erika Hirose from WAKEAT.

Charlotte
When you hear ‘miso’, most people think of miso soup. But, as Rotterdam Collective’s Japanese fermenter and food activist Erika Hirose shows, there are many many more delicious things you can make with miso: from miso hummus to chocolate cookies. You just need to think outside the box! So on a Monday evening in March,…

Eat & Show: Poetry Night

Charlotte
Every couple of months, two people from Rotterdam Collectief cook dinner and two people show their work. This time, Robert Schols presented his poetry, Silvia Testa her drawings. Erika Hirose and Charlotte van Oostrum made dinner and dessert. Before tonight, almost nobody at Rotterdam Collectief knew that Robert wrote poetry. During the day, Robert runs Lusis ICT.…

Hunted: Hiking and Camping Trip 2017

Charlotte
The Rotterdam Collectief is home to almost 80 plants: from big plants to small plants to plants hanging from the ceiling to plants planted in an old toilet bowl. After all, we’re a collective built on principles of sustainability. But after bringing all of these plants to RoCo, in the fall of 2017, the time…
Refugee children from The Valley Rebels

Eat & Show: Movie Night

Charlotte
Every couple of months, two people from Rotterdam Collectief cook dinner and others show their work. This time, Ben Lenzner showed his documentary ‘The Valley Rebels’. Erika Hirose and Charlotte van Oostrum made dinner and dessert. In late March of 2017, The Rotterdam Collective had the opportunity to see Ben Lenzner and Spencer Wolff’s documentary,…
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