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OOZE
is an international design practice
operating between the fields of
art, architecture and urbanism.
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OOZE
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Mission
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What we do
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People
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Contact
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URBAN PROTOTYPE
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City of 1,000 Tanks - Water Balance Pilot
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Future Island
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A Crack in Deep Time – Zeitriss
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King's Cross Pond Club
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Água Carioca - Sítio Burle Marx
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Between the Waters
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Lake 301, Chennai
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Die Leutschenbachinsel
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Hopscotch
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Public Space Society
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The Wind Lift
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Hortus Oblitus
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Théâtre Évolutif
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The Cook & The Farmer
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Source de Friche
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ARCHITECTURE
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Treverket, the former harbor area of Oslo
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Dakparkschool en Binnengebeid, Rotterdam
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Croydon Fair Field Public Space
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atelier LUMA Arles
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Dakhuis
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Monument House Leipzig
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Villa Rotterdam
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Hakawati House Beirut
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Tent Academy Awards
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Seaside Apartment Knokke
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Emscher Village
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Volcaniques
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URBAN STRATEGY
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LEAP - Local Energy Action Plan, Rotterdam
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City of 1,000 Tanks, Chennai
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Água Carioca, Rio de Janeiro
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Água Paulista, São Paulo
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Every Other Street, New York
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SMAAKSTAAT, North Brabant
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Aalto University Campus, Helsinki
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Coal Lake City, Ruhr Region
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Forest Life, Hyderabad
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Glacier Vegetal, Geneva
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Land of Beacons, Ymuiden
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RESEARCH
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Re-Imagine Water Flows: From Building to River Basin
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Future Island - Time of Stone
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MEDIA
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Lectures
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Exhibitions
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Publications
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Interviews & Films
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NEWS
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21 June 2024
INAUGURATION - NEW ECOLOGIES 2024
23 May 2024
Launch of OECD manual “A Handbook of What Works” @ WWF10
22 May 2024
3 Public Lectures @ the World Water Forum 10 in Bali
26 March 2024
Henk Ovink talks about the work of OOZE at the IN FOCUS : RESEARCH by the WORLD AROUND & DESIGN MUSEUM , London
15 March 2024
On TV / Water Pressure Exhibition on national news
14 March 2024
Opening of Water Pressure Exhibition, Hamburg
21 February 2024
Published in The Norman Foster Foundation Press ‘On Climate Crisis -Volume III'
30 January 2024
Monitoring and Caring for the Water Balance Pilot in the Little Flower School, Chennai
28 January 2024
NEW ECOLOGIES Gegenwarten, Chemnitz
1 January 2024
2024 / Keep on OOZING !
20 December 2023
Prayagraj excursion at the confluence of 3 rivers, India
19 December 2023
Deep Dive, a Water As Leverage workshop in Prayagraj
12 December 2023
‘Chennai at the forefront’ - A Water as Leverage Dialogue
6 December 2023
Open Space Coalitions by Architecture Workroom, Brussels
28 November 2023
Going Public - Lecture series by KU Leuven, Ghent
24 November 2023
School’s out # 37, A lecture for the Independent School for the City, Rotterdam
16 November 2023
Keynote Speaker at Living Cities Forum Melbourne 2023, “Infrastructures of Life”
14 November 2023
Participation in Hackathon DRRS Program in Recife, Brazil
11 November 2023
Água Carioca @ the Porto Design Biennale 2023
27 October 2023
IIT Madras visit the Water Balance Pilot, Chennai
18 October 2023
Lecture at Chalmers School of Architecture, Architecture in the Anthropocene: Building Capacity, Gothenburg
28 September 2023
Keynote Speaker at IFLA World Congress 2023, Stockholm
27 September 2023
SOLAR BREATH , Knowing from where the wind blows, ERES Foundation, Munich
26 September 2023
“Meet the Artists”, Public Talk @ Statens konstråd, Stockholm
23 September 2023
Future Island Opening , Albano Campus, Stockholm
17 September 2023
Exhibition The Snake and the Island @ Statens konstråd, Stockholm
5 September 2023
Farewell Event for Henk Ovink from his position as the Special Envoy for International Water Affairs, Rptterdam
1 September 2023
Great Press Coverage of the Water Balance Pilot in Chennai
31 August 2023
Water as Leverage , Up-Scaling Workshop in Chennai
30 August 2023
Inauguration of The City of 1000 Tanks Water Balance Pilot, Chennai
20 August 2023
Completion of Future Island Project
23 June 2023
Keynote Speaker at 'Scaling & Improving Together, the next steps in Nature Based Solutions’, Partners for Water, Den Haag
16 June 2023
Lecture for 'Building our Future, of Course' @ Biosintrum, Friesland
25 May 2023
Masterclass with Cave Bureau and Slow Research Lab, Rotterdam
17 April 2023
HORIZON EUROPE / DUST
21 March 2023
Chennai Water Balance Pilot @ Cities-Design-Water Innovation Lab, New York Water Week
16 March 2023
Water Balance Pilot construction completed, Chennai
28 February 2023
Sympoetique group show @ EPFL, Lausanne
1 January 2023
2023 / Here we go !
24 November 2022
ETH Zurich - Energy Matters lecture
11 November 2022
Looking back to the Future: 20 year of IABR @ the Keilezaal, Rotterdam
11 November 2022
Transition talk in the Red Light District - IABR @ Ferro Building, Rotterdam
28 October 2022
Energy Transition Rotterdam Workshop – IABR @ the Ferro Building, Rotterdam
17 October 2022
Namami Gange - Water as Leverage - Training workshop In New Delhi – India
29 September 2022
Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2022 / RETROACTIVE
25 September 2022
Oslo Architecture Trienniale 2022 - Oslo in the Making exhibition
23 September 2022
IABR 2022 - Makers Fest @ Fero Building 23. sept, Friday, 12:00–19:00
22 September 2022
Ooze News - September 2021 - 1+2
22 September 2022
Agua Carioca exhibited at the International Architecture Biennale of Rotterdam - It’s about time
15 September 2022
KEYNOTE LECTURE - Territorial Turn Graz- International Symposium @ Graz TU University - Austria
9 September 2022
Eva Pfannes in break out sessions for the Solar Biennale at the Nieuwe Instituut - Rotterdam
28 July 2022
OOZE is member of the DUST consortium who won the European Commission Horizon Europe Open Call
29 June 2022
OOZE talks at the World Urban Forum 11, Katowice, Poland - Voices from Cities Event
9 June 2022
PREFIGURATIONS: an Exhibition on Architecture and Transitions in Brussel
6 June 2022
Future Island spring building workshop, hands on the rocks!
26 May 2022
Opening of 27th Biennial of Design (BIO27) at MAO in Lubjiana
28 April 2022
SOLAR BIENNALE #2 - Designing a Solar Democracy @ Pakhius de Zwijger / Amsterdam
23 April 2022
In search of the pluriverse at the Het Nieuw Instituut - Of Soil and water / The King's Cross Pond Club
11 April 2022
Winners revealed for the Master plan of the world-leading Innovation District at Begbroke, north of Oxford.
4 April 2022
A-Lab & OOZE selected for the 'Verket' for the Grønlikaia Harbour front competition in Oslo
26 March 2022
ZKM - The Beauty of Early Life. Traces of Early Life / / Time of Stone Edition 02
5 February 2022
LECTURE @ THE WORLD AROUND SUMMIT 2022
14 January 2022
Winner of International Award for Public Art (IAPA) - Eurasia
12 January 2022
OOZE preselected for the Oxford Masterplan Competition - Design team led by HawkinsBrown
1 January 2022
2022 NEW YEAR OOZE GREETINGS
16 December 2021
EPFL Lausanne - Urban and Environmental Theory Session #6
14 December 2021
City of 1000 Tanks nominated for the Zumtobel Award
3 November 2021
FORUM STÄDTEBAU ‹BASEL 2050› -PODIUM XIII | ‹DIE BLAUE STADT: WASSER ALS URBANER BAUSTEIN›
15 October 2021
Keynote at Festival of Architecture in Oostende
6 October 2021
Press Launch - City of 1000 Tanks at the Goethe Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan Chennai
1 October 2021
Future Island in construction on Albano Campus in Stockholm
15 July 2021
Social Media Campaign Launch for City of 1000 Tanks
25 June 2021
AIR-Deltametropool Event
24 June 2021
Thursday Night Live! at HNI
24 June 2021
Ooze News - June 2021
18 June 2021
The Local Energy Action Plan at the IABR
3 June 2021
The Great Transformation - Energy Districts
22 May 2021
17th International Architecture Exhibition, Future Island in Venice
2 May 2021
Thirstwalk podcast with OOZE
22 March 2021
Focusing on the Next Generation of Water Ambassadors in Chennai
23 February 2021
The Berlage Keynotes: “Building Planetary Capacity” by OOZE
3 February 2021
Times of India publishes City of 1000 Tanks
8 December 2020
Ooze News - December 2020
9 November 2020
IABR: DOWN TO EARTH 2020
8 September 2020
Between Walls and Water, Canberra
2 September 2020
Designed Living Environment 2020, Sweden
27 August 2020
IABR-DOWN TO EARTH 2020
25 August 2020
Featured in World Water Atlas
24 August 2020
Shenzhen Design Week 2020
2 March 2020
Worldmaking! in Rotterdam
10 February 2020
World Urban Forum 2020, Abu Dhabi
19 December 2019
LEAP for Bospolder-Tussendijken
4 November 2019
AIWW 2019 'Water as Leverage around the world' in Amsterdam
24 September 2019
Ooze news - September 2019
23 September 2019
AFFR 2019 'Lost in Transition debate' in Rotterdam
22 September 2019
Oslo Architecture Triennale - Degrowth conference invites OOZE as speaker
13 September 2019
Winner of Croydon Fair Field
5 September 2019
Jury for LafargeHolcim Awards Europe 2019 includes Eva Pfannes
1 August 2019
Henk Ovink visits Chennai along with Ooze to lead stakeholder partnerships
15 July 2019
City of 1000 Tanks' Mylapore project published by The Lede, India
10 July 2019
Ooze news - July 2019
9 July 2019
Participative garden design: Ooze give talk and workshop
28 June 2019
New collaboration to design sustainable regional food system
27 June 2019
Resilient Chennai strategy includes contributions from City of 1000 Tanks
19 June 2019
WeMakeTheCity and DutchCulture panel discussion
24 May 2019
UN-Habitat Assembly Side Events: Ooze share experience from Chennai
24 April 2019
Croydon Fair Field finalists include OOZE
2 April 2019
Water as Leverage Chennai workshops focus on finance and local engagement
28 March 2019
Blauwe Kamer invites Eva Pfannes for Yearbook selection committee
22 March 2019
Architectuul publish Ooze on World Water Day
5 March 2019
Public engagement workshop follows trail for City of 1,000 Tanks
25 February 2019
XXII Triennale di Milano host Ooze at opening symposium
31 January 2019
Ooze news - January 2019
30 January 2019
Site-specific art commissions: Lecture at Sciences Po
30 January 2019
A+T publication highlights 'activating' work of Ooze and Marjetica Potrč
28 January 2019
Água Carioca to be exhibited at XXII Triennale di Milano: 'Broken Nature'
28 January 2019
Ooze invited as speakers at LafargeHolcim Global Forum
23 January 2019
Urban Strategies Lecture at University of Siegen
3 January 2019
Eva Pfannes member on 2018 Rotterdam Architecture Prize Jury
6 December 2018
Green light for 'City of 1,000 Tanks' at Water as Leverage regional workshop
30 November 2018
IACCCA Symposium invites Ooze and Marjetica Potrč to discuss role of art in public space
27 November 2018
'Money on the table' at Water as Leverage workshops in Chennai
21 November 2018
'OOZE’S antidote to the water apocalypse': A/D/O Journal publishes interview with Ooze
15 November 2018
Design Museum London hosts Water Futures presentations and panel discussion
14 November 2018
Lecture at ETH Zürich on the political economy of architecture and territory
31 October 2018
Rotterdam Architecture Prize 2018 chooses Eva Pfannes as jury member
9 October 2018
A/D/O New York hosts Water Bodies exhibition
20 September 2018
Ooze news - September 2018
18 September 2018
Artwork for Albano University Campus, Stockholm enters design phase
21 August 2018
Ooze-led consortium selected by Dutch government for ‘Water as Leverage’ programme in Chennai
18 July 2018
A night dedicated to architecture, art and design on the Adriatic shore
17 July 2018
Eva Pfannes discusses women in architecture for live radio show
5 July 2018
SMAAKSTAAT wins College van Rijksadviseurs 'Brood en Spelen' competition
5 June 2018
Ooze news - June 2018
4 June 2018
Bringing a new type of living to Brazil
17 April 2018
Milan Design Week and atelier LUMA host conversation with Ooze
5 April 2018
Creative Industries Fund NL film highlights Ooze as leading example
28 March 2018
ArchDaily Brazil publish Água Paulista
26 March 2018
Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin, hosts Ooze and Marjetica Potrč for an evening of discussion
22 March 2018
atelier LUMA masterclass invites Ooze to share water expertise
10 January 2018
Ooze news - January 2018
8 January 2018
'Letters to the Mayor - Rotterdam' opens this Friday
21 December 2017
'Embrace our Rivers' exhibition opens in Chennai
1 December 2017
Winner Landscape Institute Award for King's Cross Pond Club
16 November 2017
11th São Paulo Architecture Biennale showing Água Carioca
11 October 2017
Ooze news - October 2017
10 October 2017
Ooze wins top prize at LafargeHolcim Awards 2017 Latin America
5 October 2017
Água Carioca at 11th São Paulo Architecture Biennial
2 October 2017
Public presentation and debate about outdoor swimming in Brussels
3 September 2017
‘Ecovention Europe’ Exhibition at De Domijnen Museum, NL
26 August 2017
EDGE Lecture - UCL London
22 June 2017
Updated Água Carioca website
25 May 2017
Opening atelierLUMA
25 November 2016
Opening Agua Carioca Pilot at the Sitio Roberto Burle Marx
18 October 2016
SplashMob - Save the Pond Club!
12 September 2016
Petition to save the Pond Club
4 July 2016
Ooze in 'O Globo' interview
20 June 2016
Art and Water Festival - Chennai 2017 - India
15 April 2016
Public Presentation and Debate - Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
12 April 2016
Construction of Agua Carioca pilot starts onsite at Sitio Burle Marx
3 April 2016
Green Light for the Hopscotch
17 February 2016
On Nature and the City - Lecture at KU Leuven
26 January 2016
Capbussó Urbà - Exhibition - Roca Barcelona Gallery
1 January 2016
Happy New Year 2016
6 November 2015
Lecture at Central Saint Martins
1 November 2015
Talk at Holburne Museum, Bath, UK
15 September 2015
Green Light for 1st Água Carioca Pilot
14 September 2015
überFLUSS - In Conversation - Berlin
27 August 2015
Monument House in Leipzig - 90% complete
22 June 2015
Pond Club on the news
22 May 2015
King's Cross Pond opens to the public
15 May 2015
King's Cross Pond Club - Opening & Other Talks
28 April 2015
4.200 Plants for King's Cross Pond Club
18 February 2015
A Blue Sun for Offenbach
1 January 2015
A Splashy 2015
1 January 2015
Practitioners in residence at CSM
20 November 2014
Pond Club in Construction
20 November 2014
Solid wood structure of Monument House goes up
14 November 2014
Finalist in ECB Art on Site Competition
5 November 2014
Pond Talk in London
15 September 2014
Urban Plunge - Inauguration
29 August 2014
The Wind Lift – OPENING
15 July 2014
OOZE lectures in Paderborn
1 July 2014
The Wind Lift in Construction
29 May 2014
Hortus Oblitus - Opening
12 April 2014
ÁGUA CARIOCA @ Studio X, Rio Janeiro
10 April 2014
Água Carioca - Opening , Rio Janeiro
2 March 2014
Hortus Oblitus in Paderborn
15 February 2014
The Wind Lift is On
7 January 2014
Ooze Builds in London
1 January 2014
Fantastic 2014
11 November 2013
Competition Entry for Casa de Rui Barbosa
6 September 2013
Between the Waters - EK.2013
1 September 2013
Àgua Carioca - Phase 1 complete
24 August 2013
Artist Talk - EK.2013 - Oberhausen
23 August 2013
Tower Jam Session @ The Commons
17 August 2013
Honourable Mention for Aalto Campus Competition Design
22 June 2013
Between the Waters to be re-erected
22 June 2013
Opening - Container Village & Between the Waters
12 April 2013
OOZE Shortlisted for the IAP Award - Shanghai
23 March 2013
First lecture as part of the Ja Natuurlijk event
15 March 2013
Ja Natuurlijk Opening - The Commons, The Hague
3 March 2013
'The Commons' - in construction in The Hague
1 January 2013
Happy New Year 2013
4 December 2012
Structure & Infrastructure – Lecture at UFRRJ
19 November 2012
First phase of Àgua Carioca in Rio begins
20 October 2012
Nomination for Architectuurprijs 2012, Rotterdam
22 September 2012
Ooze speak at 'Art and the City' symposium
8 September 2012
Public Space Society - 3rd round table - MANifest
1 September 2012
2nd Round Table for Public Space Society - ALLmende
12 July 2012
Àgua Carioca wins support from SFA
7 July 2012
Public Space Society - Round Table 1
28 June 2012
Opening of Source de Friche - ParckDesign 2012
8 June 2012
Public Space Society - Opening
8 May 2012
Public Space Society to be located on Stadion Brache
8 April 2012
Public Space Society to feature in Art and the City festival
25 January 2012
Ooze and Marjetica Potrč selected for PARCKDESIGN in Brussels
23 January 2012
Lecture at Salon im Babette, Berlin
23 January 2012
Source de Friche selected for PARCKDESIGN 2012
1 January 2012
Happy New Year!
17 November 2011
Ooze to participate in Ja Natuurlijk art exhibition, The Hague
15 October 2011
Closing session of Evento 2011 in Bordeaux
6 October 2011
Evento 2011 – Bordeaux - Opening
10 September 2011
Evento 2011 - Bordeaux - In construction
17 July 2011
Between the Waters exhibited at Re-Action!
15 July 2011
Knokke Art Cave Completed
17 June 2011
Charter of the “Théâtre évolutif” signed in Bordeaux
11 June 2011
Lecture on fractal thinking at TU Delft symposium
7 April 2011
Ooze nominated for Condenast Prize 2011
2 February 2011
Ooze selected for ÜBER LEBENSKUNST festival, Berlin
14 January 2011
OOZE published in the Volkskrant
8 January 2011
Ooze and Marjetica Potrč selected for Evento 2011
9 December 2010
Harvest Party on Emscher Island
12 November 2010
The Cook, the Farmer... featured in Year Book 2010
4 November 2010
Lina Bo Bardi Fan-Day
4 October 2010
Villa Rotterdam, Lenotec Super structure completed
5 September 2010
Opening of EMSCHERKUNST.2010
4 June 2010
'Trails' project exhibited in Lelystad
8 May 2010
Eva Pfannes appears in debate at Baukultur Salon
7 May 2010
Lecture on 'The exploration of the Natural'
4 April 2010
Ooze curates art for new apartment
21·06·24 INAUGURATION - NEW ECOLOGIES 2024
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23·05·24 Launch of OECD manual “A Handbook of What Works” @ WWF10
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22·05·24 3 Public Lectures @ the World Water Forum 10 in Bali
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26·03·24 Henk Ovink talks about the work of OOZE at the IN FOCUS : RESEARCH by the WORLD AROUND & DESIGN MUSEUM , London
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15·03·24 On TV / Water Pressure Exhibition on national news
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14·03·24 Opening of Water Pressure Exhibition, Hamburg
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21·02·24 Published in The Norman Foster Foundation Press ‘On Climate Crisis -Volume III'
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30·01·24 Monitoring and Caring for the Water Balance Pilot in the Little Flower School, Chennai
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28·01·24 NEW ECOLOGIES Gegenwarten, Chemnitz
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01·01·24 2024 / Keep on OOZING !
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20·12·23 Prayagraj excursion at the confluence of 3 rivers, India
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19·12·23 Deep Dive, a Water As Leverage workshop in Prayagraj
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12·12·23 ‘Chennai at the forefront’ - A Water as Leverage Dialogue
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06·12·23 Open Space Coalitions by Architecture Workroom, Brussels
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16·11·23 Keynote Speaker at Living Cities Forum Melbourne 2023, “Infrastructures of Life”
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28·09·23 Keynote Speaker at IFLA World Congress 2023, Stockholm
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26·09·23 “Meet the Artists”, Public Talk @ Statens konstråd, Stockholm
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23·09·23 Future Island Opening , Albano Campus, Stockholm
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05·09·23 Farewell Event for Henk Ovink from his position as the Special Envoy for International Water Affairs, Rptterdam
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01·09·23 Great Press Coverage of the Water Balance Pilot in Chennai
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31·08·23 Water as Leverage , Up-Scaling Workshop in Chennai
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30·08·23 Inauguration of The City of 1000 Tanks Water Balance Pilot, Chennai
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A Splashy 2015
1 January 2015
OOZE WISHES YOU A BEAUTIFUL SPLASHY 2015
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