OOZE is an international design practice operating between the fields of art, architecture and urbanism.

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- OOZE
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- What we do
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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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- 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
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  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

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