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Author Archives: AnnikaKuyper

At the moment I’m working at a project part of the MediaLAB Amsterdam. Im working together with Takuma, Stefano and the projectmanager Gijs at: Blending Amsterdam Reality – Urban Amsterdam History.

Team Blending Amsterdam Reality to FabLab

At Tuesdays and Thursdays the FabLab is open for everybody who wants to realize their digital techniques and ideas with machines you cant find in a normal shop (yet). They have 3d printers, lazer and vinyl cutters. We decide to use the laser cutter, which is a machine that works in the 2D plane. It follows your vector drawing […]

Lets building the prototype…

Last few months we found out the definition of the problem and how to solve this problem with a physical object connected with a digital mobile platform. Also we have defined our concept and have a good definition of the target market. Last month we present 3 concept to the Stadsdeel Centrum. They couldnt decide […]

five phases

We have adopted the methodology suggested by Bas Leurs for this project. This method of design consists of five phases (Research & analysis, Concept, Design, Develop and Implement). The project in entirety being of 20 weeks, each of the five stages will be allotted 4 weeks each. We are now half way just ended the design […]

Content searching!

Now we have our final concept, we more concern about the content to define the functionality and design of the physical object. We separate four different kind of content: 1. Historical information about the former Citywall and her bolwerken, mills and gates . 2. Historical information about the Amstel canals (400 years canal festival 2013). 3. Historical […]

Blending Amsterdam Reality Kickoff

Research presentation: check! Research document: check! Insights and conclusions: Check! Finish the first research phase: check! Weekend and drink a beer: check!   Yes! We finished today our fist phase, the research, of 20 weeks project and present our results of the last 6 weeks of research to the assigner and others. Let me introduce […]