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Built artificial islands to take off

Built artificial islands to take off

This autumn Blue21 was featured in Le Monde. The article elaborates on seasteading and Space@sea, quoting Blue21's architect and CEO Bart Roeffen: "We will create a platform that can withstand the harshest conditions in the North Sea. If it works, we can install it...

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Floating Schiphol is good for everyone, even the fish

Floating Schiphol is good for everyone, even the fish

Schiphol at sea is slowly but surely coming into the picture again as a future perspective for aviation. The Dutch Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management, Cora Van Nieuwenhuizen has expressed concerns over the technical challenges and costs of constructing...

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Check out the Sea Sights Festival

Check out the Sea Sights Festival

This festival offers a peek into the future of cities at sea. From 19th to 21st of October on and off the coast of Scheveningen. See you there? October 19th @14:00 - Summit Our co-founder Karina Czapiewska is a keynote speaker on building at sea. Together with Maarten...

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Present at ‘Water Science for Impact’

Present at ‘Water Science for Impact’

Wageningen University & Research will host the first international conference 'Water Science for Impact' on 16 to 18 October, where our researchers Barbara Dal Bo Zanon from Blue21 and Rui de Lima from INDYMO will present their findings. #1 Urban metabolism...

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UN will have a floating office

UN will have a floating office

The UN couldn't have chosen for a more appropriate location for their Global Centre on Adaptation: a floating office in the Rijnhaven, next to Blue21's floating pavilion. The first mooring pile - which will function as an anchor - has been put in place by the Minister...

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Citizens play a crucial role in the water-resistant city

Citizens play a crucial role in the water-resistant city

Article featured in stadszaken proposes floating construction and citizen involvement as the path to creating a water-resistant city. Rutger de Graaf and Roland Goetgeluk, members of the Thinking Tank Floating (Re) building believe that a shift in thinking is the...

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Blue21 present at Volvo Ocean Race Finish

Blue21 present at Volvo Ocean Race Finish

For the first time, The Hague organised the Volvo Ocean Race Finish, one of the biggest and most innovative sports event in the world. Blue21 was in attendance at the innovation pavilion presenting our vision of solving 21st century urban challenges with sustainable...

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Opportunities for coastal cities

Opportunities for coastal cities

Blue21 architect, Barbara Dal Bo Zanon, and co-founder, Rutger de Graaf-van Dinther, gave a presentation at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute) on the topic of floating production of energy and food as an opportunity for coastal...

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Blue21 presents at Blue Forum in Rotterdam

Blue21 presents at Blue Forum in Rotterdam

Blue21 co-founder, Karina Czapiewska was invited to give a presentation about the Blue Revolution at the Blue Week Event held by the Blue Forum in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on 28th of May. The purpose of the forum was to provide an open platform for new Joint...

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Floating development in the North Sea?

Floating development in the North Sea?

The co-founder of the innovative companies, Blue21, DeltaSync and Indymo, Rutger de Graaf-van Dinther, gave a presentation about Blue Revolution at the annual symposium organised by Het Waterbouwdispuut at his alma mater, Delft University of Technology, on May 24th....

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