Thanks @Lotte Duursma for inviting me to share this summary of 'We Make the City', and thank you to Amsterdam for the generous welcome. Looking forward to learning more from such diverse, creative and inclusive citizens and sharing 'down-under'.
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Outdoor Office Day 2023

<strong>Please join us and save this date: the 5th international edition of the #OutdoorOfficeDay will take place on June 15th. A celebration of the connection between urban nature, work and wellbeing.</strong>
<strong>✨ Keep an eye on our platform www.outdoorofficeday.info and it's socials: they are filled with best practices and insights, cool products, inspiring locations and stories of the frontrunners and local events from all around the world: from Amsterdam to Seoul, Helsingborg to Washington DC, Timisoara to The Hague, Rotterdam or Utrecht to central Finland.</strong>
<strong>✨</strong> The locations and participants: https://www.outdoorofficeday.nl/participants-2023
✨ Find us online here
Linkedin event - Instagram - Twitter
Do you also prefer to take your work outdoors? Are you meeting your colleagues in a city park close to home? Do you have phone conversations whilst walking outside and do you like to organize #weetings (walking meetings)? When the sun comes out, do you find yourself grabbing a table and chairs from your home or office, placing them on a balcony, on the pavement or garden in order to read or write? Work, well-being and urban nature are indivisibly linked. Today more than ever! Celebrate on the 15th of June 2022 the necessity to work more healthily by taking your office outdoors: #outdoorofficeday
Outdoor Office Day is an open invitation. For everyone. It doesn't matter whether you work fulltime from home or are gradually returning to the office. Being self-employed or a manager at a corporate. Welcome!
Energy Communities and other collective solutions

On June 6, Flexiblepower Alliance Network (FAN) and TKI Urban Energy are hosting the second webinar in the 2023 series of the Smart Energy Community: "Energy Communities and other collective solutions" (in Dutch).
Opening
Opening and update on the activities of Flexiblepower Alliance Network (FAN) by Adriaan van Eck, chairman of FAN.
Starting an Energy community, but how?
If you want to set up an energy community, where should you start? How do you organise an energy cooperation? Thijs Huls from the energy community Agem, in the Achterhoek, discusses what it takes to start an Energy community in terms of data, agreements and platforms and will explain how you can make an energy community really smart about their energy.
Power pitch: Groendus
Energy communities are not just for consumers, energy cooperations can also benefit businesses and entrepreneurs. René Raaijmakers of Groendus will tell us more about the opportunities for businesses to engage collectively in energy communities.
Power pitch: BAM
Within the innovation project TROEF, BAM is developing an energy-as-service concept. Marco Thijssen of BAM will explain more about the community platform that is part of TROEF and how they use gamification to encourage users to pursue their common goal.
Guide to Smart Energy Systems
Richard de Bruin of Rebel Group presents the Smart Energy Systems Guide, a report the Rebel Group developed on behalf of TKI Urban Energy. Richard will take us through the approach and considerations involved, taking three perspectives: energy hubs, business parks and energy communities.
Register:
https://cdn.flxml.eu/f-0411e667dc269719
Website:
https://topsectorenergie.nl/nl/agenda/smart-energy-community/
Clothes Swap/Kledingruil Event @Gast Art!

Your closet is feeling a tad musty? Got some cool trash clothes you don’t wear anymore, and want to get some pre-loved items in return? Come hang out, have a beer, listen to some music, make connections and renew your wardrobe!
🗓️ May 28th
⏰ 1pm - 8pm
📍 Gasthuismolensteeg 3, Amsterdam
Instructions:
1. Bring items you don’t wear anymore
2. Exchange for tokens
OR purchase tokens for 2,50€
3. Use tokens for second-hand clothes, curated by us and swapped by other participants
OR use tokens for drinks
4. Brag to your friends about how sustainable your new wardrobe is
Graphics by @tina.bez.ic