Future city making

The physical and digital city are becoming more and more intertwined, but the skills of many contemporary architects, planners and policy makers are not transitioning fast enough to adapt to industries like smart mobility, smart energy, open data and IoT (Internet of Things). 

Tapp is a smart city prototyping agency empowering municipal innovators, designers & planners and researchers how to successfully bridge the divide between our physical surroundings and the new digital landscape. Together we can make our urban environments more livable and inclusive.

URBAN SENSING

SMART ENERGY

FUTURE MOBILITY

CITY DATA

 Latest Projects

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Measuring Street Tranformation
Measuring Street Tranformation

Throughout 2023, the City of Amsterdam conducted several experiments around car free zones and new slower streets inside the city. Environmental sensors are helping measure the improvements. See the live data here

2 years of Busyness Data
2 years of Busyness Data

There are fascinating stories behind each date and data set summarizing activities on the Marineterrein like the amount of people in the picnic area, swimmers in icy water and athletes in the rain.

DarkStores Amsterdam
DarkStores Amsterdam

“Darkstores” are unmarked warehouses in residential areas. Consumers place their order with Flash Delivery startups who use fast ebikes to deliver your order in 10min create new urban dilemmas for cities

Public Eye
Public Eye

PublicEye is the world's first privacy by design crowd counting system that can accurately count people in public space. This open source AI was developed for UEFA Cup 2020 playoffs.

Future Fitness Garden
Future Fitness Garden

Using a AI / Computer vision solution can count the number of people using Fitness Garden and detect moments people come within 1.5m of each other.

Bike Monitor
Bike Monitor

What are the impacts of self driving on our streets and sidewalks, how does autonomous delivery work in public space?

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LATEST NEWS

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ARCAM interview: What is Smart City Architecture?
ARCAM interview: What is Smart City Architecture?

In 2022 director Tom van Arman was selected as Architect in Residence 2022. In this beautiful film (2min), Tom looks back on his tenure as a Smart City Architect, what it is, and how it’s opening a new frontier for future architecture and urban planning processes.

EDAY Interview - The Drones are coming
EDAY Interview - The Drones are coming

EMERCE Interview: Future Of Business – drones will penetrate everyday business. The day had arrived that drones and other autonomous hardware will permeate our daily lives. Emerce publishes a unique, exclusive documentary that shows where we are now.

'On Camera' Pocket Guide Launch
'On Camera' Pocket Guide Launch

Our urban environment is increasingly occupied by new species of our urban habitat. As citizens, we need to become more aware the risks and our rights. As designers and architects, we need to better position our design decisions within these possible dystopian futures.

 

 

What kind of future city maker are you?

Let’s transform architects and city planners into future entrepreneurs… and entrepreneurs into future architects & city planners.

By introducing architects and urban planners to 21st century city-makers, Tapp pushes designers and policy makers to the operational edge. What role will you play? By using lean and agile methodologies, we’ll connect you to other future city makers to quickly solve social, environmental and economic challenges. Unleash the power of the ‘multi-disciplinary’ and benefit from the expertise of drone flyers, data scientists, app makers, social scientists, life cycle architects and more…

 
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