`We have the nerds and the hippies´: how Eindhoven became innovation city
(The Guardian Netherlands)

3D-printed housing, experimental communities, `living labs´: barely a month goes by without news of innovation in the Dutch city. But are there downsides?Like a patissier guiding a giant icing nozzle, Theo Salet builds up layer upon layer of greyish goop. He´s not making a cake, though - this Eindhoven University of Technology professor is perfecting a technique to build the world´s first concrete 3D-printed home.It seems barely a month goes by without news of an urban innovation in the Dutch city. From Salet´s 3D-printed housing scheme of five Stonehenge-like houses, to the creation of the Brainport `smart district` to test technology and community initiatives, to a `living lab` of cameras, lights and microphones for crowd experiments on the popular nightlife street Stratumseind, Eindhoven wants to be a place where the future is already on trial.We´ve become the city where knowledge-intensive companies combine with designers Related: `Living laboratories`: the Dutch cities amassing data on oblivious residents Continue reading...