Doe-Het-Zelf Werkplaats
[doehetzelfwerkplaats.space]
initiated by others 2009, my activity since 2018
located at Schout Heynricstraat, Agniesebuurt, Rotterdam since 2020


The ‘Doe-Het-Zelf Werkplaats’ is a free-to-use, collectively run workshop space and community garden in Rotterdam Noord operated by volunteers. Visitors to the workshop come to fix their own bikes with tools and spare parts that have been donated. Centered around Learning Together and anti-judgement, previous knowledge of bikes or tools are not at all necessary and the volunteers are always there to work together with visitors; building new relations by sharing in problem solving, reciprocal generosity and mutual empowerment.