HOW DID YOU GET HERE? Sketching Party by Urbanistas Rotterdam

In our everyday journeys, we often rely on digital tools like Google Maps – following the blue dot without truly noticing or memorising the spaces we move through. Yet, even without realising it, we are constantly perceiving, mapping, and remembering our surroundings in unique and personal ways. The Urbanistas Rotterdam invite you at BAR OMI to pause, reflect, and explore how you experience the city – through sight, sound, touch, and smell.

How do you remember your route to BAR OMI? What stands out? What patterns, feelings, or memories does the city evoke for you? Together we visualise these urban experiences through mind maps – a loose, expressive format that may include: drawings and sketches, notes and short writings, performances or gestures, scribbles and spontaneous marks. At BAR OMI, we’ll build a collective exhibition of the participants’ documented journeys to OMI’s space.

Referring to methods of Kevin Lynch, Rebecca Solnit and Situationist International we want to celebrate the diverse ways we navigate though Rotterdam. We’ll share and discuss our sensory experiences along with cocktails and mocktails, background songs about different cities, enjoying the late-summer energy in a good atmosphere.

About BAR OMI

This summer, BAR OMI opens its doors. Designed by Studio Verter, the bar acts as a vibrant gathering and performance space to meet, talk, relax and experience unexpected forms of art together. From listening bar and film space to studio and stage for creative talent: BAR OMI changes character each week.