Three days, one booth, hundreds of conversations. Liven World joined Provada 2026 at Amsterdam RAI. Together with our partners, we showed what neighborhoods that actually work look like in practice. The booth was a highlight, as was the visit from Minister Elanor Boekholt-O'Sullivan. But it was the conversations that moved us forward the most.
No banner with visuals. A space where you could see, feel and talk through the concept. The materials, the scale models, the Inhabitants app on screen. The configurator where you could assemble your own neighborhood.
People often came back twice. First briefly, to look. Then longer, to think along.
Minister Elanor Boekholt-O'Sullivan, Dutch Minister of Housing and Spatial Planning, visited our booth for a conversation about how to speed up housing delivery without making livability pay the price. No protocol round. A serious conversation about industrialization, systems, affordability and the role of the national government.
One day later, in her LinkedIn paragraph on industrialization and faster building, she wrote:
"Daarnaast werd de Liven World-aanpak gepresenteerd: een systeem dat technologie, welzijn, gemeenschap en mobiliteit vanaf het begin meeneemt in het ontwerpen van woongebouwen."
In English: "The Liven World approach was also presented: a system that takes technology, well-being, community and mobility into account from the very beginning when designing residential buildings."
With municipalities about grid capacity. With investors about predictability of returns and experience. With developers about build time. With residents about how a neighborhood feels once it is finished.
The through-line: everyone sees that it has to be different. The question was always how. That is what Liven World is for.
For many, Provada is the moment to look further ahead. For Liven World, it was also the moment to lock down two concrete steps.
811 parking spaces, six levels. Façade design by MVSA Architects with integrated greenery. Structural engineering by JVZ Ingenieurs. The hub enables the residential development of R22 within the parking norms.
The collaboration with MAECONOMY is now formally anchored. A next step in the partner ecosystem around the first Liven World projects.
"The Liven World approach was presented: a system that takes technology, well-being, community and mobility into account from the very beginning when designing residential buildings."
A cross-section of the booth, the people and the conversations. Click a photo to view it larger.
It came up with nearly every municipality. AMPER, part of Liven World, gave the answer many people were waiting for. No new cables, extra capacity.
The question is shifting. No longer just "what is the yield". Increasingly "how does this feel ten years from now". Our Inhabitants approach landed clearly in those conversations.
50 percent build-time reduction was the number quoted back to us most often. With VDL De Meeuw and MVSA we show that this is possible, with livability, not at its expense.
Whether you spoke with us at the booth or could not make it, both conversations are welcome. We are happy to pick up the thread where Provada left it.