SWEETS is 1 hotel consisting of 28 iconic bridge houses turned into hotel suites on the canals. I visited the hotel rooms and spoke to the artistic director Suzanne Oxenaar and architect Tjeerd Haccou of Space&Matter.
California, and especially Silicon Valley, has defined so much of our sense of freedom with design objects made there. But there is quite a big difference in what we define now as freedom from the sixties till now. The exhibition ‘California: Designing Freedom’ now on display at the Stedelijk Museum in Den Bosch, the Netherlands, shows this development. I visited the exhibition and interviewed Justin McGuirk, the curator.
California, and especially Silicon Valley, has defined so much of our sense of freedom with design objects made there. But there is quite a big difference in what we define now as freedom from the sixties till now. The exhibition ‘California: Designing Freedom’ now on display at the Stedelijk Museum in Den Bosch, the Netherlands, shows this development. I visited the exhibition and interviewed Justin McGuirk, the curator.
Joep van Lieshout opened his studio for Object Rotterdam. I interviewed him about the political impact of his work and his fight againt gentrification in the harbour area of Rotterdam.
We are obsessed with growth thinks artist Arne Hendriks, well-known for his ‘Incredible Shrinking Man’ project. This shows in the harvest of white cabbage, which at the moment is too good. As a result, much of this cabbage remains on the farms for the simple reason that it doesn’t have enough value. I visited Arne at Mediamatic, where he organised a nine course cabbage dinner, to show that other values than money can also play a role.
Johan van den Noort is a Dutch artist who has designed serveral solutions for flexible water managment that have been implemented all over the world. I visited him in his studio in Kampen to look at his flexible flood barrier and tsunami barrier.