mrt 22nd, 2013 | Artikelen, Events, Publicaties, Stedenbouw, Water
De leerstoel Gebiedsontwikkeling aan de TU Delft hield een interview met mij en senator en oud-dijkgraaf Sybe Schaap over het risicodenken in Nederland. We moeten meer in termen van economische schade gaan denken. ‘De grote rampen van nu zijn dan ook niet meer de rampen die ontelbare mensenlevens eisen, maar rampen die een enorme economische en ecologische ontwrichting met zich meebrengen.’ Daarom moet je per gebied differentiëren met veiligheidsnormen, vindt Schaap. Read the article…
feb 24th, 2013 | Publicaties, Video, Water
Het boek Zoet&Zout: Water en de Nederlanders won in 2013 de Gouden Tulp, de prijs van de stichting Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek voor het beste non-fictieboek van het voorgaande jaar. Volgens de jury is het boek ,,de ideale combinatie van tekst en beeld, van zakelijke informatie en creatieve verbeelding”. In deze video interviewt de CPNB auteurs Tracy Metz en Maartje van den Heuvel over hun boek en de prijs. Bekijk het hier terug.
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feb 14th, 2013 | Artikelen, Boeken, Publicaties, Water
A year after Crown Prince Willem Alexander accepted the first copy of ‘Sweet&Salt: Water and the Dutch’ and opened the exhibition in the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, the book – now in its third printing – is receiving prizes and praise. Read the article…
feb 13th, 2013 | Artikelen, Boeken, Favorieten, Publicaties, Water
After Hurricane Sandy, the New York Times wrote an article ‘Going with the flow’ related to my book ‘Sweet&Salt”. It discusses how the Dutch approach to water management can serve as an example for the United States.
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dec 10th, 2012 | Artikelen, Fotografie, Kunst, Landschap, Publicaties, Water
The Dutch photographer Wout Berger lives in the small town of Uitdam, on the big body of freshwater near Amsterdam called the IJssel lake, ‘het IJsselmeer’. Every day when he opens his eyes, it is the first thing he sees. He lives in his subject. In 2009 he started photographing it regularly and now, at the end of 2012, his beautiful book has appeared, When I Open My Eyes, with 64 of the some 150 photographs he took over the course of two and a half years. At the De Pont museum in Tilburg there is an exhibition of a number of large prints from the series, through Jan. 6th, 2013. A wonderful photograph by Wout Berger of skaters on the frozen IJsselmeer was also included in the exhibition curated by Maartje van den Heuvel for our project ‘Sweet&Salt: Water and the Dutch’. His approach to photography is: ‘I try to show what you see when you focus on what is right in front of you.’ Read the article…
dec 9th, 2012 | Artikelen, Boeken, Landschap, Publicaties, Water
When a cow gives more than 100.000 liters of milk during her lifetime, her owner gets a small silver-colored statuette with a plaque with her name on it. Dairy farmer Nol Hooijmaijers and his wife Wil have had three of these prize animals: Mies 30, Henny 144 and Pietje 60. Their statues take pride of place on the countertop in their brand-new kitchen. Read the article…
