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My new podcast Waterproof is live! The first episode is called ‘Let Nature Do It!’, about nature-based solutions that help prevent flooding and provide places where nature can flourish. Listen here:

ROEF brengt de stad in beweging: van dak naar daklandschap. Er zijn redenen genoeg om je ogen te openen en het dak op te gaan want… Slechts 2% van de daken is in gebruik. Maar 1% van de platte daken is begroeid. In de stad wordt het steeds drukker. Meer groen is van belang bij een extremer klimaat. Het onontgonnen daklandschap van Amsterdam is maar liefst 12 km² groot. Ruim 25 keer zo groot als het Vondelpark. Alle reden dus om DAKTIVIST te worden!

This fourth episode of the Future 400 podcast is all about theater and dance. Battery Dance, New York City’s longest running public dance festival, is hosting the Dutch-Turkish choreographer Rutkay Özpinar as part of the Future 400 exchange. And the new play by Dutch theater director Ira Kip, ‘Kings… Come Home’, is a reflection on the impact of being uprooted.

Design your look, design your life. Rambler Studios is a creative platform for raw talent. It offers young people a safe space where they can discover what they’re good at and find a sense of belonging – and maybe a career in street fashion. That is what this third episode of my Future 400 podcast is about.

This second episode of my Future 400 podcast looks at work by Dutch and American photographers who are part of the annual international photo festival Photoville in Lower Manhattan. “Even though they are an Atlantic apart, there is a shared sensibility here.”

This is the first episode of Future 400, a four-part podcast series from the Dutch Consulate in New York and made and presented by me, Tracy Metz. We start by looking at New York before it was New York, hearing the voices of the people who already lived there: the Lenape.