Tag: Netherlands

Vrouw met honkbalpet en roze jas lacht breed met witte tanden.

Waterproof 5: Nature’s Recipe. Water, Biodiversity and Food

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op 27 februari 2025. Gepost in Podcast, Water, Waterproof.

Water, biodiversity and food: it’s Nature’s Recipe. But how do you keep these important drivers balanced, healthy, profitable and resilient? And what do jaguars and strawberries have to do with it? You’ll find out in this fifth episode of my podcast Waterproof for Partners for Water. Listen to it here:

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Future 400: Wolves and Kings

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op 3 juli 2024. Gepost in Future 400, Podcast, Stad.

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. Both Kip and Özpinar are searching for a global conversation that brings disparate cultures and histories together on the stage. “The reason why we dance is not just the music,” says Rutkay. “In every culture you can...

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Future 400: Finding Family in Fashion

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op 19 juni 2024. Gepost in Future 400, Podcast, Stad.

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. Started by Carmen van der Vecht in Amsterdam in 2010, Rambler Studios has branched out to New York’s Lower East Side. It operates there under the wings of the Henry Street Settlement, a philanthropic institution dating back to the late 1800’s. In the same basement in a social housing project where he himself learned to sew, fashion coach Andres...

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Beschadigde achtbaan in zee, met golven die om de constructie slaan. Amerikaanse vlag wappert bovenop.

Sweet&Salt in the Journal of Preservation Technology

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op 17 november 2020. Gepost in Architectuur, Artikelen, Landschap, Publicaties, Stad, Water.

The American publication Journal of Preservation Technology invited me to write about the changing Dutch approach to water management. “The Dutch have centuries of experience in keeping the water at bay. But will that suffice to protect the lowlands from the effects of climate change?” With examples from all around the country, from the Enclosure Dike up north to Rotterdam and down to Zeeland, and with some studies of future scenario’s – including managed retreat. Read my piece here:

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TRACY•TV x Saskia Boelsums, silhouet van mens op reflecterende hemel

TRACY•TV #59: Saskia Boelsums brings drama to Dutch landscape

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op 27 september 2018. Gepost in Fotografie, Landschap, Publicaties, TRACY•TV, Video.

At first sight, the flat Dutch landscape under gray skies would seem to be lacking in drama. Photographer Saskia Boelsums has found a way to make the landscape look truly dramatic: with color, with clouds, with patience and of course with the computer. And rather than having Instagram crop her images into squares, she decided to photograph in a square format herself. “It’s difficult. I like that.” She has a solo show now at Eduard Planting Gallery.

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