Coney Island / Conyne Eylandt Dutch fashion collective Painted (Saskia van Drimmelen, Margreet Sweerts, Desiree Hammen) in collaboration with Pascale Gatzen and IDC fashion students of Parsons The New School for Design in New York, Native American bead masters Joyce, […]

Brooklyn / Breukelen RealTime: Maarten Baas Maarten Baas makes us aware of time by showing it passing in ‘real time’. He makes clocks by projecting footage of people in action, and their recorded movements become the clock hands, moving minute […]

Gravesend / ‘s Gravesande Drawn from Clay: Atelier NL By digging in the ground, Nadine Sterk and Lonny van Ryswyck of Atelier NL discovered the great variety of clay within the Netherlands. With an invitation from Makkink & Bey, the […]

Bloomingdale / Bloemendaal Go Slow: Droog with Marije Vogelzang, sloom.org (Rianne Makkink and Herman Verkerk) and Hansje van Halem The project reacts to an accelerated society, where people consume at a pace that doesn’t allow for the appreciation of details […]

Flushing / Vlissingen Harvest map: 2012Architecten 2012Architecten believe that the growing scarcity of oil and raw materials will encourage us to mine local materials and put them to use in multiple cycles. This renewed appreciation for what is available locally […]

Bushwick / Boswijck Urban Farming: MVRDV and The Why Factory with Work Architecture Company How can we make the distance between our cities and places of food production shorter? Can we give agriculture a visual role in society and even […]

Hempstead / Heemstede Knitting: Christien Meindertsma Christien Meindertsma is interested in the origin of things, raw materials and the history of techniques. At Pioneers of Change, she – or her assistant – will knit a big woolen carpet with six-foot-long […]

Harlem / Haarlem Platform21 = Repairing Platform21 favors repair over throw-away. Their house will feature four different repair stations in four rooms, and the public will be invited to creatively repair each room, with the guidance of four different designers. […]

Bowery / Bouwerij The luxury of silence and care: Driessen & Verstappen, Arthur Elsenaar & Taconis Stolk People love to be caressed, preferably by a beloved person. But when a person strokes another person’s body, eventually fatigue occurs in the […]

Staten Island / Staten Eylandt Pop up store: 100 dollars or less: Marcel Schmalgemeijer; store powered by Droog New York and Wabnitz Editions This house, designed by Marcel Schmalgemeijer, features a pop-up store of small Dutch design items, each priced […]