Rooms Feminist Design Strategies Dutch archives, including the National Collection at Het Nieuwe Instituut, bear witness to both quiet and openly expressed oppositions to the status quo and the way the social system in the Netherlands was designed. read more Appropriation as Collective Resistance What transformations are possible when the right to property is subordinated to the right to affordable housing and to live in the city? read more De Ploeg in Bergeijk In the 1920s, a group of idealists laid the foundations for De Ploeg, a weaving mill in the agricultural colony of Best, in Brabant. read more The Community Centre The physical public space of the community centre is a stage for meeting and exchange. Despite significant budget cuts in recent decades, community centres continue to play a role as catalysts for social change. read more The Minimum Dwelling The concept of the minimum dwelling, and the social ambitions behind the idea, have been around for more than a century. read more Life in the Digital City The history of DDS reveals the urgency of the questions it posed, and how relevant they remain today. read more RoXY: nightclub as cultural crowbar On 21 June 1999, artist Peter Giele was transported by boat along the Amstel to his grave. A colourful floating parade accompanied the open coffin in which Giele lay, with a crowbar on his chest. Later that day, the legendary Roxy club was in flames. read more The Eco-Cathedral: Louis Le Roy, wild garden idealogist In the 1970s, Louis Guillaume Le Roy (1924-2012) became known for the idea of the wild garden. Recently, this unruly artist and self-proclaimed ‘ecotect’ has been rediscovered. read more
Feminist Design Strategies Dutch archives, including the National Collection at Het Nieuwe Instituut, bear witness to both quiet and openly expressed oppositions to the status quo and the way the social system in the Netherlands was designed. read more
Appropriation as Collective Resistance What transformations are possible when the right to property is subordinated to the right to affordable housing and to live in the city? read more
De Ploeg in Bergeijk In the 1920s, a group of idealists laid the foundations for De Ploeg, a weaving mill in the agricultural colony of Best, in Brabant. read more
The Community Centre The physical public space of the community centre is a stage for meeting and exchange. Despite significant budget cuts in recent decades, community centres continue to play a role as catalysts for social change. read more
The Minimum Dwelling The concept of the minimum dwelling, and the social ambitions behind the idea, have been around for more than a century. read more
Life in the Digital City The history of DDS reveals the urgency of the questions it posed, and how relevant they remain today. read more
RoXY: nightclub as cultural crowbar On 21 June 1999, artist Peter Giele was transported by boat along the Amstel to his grave. A colourful floating parade accompanied the open coffin in which Giele lay, with a crowbar on his chest. Later that day, the legendary Roxy club was in flames. read more
The Eco-Cathedral: Louis Le Roy, wild garden idealogist In the 1970s, Louis Guillaume Le Roy (1924-2012) became known for the idea of the wild garden. Recently, this unruly artist and self-proclaimed ‘ecotect’ has been rediscovered. read more
