Rietveld Landscape | Vacant NL, where architecture meets ideas
Rotterdam designprijs 2011
Project
Rotterdam designprijs 2011
Location
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam
Client
Stichting Designprijs Rotterdam
Year design
2011
‘How do you translate contemporary social problems into inspiring projects? This question is central to the work of all our nominees. To us, it’s important that a designer take a leading role in the debate around the public domain. Our nominees show how a clear vision and a strategic approach result in appealing projects and collaborations, and in this way they encourage other designers and artists.’

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Rietveld Landscape | Vacant NL, ‘where architecture meets ideas’
Rietveld Landscape’s Vacant NL installation, exhibited at the 2010 Venice InternationalArchitecture Exhibition, presents a persuasive, inspiring view on the temporary repurposing of governmental and public buildings. In a single stroke, the designers make visible the quantity and diversity of available spaces, in a fascinating, enchanting way. All that emptiness cries out for creative entrepreneurship.

Jeanne van Heeswijk | Freehouse
Through the Freehouse project, Jeanne van Heeswijk has made the residents and
businesspeople of Rotterdam’s Afrikaanderwijk aware of their neighbourhood’s cultural wealth
and economic potential. She has come up with an intelligent way of getting them excited about working together on events and products that represent the local culture. The Markt van Morgen (Market of Tomorrow) is now well known, and Rotterdam has gained another world-class destination.


Waag Society | Open design
For years, Waag Society has been the chief proponent of open design in the Netherlands. The
organisation plays a pioneering role, identifying, studying and fostering possibilities by initiating projects such as the Open Design Lab and making possible places like Fablab Amsterdam and the Dialogue Café. Waag Society helps people to imagine new possibilities in design, manufacturing and the use of objects. Sharing information and data means sharing culture. Open design is the future!