NEIGHBOURHOOD OF COMMONING
Dimitri van den Wittenboer, Pankaj Tiwari
Visual
Divers / digital
2021
Artwork for Neighbourhood of Commoning, a project by Dimitri van den Wittenboer & Pankaj Tiwari. They explore what ‘commons space’ can contribute to the public life in the neighbourhood and how it can be different from private and public space. For this project they invited the citizens of Altstetten, Zurich CH, to transform their private spaces such as Apartments, Garages or Gardens into a ‘commons space’ for the duration of 4 weeks. The ‘commons space’ is organised by the neighbourhood collectively and took place from the 9th of August till the 4th of September during the About Us Festival. (Dutch only).
COMMON GROUND
European Cultural Foundation
Magazine
255 × 175 mm / digital print
2021
The second issue of Common Ground, the annual magazine of the European Cultural Foundation, created to celebrate Europe Day. Europe Day is celebrated on May 9, since on that date in 1950 a statement (the Schuman declaration) was made by French foreign minister Robert Schuman. It proposed to place French and West German production of coal and steel under one common High Authority. This organization would be open to participation of other Western European countries. This cooperation was to be designed in such a way as to create common interests between European countries which would lead to gradual political integration, a condition for the pacification of relations between them. It was the beginning of what would become our current European Union.
Robert Schuman: ‘Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity.’
Cover Illustration: Leonie Bos
Robert Schuman: ‘Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity.’
Cover Illustration: Leonie Bos
POPPODIUM VAN DE TOEKOMST
Ekko
Visual
Divers / digital
2021
Poppodium Ekko made a podcast in which they look to the future. In a six-part podcast series, twelve guests from the music industry talk about how music venues got to where they are now, what changes they believe still need to change to keep music venues viable. The podcast consists of six episodes and are available for listening here (Dutch only).
MADE IN BRABANT
Stan Heerkens
Book
280 × 210 mm / digital print
2020
During daytime, the Brabant countryside is the domain of nature lovers and hikers; in the evening it turns into the workspace of drug criminals and other shady figures. This seamless mixture of upper and lower world is typical of Brabant. Over the past decades, this province has grown into the drug barn of Europe, renowned worldwide for one of its most profitable export products: xtc. Photographer Stan Heerkens dived behind the facade of the pittoresk countryside and managed to capture this in images. Writer Jan van Tienen wrote an introduction to his work.