For quite some time now, the artists Irene Fortuyn and Hans Venhuizen have been working on town planning and visual arts in an integral manner. As visual artists they collaborate closely with architects, town and country planners and landscape architects to arrive at an innovative design of the public space from an autonomous standpoint.position? On the other hand, more and more architects and town planners take an autonomous approach to their design practice, borrowing strategies from other disciplines. Amongst them are Stefan Bendiks and Aglaée Degros with their agency Artgineering. Both in practice and theory, Artgineering strives to renew the town planner's set of instruments for hybrid contemporary areas. Within an integral approach, the agency fuses creativity with technology: art-gineering. Irene Fortuyn, Hans Venhuizen and Artgineering are trend setting within the Netherlands and have an enormous amount of experience with the interdisciplinary design of the public, urban and rural space within the Netherlands and all of the design issues that come with it.
The Municipality of Almere has invited three investors to present their vision on the development of the Almere Poort Coastal Zone: Vesteda, Amvest and BPF Bouwinvest. The Almere Poort Coastal Zone has the potential to grow into the City on at? the Beach, an area that is important for the entire metropolitan region of Amsterdam. Almere Poort is taking the opportunity to become an exemplary project for urban development within the Netherlands. Sustainability, private commissions and public/private collaborations play an important role here. The central government (the Netherlands Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment) has expressed the desire to design urban areas by using an integral approach in which architecture, town planning, landscape architecture and visual arts play an equally important role from the beginning. Museum De Paviljoens recognizes this important design practice and organizes the exhibition TEAMWORK in collaboration with the Coastal Zone steering committee of the Municipality of Almere's Almere Poort project group.
The exhibition shows the three ambitious proposals for Almere Poort's coastal zone by market participants Vesteda, BPF Bouwinvest and Amvest alongside the visions regarding this area by the teams of Irene Fortuyn, Hans Venhuizen and Artgineering. These three agencies use the same Programme of Requirements as the three market participants.
Opening
31 October 2008 – 15.00 opening exhibition TEAMWORK by Mr A. Duivesteijn, alderman for spatial planning, housing, living policy and land policy.
TEAMWORK
31 October 2008 through 1 March 2009.
The first versions of the six designs will be shown from 31 October 2008, the final designs are presented from 24 January 2009.
5, 12, 19 and 26 February 2009: every Thursday during the month of February, an international interdisciplinary programme of lectures will take place as part of the Ongoing Series.
26 February 2009: announcement of the winning design for the Almere Poort Coastal Zone.