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Een optimistisch rampenplan
2025

 

Scenography of the exhibition.

At Arcam, Amsterdam.

Amsterdam based architectural center Arcam asked 3 architectural offices to come up with a subject dealing with disasters in the Amsterdam Harbour area. They chose pfas, sacrifice zones and the disastrous efforts towards a circulair economy. I was asked to make a concept for the exhibition that would bring this research together. I added an additional layer by showing the remains of a symbolic global party. A smashed globe shaped piñata,empty champagne bottles, festive garlands with conclusions of their research and a broken table with the map of the harbour.