Big Nate, from Smells Good in the Hood, lays on a delicious daytime barbecue in The New Garden, featuring soul food from all over the world. While enjoying the garden barbecue, you can discover the stories of The New Garden’s visitors together with Hunna, the hosts of this edition of Just Hanging Out. Just Hanging Out investigates public space in Rotterdam, and in particular the space of The New Garden.

Big Nate, from Smells Good in the Hood, lays on a delicious daytime barbecue in The New Garden, featuring soul food from all over the world. While enjoying the garden barbecue, you can discover the stories of The New Garden’s visitors together with Maher Al Sabbagh, the host of this edition of Just Hanging Out. Just Hanging Out investigates public space in Rotterdam, and in particular the space of The New Garden.

Our experience of our urban parks is primarily visual: colour combinations, shapes and textures soothe our eyes and create a pleasant atmosphere. But what happens when we engage our other senses? 

In collaboration with the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam and the Vereniging Deltametropool, we will seek out untamed nature in the city at the tail end of the summer. We are screening two films that address the subject in different ways: Louis Le Roy and Brussels Wild.