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Find inspiration in building rubble and weeds!

The Garden Fair

Stroll through the garden, enjoy the outdoors, roll up your sleeves for a upcycling workshop or swap vintage clothes for your little one. On this Saturday afternoon, the Garden Fair welcomes anyone and everyone with workshops, walks and stalls from Swapshop Rotterdam, Studio Charly Blödel, Caroline Zeevat, and other designers and makers. And it’s all happening under the guidance of community radio station Good Times Bad Times from collective Extra Practice.

Dit beeld bestaat uit twee foto's. Foto links is een foto met op de voorgrond een robuust meubelstuk gemaakt van wit stevig textiel gevuld met bouwpuin. Op de achtergrond is een berg van bouwafval. De rechterfoto laat een groep mensen zien. Zij zitten, staan en praten met elkaar in een informele bijeenkomst. Het speelt zich af in de De Nieuwe Tuin van Het Nieuwe Instituut. De omgeving is groen. Rechts is er nog een stuk muur van het instituut te zien.
L: Soft Rubble, spatial structures and urban furniture made from textiles and building rubble, constructed in a collective building process. Photo: Viktor Hübner. Courtesy of Charly Blödel. R: an earlier event in The New Garden. Photo: M.O.B.
date
17/09/2022
time
13:00 – 17:00
language
Dutch, English
 
location

The New Garden at:
Het Nieuwe Instituut
Museumpark 25
3015 CB Rotterdam

entrance

Just come along, admission is free!

In case of rain, the Garden Fair will take place under the arcade of Het Nieuwe Instituut, the covered area on Rochussenstraat.

This afternoon explores a different way of designing, with a focus on ‘upcycling’ – transforming used materials or existing designs into more valuable new products. 

In the workshop, for example, construction waste is used to make garden furniture. And weeds can be harvested to make a delicious salad.

As a design institute, we are interested in the new forms that design can take and we aim to work with innovative designers and organisations that have made them their mission. Are weeds edible? Can you turn construction waste into tableware or furniture? And how do we make reuse more sustainable?

Programme

13.30 and 15.00: Edible walk with Caroline Zeevat
Discover the weeds you can eat from Museumpark.

14.00 and 15.00: Transformers workshop by Laura Grimm
How do two cars become a palm tree? How does a broom become a person? Especially for children: photographing with the sun! Make the coolest prints from everyday objects.

14.00 and 16.00: Artificial Greenhouse by De Vormforensen and WhiteNoiseDADA
Discover De Vormforensen’s latest work or buy a chic designer item.

All-day:

Kid's cloths swap shop (0–15 years)
Bring your children’s clothes and exchange them for new items.

Klutz workshop with Charly Blödel
Join Charly Blödel for a furniture-making with construction debris workshop. Your furniture will temporarily feature in The New Garden.

Instant Protest Poetry workhop with Uta Eisenreich and Johanna Himmelsbach
Join Uta Eisenreich and Johanna Himmelsbach and make your own protest sign. Your banner will be exhibited in The Design of the Social!

Art installation by Laura Schurink
Thrift store finds transformed into elegant assemblages, collages and sculptures.

Ō, art installation by Kaja Boudewijn
An experimental installation.

The Powerful Commoner and the Fragile Tyrant, art installation by Fanny Bézie
Inspired by the tension between concrete pavements and weeds breaking through them

The Audio Gardeners from Good Times Bad Times radio
Enjoy a live garden broadcast with Good Times Bad Times radio, renamed the Audio Gardeners for the occasion.

Drinks by Dik & Schil
From peel to cocktail. Try and buy this potent pick-me-up made from coffee grounds and orange peel. Cheers!

A drawing in green marker on a white background. The drawing is a loose sketch of a winding path with some flowers and vegetation along it, giving the impression of a garden. In this garden, several funny dolls with big ears can be seen. Some are sitting at a table with microphones, others are watering the plants, there is a parent with a child pointing. There are musical notes being played and various boxes with sound coming out of them.
Audio Gardeners. Community radio Good Times Bad Times during The Garden Fair. Drawing of Extra Practice

New in The New Garden

In the winter of 2021, Het Nieuwe Instituut’s garden was redesigned in response to the Museum Park revamp. It will bloom again in the coming years. Meanwhile, Het Nieuwe Instituut is now the world’s first official zoöp – a new kind of organisation, in which people and non-humans (such as plants and animals) try to live together in harmony. For example, weeds from The New Garden are not simply thrown away and there is a compost heap to stimulate biodiversity.

Glossary

Upcycling: making something new from (waste) materials or products, so increasing their value.

Recycling: also making something new from waste, but by first destroying the waste product. An example is glass: containers are melted down to make new glass items.

Reuse: using old items again, without changing them, as in the case of second-hand clothing and furniture.

Regenerative design: goes one step further than sustainable design. For example, where a sustainable design emits less CO2, a regenerative design will store CO2. Nature, environment and social aspects are taken into account in the design.

 
all activities
Project The New Garden
Landscape- and garden design Frank Bruggeman and Hans Engelbrecht
Graphic design Karlis Krecers

This project is part of the programme track Landscape and Interior and the folder Museumpark.

The New Garden combines nature and culture on the grounds of Het Nieuwe Instituut. The temporary landscape by artist/designer Frank Bruggeman and gardener Hans Engelbrecht reflects a growing interest in urban nature.