kill your darlings

After just a couple of hours of bad sleep we woke up today (Sunday!) at 7.00 a.m. (again!) to continue working on the maquettes. But as they were almost finished we decided it was time for a radical change. Geeske decided to buy 60 kilos of plaster to flood the dreamscapes and Nanna's team let go of their material pieces and decided to go for something more abstract... With just a couple of evenings left and loads of work to do we predict more sleepless nights!

workshop Going Dutch (Dolls)

So here we are, snowed in in Amsterdam... Luckily we are stuck on the top floor of a beautiful old building, overlooking the big flea market at Waterlooplein with 22 talented and enthusiastic students from all over Europe.

While they are busy cutting foam and creating a little utopia out of matchsticks, vegetables, charcoal, straws, wires and jelly, we finally found some time to blog! Yesterday we started the workshop "Going Dutch" at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture. We're coaching 22 out of the 150 (international) students to create their dream landscape the Dutch way. Which means there's lots of talking and debate about what your ideal landscape looks like and how this can become one big piece of land. Quite a challenge! It's all about the process, so we'll keep you posted!!