with Clare Butcher/Your-space and Freek Lomme/Onomatopee
participants Plan V (Toos Nijssen & Ron Eijkman), Jan Schevers & TU/e School of Architecture, Remote Material of Implication, Marjan Wester, Jozua Zaagman
Instatements will facilitate an ongoing series of mappings, discussions and actions to create a new set of relationships between the historical and the post-industrial fabric in the city of Eindhoven. The value of temporary status as a relevant solution to urban stagnation and zoning must be acknowledged. By deconstructing the hitherto acceptable forms of herbestemming, or adaptive reuse, this project seeks to map out the potential of the city's industrial environment and create an inclusive platform from which to redefine adaptive reuse, through a variety of disciplines.
Over the last months I have collaborated with Your-space and Onomatopee on Instatements, a project seeking to consider new and contemporary ways of defining adaptive reuse under the influence of perspectives from the creative, designed and built environment. The project opened with an exhibition during the Day of Architecture, and invited a group composed of three artists, eight designers, one public-space designer and four students from the department of architecture in the Technical University to start this process. Most of the participants have at one time or other practiced the art of re-inhabiting and reusing in the city of Eindhoven. This inevitably includes its industrial history, a great part of which took place along the 'Eindhovensch Kanaal', the city's former industrial artery. Though the historical evidence has all but disappeared, the industrial allocation has not. It is this setting that has influenced the exhibition and our train of thought.
plan of Eindhoven with industrial zone along the canal
The ongoing research in the geographical context of the canal has three aims: first, to provide new sustainable forms and methods of adaptive reuse that address the real needs of residents and interest groups, avoiding the cliches of industrial heritage projects; second, to reinstate the area into the city centre as a potential living and working neighborhood, while supporting local creative participants; third, to rely on mix-use as a crucial determining factor, to be addressed in a greater urban plan for the future.
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