Pleasure Parks

Dissident Gardens: Pleasure Parks. Photo: Johannes Schwartz
The installation Dissident Gardens contains a pavilion that houses materials from the archives of Het Nieuwe Instituut. They include designs for country houses and holiday parks by Van den Broek & Bakema, Hendrik Wijdeveld, Piet Blom, Gerrit Rietveld and Auke Komter, among others. They show our ambivalent relationship to nature: from immersion in and the subjugation of the landscape to the pursuit of sustainability and optimisation.

Van den Broek & Bakema, Eurostrand, Valkenswaard, commissioned by Sporthuis Centrum, 1976. Collection Het Nieuwe Instituut, BROX 2228t7