Ministry of the Make!, 2022

Collaborators: Sander van Venetie, Jessica McCormack, Holly Dyas and Jannegien Luursema together with The Independent School for the City.

Project origin: Hellevoetsluis & Zoetermeer, The Netherlands

Exhibition: Showcased at the Architecture Biennale Rotterdam

The Ministry of Make! is calling on a hundred design teams to use their collective knowledge and imagination to come up with new designs for the Netherlands. With this, the Ministry of Make! wants to contribute to the radical renovation of the Netherlands. Each team is asked to conduct research into the development of 10,000 climate-proof homes at one of the 100 selected test locations of 4 km2 using a Test Kit containing everything necessary to build a model.

The model will eventually be united with the other 99 Test Kits to from an enormous scale model that shows the magnitude of the upcoming reconstruction of the Netherlands. The models will be exhibited from 14 October – 13 November during the 10th edition of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, in an old natural gas container in Rotterdam.