Update #3 - Jule 14, 2009
Join the Dutch Delegation to Shanghai
Want to explore new frontiers for your business in China? Join the Dutch delegation to Shanghai International Creative Industry Week (SICIW), which will be held from 15 until 21 October 2009. There you can meet 400,000 professionals from the industry and government officials. You can explore future opportunities and round off the trip with a matchmaking market. Twenty companies can participate in the Architecture & Public Space exhibition, which will feature anything from landscape architecture, signage, playground and security equipment to lighting. The exhibition is coordinated by Dutch Design Fashion Architecture with the Dutch Consulate General Shanghai and FAR Architecture Center Shanghai. Visit DutchDFA.nl for more info

NY 400 highlight
This September, 400 years after Captain Hudson founded Manhattan, the NY 400 celebrations will reach their pinnacle. The Netherlands will present the New Amsterdam Pavilion in New York. During two weekends, between 11 and 20 September, visitors can enjoy Pioneers of Change in and around eleven Officer’s houses at Nolan Park on Governors Island. Pioneers of Change, supported by DutchDFA, encourages a more responsible and sustainable approach to the way we live. The event focuses on qualities that are hard to come by nowadays, such as space, fresh air, respect, care, silence, slowness and time.
Pioneers of change
The Boombench by NL Architects allows visitors to listen to their own music via Bluetooth, with the bench functioning as a ghettoblaster.
In Maarten Baas’s Grandfather’s Clock it seems as if a human hand moves the dials, minute after minute.
The fashion collective Painted combines Dutch lace making with American Indian beadwork. Through a collaboration with the Parsons New School of Design, they literally rekindle old connections.
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The Dutch Design Fashion Architecture (DutchDFA) programme, which runs from 2009 through 2012, aims to strengthen the international position of the three Dutch creative disciplines on a long-term basis by joining forces within the field. DutchDFA is a unique collaboration between public and private partners, drawing together representatives of the Dutch Ministries of Economic Affairs, of Education, Culture & Science and of Foreign Affairs, sector-specific organisations such as Premsela and the Netherlands Architecture Institute, as well as the Office of the Chief Government Architect, and professional associations including the Association of Dutch Designers (BNO), the Royal Institute of Dutch Architects (BNA), the Association of Dutch Interior Architects (BNI) and MODINT (trade association for fashion, interior design, carpets and textiles), as well as the Dutch creative hubs of Amsterdam, Arnhem, Eindhoven, Rotterdam, Utrecht and The Hague.