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NY400 Week / Holland on the Hudson presents Pioneers of Change, a festival of Dutch design, fashion and architecture on New York's Governors Island to celebrate 400 years of Dutch-American friendship.

Activities will take place in and around eleven officers' houses at Nolan Park, Governors Island, New York.

Open: Fri 10am - 4:30pm
Sat / Sun 10am - 6:30pm
Download Ferry schedule.
House 5B:

Bowery /
Bouwerij


The luxury of silence and care: Driessen & Verstappen, Arthur Elsenaar & Taconis Stolk
People love to be caressed, preferably by a beloved person. But when a person strokes another person’s body, eventually fatigue occurs in the movement and the motivation. Variation, attention and unpredictability are important aspects for an enjoyable stroking sensation. This is one of the main reasons for Driessens & Verstappen for developing the Tickle Salon: a machine that is able to stroke with indefatigable attention.
The robot can carry out sensitive movements over the skin in aiming for variation, unpredictability and flexibility. The public is invited to experience this special way of caressing.

The inside of the room will be a bubble of silence, where all signals of mobile phones and data services are eliminated to make visitors feel pleasantly isolated, even if it's crowded. BuBL space by Arthur Elsenaar & Taconis Stolk creates serenity in a world of mobile communications.

About Driessens & Verstappen and Elsenaar & Stolk
These names are the titles of the former officers' houses during Pioneers of Change. Click on each name for the specific program:

To download a map and program (pdf, 580 Kb), click here.
Staten Island /
Staten Eylandt
Pop up store:
100 dollars or less

Bowery /
Bouwerij
The luxury of
Silence and Care

Harlem /
Haarlem
Platform21 =
Repairing
Hempstead /
Heemstede
Knitting:
Christien Meindertsma

Bushwick /
Boswijck
Urban
Farming

Flushing /
Vlissingen
Harvest Map:
2012Architecten
Bloomingdale /
Bloemendaal
Go Slow / Droog, Sloom.org,
Vogelzang and van Halem

Gravesend /
's Gravesande
Drawn from Clay:
Atelier NL

Brooklyn /
Breukelen
Realtime:
Maarten Baas
Coney Island /
Conyne Eylandt
Painted / Parsons
The New School for Design

Rhode Island /
Roode Eylandt
Open Talks
Dutch Profiles

Greenwhich /
Greenwijck
Lawn:
Various objects