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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 6A:

Harlem /
Haarlem


About Platform21
Platform21 is a design platform aiming to positively influence the relationship between user and product. Through projects Platform21 questions today’s society, connects amateur and professional creativity, reveals the making process, and stimulates dialogue and the sharing of creative knowledge.
Platform21 shows and shares the process of creation and use it as a powerful way to engage a broad audience in diverse aspects of design. It opens up the assumption that design is a professionals’ creative discipline only.
Since 2006 Platform21 has been using a former, round chapel in Amsterdam as its public laboratory. Here they have initiated and organized exhibitions, research projects, workshops, lectures, discussions and club nights.

Platform21 is an initiative of ING Group and Premsela / Dutch Platform for Design and Fashion.

www.platform21.nl
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