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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 7A: Bushwick / Boswijck Urban Farming: MVRDV and The Why Factory with Work Architecture Company	About MVRDV and The Why Factory MVRDV was set up in 1993 by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries. The office pursues its methodical research on density using a method of shaping space through complex amounts of data that accompany contemporary building and design processes. MVRDV has a long history of working on urban visions and planning. Together with Delft University of Technology, MVRDV has set up The Why Factory, the new think tank on urban futures. It wants to give argumentation back to the architectural and urbanized world, and concentrates on the production of models and visualizations for future cities. www.mvrdv.nl www.thewhyfactory.com	About WORK Architecture Company This project is in collaboration with Amale Andraos and Dan Wood, partners. Based in New York, the firm strives to develop architectural and urban planning projects that engage culture and consciousness, nature and artificiality, surrealism and pragmatism. They are currently working on an “Edible Schoolyard” for PS216 in Brooklyn with Alice Waters and the Chez Panisse Foundation. The practice is supplemented by the partners’ academic involvement at Princeton University, where they have focused on studying the relationship between ecology and urbanism. www.work.ac
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 EylandtPop up store: 100 dollars or less Bowery / BouwerijThe luxury of Silence and Care Harlem / HaarlemPlatform21 = Repairing	Hempstead / HeemstedeKnitting: Christien Meindertsma Bushwick / BoswijckUrban Farming Flushing / VlissingenHarvest Map: 2012Architecten	Bloomingdale / BloemendaalGo Slow / Droog, Sloom.org, Vogelzang and van Halem Gravesend / 's GravesandeDrawn from Clay: Atelier NL Brooklyn / BreukelenRealtime: Maarten Baas	Coney Island / Conyne EylandtPainted / Parsons The New School for Design Rhode Island / Roode EylandtOpen Talks Dutch Profiles Greenwhich / GreenwijckLawn: Various objects