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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 17:

Coney Island /
Conyne Eylandt

Dutch fashion collective Painted (Saskia van Drimmelen, Margreet Sweerts, Desiree Hammen) in collaboration with Pascale Gatzen and IDC fashion students of Parsons The New School for Design in New York, Native American bead masters Joyce, Juanita and Jessica Growing Thunder, and local lace makers.
 The empty house is seen as a body and the various makers are dressing it by making ‘couture’ doilies -little treasures- to protect, to heal, to ornament, and to accentuate it. The new collaboration of makers consider the house as a present and their gift to the house is their work. Imagining a new first meeting between Native Americans and people from Europe, Painted envisions an encounter through the beauty of their traditional techniques and mutual respect.

About Painted / IDC Fashion
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