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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 6B: Hempstead / Heemstede Knitting: Christien Meindertsma Christien Meindertsma is interested in the origin of things, raw materials and the history of techniques. At Pioneers of Change, she - or her assistant - will knit a big woolen carpet with six-foot-long needles using wool from three different species of Dutch sheep. An inventory of available resources in the Netherlands today, Meindertsma is looking for different kinds of local textures and colours. She will also show her book, PIG 05049, in which she shows all kinds of products that have been made out of a single pig, unraveling the lack of transparency in the world of products. About Christien Meindertsma
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