The Patching Zone is a multidisciplinary design laboratory where students and professionals from various backgrounds discuss creative applications of technology to daily life. In Real Projects for Real People, lab initiator Anne Nigten takes stock of its first two years, introducing select team members and stakeholders, along with all the realized projects to date.

A yearbook that informs the English-speaking world about the culture of Flanders and the Netherlands.

All sectors of the Dutch infrastructures have undergone a degree of commercialisation, liberalisation or privatisation over the last ten to twenty years. Where in the past the infrastructure landscape was dominated by public monopolies, the ownership and management of infrastructures is today shared by several public and private sector players. The original goals of this 'regime change' have in many cases been achieved: greater efficiency, a greater focus on the customer and more choice for consumers. The question is whether this emphasis on current consumer interests allows enough scope to achieve long-term objectives which affect the whole of our society: innovation, long-term availability and sustainability of infrastructures. This is of crucial importance for economic and social development, which is coming under increasing pressure due to the combined impact of the exhaustion of natural resources and climate change. The transition to a sustainable future demands substantial investment in infrastructures, which cannot be taken for granted in the present situation. The WRR has investigated how these investments could be safeguarded in the long term, whilst retaining the efficiency of the infrastructures.

Susanne Kriemann's ONE DAY is the third book in a series of portraits, in book form, of the City of Rotterdam, that Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art has been producing in collaboration with artists who are particularly concerned with photographic medium. Kriemann is an artist whose work explores how images circulate and how displacement is represented in photography. For this project Kriemann collected a long list of books about Rotterdam, all of which have been published since its devastating bombing by the Luftwaffe in May 1940. The second largest city in The Netherlands and arguably the most culturally diverse, Rotterdam is unique in that its rebuilding did not focus on restoring the pre-war urban fabric, but instead became a multi-faceted experiment in architecture and urban planning. From the books she collected, which document Rotterdam's evolution, Kriemann selected 115 images and imposed a structure that is at once drastic and mundane. The flow of images in her book condense the experience of time by subtly tracing the course of one day, from dawn until dusk. Includes a discussion between Susanne Kriemann and critic/curator Christopher Eamon.