Imagine: Encountering the Other

14 May - 4 September 2016
Locatie: window display Stroom, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Open: day and night

The former Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, located next to railway station Laan van NOI in The Hague, will be refurbished to house 350 status holders (refugees with a residence permit). This is consistent with the idealism of Herman Hertzberger, the architect who designed the building. The building is one of the great examples of Dutch structuralism, possibly one of the last idealist movements in Dutch architecture. This allows for the building to be multifunctional and adapt to new functions.

In order to draw attention to this striking and important building and to the ideas from which it springs, and in concurrence with the building's imminent transformation, Stroom invited Eli Dorsman (student of Architecture, TU Delft) and June Yu (student of Artscience, KABK Den Haag) to create a presentation for one of Stroom's windows.

By appealing to our imagination, they invite the viewer to put himself or herself in the shoes of ‘the other' and to explore Hertzberger's building; and to find inspiration in the ideas of the philosopher Levinas and quotes by the architect himself to think about what hospitality, openness and coexistence mean in relation to our built environment.

TIPS
Exhibitions in The Hague about the topic of refugees

thru 25 June 2016 in Het Nutshuis
Ik en de vluchteling

5 June - 31 July 2016 in Nest
Trespassages

5 June - 3 July 2016 in Galerie Maurits van de Laar
Passage

5 June - 26 June 2016 in Pulchri
Refugee Art: Perception and Reality

14 May '16 - 04 Sep '16
Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Entrance: free