The Hague: City without walls?
3 October - 13 December 2015
Location: window Stroom Den Haag
Open: 24 hours a day
Part of Culture of Control
In the window of Stroom Den Haag the
architect Floris van der Zee will create a presentation about urban
defense techniques like walls, moats and embankments, using examples
from both the past and the present, like Europol and ICC.
The Hague presents itself as city without walls. An image fitting the message it wants to carry out. Open, tolerant and international: city of peace and justice. However, this carefully constructed story also has a downside. Even though historic plans for town walls and fortifications were never executed, the current city of peace and justice remarkably includes walls, ramparts and moats.
HAACS, 3 October 2015 (In Dutch)
- 03 Oct '15 - 13 Dec '15
- Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
- Entrance: free