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Call for Projects Museumpark
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The organisers of Rotterdam Architectuur Maand ‘24 (Rotterdam Architecture Month or RA Month) hereby cordially invite designers, design education institutions and other stakeholders in the development of the spatial domain to submit projects for Rotterdam Architecture Month 2024’s central exhibition. The latter will run for the entire month of June at Museumpark. Projects can be submitted until Friday 29 March 2024.
Rotterdam Architecture Month has developed into the largest architecture festival in the Netherlands about the future of cities. Every year, in June, architecture’s innovativeness and quality are celebrated together with the design sector, education, the business community and many initiators. The RA Month facilitates well over 125 activities across some 40 venues with more than 100 partners from the education, culture and design sectors.
This year, the Museumpark is the festival’s central point where the general public, professionals, educational and cultural institutions can meet and exchange knowledge. There is something for everyone, irrespective of their knowledge of or experiences with architecture, including conspicuous interventions, an exhibition, films, workshops, lectures, guided tours and much, much more.
From private estate to public hotspot
The Museumpark is part of ‘The Land van Hoboken’, the former estate of the eponymous family of shipping magnates that extended from the Nieuwe Binnenweg to the Westzeedijk and from the Westersingel to the Coolhaven. In 2024, it will be exactly 100 years ago that this area was opened up to Rotterdam’s inhabitants. Over the past century, it has developed from a private estate into one of the city’s cultural hotspots. It attracts a wide range of visitors from the unhoused to international culture lovers, and from young skateboarders to young professionals. The area’s continual development showcases a range of opinions on the importance of greenery, culture and recreation for the city.
Route through the Museumpark
During RA Month, the various institutions, locations and stories will be linked by an alternative route through the area that shows visitors the contemporary Museumpark’s historical layers with new perspectives added by today’s designers using an outdoor exhibition with spatial, programmatic and location-specific interventions.
RA Month 2024’s main theme: The City’s Garden
With this Call for Projects, the design sector is invited to propose projects that respond in an innovative way to at least one of the four different themes that fall under the main theme ‘Garden of the City’. Do you have an existing project, installation or model that fits in with the theme? Then send it in no later than March 29 via the RA Month website.
Read more about the Open Call and the conditions for submitting projects here.
