This past weekend our group from last summer's Holland/Germany trip put up our exhibit about the four projects we visited in Holland. We all made drawings and diagrams about the projects, assembled long panoramas (the flat Dutch landscape) and wrote briefly.
Hanging the exhibit was a labor of love-- it took 5 of us all day (here I am waiting for glue to dry!) We are very proud of how it turned out (and we are already planning to put this on our resumes!).
The projects my smaller group visited were part of Room for the Rivers, a national program that is coordinating diverse efforts to prevent flooding by making more space available for the rivers (rather than by building larger dikes). Other groups visited floating houses (attached to vertical poles, they elevate in place with rising water levels), a design studio that is planning plazas in Rotterdam to detain storm water, and a dune replenishment project on the coast.
This week we have a visiting lecturer, Dirk Sjimonds, who was formerly the national Landscape Architect in Holland. That alone says something about the Dutch understanding of the importance of landscape design and planning.
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