Sauna Town Hall

Sauna is a sex, gender, status free zone, where everyone is equal. People get undressed and therefore loose the attributes that have been showing their status. To erase even the last trace of status, the hairdo, every person in sauna is provided with a special felted sauna hat that preserves the hair from heat. This setting makes people leave their ego behind and come up with ideas, which are beneficial for everyone. The sauna is a place that brings body and mind to a comfort, a place that can help people to come up with great ideas on future life in their own city.

For the first time Sauna Town Hall was open for 24 hours and served as a discussion place for the inhabitants of the temporary Kortrijk Conge city.

Taste Antwerp

For the festival Antwerp Fringe collective Contemporary Wild was asked to make a catering concept for the festival. We came up with an idea to let inhabitants and guest of the city to experience a wild taste of Antwerp. All the ingredients used for drinks and snacks were found in the streets of Antwerp.

Siroop Rotterdam

Syrup Rotterdam was a year long investigation into the wild natural treasures hiding behind the concrete and the bricks of the industrial city of Rotterdam — in particular its neighbourhood Delfshaven. This project was a collaboration between the design collective Contemporary Wild and the social café Stroop Rotterdam.

Each month in 2015, a socially activating workshop was organised to gather plants and create a local, seasonal syrup during one afternoon. All participants of the workshop received a bottle of self-made syrup and the rest of the bottles were sold in the store of Stroop Rotterdam. The outcome was a series of 12 syrups that captured the complete rainbow of tastes in Rotterdam— an abstract portrait of a place, expressed through flavour.

Boerûh melk

Boerûh Melk is an exclusive product, super food made from the "holy grass" of the Philips Stadium field in Eindhoven. Over the time the football field grass has become an object of worship and superstition. A lot of expectations and emotions are related to those particular grass fields. It is holy and untouchable.

Collective 'Contemporary Wild' takes advantage of this taboo and upgrades the waste grass of football pitch into milk. Grass is not only a living carpet to play on but also an important source of nutrition.

Project created for exhibition FC DDW, curator Jules van den Langenberg; DDW 2015, Eindhoven, NL

Boerûh Melk Speelt Uit

Pitch of the Philips stadium is natural grass and several times it has been named as the best natural football field in the Netherlands. Since 70’s when artificial turf was first introduced, there has been a constant discussion pro and contra natural grass or artificial turf. They both have some outstanding qualities, but also disadvantages.

Never the less, both type of fields is football reality today, therefore as an addition to the mobile Boerûh Melk milk bar, we are introducing a mobile tribune set that takes advantages of ‘holy‘ artificial turf of training fields. In average every 10 years the artificial turf has to be replaced with the new one. The material after recycling is used to produce mobile tribune. It's design is based on a traditional milking stool found in de Kwakel. This tribune has 3 heights - farm level (low), stadium level (medium), bar level (high). In that way this tribune enables a range of activities, starting with milking the Boerûh Melk sheep, watching a game of your favourite team in the hotel or drinking milk at the Boerûh Melk bar.

Project is part of exhibition Onzijn. Curated by Jurgen Bey, commissioned by Wow Amsterdam.