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

Taste Museum Park/Syrup

The perception of an urban park is first and most of all visual; it is about combinations of colours, shapes and textures that please our eyes and create a pleasant atmosphere. What would be the experience of the park if we would primarily focus on other senses but sight? Workshop ‘Hoe smaakt het Museum Park?’ is offering to experience the Museum Park, by activating our sense of taste. The outcome of this workshop is a record of a specific taste of particular place and time: Rotterdam, Museum Park, 05-206-2016, 1-4pm.

Commissioned by Het Nieuwe Instituut

Siroop Rotterdam/ Book

Siroop 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.

This publication is an overview of our discoveries and a catalogue of local tastes. We hope it will inspire people and serve as a guidebook to explore and continue to discover the little-known greenery of cities.

Print on paper, soft cover, 140x197mm, 72 pages
Published by Publication Studio Rotterdam
Supported by Municipality Rotterdam Delfshaven