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Countryside – The Future: Horticulture takes center stage in New York City

The horticultural sector, prominently featured in the center of the world: New York City. A unique story when it comes to food production, based on knowledge and technology and focused on sustainability, circularity, health and using the power of nature. These subjects are important to me in my personal life and being an entrepreneur. On 20 February 2020 the …

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Eat This network keeps on growing

Foundation NethWork has invited private companies to join its Eat This network and work together to connect horticulture to society. The horticultural sector can greatly contribute to solving some of the urgent issues of today’s world: the access of sustainable, healthy food for all. NethWork lets others tell that story and connects to journalists, creatives, thought leaders …

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Countryside returns to the city

Exposition reopens in the Guggenheim Museum in New York. ‘Countryside, the Future’, the large scale exhibition organized by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas reopened again on October 3. Following this year’s pandemic and political crisis the exhibition strengthens the show’s suggestion that the future of our planet is being decided by decisions being made in …

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EatThis! Webinar series: Thought leaders share their vision on the future of food

EatThis! Webinar Series World Horti Center and Nethwork collaborated in organizing the first EAT THIS! webinar series, connecting thought leaders from the horticultural domain to their peers from outside the sector and have them discuss the future of food with each other in front of an online audience. Both organizations are convinced that inspiration stimulates change …

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The New York Times: The Museum Is Closed, but Its Tomato Man Soldiers On

May 17, 2020 Although the Guggenheim’s “Countryside” show was shuttered by the pandemic, its crop of cherry tomatoes is still growing, and feeding New Yorkers. The halls of the Guggenheim Museum are pretty quiet these days, with mostly just its ghosts and some security guards as company for the art. Oh, and there’s the guy …

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The Times: Tomatoes sprouting in Manhattan’s concrete jungle to feed the homeless

April 18, 2020 This week a farmer stepped into a curious white structure outside the Guggenheim Museum on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue and began to harvest tomatoes. “I grew about a hundred pounds,” he said proudly. David Litvin has farmed in Israel and in Ohio but this is the first time that he has worked soil …

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The Guardian: The small Dutch town that wants to shape the future of your food

March 5, 2020 If an innovative solution to feeding the world’s growing population is to be found, it is likely to come from Wageningen, a quiet corner of Europe that is the nexus of global food science. But at what cost to the environment? In the low-lying Gelderse Valley some 85km east of Amsterdam, a …

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The New York Times: Why Rem Koolhaas Brought a Tractor to the Guggenheim

Februari 20, 2020 The architect, a champion of cities, now turns a spotlight on the countryside in a sprawling new exhibition about the other 98 percent of the world. A manifesto and love letter to the city in the 1970s, the book “Delirious New York” helped propel the reputation of a young, restless Dutch journalist-and-screenwriter-turned-architect. …

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