NY400 Week: Pioneers of Change September 11, 2009

A festival of Dutch design, fashion and architecture on Governors Island in New York, a free two minute ferry ride from Lower Manhattan. Activities will take place in and around eleven Commanding Officer houses at Nolan Park on Governors Island.
Repairing instead of recycling, knitting a carpet with six foot long needles using wool from three kinds of Dutch sheep, elderly people slowly but attentively serving meals with smaller portions of foods from far away places and larger portions of those from nearby gardens, Dutch fashion designers collaborating with New York masters specialized in beads and lace together with students from Parsons The New School for Design, designers digging in local grounds to reveal differences in color and texture, movies about urban farming focused on New York, and left-over building materials collected over a month in New York available for creative re-use.
Visitors can listen and debate, watch and participate, relax and think, eat and drink, play their music, be inspired, connect and, simply, enjoy. They can also shop at the pop up store of affordable Dutch design ware, all under $100.

Official Website: http://www.ny400.org/events/ny400-week-pioneers-of-change