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12/4/2013

United We

Stroom Den Haag, The Hague

In May last year Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad published an article with the headline 'Me is out, we is in'. Cooperations, guilds and societies are springing up all over the place. When the major institutions around us – banks, pension funds, social security, schools – are failing, why don't we just step up and do it ourselves, and better? This is the driving force behind this renewed belief in collectivity. There are changes in the air, but what is really happening on the ground? United We will investigate the how, what and why of collective forms of organization and collaboration. Stroom sets out do this with artists, designers, architects, thinkers and doers.

United We is the third exhibition within Stroom Den Haag’s Upcycling program on new perspectives of value creation. One of the earlier projects was the opening of a Time/Bank, a platform where goods and services are exchanged without the use of money.

With United We Stroom enters a new phase in this Upcycling research and presents alternative models of management, organization and collaboration. This time the focus is not on the individual or on the mere management of the status quo, but on a new form of collectivity. Is there a future possible where it is not all about growth, power and profit, but where added value is created by the collective?

Partners in United We include: the recently founded Lectorate for Change Management in The Hague and Brandstof, partner of the London-based The School of Life. The program is made possible in part by: Mondriaan Fund, DOEN Foundation, Creative Industries Fund NL.

Image design: Thonik, Amsterdam

Press contact:
Hildegard Beijersbergen-Blom T. +31 (0)70 3658985 press@stroom.nl

Opening: Saturday 13 April, 5 pm with special program

Stroom Den Haag
Hogewal 1-9 2514 HA The Hague The Netherlands
Hours: Wednesday thru Sunday, 12 noon - 5 pm
entrance is free

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