Event
Saturday 10 May 2025
The National Prison Museum (Het Nationaal Gevangenis Museum), Veenhuizen, Oude Gracht 1, 9341 AA Veenhuizen
Decoding Veenhuizen: An Immersive Walk Through Landscapes of Segregation and Integration
A unique immersive tour through the material and immaterial heritage of Veenhuizen. A research project from SI-LAB.
Freja Kræmmer Nielsen (Research Associate at Design & Social Innovation Readership and DAE Alumna of the Social Deisgn Master) will showcase her yearlong research on the Colonies of Benevolence in May with an immersive participatory tour. This guided walk provides a unique perspective on Veenhuizen’s overlooked landmarks, revealing what is felt yet remains invisible to the naked eye.
Join our guided walk to explore the Colony of Benevolence Veenhuizen throughout time, and discover the hidden stories of corrective landscape architecture. Timet raveller, designer and researcher Freja Nielsen, invites you to attune to time and space with a mobile time machine. Participating time travellers are invited into an immersive and thought-provoking co-creation experience through the landscape to reconstruct scenarios and explore how the landscape's design influenced the behaviours and lives of its past inhabitants. You will step back in history and uncover the forgotten narratives interwoven in the landscape of Veenhuizen, a former penal colony.
