In June the collective I work from in Laakhaven is opening its studios to the public for the first time. Fifteen artists and designers, two days, the full warehouse. I’m designing the visual identity for it. This is not an advertisement — or rather, it is, but I want to explain what I mean when…
I’ve had my live-work studio in Laakhaven for three years. I chose it because the rent was manageable, the ceilings were high enough to think in, and the building had other people in it who were trying to make something. Those three things still apply. Laakhaven is Den Haag’s old industrial waterfront — the Laak…
No single gallery district, no single arts quarter. The creative community in Den Haag is distributed, underpublicised, and better for it.
Last week our collective welcomed a new member. Agata, a textile artist from Rotterdam, took one of the studios in our building on a six-month trial. She came to see the space, walked the area for an hour, came back and said: this looks like Rotterdam did ten years ago. She meant it as a…
The studios are still here, the rents are still (barely) reasonable, and the atmosphere has something no other neighbourhood in Den Haag quite has. But for how long?
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Three years running a design studio in Laakhaven. What the creative scene here actually looks like, who is in it, and whether the window is closing.
Den Haag’s cycling infrastructure is excellent. The unwritten rules are not written anywhere. Here is what you need to know before you ride.
Den Haag’s creative economy is smaller than Amsterdam’s. That’s the point. Here’s what actually exists, where it lives, and how to find it.