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15 jun 2026, Waste Simmers
Waste Simmers #1 Garden of Materials
WASTE SIMMERS #1 ‘Garden of Materials’
Wednesday 15 July 2026, 14:30-16:30
at het Grondstoffenstation, Afrikaanderplein 1, Rotterdam
On 15 July the ‘Garden of Materials’, takes over the Grondstoffenstation with their ensemble of collected second (or third or fourth) hand objects. Convened by artist AZ OOR, they build a temporary space for thinking with the lives of transient objects.
Within the Netherlands formal and informal infrastructures present opportunitiesfor the organised transfer of second hand objects and materials, from physical kringloop winkels, the website Marktplaats, Rotterdam legend Scrap XL, and our own Grondstoffenstation. Whether the output of personal or industrial use, these platforms create means for material circulation, a movement from one home to the next - bypassing the rubbish bin.
It is a choice to take on a material within these networks, seeing their potential amid narratives of inconvenience or imperfection. Sometimes they bare the marks of their uses, at times we need to attend to their repair so as to bring them into their next life phase.
Please join us for an afternoon as we sit closer to recognising their stories and value, alongside sharing readings, sonic residues for repair and transformation.
This event is part of Waste Simmers, a series of collaborations and events organised by artist, gardener and avid composter Kate Price at the Afrikaanderwijk Cooperatie’s Grondstoffenstation to explore possibilities of their collected ‘wastes’.
for TASRAFT, a transdisciplinary research project that interrogates the modern material and industrial heritage in Morocco and the Netherlands and explores the radical intersection of innovation, sovereignty, and ancestral knowledge for the creation of locally sustainable (new) bio-materials. With het Grondstoffenstation (Afrikaanderwijk Cooperative), QANAT (Entangled Ecologies), Dar Bellarj Foundation, LE 18, the Future Materials, Jan van Eyck Academie.
Wednesday 15 July 2026, 14:30-16:30
at het Grondstoffenstation, Afrikaanderplein 1, Rotterdam
On 15 July the ‘Garden of Materials’, takes over the Grondstoffenstation with their ensemble of collected second (or third or fourth) hand objects. Convened by artist AZ OOR, they build a temporary space for thinking with the lives of transient objects.
Within the Netherlands formal and informal infrastructures present opportunitiesfor the organised transfer of second hand objects and materials, from physical kringloop winkels, the website Marktplaats, Rotterdam legend Scrap XL, and our own Grondstoffenstation. Whether the output of personal or industrial use, these platforms create means for material circulation, a movement from one home to the next - bypassing the rubbish bin.
It is a choice to take on a material within these networks, seeing their potential amid narratives of inconvenience or imperfection. Sometimes they bare the marks of their uses, at times we need to attend to their repair so as to bring them into their next life phase.
Please join us for an afternoon as we sit closer to recognising their stories and value, alongside sharing readings, sonic residues for repair and transformation.
This event is part of Waste Simmers, a series of collaborations and events organised by artist, gardener and avid composter Kate Price at the Afrikaanderwijk Cooperatie’s Grondstoffenstation to explore possibilities of their collected ‘wastes’.
for TASRAFT, a transdisciplinary research project that interrogates the modern material and industrial heritage in Morocco and the Netherlands and explores the radical intersection of innovation, sovereignty, and ancestral knowledge for the creation of locally sustainable (new) bio-materials. With het Grondstoffenstation (Afrikaanderwijk Cooperative), QANAT (Entangled Ecologies), Dar Bellarj Foundation, LE 18, the Future Materials, Jan van Eyck Academie.
