Stad en Ommeland

A project to bring the city of Groningen and its environs together, I wanted to let the citizens of Groningen experience the environs by literally bringing it to them.

Take a piece of land from the environs and place it in a new space, the shape of which resembles the typical farm archetypes which dot the landscape of the province.

type: Storytelling installation, interactive experience
client: Noorderzon, CBK Groningen

This space of land is then put up on a scaffold. Visitors can walk underneath it and put their heads inside to suddenly find themselves on the ground level of the countryside. They can then see and smell the land while engaging in intimate eye contact with other visitors.

3 spaces, each resemble a different farm archetype and each have a different part of the land inside them. Each a characteristic of the province: grassland, clay from the Wadden sea and sugar beets farm land.

Within the spaces coordinates and a stylised map is engraved to show visitors where the land they are viewing came from.

At night the boxes lit up with white light as a beacon for the curious.