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NY400 Week / Holland on the Hudson presents Pioneers of Change, a festival of Dutch design, fashion and architecture on New York's Governors Island to celebrate 400 years of Dutch-American friendship. Activities will take place in and around eleven officers' houses at Nolan Park, Governors Island, New York. Open: Fri 10am - 4:30pm Sat / Sun 10am - 6:30pm Download Ferry schedule.	House 6B: Hempstead / Heemstede Knitting: Christien Meindertsma		About Christien Meindertsma Christien Meindertsma was born in Utrecht in 1980 and graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2003. She now has a label called FLOCKS for which she designs knitwear and interior products, and she also designs books and undertakes other independent projects, such as her three year study of all the products made from a single pig, which she compiled in a book, PIG 05049 and exhibited in the Kunsthal in Rotterdam in 2008. Christien Meindertsma’s main interest is researching the origin of products, their raw materials and the history of techniques. www.christienmeindertsma.com
These names are the titles of the former officers' houses during Pioneers of Change. Click on each name for the specific program: To download a map and program (pdf, 580 Kb), click here.	Staten Island / Staten EylandtPop up store: 100 dollars or less Bowery / BouwerijThe luxury of Silence and Care Harlem / HaarlemPlatform21 = Repairing	Hempstead / HeemstedeKnitting: Christien Meindertsma Bushwick / BoswijckUrban Farming Flushing / VlissingenHarvest Map: 2012Architecten	Bloomingdale / BloemendaalGo Slow / Droog, Sloom.org, Vogelzang and van Halem Gravesend / 's GravesandeDrawn from Clay: Atelier NL Brooklyn / BreukelenRealtime: Maarten Baas	Coney Island / Conyne EylandtPainted / Parsons The New School for Design Rhode Island / Roode EylandtOpen Talks Dutch Profiles Greenwhich / GreenwijckLawn: Various objects