16 May – 17 May 2026
FIELDWORK FESTIVAL
— RADIUS FIVE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY WITH A SEED, PLANT AND ECOLOGY BOOK FAIR
Participating organisations and publishers: and so on books, Buitenkweek, Haags Zaad, Jap Sam, Jesse Presse, Octavo, Pleasant Place, RE-PEAT, Roots to Fruits, Set Margins, Stencilwerck, SWAMP Rotterdam, Valiz, Het Veldatelier and others
We wholeheartedly invite you to join us in celebrating RADIUS’s five-year anniversary during the two-day FIELDWORK FESTIVAL!
In 2021, RADIUS was founded as a space to intersect art, science, and the shared living environment, in order to tell the story of climate change and ecological restoration with artists and other stakeholders. Since the opening in 2022, we have presented twenty-five exhibitions, presenting the work of more than two hundred artists, in conjunction with numerous public events, publications, collaborations, and educational projects. Equally in the coming years, as an ideological organisation, RADIUS remains fully committed to the restoration of relational fabric between nature and culture, climate justice, indigenous cosmologies, non-human rights and, more broadly, the biosphere and everything pertaining to ecological restoration.
To mark our fifth anniversary, we are organising the FIELDWORK FESTIVAL, for which the RADIUS garden will be transformed into a regional market where all kinds of local initiatives and organisations dedicated to regenerative agriculture and nature conservation will share their knowledge and experience, as well as sell food, drink and products. During the festival weekend, we are organising workshops for children and adults, where you can, among other things, make your own seed shaker. Furthermore, the water tower will be transformed into an ecological book fair, where various national and international publishers specialising in art, ecology and science will be showcasing and selling their publications. At the same time, this festival weekend offers the chance to visit our current exhibitions: the group exhibition DISMANTLING THE ANTHROPOCENE and the solo exhibition THE CENTRE CANNOT HOLD by artist Karlos Gil.
We look forward to welcoming you during FIELDWORK FESTIVAL!
PROGRAMME SATURDAY 16 MAY
RADIUS GARDEN
11:00—17:00
— PLANT- AND SEEDFAIR with BUITENKWEEK, HAAGS ZAAD, RE-PEAT and HET VELDATELIER.
— Demonstration of wild basketry, being basketry with local, natural materials by HET VELDATELIER.
— Peatinator workshop by RE-PEAT.
PUMP HOUSE
11:00—17:00
— Workshop AN UNFINISHED ODE TO MUD.
15:00—16:00
— Lecture by artist and photographer LOUISIANA VAN ONNA on the role of fieldwork in her artistic practice.
RESERVOIR
11:00—17:00
— Ecological book fair with JAP SAM, JESSE PRESSE, OCTAVO, PLEASANT PLACE, RE-PEAT, SET MARGINS, STENCILWERCK, VALIZ, and others.
PROGRAMME 17 MAY
RADIUS GARDEN
11:00—17:00
— PLANT- AND SEEDFAIR with BUITENKWEEK, HAAGS ZAAD, RE-PEAT and HET VELDATELIER.
— Demonstration of wild basketry, being basketry with local, natural materials by HET VELDATELIER.
— Peatinator workshop by RE-PEAT.
14:00—16:30
— Workshop make your own seed shaker by Doe-Het-Zelf Fietswerkplaats and The Pollinators.
For all urban cyclists, ranging from fanatic alleycats to smooth cruisers (and skaters); a workshop to turn the streets more biodiverse and green while you ride. We’ll be making an easy-to-unclip bike bag for your frame or handlebars from secondhand materials. With it you’ll be able to spread seeds across grey curbs and desire paths.We kick off with a walk through our neighbourhood. Forager Elio will teach us how to recognize some key indigenous plants and how you can ‘harvest’ seeds from them in your own area. Then we’ll start constructing the pouch with the help of Doe Het Zelf Fietswerkplaats. At the end of the afternoon you’ll whizz off with a first batch of seeds provided by the Pollinators, on your way to green the city. Sign up by sending an email to juniorprogramme@radius-cca.org.
PUMP HOUSE
13:00—14:00
— Lecture by artist and micro-photographer WIM VAN EGMOND on the role of fieldwork in his artistic practice.
15:00—16:00
— Interview with artist MILAH VAN ZUILEN on her recent publication LEAVES.
RESERVOIR
11:00—17:00
— Ecological book fair with AND SO ON BOOKS, JAP SAM, JESSE PRESSE, OCTAVO, PLEASANT PLACE, RE-PEAT, SET MARGINS, STENCILWERCK, VALIZ, and others.