Roel Schoenmakers / Cascoland

Roel Schoenmakers is one of the initiators of Cascoland, an internationally operating network of artists, designers, architects and performers that focuses on the design and activation of public space and wants to contribute to an ecologically and socially more sustainable society. Currently working with the Cascoland Van Deyssel project in co-creation on the future of the Van Deysselbuurt in Amsterdam West.

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About Cascoland

Cascoland is an international network of designers, visual artists, performers and academics based in Amsterdam.

 

Cascoland projects are initiated by Fiona de Bell and Roel Schoenmakers and executed with multi-disciplinary teams of creatives. They are aimed at the development of an ecological and social sustainable society, locally and globally. Cascoland projects/interventions/artworks are tools to be used by participants and audiences rather than artworks to be exhibited. Cascoland interventions aim to challenge and change perceptions and create awareness, not only within communities of participants and audiences, but with planners, designers, organizations and authorities as well.

 

Cascoland promotes a sustainable use of spaces, skills and resources, empowerment of communities and implementation of innovative social & lo-tek solutions addressing local needs. Our projects aim at bottom-up development and shared ownership of public spaces and a re-valuation of the commons through new democratic experiments based on an intrinsic knowledge of the past.