Van Historisch naar Futureproof

Heritage & Sustainability

The Netherlands has around 63,000 national monuments and just as many municipal and provincial monuments. These range from 18th-century boundary markers to the Noordeinde Palace in The Hague. They are important to the Netherlands for their beauty, cultural-historical value, or societal significance. Ideally, these should not become static reminders of times gone by but should play a role in our contemporary society. However, these buildings generally do not meet our sustainability and usage requirements. Moreover, the solutions for heating and insulating monuments are not readily available, especially when we aim to maintain high sustainability standards.

Manifest

On Sunday 20, monday 21, and Tuesday 22 of october we simultaneously put the past and the present in the spotlight in the chapel of the national monument DOMUSDELA, within walking distance of Eindhoven Central Station. Visit us or subscribe yourself for one of our meet-ups via the link in our bio. On monday morning we launce the framework “Bakens van Betekenis – 6 stories to engage a talk about the future of religieus houses”. We close this day with a panel discussion on “Sustainable Museums for the future - Art Collections & Climate Responsibility”. 8 solutions The manifest shows the results of multidisciplinary research conducted between 2021 and 2024. In these projects, designers collaborated with entrepreneurs and sustainability and heritage experts to create (scalable) spatial interventions, technical installations, and material applications for monuments.

Sustainability Lab

Sustainability is an important topic for the RCE. Via various projects within the Sustainability Lab the RCE researches new possiblities for sustainablity and insulation of the built heritage. One of those projects was the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR). the SBIR is a compitition for creatieve entrepreneurs. The SBIR is a competition that challenges creative entrepreneurs to jointly develop new products and/or services to address a social issue with financial support from the central government. The competition was conducted by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO). In this case, creative entrepreneurs were challenged to think along about innovative and creative solutions to make monuments more sustainable. The first call was about sustainable heating of monuments, the second about sustainable insulation of monuments. This has led to the 8 projects that are exhibited in the manifestation. More information: https://www.cultureelerfgoed.nl/actueel/agenda/2024/10/20/van-historisch-naar-futureprooof-tijdens-dutch-design-week