Scarcity is the mother of invention
The urban planning projects, buildings, interior objects and consumer goods in Designing Scarcity show that shortages don't have to constrain creativity: quite the contrary. The exhibition showcases a panoply of strategies used by designers and users to find novel solutions in the face of limitation. Alongside contemporary work by designers, the exhibition features historical designs by the likes of architects Gerrit Rietveld, J.J.P. Oud, and Van den Broek en Bakema.
30 July 2017
Coen de Vries. 'Plusmeubelen'. Collection Nieuwe Instituut, VRIX ph1208
John Habraken. Model made of Heineken beer bottles, 1963. Collection Nieuwe Instituut, VOOV vw195
Gispen. Price list Pelko meubelen, 1941. Collection Nieuwe Instituut, GISP 643.
A. Bodon. Study of minimum floor plans, 1940. Collection Nieuwe Instituut, BODO t14-4
Van den Broek en Bakema. Exigency stores, 1940. Collection Nieuwe Instituut, BROX 635t1339
G. Th. Rietveld. Kernwoning, ca. 1929. Collection Nieuwe Instituut, MAQV 309.
Goed Wonen magazine, featuring an article about PIRU furniture, after a design by A. Bueno de Mesquita, 1948. Collection Nieuwe Instituut.
J.J.P. Oud, Municipal Housing Service Rotterdam. Plan for emergency housing under the arches of the Z.H.E.S. viaduct, Rotterdam, 1918. Collection Nieuwe Instituut, OUDJ nd1
S. van Ravesteyn. Service houses of the Dutch railways, 1945. Collection Nieuwe Instituut, RAVE ph92.2
Lida Licht-Lankelma. Study project on basic facilities in emergency housing in Rotterdam, ca. 1940. Collection Nieuwe Instituut, LICH 98-6
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