The Netherlands Open Air Museum: FOOTPRINT 1850

In the past years Ineke Hans explored footprints as part of C-DUTCH (Circular Design Using The Cultural Heritage), a research project of ArtEZ-Arnhem and the Netherlands Open Air Museum. Under the title FOOTPRINT 1850, the outcomes of her research are presented in the exhibition 'Sustainable Dutch Design' in the Netherlands Open Air Museum.

FOOTPRINT 1850 compares the social, ecological and economical footprints and impacts of 15 aspects of our daily lives in 1850, 1950, now and 2050.
It shows artefacts, historical facts, special calculations by the RIVM (the Netherlands national institute of public health and the environment) and additional facts & figures.

Till 3 Nov: FOOTPRINT 1850 in The Netherlands Open Air Museum - Arnhem
part of Sustainable Dutch Design / Duurzaam Dutch Design in Midlum Farm

short on FOOTPRINT 1850:

1850 is seen as the start of the so-called Anthropocene; the era in which human activity got an irreversible effect on our planet. 
Did we live more sustainably in the past than we do now, or in the future?
Two 'tiny-houses-avant-la-lettre' in the Dutch Open Air Museum were the start of the FOOTPRINT 1850 project:
     - The fisherman's house from Marken (~1850)

     - Gerrit Rietveld's holiday house (~1950)

FOOTPRINT 1850 looked further and researched, compared and shows living in 1850, 1950, now and 2050. Within these four time-frames was looked at the social, ecological and economic footprints and impacts of 15 aspects of our daily lives.

What to do with these insights in our future? The presentation shows the most optimal choices with the least impact on people and the planet. But visitors can also make their own choices and discover the social, ecological and economic consequences of their way of living. To improve your personal footprint, choices have to be made: go on a holiday three times a year like now? you may have to heat your house as in 1850 and live 40 years shorter.

The 15 themes for 1850, 1950, now and 2050:

HUIS & HAARD (HOME & HEARTH)
how do we use energy and recourses?

- lighting

- heating

- cooking

- water & hygiene

- info-gathering

HUIS & HUISRAAD (HOME & GOODS) 
how do we handle products?

- building 

- furniture & stuff

- luxury

- repairing

- waste

HUIS & HART (HOME & HEART)
how is our well-being?

- food

- clothes

- traveling (for work & leisure)

- childhood & being young

- healthcare & being old

other presentations

Milan:

from 11 April at Fondazione Vico Magistretti? Milano: 'Il Magistretti inglese', an exhibition with focus on designer Vico Magistretti's relationship with the UK with a small pop up of Ineke's work.

Fondazione studio museo Vico Magistretti - via Vincenzo Bellini 1, Milan
11 april - 27 February 2025, see

Summer presentations: