For centuries, the Frisian landscape was characterised by meadows, ditches, mounds and characteristic farms. But in recent years, the landscape has been changing drastically due to the impact of climate change. Concerns are high, especially around the peat meadow area: soil subsidence, drought, declining biodiversity and increasing CO₂ emissions are urgent challenges. It is precisely here that another story unfolds: a story of resilience and innovation.

In the exhibition, you will discover new ways to live in this landscape through art and design. Together with farmers, residents, scientists and designers, a future is outlined in which the peat meadow area remains liveable – for the peat itself, the people who cultivate and inhabit the land and for all kinds of non-human species that depend on it.

We bring together internationally renowned designers and local experts through an eco-social and integral design approach and present three forward-thinking case studies: a monumental farm in the middle of a peat area where residents and nature managers work together on a sustainable repurposing that does justice to the beauty of the farm heritage (in collaboration with OOZE Architects and It Fryske Gea), working with bacteria from the soil to color locally produced textiles in search of new models for the biotech economy (in collaboration with Faber Futures, Familie Boon and the Knowledge Center Biobased Economy of Hanze University of Applied Sciences) and a scalable furniture collection made from wet crops grown on a peat water farm (in collaboration with Friso Wiersma, Arno Kalfsvel, Ashok Bhadra, Tjeerd Veenhoven, Jasper van Belle). Material innovation, imagination, interdisciplinary collaboration and community building come together in this exhibition, as well as the urgent need to address the state of our peat meadow.