We are going on a trip and we pack… a bag full of inspiring designs: the most luxurious suitcase in the world, hilarious picture-columns about holiday behaviour, anticipatory vacation pleasure with a mediterranean photo- and movie campaign and finally a tent which can be set up in a tree. Staying at home is not an option and zip off pants will be refused!

On 25 May 2013 The World Turned Inside Out begins with a dynamic series of seven events taking place at Witte de With throughout the summer and orchestrated by the program’s protagonists and their guests from the fields of the arts, academia and science.

Within the framework of our collaborative project we would like to invite you to join us on Thursday the 23d of May at 19:00h for the event with Andrew Varano and Jessica Sligter

Remember the nineteennighties? Damn, those where the days. WAVE presents NO LIMIT = a series of events that will bring back the decade of flippo’s, punica and guilders. Starting with an amazing Photoshop edition. Lectures / deejays / and more..

“Neuro-economics is one of the liveliest and most controversial areas of economic research” The Economist. For the summer edition of Current Values, Rotterdam neuro-science professor Maarten Frens presents a mini-lecture on neuro-economics. Why do you buy that jacket in the sales when you don’t really want to spend any money?

On Friday June 7 at TENT ‘Less is More, More Or Less’ opens the discussion on the collecting and de-collecting of art in public space. Thinkers attempt to formulate theoretical foundations for policy (opinions), experts will look at examples in practise (field trips), and artists are showing how they make de-collecting part of their own work (case studies).

DE PLAYER and WORM present a day about music and economy, revolving around two authoritative sound-artists/composers, whose work is engaged with political-economical proceses. Marco Fusinato (AU) bases his graphical scores on historical, mostly left, political explosions and pitfalls of collectives like The Situationist International and Red Brigades. Johannes Kreidler (DE) who made a piece consisting of 70 thousand samples, and for each of these fragments he asked permission from the GEMA (the German BUMA).

Art, live-music, poetry, parties and other happenings at the 11th edition of art route Route du Nord, for the first time held at Zomerhofkwartier, Hofplein and Schieblock in the North of Rotterdam.

MVRDV is a Rotterdam, Netherlands-based architecture and urban design practice founded in 1993. MVRDV engages globally in providing solutions to contemporary architectural and urban issues. A research based and highly collaborative design method engages experts from all fields, clients and stakeholders in the creative process.

On Saturday 18 May, TENT presents Rotterdam 2040, a new video work by artist Gyz La Rivière. “You can’t move forward without looking back”, is the starting point of his 95-minute film. In an energetic mix of facts, fiction, and futurism, Gyz La Rivière outlines the highs and lows of Rotterdam’s development. The video will be on view at TENT until June 16th.