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Für The Cook, the Farmer, His Wife and Their Neighbour (2009) hat sie zusammen mit Wilde Westen, einer Gruppe junger Architekten, Designer und Künstler, im Amsterdamer Stadtteil Nieuw West eine Art Gemeinschaftshaus mit Garten gegründet, in dem sie das anbauen, was sie zum kochen brauchen.
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Its true. Yet, many of Marjetica Potrcs collaborative projects challenge that notion. In The Cook, the Farmer, His Wife and Their Neighbour (2009), she and Wilde Westen, with a group of young architects, designers, and artists, have created a community center and green space, where they grow what they cook, in Amsterdams Nieuw West. Originally a modernist development by Cornelis van Eesteren that has fallen into disrepair, the neighbourhood is now primarily a working-class area. Like many projects that deal with utopian ideas today, this one has to do with sustainability and ecology, but it also addresses immigration and ways that communities, new and old, can function together. She brings activities like cooking or gardening, which we dont think of as high art, into play as a kind of art form.
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