Selected work
Kermisvisie Valkenswaard
How does a tradition stay relevant?
Commissioned by Respons
About this project
For Respons, FES is working on the Kermisvisie Valkenswaard, a vision for the town’s annual funfair. A policy question with a cultural starting point: what place will the kermis have in the future?
A vision starts with choices.
What deserves to be preserved? Where is there room for change? And what does that mean for how you look at the kermis?
More than a row of rides.
A kermis is a yearly moment when a square, a town centre and a community come together. Anyone working on the future of such a tradition needs to be able to say what should stay, and why.
Policy with a place in it.
A kermis vision is about space and rules, but also about habit and feeling. Connecting policy to the place and the people it’s about: that’s where the conversation about change begins.