Pannenland – Oerol - 2013

SLeM initiated a special project for Oerol 2013, Terschelling. ‘Pannenland’ is a project on the beach at Kaap Hoorn, consisting of four thousand French tiles, placed in a strict grid within an area of one hundred to one hundred meters. Together with the direct involvement of inhabitants of the island, students and visitors of the construction work, ‘Pannenland’ made dune formation processes visible and tangible. Pannenland is thereby the first project within the light of ‘Cultural Landscape Development’. It aims to increase the knowledge and understanding of the dynamic processes that give form to the island in close collaboration with scientists, students, artists, inhabitants and visitors. In Pannenland, the natural process of sand accumulation and distortion became visible, the process in which the dunes and the Island owe their viability.

The project Pannenland is closely linked to the performance of the French theatre group Bistaki. During Oerol, Pannenland was at daytime part of the Expedition with master classes of ‘Zandlab’ directed by Bruno Doedens and Machiel Spaan and and night-time it functioned as a stage for the performances of Bistaki.

Pannenland is developed by SLeM and Machiel Spaan (M3H) and established in close corporation with students from the Academy of Architecture of Amsterdam and the University of Wageningen.