What happens to artists that inhabit old industrial districts when such districts are transformed top-down into high-density residential areas? In-FLUX is a project born from the observation of The Binckhorst, the industrial district of Den Haag, which since many years is the home of numerous artist spaces, attracted by the buildings left by deindustrialization.Spaces that today struggle to be included in development projects that call for intense transformation, mainly directed to residential real-estate.

The project explores the possibilities offered by communal practices for discussing themes such as the Right to the City and stability in the workplace. Starting from the case study of Patch Studios, an artist collective founded in the Binckhorst in 2021, the project connects the people to the landscape shaped by the Binckhaven canals, in search of common spaces to attract artists to discuss the present and the future in the area.

Through the creation of a flating platform in collaboration with the members of Patch studios, an open workshop was made possible to welcome art workers to create a community through a shared object and space. The canals become a new common on which the conditions that city planning impose on the art workers in the Binckhorst are challenged.