The Pigeon Dialogues, an installation by Nikki Gonnissen, Maurice Boyer and Studio Corvers, developed to bridge the gap between urban and rural areas, reached the city during the Dutch Design Week. The eight meter tall pigeon loft was rebuilt on Strijp S, in the middle of the festival grounds and opened on the first day of the festival.
The Pigeon Dialogues is meant to be the start of an important conversation. Living in a society below sea level that’s facing climate change, the nitrogen crisis, and increased polarisation, the future of the Dutch countryside concerns all of us.
First on show as a part of the design festival Wiede Wold, in Echten, in the province of Drenthe, the installation has been designed to look like a pigeon loft – a metaphor for slow, nuanced communication. Carrier pigeons can find their way home over hundreds of kilometers and only carry one message at a time. Quite different from the super fast communication on social media, where context and nuance are often lost as we try to say as much as possible, in as few characters as possible.
