Today: webinar with Clemens Driessen and Meiny Prins

On Wednesday, Clemens Driessen, philosopher at Wageningen University, will take us on a tour of Westland in the early 17th century. He will argue how the Westland we know now, and its approach of total mastery and control of both plants and space was invented on this very spot 400 years ago. He will take us on a tour through the garden of Amalia van Solms behind the Palace of Honselersdijk: at the time 'the Versailles of the North' but today almost completely erased. We will meet illustrious figures such as Rene Descartes, Constantijn Huijgens and others who set out to revolutionize our relations to the natural world and invent our modern view of space. What would they think of Westland today? And what can we learn from this history for the future of horticulture?