We follow De Haagse Beek – a brook constructed long ago to provide the Hofvijver (around the national parliament of the Netherlands) with fresh water – back to its source in Kijkduin dunes. We do that in the footsteps of an artist who already did that thirty years ago: the now deceased Krijn Giezen. Fig 255-261.

The course of the Haagse Beek is sometimes barely recognizable, so much has been built around and over it. But it is still there, in this century in which only 2 percent of our surface water is clean and water boards warn against dehydration and salinisation. What is our relationship today between water, natural life and the city? The day ends with a visit to Stroom Den Haag, a centre for Art and Architecture in public space. Fig 262-263

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