Illustration of the workingmethod of Enough Room for Space

Enough Room for Space
Founded in 2005 by Maarten Vanden Eynde and Marjolijn Dijkman
Daily organisation: Marjolijn Dijkman, Maarten Vanden Eynde
Copilots: Marjolijn Dijkman, Martijn Hendriks, Dunja Herzog, Maaike Gouwenberg, Maarten Vanden Eynde
Official Foundation of Enough Room for Space since January 2007
Board: Carlijn Diesveldt (Chairman), Maaike Gouwenberg (Secretary), Daan Emmen (Treasurer)

*SpaceStation Assembly

ERforS mirrors itself in set-up and aim to the International Space Station and gives several research projects the possibility to be docked as a capsule to the imaginary Spacestation of Enough Room for Space. This generates a database of related information, a network of motivating initiatives, a conglomeration of energy.

From it’s International Space Station* ERforS wants to get and give an image, as divers as possible, of the earth and it's inhabitants. With art as stimulator, communicator and initiator it wants to expose different processes being part of this world. How do we deal with the world as Homo Sapiens Sapiens? How do we position ourselves towards different cultures (history) and life in general, now and in the future? Worldwide ERforS tries to find its position and generate discussion.

ISS Assembly, a Collective Construction Site

In 2005 I set up Enough Room for Space (ERforS) together with Maarten Vanden Eynde. Since 2007 Martijn Hendriks is jointly running and coordinating this foundation. The organisation ERforS sets up projects that are based on unexpected relations between official bodies and locations. Starting point of the collaboration is overlapping investigation of the individual participants. As a way of countering life in the fast lane - that makes us hurriedly travel from one curated exhibition to the next -, ERforS intends to establish long-term working relationships based on mutual interests. ERforS works on small-scale and large-scale projects such as a residency and project space at the Jan van Eyck, but also a European project that engages several official bodies from 27 different countries, exchange projects (cf. Georgia here We Come!) and long-term research projects (cf. Los Angeles Works). The ERforS website is the only constant space that ERforS claims. The ‘Collective Construction Site’ is an online working space where participants actively pull the strings; some parts are public and can be actively constructed.