Vacancy studies : experiments & strategic interventions in architecture ; experimenten & strategische interventies in architectuur Part I. Surfing on a sea of vacancy : The potential for innovation offered by vacancy Erik Rietveld & Ronald Rietveld The Dutch atlas of vacancy Erik Rietveld & Ronald Rietveld Strategic interventions as a design approach Erik Rietveld Ronald Rietveld and Arna Mackic Part II. Parachuting above vacant NL : Designing for temporary use as a profession Ester van de Wiel & Martine Zoeteman Snow White meets Moby Dick: scenarios for vacancy Barbara Visser New horizons in the blank land Jurgen Bey Many bunkers forts churches castles hospitals water towers post offices prisons palaces and airports are empty. Vacancy Studies provides the architecture world with an optimistic perspective on the temporary reuse of vacant spaces. According to RAAAF (Rietveld Architecture Art Affordances) there is great potential in vacant public and government buildings. At the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010 RAAAF visualized the gigantic scale of these vacant spaces in an installation called Vacant NL. The worldwide media attention by organizations such as The New York Times The Guardian and The Architectural Review shows the international relevance of their vision for the new field of Vacancy Studies. Designers can make a major contribution to social issues such as vacancy and this requires new ways of working. The field of Vacancy Studies has been further developed in the practice of RAAAF and by a multidisciplinary team at the Sandberg Institute. This book introduces the design approach of strategic interventions and presents new ideas and experiments. Vacancy Studies is an indispensable reference work for anyone interested in the possibilities of vacant spaces