Investigation Around Residences in the Netherlands, 2005

In the report Around Residences 2005 , including more:

Research

The guest studios offered in the Netherlands are so diverse, the history of their establishment and their profiles so different, and their organisation and programming in such stark contrast to each other, that it sometimes seems as though there are few common characteristics to unite them. Also, the observation is often made that each place must find its feet on its own; this is perhaps indeed so. Despite this, it has proved to be the case over the last few years that many initiators of new guest studios come knocking at the door of Trans Artists with comparable questions. Meetings which Trans Artists have organised for guest studios have also shown that many providers of existing guest studios regularly have to deal with the same questions and run up against comparable problems. Thus, the idea has arisen to produce a more thorough inventory and to investigate guest studios in the Netherlands, which Trans Artists began in 2005.Central to this investigation is the question as to whether a common pattern exists, and if so what. What accounts for the differences in the history of their establishment of guest studios, in the requirements and conditions they impose, in their running, in their organisation, and in their profile? What makes a guest studio what it is? Do models indeed exists? And if so, would it be possible on the basis of these models to compile a guest studios handbook? Or, can we better think in terms of a toolbox: a collection of factors which in greater or lesser measure account for the development of each guest studio?