Informal Justice Court
2018 - 2022
How will inmates of Lagos largest prison create justice?
Pension Almonde
2018 - 2021
Pension Almonde is a temporary home for city nomads and community initiatives.
Human Power Plant
2017 - 2021
Human power is the most sustainable power source on Earth.
Mental Border Control
2017 - 2019
Investigates the new frontier of emerging borders.
Survival Island
2016
Workshop – Former Waterdefence fortresses become the survival islands of the future.
Department of Search
2014 - 2017
Introduction of a new department in the Utrecht Science Park, the Department of Search. Where the methods artist and science pull together to investigate complex issues.
Radio Homo Ludens
2012 2013
A radio shack for the Homo Ludens in the most hated, but also successful shopping centre Hoog Catharijne.
New Towns
2011 - 2014
An exploratory mission to three New Towns, three countries, with three different founding ideas.
Highway Stories
2009 - 2011
A travel guide, cultural criticism and picaresque novel in one, examining the significance of the highway with regards to the Netherlands.
Walking Score
2010
Re-learned how to see, not with your eyes but with your ears. Blind people from Rotterdam guided Smets blindfolded through the city.
Public Lease Garden
2008
Sketch – Proposal to put public space for lease.
Olympic Trade Mission
2008
A journey upstream the plasic river to the Made in China source.
Tentstation
2007
Monument – An installation of wood and fluorescent lighting in the Wadden Sea.
Check Your Place
2006-2008
Give the youth a voice to improve the public space of the New Town Leidsche Rijn.
Car Boys
2006
The first Orthodox highway chapel in the Netherlands for car dealers from the East.
Leisure Resort Parallelweg
2003
An all inclusive weekend to a business park viewing the A12 highway.
Genuine Souvenirs
2003
A souvenir shop sells washed up waste from the Atlantic in handmade packaging to cruise ship tourists.
Forest revitalisation
2002
Association for the Preservation of Nature Moments
Beyond the Farm
2002
A short documentary investigates how farm life became an affordable lifestyle product taking over the landscape in the East part of the Netherlands.
P-Travel
2001 - 2005
Trips to the Parallel World. Destinations where other tour operators don’t talk about.
