SOLID PLATE Satoki Kuwano was inspired by the slow decay of the Lloyd building and its subtle shifts of materiality over time as visitors enter and leave...

SITTING STILL For the first lesson of Enlivened Space, performance artist Julia Mandle asked students to be still in a public location of the Lloyd for entire...

INSIDE OUT Wendy Oakes used photography to examine how residents of the Eastern Docklands sometimes make a piece of their personal lives visible through the...

IK HEB/IK ZOEK STICKERS Who are you? What do you know how to do? What are you looking for? These simple questions unlocked a diverse series of unexpected...

PLUS C'EST LA MEME CHOSE, PLUS ÇA CHANGE Daily housekeeping service ensures that the hotel rooms in the Lloyd maintain a status quo of presentation to incoming...

SLOW FLOWERS Every week, the vases of the Lloyd Hotel are replenished with fresh flowers for the enjoyment of their guests. For years, those leftover from the...

OWNING PUBLIC SPACE What if the Lloyd were a ‘hostel’ instead of a ‘hotel’? Students of the Amsterdam Architecture Academy agreed that, in contrast...

TWO HOURS NINE MINUTES IN THE LLOYD This study of time by Ana Paula Pais reveals the beauty that can be found when we pause and take notice. related HOTEL...

REDRAWING SPATIAL EXPERIENCE Architect Nika Jazaei expored an expanded spatial configuration of the Lloyd building through the reflections it casts and invites. ...

ENGAGING COMMUNITY Creative activist Sanneke Duijf led a group of second year Graphic Design students from AKV | St. Joost Academy in exploring the concept of a...

CLAIMING SPACE Anna Navndrup Pedersen sought out privacy and intimate connections in Lloyd public spaces. Under the cover of night and/or during lulls in hotel...

MINUS ONE TO MINUS FIVE STAR HOTEL Gijsbert Worst conducted a Slowing experiment about the creative affordances of 'limitations.' In the context of the Lloyd...

SLOW WORDS / BANNERS Graphic designer Annette Kouwenhoven imagined Slow keywords on an architectural scale, operating collectively as a Slowing tool for the...

VANTAGE POINT Lotte Boon and Mislav Zugaj are interested in the vantage point from which things can be seen and interacted with. At various points in the...

L'´ECUME DES JOURS Ana Paula Pais explored the Slow transformation of a bar of soap in the 4th floor public bathroom of the Lloyd, revealing yet another rhythm...

SLOWING TOOLS For her graduation from Design Academy Eindhoven, Marijke Annema created a collection of tools to bring people into more intimate contact with...

TAPED EVIDENCE Rietveld Architecture student Karoenja Woudenberg applied transparent tape to the different facades of the Lloyd building. The particles that...

LAYERS OF LLOYD Slow fashion strategist Christine Bornfeld led a dedicated group of students from the Amsterdam Fashion Institute in exploring the 'sartorial...

MAPPING MOVEMENT Noelle Reijnhart Mulder was fascinated by the flow of people passing by and through the Lloyd building, connecting the outside and inside and...

FAST AND SLOW EXCHANGES After completing the exercise Slowness Here, students of the Amsterdam Architecture Academy took the technique out into the city to...

SLOW KEYWORDS The idea of 'Slow tags' emerged early in the timeline of Slow Lloyd. They were presented as a physical interface to capture ideas, questions and...

EXPANDING BORDERS Arjan Bakker set out to investigate and redefine the borders of the Lloyd Hotel, challenging how we perceive (or not) the flow between interior...

INTERPRETNG HISTORY Architecture students led by Marie Ilse Bourlanges and Elena Khurtova explored the Lloyd building as a capsule for stories, moments, events,...

SLOW NEIGHBORS In every place, in every system, and in every design decision, Nature is a stakeholder. According to a local clairvoyant, this is especially true...

CARING FOR SLOW LLOYD As a further development of her project, Lekker Vies, designer Marijke Annema conducted two workshops with local children, creating...

SLOWLLOYDSOUND Opening the senses is an important aspect of being Slow. Sound artist Cilia Erens led students of architecture, landscape and urban planning in a...

DYNAMIC SPACE OF WALKING During her photographic investigation of Spatial Layers within the Lloyd building, Amsterdam Architecture Academy student Mahtab Akhavan...

INVITING DIALOGUE Students of AKV | St. Joost experimented with an interface to slow people down in their everyday activities and open up new spaces for social...

CURIOUS SPACES In a 5th floor corridor of the Lloyd building, one encounters a short flight of stairs. At first glance these appear to lead only to a pair of...

SPATIAL (RE)CONFIGURATIONS Caroline Lindo drew visible lines across architectural space to influence how people experience/inhabit it. Her experiment in a hotel...

DIVIDING/ENABLING Graphic design students from AKV | St. Joost Academy researched the negative image of fences located around the neighborhood, apparently...

BODY, MATERIAL, CONTEXT Central to one of the projects conducted by students of the Amsterdam Architecture Academy was the notion of exploring the body (their...

SLOW FLANERIE Vera Visser was interested in how she could establish a relationship with this building and system, where visitors temporarily stay over and then...

MATERIAL POTENTIAL For the project 'Engaging Slow Lloyd' led by designer Judith van den Boom, Angela Donkers made a pillow/backpack that could be used to strap...

MICROSCOPIC EVIDENCE Geert-Jan Wisse found tiny traces of former times and uses scattered around the Lloyd. Not hidden, nor emphasized, but merely left over. ...

NAVIGATION/[DIS]ORIENTATION For the workshop 'Fabric-Product-Space,' Jeroen Minnaert wondered what would happen to people's sense of direction when confronted...

GARDEN PARTY For one of the first collaborations with the Lloyd, slowLab was asked by its management to create an experience that would introduce Slowness to...

SLOW IS PERSONAL What does it mean to be Slow? 'Slow' is a word that is used in many ways, with both positive and negative associations. In exploring the...

SMELLING LLOYD HOTEL ArtEZ student Nienke Voorintholt explored the smell of the Lloyd. She found wonderful scents, from morning breakfast in the restaurant to...

SPACES OF PLAY Designer Thor ter Kulve spent the first 10 years of his life in Amsterdam's Eastern Docklands. When he returned as student of Slow Lloyd, he was...

NEW DIALOGUE Luuk Wiehink was intrigued by the open south-facing facade of the Lloyd building, and especially its relationship to the playground it looks out...

INVISIBILITY, IMPERFECTION, METAMORPHOSE As part of the form-study course at the Amsterdam Architecture Academy, Ania Sobiech created a sequence of pictures to...

SPATIAL RHYTHMS During his research into consumption of materials and energy in the Lloyd, Matt Colby also explored how space is filled and 'used up' through...

DISCOVERING SLOW LLOYD For architect Cliff Lesmeister, the Lloyd is a site of discovery, above all. He let his curiosity and intuition guide him through the...

MAPPING PATTERNS AND DIMENSIONS Architecture student Mahtab Akhavan used photo-collage to capture spatial experience over time. The layering of these still...

SIMULACRUM Rietveld Fine Arts student Peter Augustijn was concerned about the 'freedom' of objects he encountered in the Lloyd buildling. He wondered whether...

INTERACTING/RE-ENACTING Artist Marek van Wetering found the Lloyd Hotel to be too complex, too many different things, for one person. Through a series of...

WHAT ARE *YOU* BUILDING? For over a year, an 11-year-old boy named Stan has been buildling a house for himself in an empty parking lot of the Eastern Docklands....

SLOW MAYPOLE Slow Lloyd's contribution to a mid-Summer neighborhood festival in the Eastern Docklands was the creation of a 'maypole ritual' representing the...

CURIOSITY UNDER DOORWAY During his Journey of Curiosity through the Lloyd, Cliff Lesmeister discovered a strange dance of light emanating from under a doorway. ...

BLINDFOLD WALK Following her project SlowLloydSound (a project about awareness of 'the audible space' as an architectural practice), sound artist Cilia Erens...

MATTERS OF HISTORY Gerrit Rietveld Academy student Nicholas Bjerch-Andresen researched connections between the Lloyd of today and its recent past as a prison. ...

LOOKING SLOWLY The entrance hall of the Lloyd hall is one of the busiest spaces, yet people rarely pause to experience it. Rietveld TXT student Sylvia Wozniak...

DREAMBOAT Lisette Wissink used hundreds of towels to create a ‘floating boat’ alongside the Lloyd building. With her ephemeral object, Wissink sought to...

SLOW READING Lola Bezemer and Kevin Evans explored the significance of the library located on platform 4 of the Cultural Embassy, a collection of artist...

SMOKING CHEF Judith Geerts made a short film about the smoking break of one of the cooks from the Lloyd Hotel kitchen. Normally hidden from public view, these...

KERSTBOMERIJ When Jip van Steenis came across an image of the huge Christmas tree installed in the Lloyd restaurant every December, she wondered about its...

MALLEABLE ARCHITECTURE For the project 'Fabric-Product-Space,' led by Thijs van Bijsterveldt and Manja van den Worp, students used textile to explore new...

REVEALING POTENTIAL Gerrit Rietveld Academie students Daniel Dressel and Anne de Boer discovered a sealed-off room in the Lloyd building, a space that is...

REGISTER OF CONSUMPTION What is consumed here on a daily basis? How can we measure it, and how might we leverage it into more sustainable ways of living? ...

ENLIVENED SPACE Julia Mandle led a group of students from the Amsterdam Architecture Academy in exploring performance as a lens to examine the Lloyd Hotel and ...