The turnover of the Dutch firms of architects is falling dramatically, but their number is increasing. A growing number of young designers are taking matters into their own hands in order to formulate a response to social challenges using the resources of architecture. They embrace a new reality in which users, residents and clients become partners. In the new social and financial context of the twenty-first century, a group of young Dutch architects and urban designers are coming up with new ideas about their profession. Vacant property, processual urban design, investment standstills, social contradictions, petrified organisations, environmental demands - this generation is investigating the conceptual possibilities of the new reality."