In 2025 Dennie Boxem started the building of a circular mosaic park at De Makersfabriek Zwolle, initiated by Breman director René Breman and Gemeente Zwolle. The entire park is made out of waste materials, to answer to the growing necessity of a circular economy. This artwork puts circularity into direct practise; less talking, more doing; setting an optimistic and visually attractive example.
For this artwork Dennie Boxem got his wonderful ‘waste materials’ from nation-wide partners. The beautiful green glazed bricks are from Dijkstra Friese Kleiwarenfabriek Sneek, and were actually made for an ambitious new business premises in the city centre of London. Dennie got the leftover lot, among other brick materials.
The broken ceramics are sponsored by Tuinland Zwolle, Assen and Groningen. A single crack in ceramic pot makes it impossible to sell to costumers, and broken ones were initially by policy shipped off and disposed. Unlike other big commercial hardware stores and garden centres, Tuinland changed their policy for Dennie’s art projects, becoming a sponsor to stimulate a circular economy.
NK Tegelwippen is a nation-wide Dutch competition that stimulates citizens to get their tiles out to make their garden greener. In 2025 Zwolle ended up second place, bringing in a total of 167.503 tiles. Over 19.000 kilo’s was brought to De Makersfabriek by de ‘TegelTaxi‘ of the ROVA and was processed in the artistic benches of the circular art park.
The mosaic park includes eight inspirational gardens. These gardens are all made of native, biological and unsprayed plants and flowers, stimulating biodiversity in the long term, designed by Wolthuis Tuinontwerp Dalfsen.
