Exhibition at Museum Nagele in June 2006 to mark 50 years of Nagele Pre-publication in M of NRC Handelsblad The village of Nagele in the Northeast Polder is a striking example of postwar building: a new village on new land. The village was intended for agricultural workers and was designed and built in one grand gesture by architects such as Aldo van Eyck, Gerrit Rietveld and Mien Ruys. But no matter how modern the design of the village was, it did not escape developments in the countryside that the designers had not anticipated: increased mobility, scaling and mechanization in agriculture and the arrival of people from abroad. Yet the design of the time - no less rigid than the Bijlmermeer - seems to be holding its own. Documentary photographers Cary Markerink and Theo Baart have been following the changes in Nagele since 1984. With photographs from family albums from the pioneering period and especially through their own photography from the years 1986 to 2006, they show how an inward-looking agricultural village changed into a commuter community. Sociologist and journalist Warna Oosterbaan spoke with local administrators, residents and entrepreneurs in Nagele. He discovered that the pioneering spirit is still alive in Nagele, but also that the residents have always changed tack in time.