This publication is the result of the encounters between students of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and visitors of the Rainbow foundation. Guided by a mutual interest in each other’s way of living, students and visitors met regularly throughout October, November and December 2005 in the drop-in centres and ‘drug user rooms’ of the Rainbow foundation. Together they talked, cooked, ate, told life stories, made posters, wandered, kissed, argued, painted, invented actions, designed typefaces, decorated a Christmas tree, played the piano, wrote texts and some even received cosmic energy.