At Equal Distance is a project by the Rotterdam designer/artist Jeroen Hoogstraten . The first version was part of his exam collection in 1993 at the 3D design department in Utrecht.

The graduation project formulated by him consisted of 5 designs where the number of people was the starting point. So in design 4, 4 people became the starting point. The first, most obvious idea was to make a table for these imaginary users, a square one perhaps because then you sit nicely at an equal distance from each other, right? No, the person in front of you is further away than the person next to you. A circle? Same problem. The only way was to solve it spatially: A tetrahedral or tetrahedron is the only shape where 4 points are equidistant. The fact that you get height differences as a result was incidental, but it also makes it a fascinating problem: you strive for equality, but inequality arises.

In 2020 the work suddenly became topical again, the one and a half meters away was announced, but Corona mainly made the dormant inequality visible. He made a visualization of the work in the Binnenhof in The Hague, where the King and Queen together with two citizens could stand at an equal distance.

When the measures loosened up a bit, there was the possibility to place the work on the beach near Petten. However, the list of places where the work could be located is getting longer and longer. In November 2020, a proposal in the US Capitol for the US election that that was exactly the spot turned out to be on January 6 of the following year. At the United Nations in New York, in China, at the British Parliament this octagonal version has also been used to engage students at Zadkine college with local politicians.

In 2023, a cube-based version was added with a size of 25x25x25 centimeters, the height difference is 1 meter and the distance between people is √2 meters.