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  • Article Jeroen den Uyl

    IJburg is "Jane Jacobs-proof"!

    De wenselijkheid om kleine doorgangen en steegjes
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  • The Mediamatic Sluisdeurenloods

    A cultural landmark

    The Sluisdeurenloods or 'Canal Lock Gate Warehouse' was originally built at the end of the 19th century, before being dismantled, moved, and reconstructed at Dijkspark in 1957. The building is now...

  • Ganzeer

    Halfway there: project proposal Noord. July, 2010.

    Noordelijke Character(istics): A neighborhood is defined by its inhabitants. Ganzeer puts a face to the 'hood.

  • New Order Catalog

    The New Order catalog was included in Volume Magazine 32:2 (2012). It features information on the artworks, an interview with Femke Herregraven and Chris Lee, an introduction by curators Katja...

  • Infographics: Are the budget cuts necessary or…

    The Dutch budget for arts & culture institutions is relatively small. The above average cuts will produce below average results.

    In 2011 the budget is € 490 million to support the cultural infrastructure. That sounds like a lot, but it is only a third of what we spend on holidays. It's 1,5% of the annual costs of the State...

  • The Big Blue

    Sustainable and financially profitable sanitation

    Three years ago, an off-grid closed-system toilet known as the Blue Diversion won an award in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Reinventing the Toilet"-challenge. It has also won the title of...

  • An interview with Engy Aly

    "There are much, much more Arabs and Muslims than I have ever seen in my life outside of an Arabic country."

    July 2010. Engy has been living and working in Amsterdam-Noord for a few weeks. She was kind enough to share her first impressions, and tell us a little bit about her background.
  • Article Robert Fulford

    Radical Dreamer

    Jane Jacobs on the streets of Toronto

    There are only a few true originals living among us at any given moment, and in 1997 Jane Jacobs is one of them. Observe her walking the streets of the Annex, near the Albany Avenue house where she's...

  • The Dutch Time/Bank Network

    A network of cultural institutions in the Netherlands

    Parallel micro economy based on trust and solidarity as a response to the current distrust of existing financial and economic systems and the radical cuts in art funding

  • Mediamatic presents Ignite Amsterdam

    Mediamatic has teamed up with Ignite to host the Ignite Amsterdam events. First one takes place on July 9th.

    Ignite was founded in the cold winter of 2006. On December 7th two hundred Seattle geeks settled into a small bar for a night of networking, cool ideas and, of course, a few beers. Ignite was a fact.
  • Daniel Bouw 20 Jan 2010

    Appels en peren

    uiteindelijk past alles bij elkaar, als het maar inspirerend is

    Een programma samenstellen voor Kom je ook? is een zoektocht in verschillende netwerken en langs vele wegen. De mogelijkheden blijken eindeloos, maar een focus op innovatieve en participatieve...

  • Mapping for Tourists

    MFT resulted in Noord, an exhibition and travel guide

    Noord is the result of a project initiated by Nat Muller and Mediamatic: Mapping for Tourists. 22 artists were invited to map Amsterdam-Noord, pars pro toto for The Netherlands. The artists lived and...

  • Swap Up Shop

    A platform to exchange objects and question the notion of value in relation to design

    The Swap-Up shop started sometime ago as a collective of Kali Nikitas, Florian Pfeffer and Rick Vermeulen

  • Pop-up Urinals

    Public convenience by the push of a button

    This public urinal hides in plain sight during the day, and rises for the occasion at night. With room for three, the urinal provides ample opportunity and encouragement for male citizens to do their...

  • Nuit Blanche Amsterdam

    Een nachtelijke ontdekkingsreis

    Stichting Vuig is een jaar geleden in het leven geroepen door Josine Neyman en Kristel Mutsters "om grote en mooie dingen te kunnen creëren". Ze wilden een groter publiek in contact brengen met...

  • The Definition of Conceptual

    somewhat of a review concerning a debate on the value of concept.

    In the invitation Premsela sent out for their New Year's reception was the following: "Concept and Conceptual; the most used and especially abused words in the jargon of art, design and architecture.

  • Living Roof project

    If you can’t beat them, join them.

    Living Roof geeft een sterke verbetering van de leefkwaliteit van golfplaten hutten in Zuid-Afrikaanse townships. We presenteren in 2014 in Kaapstad (world design capital) een eerste ontwerp waarbij...

  • Report What's up #31

    De toon van What's Up? #31 was meteen goed gezet toen ontwerper Jurjen Semeijn zijn entree maakte op een nummer van Run DMC.

  • Vespasian and universal bleach

    Where does the expression “Money doesn't stink” come from?

    While urine-diverting toilets are hitting the headlines as a wonder of innovative technology, collecting urine from public lavatories was a common thing in ancient Rome. Demand for the product was so...

  • Report Talk of the Town #22

    30 maart 2010

    Francine Houben en haar Bijlmerpark.
  • 1 Jan 2004

    Dan Graham

    Investigative Artist

    Architecture, popular music, video and television are among the focuses of his provocative investigations, which are articulated in essays, performances, installations, videotapes and architectural...

  • Report Talk of the Town #18

    17 nov 2009

    Van A naar B in 2040

  • NDSM, or the resurrection of the shipbuilding…

    The Noord participants explore Amsterdam Noord

    Our guests discussed Amsterdam's cultural life with Eva De Klerk. They talked about gentrification and the future of Amsterdam Noord.
  • 1 Jan 2003

    Joep van Lieshout

    artist and designer

    Joep van Lieshout was born in Ravenstein, The Netherlands in 1963. He studied at the Academy of Modern Art in Rotterdam, Ateliers '63 in Haarlem and Villa Arson in Nice. In 1995 he founded Atelier...

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