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Arabic street sign in Noord

Image for the Noord project. We're making the first Arabic travel guide to The Netherlands.

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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...
شمال عاديٌّ جدًّا

تمهيد للشّمال

أول دليل سياحي لهولندا باللغة العربية، يُعنى بشمال أمستردام. أُنجز في صيف 2010 مع مجموعة من المحررين و22 فنانًا من مصر والشرق الأوسط وهولندا. لماذا الفنانون بالتحديد؟ هذا أمر منطقي: لأن من دون فنانين...
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.
An interview with KhaJag Apelian

"All the basic things in life are design."

Born in Dubai, raised in Lebanon, and currently based in The Hague: KJ is leading the Noord design team. He tells us about his love for the performing arts, and the power of design.
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Participating artists and the design team

Mapping for Tourists resulted in Noord. These pages are snapshots of the artists' progress, as documented in July of 2010. Visit the Noord web space for the final results.
An interview with Tunc Topcuoglu

Connecting high and low culture through kebab.

Tunc Topcuoglu on the importance of roots, and being an outsider. "No longer trapped in a specific identity, you are forced to reconstruct yourself."
An interview with Ganzeer

About Amsterdam-Noord and the perception of time

Ganzeer is an Egyptian artist and one of the Mapping for Tourists (now Noord) participants, working on the creation of an exhibition and the first Arabic travel guide to The Netherlands.
The Making of El HEMA

The making of the El HEMA exhibition

On August 24th, 2007, Mediamatic will open the doors to El HEMA, the exhibition. What could an arabic Hema look like? El HEMA needs to be filled with food, drinks and products. During the months June
Thank you

Everyone who helped put Noord on the map

Our project team, the artists and designers, sponsors, friends, Noorderlingen and other informers.
Foundland

Halfway there: project proposal Noord. July, 2010.

Foundland find themselves inspired by the many fairytale aspects of Noord. Wandering around, they were surprised by the number of garden gnomes, fake frogs, and Indiana Jones style twists and turns...
Tunc Topcuoglu

Halfway there: project proposal Noord. July, 2010.

SUPER HELAL! An online documentary about Doner Kebab.
El Hema late nite

Final touches before the opening

Amsterdam - August 23, 2007: The shelves were being stocked, poster-size photographs were carefully being hung in the windows, the last designs were still being finalized, the media was buzzing...
An interview with Kareem Lotfy

Cairo, the tale of love and hate.

Over a big plate of sushi, some green tea and lots of wasabi, we discussed Kareem's experience of Amsterdam, living in Cairo and feeling like a tourist.
An interview with Joop de Boer

Bridges, wrestling and hardcore music.

A closer inspection of the various subcultures in Amsterdam-Noord.
Mediamatic Magazine 3#4 Willem Velthoven 1 Jan 1989

In Memoriam Videokunst

An Instructive Exhibition

Video Art has passed on. It will be laid to rest in the next few months by the Cardinal of the West German faithful, DR. WULF HERZOGENRATH, assisted by that relative novice DR. EDITH DECKER. The...
Kareem Lotfy

Halfway there: project proposal Noord. July, 2010.

Kareem is going to tell stories about his stay in Noord.
An interview with Lynn Amhaz

Homesick for Noord

We met with Lynn Amhaz, who is part of the Mapping for Tourists travel guide design team.
Mahmoud Hamdy

Halfway there: project proposal Noord. July, 2010.

Amsterdam Noord as a test lab. The more Mahmoud analyzes and explores Noord, the more he realizes that it are the conceptions and opinions people from the city center have about Noord that shape the...
Ahmed Kamel

Halfway there: project proposal Noord. July, 2010.

Family portraits: Family members in the context and privacy of their own homes. They choose their own way to gather in their living room, and present themselves to the outside world.
WatSpinoza? op het Damrak

Wat is er mis met gevangenisstraf voor het gooien van kauwgom op straat?

Op 7 mei 2009 werd de eerste WatSpinoza? vraag aan het Amsterdamse publiek gesteld. Aan het Damrak, vlak voor het Centraal Station, worden voorbijgangers gevraagd: 'Wat is er mis met gevangenisstraf...
Melle Smets

Halfway there: project proposal Noord. July, 2010.

"A shortcut to Holland". The suburbs you find throughout The Netherlands all look exactly the same. Melle will create a tour in Noord through the suburbs of The Netherlands.
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.
Golfstromen

Halfway there: project proposal Noord. July, 2010.

Joop and Jeroen are looking into Noord's subcultures by examining posters, flyers and stickers in the public space. Their research into wrestling fanatics and hiphop crews continues online.
Ayman Ramadan

Halfway there: project proposal Noord. July, 2010.

Mirrors and 40 Days : An exploration of a geographical territory as well as of the people which he finds himself living alongside.

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