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  •  Noord
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  • Amsterdam Noord and the dream of the malleable…

    From social to spatial engineering

    For a long time Amsterdam served as a container for everything unwanted. From the early gallows to the trailer camps, and from the polluting chemical and shipping industry to the surplus of urban...
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  • mapping for tourists

  • Thank you

    Everyone who helped put Noord on the map

    Our project team, the artists and designers, sponsors, friends, Noorderlingen and other informers.
  • Travel guide

    Noord

    A subjective travel guide to The Netherlands

    This is the first Arabic travel guide to The Netherlands. It is about Amsterdam-Noord. We made this guide during the summer of 2010 with a group of editors and a team of 22 artists from Egypt, the...

  • An interview with Kaweh Modiri

    My Burglar and Me

    As a Rietveld student Kaweh's apartment was burglarized and his most valuable possessions were stolen. After finding out who did it, Kaweh's anger quickly turned into inspiration. He decided to make...

  • 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.

  • Mosques

  • Noord

    Pars pro toto for The Netherlands

    During the summer of 2010, 22 artists made work in and about Amsterdam-Noord. This resulted in an exhibition, and in the first Arabic travel guide to The Netherlands.

  • 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 Sarah van Sonsbeeck

    "Noord's potential for new developments has only risen."

    A look at how space and power are intrinsically connected to Amsterdam Noord's massive development.

  • I heart نورد

  • Noord is exceptionally normal

    Introduction to Noord

    This is the first Arabic travel guide to The Netherlands. It is about Amsterdam-Noord. We made this guide during the summer of 2010 with a group of editors and a team of 22 artists from Egypt, the...

  • 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...

  • Printed travel guide

    for free available at the Noord exhibition

    September 10, 2010 the travel guide was launched. The Noord travel guide was distributed as a supplement of Het Parool. The printed version is available at the Noord exhibition till November 9, 2010.

  • An interview with Wietske Maas

    Smoking peacocks, urbanibalism and snails

    Over the years Wietske Maas has experimented and worked within several different cultural disciplines. Before working with Matteo Pasquinelli on the urbanibalism project, she studied taxidermy, wines...

  • An interview with Ahmed Kamel

    "I think the center has become more settled, and Noord is changing faster than ever before."

    August 2010. Ahmed tells us about the tranquility of Noord, and why it is special to him.

  • 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.

  • Noord

    Exhibition and travel guide

    Together with 22 local and international artists, Mediamatic mapped Amsterdam-Noord. This resulted in an exhibition, and in the first Arabic travel guide to The Netherlands.

  • Gentrification Battlefield

    The non-Noorderner is advancing in Amsterdam-Noord. Ten years ago only the occasional explorer would dare to cross the water, taking a headquarters in an old conquered warehouse on the NDSM-wharf.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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    For all your rentals in transportation.

  • Green Noord

    Noord has a widespread rural area, practically unchanged in the last 400 years. Even today, the peat fields are still tilled by farmers. This has left the Waterland part of Noord with a bunch of...

  • Tunc Topcuoglu

    Halfway there: project proposal Noord. July, 2010.

    SUPER HELAL! An online documentary about Doner Kebab.

  • Learning to Cycle in Noord

    The roads are broad and easily accessible, but by car you can’t truly enjoy the subtle beauty of Noord. Bicycles are the means of transportation for an authentic exploration of Noord. In a half hour...

created Caspar Menkman modified Kristyan Sarkis

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