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    Female Owl by Engy Aly

    Engy Aly is one of the participating artists in Mapping for Tourists.
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  • First names Map Fest confirmed

    Joining us on July 6 are Annelys de Vet, Malkit Shoshan and Wietske Maas.

  • Mapping for Change will start early!

    Map Fest evening 1, July 9. Food at 17.30 — Presentations at 18:15 — Football at 20:30

    Due to a great performance by eleven sweaty Dutch men, we will start the evening a bit earlier than planned. This way you get the best of both worlds: engaging speakers presenting great mapping...

  • 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.

  • The design work kicks off!

    June 2010. Mapping for Tourists design update 2

    Following an initial research and brainstorm session that attempted to answer the question: “what is a conventional travel guide and how is it formatted?” the design team gave a presentation on June...

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  • Noord (Mapping for Tourists) dinner at…

    Willem was taking a few weeks off so we had a dinner...

  • Bint el Dunya has been renamed

    Bint el Dunya is now Noord.

    The Bint el Dunya project has been renamed to Noord.

  • Second Plenary Meeting

    July 27, Noord hq.

    Egyptian artists, Lebanese designers, and local experts and editors talk about their work. The perfect way to stay updated on the making of the first Arabic travel guide to The Netherlands.

  • 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.

  • Travel Guides

    Noord design update 1: preparations.

    Travel guides according to Wikipedia, and our first impressions of existing travel guides. An ongoing research.

  • Houses in Amsterdam Noord completed

    The Noord participants are settling into their temporary homes.

    It took a while, but we found the perfect Noord homes for our guests. Some were in better shape than others, but they all now sport comfy beds, a stocked kitchen, and plenty of working space.

  • Project proposals

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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 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.

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • An Interview with Lara Balaa

    "Noord is a construction site, a space in transition."

    July 2010. Lara is part of the Mapping for Tourists (now Noord) design team, working on the first Arabic travel guide to The Netherlands.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Kareem Lotfy

    Halfway there: project proposal Noord. July, 2010.

    Kareem is going to tell stories about his stay in Noord.

  • Report: Map Fest evening 2

    July 8, 2010. Mapping for Clarity at Mediamatic Bank

    The second evening of Map Fest was Mapping for Clarity. Speakers were Richard Rogers, Catalogtree and De Geuzen. The host of the evening was urban sociologist and researcher Merijn Oudenampsen.

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