Bike trip with tourists: coffee break - Mediamatic

Mediamatic

Program
- Workshops
- Events
- Projects
- Recent
To see
TestTafel
Mediamatic

Search Menu

ar

Search

Home
Project proposals
MFT Blog
Noord

Image: Lynn Amhaz

Bike trip with tourists: coffee break

July 2010. The tourists take a bike trip through Noord with Mediamatic's Lars and Julia.

Urbanism
Behavior
Body
Perception
map
mapping
mapping for tourists
Space
Community

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...
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.
Travel Guides

Noord design update 1: preparations.

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

Halfway there: project proposal Noord. July, 2010.

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

Halfway there: project proposal Noord. July, 2010.

Gastronomy is inextricably linked with travel. It is only through eating something that we really get familiar with it. That said, how can we eat Amsterdam Noord? Roast swamp goose and Metropolitan...
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...
Bint el Dunya has been renamed

Bint el Dunya is now Noord.

The Bint el Dunya project has been renamed to Noord.
Tunc Topcuoglu

Halfway there: project proposal Noord. July, 2010.

SUPER HELAL! An online documentary about Doner Kebab.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
www.ilovenoord.nl

Interested in participating or keeping an eye on the process & results?

Photo Contest 'Beautiful Amsterdam Noord': Join the Photo Contest and win a voucher for photographic equipment worth € 450, -.
Tolhuistuin (cultural organisation)

Soundtrack City

Sound walk through North

Soundtrackcity is an invitation toto go and rediscover the city through walks soundtrack created by artists in collaboration with local communities. On July 25 at 14:30 starting from Tolhuistuin a...
Lynn Amhaz's Religious Experience

A tale from Noord.

Religion certainly means two different things in Lebanon and The Netherlands. Lynn Amhaz was given a taste of the latter on her first day in Amsterdam.
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.
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.
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...

created Evelyn

Contact & Route
Colofon

Design by Mediamatic - Powered by Ginger