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    'My Burglar and I' by Kaweh Modiri

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  • Towards Noord!

    If you’re traveling to Noord from Schiphol Airport by public transfer, you will always have to travel to Amsterdam Central Station first. From there on, you take a ferry to Noord. It’s also possible...

  • Public Art

    In 2001, Claes Oldenburg was inspired by the vast amount of giant plastic ice cream cones, used as advertising along Cologne's shopping streets. When he was commissioned by a shopping mall in...
  • Project: Huibert Teekens

    177 X Amsterdam

    Ontdek de wereld in Amsterdam

    Volgens cijfers van de gemeente is Amsterdam de stad met de meeste nationaliteiten ter wereld (!). De stad telt 177 nationaliteiten en is daarmee de meest diverse stad ter wereld, gevolgd door...

  • 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...

  • Ferries

    Take a ferry along the shores of Noord to watch the skyline and find yourself amongst local residents. All ferries are free. Don’t stand all the way up front, the waves can splash quite high.

  • Thank you

    Everyone who helped put Noord on the map

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

  • Knowing your way around

    Noord residents are avid users of the Canta: a motorbike on four wheels, or rather a bumper car. It fits one and a half people, but that doesn’t stop people from sitting in it together. It was...

  • An interview with Joop de Boer

    Bridges, wrestling and hardcore music.

    A closer inspection of the various subcultures in Amsterdam-Noord.
  • Mediamatic Magazine vol. 8#2/3 Adilkno 1 Jan 1995

    Electronic Loneliness

    Change the world; stay home. This is the adage of the social ergonomists who have distilled a polity out of the user-friendliness of consumer electronics. Having definitively finished pondering...
  • Book: Christopher Alexander 1 Jan 1977

    A Pattern Language

  • 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.

  • Rental

    For all your rentals in transportation.

  • Bus

    If your final destination is situated in the heart of Noord, it’s best to travel by bus. To travel by bus, you must purchase a public transport chip card (or ‘OV-chipkaart’ in Dutch), or buy a single...

  • Posters & Subculture

    The style of Amsterdam Noord, as shown by the palette of posters circulating throughout the district. What’s going on in Amsterdam Noord and within what subcultures? We’ve scoured the whole of Noord...

  • My Burglar and I

    Investigation into the burglar

    Kaweh Modiri lived in an abandoned factory in Amsterdam-Noord. One night a burglar stole his laptop. Miraculously, he retrieved the laptop. But that is only the start of the story. He found four...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#2/3 Florian Brody 1 Jan 1995

    My Home is my Memory is my Home

    Is my home where my heart is or where my computer is? Is home where I want to be or where I am?

  • Any Media Workshop @ IDFA 08

    21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 November 2008

    The first workshop day started off with a keynote-lecture by Cassian Harrison about his work with the BBC-series "Britain from Above". The 5-part TV-series uses GPS-data to visualize daily...

  • Family portraits of Noord

    As in other cities Ahmed Kamel visited the people of Noord in their own houses.
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#2 Arjen Mulder 1 Jan 1993

    The Least Materiality

    It is me. It is only me.
  • Project geselecteerd om te pitchen tijdens Kom je Ook Herman Peter Bruna

    Kunstjacht

    Wat is kunst? en waar moet je kijken?

    Kunstenaars verstoppen een kunstwerk in het straatbeeld, mensen gaan op jacht om het te vinden.
  • Project:

    MYSTAGE

    In charge of your own night out

    Winnaar DOEN pitch, volgden 25 maart 2010 de DOEN Clinic MyStage turns the fan into the programmer, organisator, floormanager and fundraiser at the same time! This project idea won the DOEN Pitch at...

  • IJ-Hallen

    The IJ-hallen (IJ halls) at the NDSM shipyard host a gigantic monthly flea market with over 300 stalls. The place to be for vintage lovers.

  • 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.

  • Infographic Amsterdam - Noord

created Robert Keil

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