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  • Mark Minkjan

    Urban and architectural geographer. Part in Non-fiction (non-fiction.eu). Editor in Chief at Failed Architecture (failedarchitecture.com).
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  • The Mediamatic Sluisdeurenloods

    A cultural landmark

    The Sluisdeurenloods or 'Canal Lock Gate Warehouse' was originally built at the end of the 19th century, before being dismantled, moved, and reconstructed at Dijkspark in 1957. The building is now...

  • Mediamatic Travel

    Networked travel agency

    What better way to discover a city than through its contemporary art treasures? Mediamatic Travel is a network of locals waiting to show you around the backside of their cities. From contemporary...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#2/3 Mike Davis 1 Jan 1995

    Beyond Blade Runner: Urban Control (3)

    The Ecology of Fear

    Parallel Universes
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#2/3 Mike Davis 1 Jan 1995

    Beyond Blade Runner: Urban Control (1)

    The Ecology of Fear

    Every American city has its official insignia and slogan, some have municipal mascots, colors, songs, birds, trees, even rocks. But Los Angeles alone has adopted an official Nightmare. Mike Davis
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#2/3 Mike Davis 1 Jan 1995

    Beyond Blade Runner: Urban Control (2)

    The Ecology of Fear

    The Half-Moons of Repression

  • Amsterdam-Noord

  • 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.

  • 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.
  • 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...
  • Book: Christopher Alexander 1 Jan 1977

    A Pattern Language

  • Sentient City

    Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Space

    Sentient City explores the experience of living in a city that can remember, correlate, and anticipate.
  • Pitch voorstel voor Komjeook? 2

    Card Game Platform

    Play and discovery with art cards

    NARB.me is een online kunstgids, een kunst platform bestaande uit een website, een iPhone app en een mobiele website. Via NARB vind je welke kunst er op dat moment bij jou in de buurt te zien is, kan...

  • Spinoza

    Superster uit de gouden eeuw

    Er bestaat slechts één substantie, met één en dezelfde natuur Wie vrij is schrijft zichzelf de wet voor Het doel van de staat is de vrijheid

  • 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.

  • Joodse Huizen

    herdenking van Joods Amsterdam

    Het project ‘Joodse Huizen’ verbindt Amsterdammers van nu met de Amsterdammers van toen. Zij geven een gezicht aan de namen van alle in de oorlog omgekomen Joodse Nederlanders. Op 4 mei 2011 werden...

  • 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.
  • Mediamatic Magazine vol. 8#2/3 Errki Huhtamo 1 Jan 1995

    Armchair Traveller on the Ford of Jordan

    The Home, the Stereoscope and the Virtual Voyager

    The general panorama of the world. It introduces to us scenes known only from the imperfect relations of travellers. By our fireside we have the advantage of examining them, without being exposed to...

  • The Definition of Conceptual

    somewhat of a review concerning a debate on the value of concept.

    In the invitation Premsela sent out for their New Year's reception was the following: "Concept and Conceptual; the most used and especially abused words in the jargon of art, design and architecture.

  • Love and hate, holiness and cruelty

    Diana Marrone talks about Naples

    Diana Marrone is of the curators in the Amsterdam Biennale and a guide for Naples (Italy) on the Mediamatic Travel website . She tells about the love-hate relationship she has with her city. Read...

  • Amersfoort aan zee ?

    Het Delta programma werkt aan een droge toekomst

    De Deltacommissie onder leiding van Prof. Dr. C.P. Veerman heeft in september 2008 aan de overheid een rapport aangeboden met een integrale visie op de uitdagingen waar Nederland in de toekomst voor...
  • Project:

    Informatiereservaten

    Op zoek naar de nieuwe leegtes in de stad en hun betekenis

    De sociale media zorgen voor een informatierevolutie en -explosie - maar niet overal. De stad kent informatiereservaten , plekken waarover niet getweet, geflickrd of geblogd wordt. Waar zijn die...
  • Project

    Shrinking Cities

    Cities are shrinking all over the world!

    Shrinking cities are a cultural challenge to us. In the Shrinking Cities project, architects, academics and artists investigate recent developments in Detroit, Ivanovo, Manchester / Liverpool and...

  • "Resilience, reality and surviving"

    Amir Qudaih about our upcoming exhibition Border Ecologies and the Gaza Strip

    “You don't really have too many people from Gaza outside here because we don't really make it out. Gaza is a very small place, it's literally three miles wide, 17 miles long. You can run it and it's...

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