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  • 40 Days on Foot

    Amsterdam Noord is a city of bicycles, but I spend most of my time here walking. I walk to get to know the city, and as I walk I collect the traces of the lives that are going on around me… The...
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  • Kindergarten

    There’s a garden underneath my apartment balcony where kids play all day long. Their shrieks, cries and laughter can be pleasant enough in small doses, but after a while it grates on the nerves.

  • A look at the history of Caribbean cuisine

    A blog for Code Noir

    Whether culture, tradition or simple sustenance, food is a central part of human life. It also carries great symbolic value. To share a meal goes beyond the food itself; it extends to an experience...

  • The Girl, the Pot & the Frog

    Fairytales of Noord

    Foundland found themselves inspired by the many fairytale aspects of Noord.

  • Mediamatic Bank at Duintjer CS

    Exhibition space 2008 - 2011

    Mediamatic is an Art Centre based in Amsterdam. From July 2008 till 2011 our exhibition space, Mediamatic Bank, has been situated at Vijzelstraat 68 in Amsterdam. Here we put on events, exhibitions

  • Tolhuistuin

    If all goes according to plan, the Tolhuistuin should be up and running as a proper cultural venue by spring 2011.

  • Little Dog, Big Bite

    I was walking, stoned, through my favorite park when a little Chihuahua dog started to chase me. It chased me, snarling and yapping, for a couple of blocks as I tried valiantly to resist the urge to...

  • It's Electric!

    Electric pee in Rio de Janeiro

    Every year the city of Rio de Janeiro has to deal with the same reoccurring problem. The many people at the Carnival pee in the streets. With this in mind, AfroReggae and JWT came up with a way to...

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Soft mapping of Amsterdam Noord

    Jan Rothuizen got inspired for his 'Soft Atlas' during his daily walks.
  • Old Information Barbara Revelli

    Sustainable materials

    Every first Tuesday of the month, few Amsterdam based organizations organize a meeting about sustainability. Every time a different aspect of theme of this matter are discussed by a small but...

  • The Bike Thief

    I was out at night, spray-painting my graffiti work in my neighborhood. It was about 3 am and I was dressed all in black so as not to draw attention to myself, when all of a sudden a huge man came...

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    For all your rentals in transportation.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop, Mediamatic Eten, Dijkspark Naomi Tidball

    Food is both fuel and identity

    A blog for Code Noir

    In light of our upcoming Code Noir event, it is important to reflect on globalisation's ability to reshape food. It offers a diversity within gastronomy, and it allows for a wider availability of...

  • 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...

  • Biking and the Kindness of Strangers

    I am not a habitual bike rider, but as I said before, Amsterdam is the city of bikes, and we were all provided with one by Mediamatic. In addition to my daily walks, I decided to give bike riding a...

  • 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...

  • Gastarbeider Dating

    2008

    Gastarbeider Dating was an exhibition series about identity, feeling at home, being foreign and meeting each other. 7 weeks, 7 countries, 10 artists and the launch of a new Dating site. Curated by...

  • Aquaponics at Mediamatic Fabriek

    Cultivating our own food

    Mediamatic Fabriek, Mediamatic’s new location, is situated in the Van Gendthallen, old ship building halls on the Oostenburgereiland east of the center of Amsterdam. They are huge, and are surrounded...

  • Winkelcentrum Boven 't Y

    Thanks to this huge shopping centre, Noord is fully equipped. Don’t expect a shop mecca, but the traditional Dutch store Hema is present, where you’ll find everything you need. Boven ‘t Y is a nice...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • Miscommunication

    After a few days in Amsterdam, I was on one of my daily walks when I came across my friend and colleague from Cairo, Osama, who was out on his bike taking pictures of the city. We decided to stop for...

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