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1 Welcome to Identity Matters, Content the closing conference of RICHES

The RICHES project is about change. And though we might feel we are going About renewal and innovation. About through difficult times as a society, we take trying to understand the way in which an optimistic stance. We give the floor to Welcome page 3 we construct our lives and our identities initiatives that aim to make a difference, through cultural artefacts, media and to speakers that can empower us to look heritage. at our lives and work. And with enough space for us all to get to know each other IMage of Europe page 4 In this 30 month European research as we embark on Urban Safaris in the project we covered a wide range of afternoon. topics. From urban communities that are growing foods locally, to interventions We hope the speakers and participants Practical Information page 5 in ethnographic museums to make inspire you. We hope the Safaris bring them more accessible for young people, new insights into current practices. And to experimenting with ‘distributed we hope these experiences stick with you performances’ between remote in your professional or personal life. Keynotes page 8 locations. With (local, regional, personal, institutional, digital) identities as a linking Enjoy! pin between them.

Programme page 40 Identity is not a static, it is dynamic. We are in constant dialogue with each other, with institutions and with cultural artefacts to create meaning. We try Urban Safaris page 44 to figure out who we are in different contexts, as individuals, within our nation state, relating to our cultural lineage. And culture, in the broadest sense, has the Thank you page 78 potential to help us in this quest.

Dick van Dijk, Christine van den Horn & Robin van Westen Future Heritage Lab, Waag Society

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2 3 IMage of Europe Practical info How do you see Europe? How to get around Amsterdam We all consciously or unconsciously have an that for them represent Europe. Together By bike idea of what Europe means to us: a preferred we choose the iconic image that for us To explore the city of Amsterdam, just act find a safe and sturdy bicycle is Orangebike holiday destination, a continent in turmoil, will be the symbol of Europe: optimistic? like a local: hop on a bike and go. Where (Singel 233, T: +31(0)203541781, orangebike. a democratic experiment? Or maybe just worrisome? innovative? Anything goes, we can I find some wheels? A central spot to nl). Expect a rental for less than 20 euro a day. the little shop on the corner? Conference decide as a group. participants can submit and vote on visuals By public transportation The Dutch pay for public transportation train station. Disposable cards are available with their OV-chip cards. You can buy a inside trams and buses. A one hour card How does it work? rechargeable card at any metro station or costs 2,50 euro. By taxi Submit your image of Europe: You can submit your iconic, digital image of Europe at im.waag.org. Call +31 (0)20 7777 777 or +31 (0)20 6252 433 Make sure people vote for your contribution! Lost?Don’t know where to go? Voting Call Waag Society’s producer Tessel van Leeuwen for help: You are shown a collection of images and you choose the ones which fit best to your own subjective idea of what makes Europe. After several choices your personal top 10 is presented and you choose 0031 (0)6 15 34 09 73. the final top 3 of images that for you represent Europe. Emergency phone number: 112

Viewing results On an interactive map of Europe you can click on a country or on personal submissions to see How to get to the Waag (aggregated) top ranked images. Address: Nieuwmarkt 4, 1012 CR Amsterdam

Metro lines: From Amsterdam Central in the middle of the square. Metro runs: Station you can take any metro line weekdays 06:15 am - 00:30 am and weekends and get out at ‘Nieuwmarkt’. Take exit 07:30 am - 00:30 am. What visual story do you want to bring to the table!? “Nieuwmarkt”, and you will see the Waag How to get to the Volkshotel Address: Wibautstraat 150, 1091 CC Amsterdam

Metro lines: From Amsterdam Central will see Volkshotel on your left. Metro runs: Station you can take any metro line and get weekdays 06:15 am - 00:30 am and weekends Link out at ‘Wibautstraat’. Take exit “Gijsbrecht 07:30 am - 00:30 am. im.waag.org van Aemstelstraat”, make a u-turn and you 4 5 Practical info Some tips to go on your own urban safari in this neighbourhood Coffee/drinks 1. De Ruyschkamer (drinks) Ruysstraat 34, 1091 CC Amsterdam Opening hours Thu / Fri: 17:00 - 01:00 2. Coffee Bru (coffee) Beukenplein 14, 1091 KH Amsterdam Opening hours Thu / Fri: 08:00 - 18:00 5 Restaurants 1 3. Canvas (inside the Volkshotel, menu price: 31,00) Wibautstraat 150, 1091 GR Amsterdam 6 Opening hours Thu / Fri: 12:00 -22.30 T: 31 (0)20 2612 100

4. Restaurant C (menu based on cooking temperatures, menu price: 45,00) Wibautstraat 125, 1091 GL Amsterdam Opening hours Thu / Fri: 12:00 – 23:00 4 T: +31 (0)20 2103011 3 Cultural Hotspots 5. The Amstel riverside Take a stroll towards the city centre and the beautiful Carré theatre Weesperzijde.

6. Van Woustraat Take a stroll across the Van Woustraat for some good (window)shopping. Architecture of the Volkshotel The former offices of the Volkskrant temporarily used as a club, café and creative newspaper date from 1965. The design, breeding ground. It has been completely by the Rotterdam architectural firm redeveloped and adapted to its new use Kraaijvanger, was very modern for its day as a hotel. Architect Steven Steenbruggen and was based on the layout of a newspaper. preserved the original 1960s design. Bas The façade refers to a front page with at the van Tol (design office Müller Van Tol) was top the large heading ‘de Volkskrant’. In 2007, responsible for the interior and was inspired the newspaper left the building and it was by the history of the newspaper.

arcam.nl/en/volkshotel/ 6 7 Keynotes

8 9 Keynote 1 Neil Forbes Identity and Cultural Heritage: The role of historical approaches

Thursday 14th of April 2016, 10:10 - 10:30 Topic Biography This presentation will provide a brief Neil Forbes is professor of international overview of RICHES by focussing on history at Coventry University, in the main findings of the project and, in the UK, and coordinator of the EU’s particular, on the key recommendations FP7 RICHES project. His research that have emerged as a result of the interests and publications lie in cultural research carried out. In that respect, one heritage, especially conflict heritage of the key questions that has guided and the memorialisation of war, and project work is what, in contemporary in the history of international political, Europe, ‘identity’ means, and what its economic and business relations from relationship is with cultural heritage. The the nineteenth century, specialising in presentation will also take the First World the study of the interwar years. He has War centenary commemorations to reflect led a number of EU and UK research critically on how the forces and influences projects, including a large digitisation that help to shape identity shift and change project in association with BT plc with the passage of time and historical and The National Archives. Formerly revisionism. ‘Identity matters’ related to director of research at Coventry Neil Forbes memorialisation, collective memory, and University, he sits on a number of the role of the state will be considered advisory boards, peer review panels briefly in the talk. and national and international bodies.

Thursday 14th of April 2016, 10:10 - 10:30 Link riches-project.eu/ 10 11 Keynote 2 Judikje Kiers Focus on Inclusiveness: Our Lord in the Attic and the Amsterdam Museum

Thursday 14th of April 2016, 10:30 - 11:00 Topic Biography Our Lord in the Attic is a hidden Catholic Judikje Kiers studied Art History church that was built in the Protestant 17th and Architectural history at the Free century. Many groups of young people visit University Amsterdam. She started her this museum with their schools and find an career at the Frans Hals Museum and opening here to discuss what’s going on in then worked at the Rijksmuseum and our world today and speak about religious at the Rietveld Academy and Reinwardt freedom, the importance of freedom of Academy. Since 2001 she has been the speech and tolerance. director of the Museum Our Lord in Another example of inclusivity is the the Attic, which has recently finished co-visit-tour, which has been developed a large-scale renewal. Since 2009 she through co-creation and allows mobile has combined this function with the visitors to share their experience with directorship at the Biblical Museum visitors that are unable to climb the tiny Cromhouthuis, Amsterdam. Since stairs to the hidden church, through March 2016 she is the director of the screens and mobile technologies. Amsterdam Museum and the Museum Inclusivity through heritage is also a Willet-Holthuysen. The Amsterdam Judikje Kiers central theme in the Amsterdam Museum. Museum describes itself as a meeting As the city of Amsterdam is home to place for anyone who wants to learn 180 nationalities, the museum as a more about the city. representative of that population, naturally has a multicultural and conjunctive character. Thursday 14th of April 2016, Drawing from these two exemplary Links museums, the presentation will focus on amsterdammuseum.nl/en 10:30 - 11:00 how inclusiveness can be central to the opsolder.nl/en/museum-ons-lieve- work of heritage institutions. heer-op-solder 12 13 Keynote 3 Abhay Adhikari Creating a Digital Identity for Cultural Heritage in Stockholm: How we used social media to create positive social

Thursday 14th of April 2016, 11:00 - 11:30 Topic Biography As our societies become saturated with Abhay is interested in the context and technology, instant gratification can values that define our Digital Identities. seem the norm. In this chaotic digital He works globally with organisations landscape, the heritage sector has an to design digital engagement projects. important role to play. Especially to create His development workshops have value driven ecosystems that offer people been hosted by The Guardian (UK), the opportunity to discuss, debate and Van Abbemuseum (The Netherlands), critically engage with issues that affect our Nordiska Museet (Sweden) and Asian day-to-day lives. Paints (India). Abhay is currently Such an ecosystem cannot be achieved by leading the Sustainable Development joining the ‘white noise’ of social media. Lab for the city of Leeds (UK) to create So what should the Digital Identity citizen driven products and services for of a heritage organisation be? We set vulnerable residents. Some of these out to answer this question in a 1-year are now being scaled to 100,000 users. development programme in Stockholm Abhay has a research background in in 2015. biofeedback gaming. We worked with 4 national organisations Abhay Adhikari to use social and digital media to raise awareness on issues such as climate change and gender equality. We also used Links different participatory models to create digitalidentities.info positive social impact in collaboration with [email protected] national audiences. This presentation Twitter: @gopaldass Thursday 14th of April 2016, highlights our successes. It also introduces the operational and organizational 11:00 - 11:30 challenges we faced and the solutions that helped us move ahead. 14 15 Keynote 4 Kees Vuyk Heritage between Future and Past

Thursday 14th of April 2016, 11:45 - 12:00 Topic Biography The attention for heritage is still quite young. Dr. Kees Vuyk studied psychology and It dates back to the nineteenth century. philosophy. He was a.o. the director Many great heritage institutions – at least in of a school of art and design and of the western world – were founded in that the Dutch Theatre Institute (which century. Their task was to give the diverse included the Dutch Theatre Museum). populations that inhabited the territory Currently he is Associate Professor of of the nation a common orientation that Cultural Policy at Utrecht University. lied beyond their traditional communities. His research circles around the topic of They had to provide people with answers the (social) value of art. to the question: where are we going to? At the same time another process was going on, also caused by modernisation: the great migration that moved people Link from the country to the cities to become uu.nl/medewerkers/CMVuyk factory workers instead of farm labourers. These people abandoned the traditional Kees Vuyk life of their parents and grandparents. Traditional identities were lost. People had to find new identities, new ways also to build that identity. Interest in heritage was one of these ways. These people looked for answers to the question: where do I come Thursday 14th of April 2016, from? Both distinct motives shape the tension in 11:45 - 12:00 which heritage institutions have to operate today. 16 17 Keynote 5 Marleen Stikker How ‘identity’ became another word for transaction

Thursday 14th of April 2016, 12:00 - 12:15

Topic Biography Identity as a topic of debate and reflection Marleen Stikker is the director of Waag has historically been the domain of the Society. She founded De Digitale Stad humanities. Digital identity is now big (The Digital City), the first virtual business and dominated and managed community introducing free public by engineers and ICT companies. With access to the internet in 1994. She is digitization our identity is defined as founder of Waag Society, a research the trustworthiness of our transactions. institute for creative technologies and Broad meandering cultural phenomena social innovation. Marleen Stikker are reduced to data, algorithms and strongly adheres to the Maker’s Bill platforms. Platforms that we have to of Rights motto “If You Can’t Open trust, although we have no insight in It, You Don’t Own It”. Waag Society is the internal working. What did we loose actively involved in the Open Design in this process? Is there still room for and Commons movement and believes playfulness and changing identities? that society needs open technologies to How can the arts and humanities be a meet societal challenges. Marleen Stikker meaningful and a critical player? How can we design trusted models for digital identities that meet our real needs and find our sovereignty again? Link waag.org Thursday 14th of April 2016, huffingtonpost.com/marleen-stikker 12:00 - 12:15

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Emma Waslander & Ilias Zian My Future Heritage

Thursday 14th of April 2016, 12:15 - 12:30

Topic A conversation between four young adults aged 17 to 21 years old, about the meaning of identity and how this relates to cultural heritage. Trough questions and statements the young people will discuss the future of our heritage.

Biography Emma Waslander Emma Waslander is a freelance projectmanager and program developer for cultural institutions. Currently working on projects for young adults such as Museumnacht, Emma Waslander Stedelijk X and Friday Nights at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Ilias Zian Ilias Zian is heritage specialist and cultural advisor, focussing on education, & Ilias Zian communication and diversity. As part of the RICHES project Zian works as a researcher at the National Museum of World cultures. Zian is also museum educator at the Tropenmuseum.

Thursday 14th of April 2016, Links emmawaslander.com 12:15 - 12:30 [email protected] Ilias. [email protected] 20 21 Keynote 7 Tarik Yousif Deconstructing the White Man’s View of the World

Thursday 14th of April 2016, 12:30 - 12:45

Topic Biography A common view on heritage is crucial Tarik Yousif is a multitasker in every for the sustainability of that heritage. In sense of the word. He is advisor to a diverse multi-cultural demographic various enterprises and NGO’s. He is locally and in urbanization on a global a speaker on entrepreneurship and he level common appreciation for heritage is a frequent chairman of conferences of heritage is not necessarily secured and debates in which he is a gentle yet for the future. Is there space to redefine disruptive force. Since 1998 Tarik is a and perhaps even re-imagine our journalist presenter working for the cultural heritage from a multi-cultural Dutch public broadcaster NTR. He was perspective? What opportunities creative director of Creative Urbans, are there when we look from a new a multidisciplinary architectural perspective? Which perpectives can be institute. He was also managing director used to influence the views in the cultural of NG, a conceptual development heritage discussions in the EMEA region agency on the intersection of arts and Tarik Yousif (Europe, the Middle East and Africa)? technology. Finally, he is the head My view, your view, our view. What is the coach of his son’s hockey team and the view? trainer of his daughter’s team, to which he dedicates a mere 10 hours per week. Thursday 14th of April 2016, Link 12:30 - 12:45 tarikyousif.nl

22 23 Keynote 8 Pnina Avidar Man-made & Custom-tailored

Friday 15th of April 2016, 10:10 - 10:30

Topic Biography When it comes to the Dutch landscape, Ir. Pnina Avidar is engaged in nothing is what it seems to be. architectural research & design - 12PM Paradoxically enough, with no mountain -Architecture in Amsterdam (owner), in sight, moving mountains is a common architecture education (Head of the practice in the Netherlands. For centuries Architecture Department at MA&U the Dutch land, rivers and shores have Tilburg), architectural writing (articles been drained, reclaimed, raised, dug up, in various media and past editor of put under water, dried out, shored up, OASE), cultural initiatives relating to channeled and parceled. space (FAVA - spatial solutions and The Dutch landscape is a collective art, social empowerment and NLroute - telling us stories of survival, domestication Dutch landscape and tourism). Pnina and inventiveness; a unique story of a is... an ephemeral condition. land that is to a great extend man made. It is the matrix, the terra firma of Dutch Pnina Avidar culture and traditions, and the key to understanding the people and their land. Link The Dutch made the land and the Land nlroute.nl made the Dutch. Friday 15th of April 2016, 10:10 - 10:30

24 25 Keynote 9 Ruben Pater The Politics of Design

Friday 15th of April 2016, 10:30 - 10:50 Topic Biography The Politics of Design is a book that Under the name Untold Stories, designer explores the cultural and political context Ruben Pater creates visual narratives of the typography, colors, photography, about geopolitical issues. He initiates symbols, and information graphics that projects in which research is followed we use every day. Are creative professionals by visual ways of storytelling for a wide really aware of the political meaning and audience, creating new relations between impact of design in today’s network society? journalism and design. His ‘Drone This talk examines cultural contexts and Survival Guide’ (2013), received attention stereotypes with visual examples from worldwide as an educational tool against around the world. It demonstrates that military drones. A research into disaster communication tools are never neutral, communication resulted in the ‘First and encourages its users to rethink global Dutch Flood Manual’ (2011). ‘Double cultural understanding. Additional works Standards’ (2012) was an installation and by contemporary artists and designers publication about the controversial role show that political awareness does not limit of maritime trade in Somali piracy. He creativity, but opens up new explorations teaches at the Royal Academy of Art in for a critical visual culture. Museums The Hague and the Design Academy in and places of cultural heritage have a Eindhoven. Ruben Pater responsibility to share their collection with a wide variety of people, but these collections often have a problematic history in terms of gender, colonialism and Link power structures. Institutions can learn untold-stories.net from visual communication as a way of Friday 15th of April 2016, addressing the complexities of artworks and the context of art history as a history of 10:30 - 10:50 power.

26 27 Keynote 10 Razan Nassreddine & Robert Winkler

Multaka: Meeting Point Museum - Refugees as Guides in Berlin Museums Friday 15th of April 2016, 10:50 - 11:10 Topic As part of the project “Multaka: Museum as and historical experiences. The guided Meeting Point – Refugees as Guides in Berlin tours transfer questions about historical Museums”, Syrian and Iraqi refugees are objects to contemporary debates, in order being trained as museum guides so that they to establish a connection between past and can then provide free guided museum tours present. The tours focus on historical and for Syrian and Iraqi refugees in their native cultural connections between Germany, language. Our tours take place at the Museum Syria and Iraq. Through the depiction of of Islamic Art, the Museum of Ancient Middle such commonalities, museums have the Eastern Art, the Museum of Byzantine Art opportunity to function as a connecting link and Sculpture Collection, and the German between the refugees’ countries of origin and Historical Museum since November 2015. their new host country, in order to create a Multaka (Arabic for “meeting point”) aims to context of meaning for their lives in Germany. facilitate the interchange of diverse cultural Biography Razan Nassreddine Robert Winkler Razan Nassreddine is contributing her Robert Winkler is a German art historian Razan Nassreddine experience in curating contemporary art and cultural manager. He has worked in projects. She is a curator and holds an M.A. the contemporary art market and gathered in cultural management and contemporary various experience in cultural education & Robert Winkler art theory, focusing on contemporary Syrian programmes. For Multaka he is responsible Artists. For Multaka she is responsible for for background organization, concept the intercultural communications, concept development, financing and press. development and workshops. Friday 15th of April 2016, Links smb.museum/en/museums-and-institutions/museum-fuer-islamische-kunst/research/multaka.html 10:50 - 11:10 freunde-islamische-kunst-pergamonmuseum.de/index.php?presse-echo-multaka 28 29 Keynote 11 Janine Prins A Flowery Creation of Cohesion

Friday 15th of April 2016, 11:10 - 11:30 Topic Biography Social cohesion can have many guises, Drs. Janine Prins is visual anthropologist, in policy, social theory and practice. This affiliated with Leiden University since presentation takes us into the field of 2009, and independent documentary Zundert, a floatbuilding town in the south filmmaker since 1994. She is currently of the Netherlands, to investigate how grass also affiliated with Waag Society as roots conscious creation of social cohesion researcher-in-residence for RICHES, can work out in practice. What kind of supervising and executing ethnographic cohesion is achieved, by what means? research. Superdiversity, multicultural ideology and inclusivity are not interpreted the same by all. Link Janine Prins resources.riches-project.eu/documents

Friday 15th of April 2016, 11:10 - 11:30

30 31 Keynote 12 Trilce Navarrete The Identity of the Innovator

Friday 15th of April 2016, 11:45 - 12:05 Topic Biography How is innovation stimulated? Where Dr. Trilce Navarrete is Postdoc researcher does Cultural Heritage fit in the at the University of Southern Denmark. innovation process? What is the role of She specializes in the economic and Cultural Heritage creators and managers historic aspects of digital heritage. She in the innovation process of a society? has contributed to the creation of the How can an innovative environment be European statistics for digital heritage nurtured? (ENUMERATE) and has served as Innovation has been identified to fuel advisor for the creation and evaluation the economy and to improve wellbeing of (national) digital infrastructures. Her and is therefore highly desirable. research has been driven by an interest Understanding innovation has taken to understand the processes involved in many decades of empirical research the (re)use of heritage materials and their in several scientific fields. Studies have role in the transfer of knowledge across analyzed the drivers that make up the time. innovation process, on one hand, and the process of creating and adopting innovations on the other hand. In this presentation, we share the results Link Trilce Navarrete from our research on innovation in AWP-8-2015 Karol J. Borrowiecki European heritage organizations and and Trilce Navarrete “Digitization of propose a quintessential identity for an Heritage Collections as Indicator of innovator. Innovation”: culturaleconomics.org/awp/AWP-08- Friday 15th of April 2016, 2015.pdf 11:45 - 12:05

32 33 Keynote 13 Ellen Holleman Festival Industrie Cultuur: Celebrating industrial heritage

Friday 15th of April 2016, 12:05 - 12:25 Topic Biography In 2015 the Festival Industrie Cultuur Ellen Holleman was trained as a visual was initiated, a cultural program artist at the Academy of Fine Arts, Utrecht. on industrial heritage. This festival Shortly after her graduation she started celebrates the rich industrial past in the working in urban planning. Over the years Noordzeekanaalgebied (North Sea Canal she managed to combine her background area) and the Zaanstreek, and allows in arts with a broad experience in concept a broad audience to (re)discover and development, process management experience the industrial heritage and and urban planning. Since 2007 she is present manufacturing industries. The partner at Islant urban design studio. Zaansteek, where the Stichting Zaanse She is co-author of the books ‘Balkan Industriecultuur (SZIC) is the initiator in the Polder’ (Mondriaanfonds, 2012) and driving force, is the center of the and ‘Hembrugterrein, verleden, heden, festival. The 2nd edition in 2016 continues toekomst’ (Uitgeverij Noord-Holland, to initiate and organize activities in 2004). She is co-founder of Festival special locations, which allow visitors to Industrie Cultuur and organizer of the first experience the identity of the region. The edition in 2015. Ellen currently lives and ambition of the festival is to develop into works in Zaanstad. Ellen Holleman a leading cultural tourism program in the coming years. Addressing a topic that for decades has been seen as problematic, namely the presence of industry in a Link densely urbanized area. The festival festivalindustriecultuur.nl shows how strongly industry defined islant.nl Friday 15th of April 2016, the present culture and identity in this region and examines what the presence 12:05 - 12:25 of contemporary industries can mean for the future. 34 35 Keynote 14

David Mulder van der Vegt Seeing Europe - Design for the Interior of the European Council

Friday 15th of April 2016, 12:25 - 12:45 Topic Biography The exchange of ideas is at the heart of XML is an Amsterdam based architecture politics. The architecture in which this office and is led by two partners, Max exchange takes place has a powerful impact Cohen de Lara and David Mulder van on the type of conversation. The design of der Vegt who founded the office in 2008. XML and Bey for the European Council The work of XML is fuelled by a research- building stimulates this exchange of ideas driven approach that turns a careful through the design of the presidential analysis of a project’s core challenges chambers. The new design offers multiple into the driving force of design. seating arrangements combined into a Projects include a design for a new UN single space. Government leaders can headquarters in Bonn, an arts pavilion change positions between group settings in Hong Kong, a store in the historical or bilateral talks, and can choose sides on centre of Amsterdam, and the recently opposing benches or have a dialogue in a completed new interior for the European more informal setting. Council building in Brussels. Alongside their architectural practice, both partners are founders and directors of the two-year XML architecture research program ‘Designing Democracy’ at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam.

Friday 15th of April 2016, Link 12:25 - 12:45 x-m-l.org

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The RICHES Legacy and the Highlights of the Project: Q&A, closing and outlook Friday 15th of April 2016, 12:45 - 13:00 Neil Forbes Professor of International History at Coventry University. See page 11 for a short biography. Tim Hammerton Project Manager of the FP7 RICHES and Strategy Group and other key working CIP Europeana Space projects, coordinated groups to provide advice on developing by Coventry University. He has previously effective project management infrastructure. managed European mobility and significant His cultural heritage credentials are European funded projects, including the demonstrated, as he recently had a Coventry Redundancy and Redeployment contracts located Treasure Trail published, using when the large MG Rover and Peugeot historical buildings and information as car factories closed; successfully meeting clues, which is now available to the general outcomes, within budget. As a result, he was public. invited to sit on regional committees such as the West Midlands Regional Redundancy Antonella Fresa ICT expert, Director and General Manager Commission; previously, researcher in the of Promoter SRL, she has been working on industry and at Olivetti in Pisa, Ivrea and European cooperation projects since the Cupertino (USA). Reviewer in the FCT nineties: she is Technical Coordinator and Call for a National Roadmap of Research Communication Manager of European Infrastructures of Strategic Relevance projects in the domains of digital cultural (FCT, Portugal) and for the Austrian Q&AQ&A heritage, smart cities, digital preservation Agency for International Cooperation in and eInfrastructures. 2002-2012, advisor Education and Research (OeAD-GmbH). of the Italian Ministry of Culture; from its She regularly serves as independent expert establishment until 2012, Decree Member for the EC. Antonella is Vice-President of FridayFriday 15th 15th ofof AprilApril 2016, 2016, of the Concertation Table for Research PHOTOCONSORTIUM International Priorities for Cultural Heritage in Italy Association for photographic heritage 12:4512:45 -- 13:0013:00 between the Ministry of Culture (MiBAC) and she is enterprise fellow at Coventry and the Ministry of Research (MIUR). University. 1999-2002, Project Officer at the European 38 39 Programme Thursday 14th of April 2016 Thursday 14th of April 2016 Morning programme 10:00 - 13:00 Afternoon programme 13:00 - 17:00h Location: Houten Zaal, Volkshotel 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch at Werkplaats, Volkshotel 9:30 - 10:00 Doors open and registration 14:00 - 14:30 Travel time to the location of the afternoon programme 10:00 - 10:10 Welcome Robin van Westen & Dick van Dijk 14:30 - 16:30 Urban Safari#1 Identity and Locality 10:10 - 10:30 1. Identity and Cultural Heritage: Mediamatic, Dijkspark 6, 1019 BS Amsterdam The role of historical approaches Neil Forbes

10:30 - 11:00 2. Focus on Inclusiveness: Our Lord in the Attic and the 14:30 - 16:30 Urban Safari#2 Amsterdam Museum New Performativity Judikje Kiers Waag Society, Nieuwmarkt 4, 1012 CR Amsterdam

11:00 - 11:30 3. Creating a Digital Identity for Cultural Heritage in Stockholm: How we used social media to create positive social impact Abhay Adhikari 14:30 - 16:30 Urban Safari#3 World Cultures Tropenmuseum, Linnaeusstraat 2,1092 CK Amsterdam 11:30 - 11:45 Coffee break

11:45 - 12:00 4. Heritage between Future and Past 14:30 - 16:30 Urban Safari#4 Kees Vuyk New Narratives Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, Plantage Middenlaan 2a, 12:00 - 12:15 5. How ‘identity’ became another word for transaction 1018 DD Amsterdam Marleen Stikker

12:15 - 12:30 6. My Future Heritage 16:30 - 17:00 Travel time from the location to the Waag Emma Waslander & Ilias Zian 17:00 Drinks@Waag 12:30 - 12:45 7. Deconstructing the White Man’s View of the World Getting to know each other & exchanging experiences Tarik Yousif Waag Society, Nieuwmarkt 4, 1012 CR Amsterdam

12:45 - 13:00 Logistics of the afternoon programme Robin van Westen & Dick van Dijk

40 41 Programme Friday 15th of April 2016 Friday 15th of April 2016 Morning programme 10:00 - 13:00 Afternoon programme 13:00 - 17:00 Location: Houten Zaal, Volkshotel 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch at Werkplaats, Volkshotel

9:30 - 10:00 Door opens and registration 14:00 - 14:30 Travel time to the location of the afternoon programme

10:00 - 10:10 Welcome back and introduction 14:30 - 16:30 Urban Safari#5 Robin van Westen & Dick van Dijk New Approaches to Digitization Amsterdam City Archives, Vijzelstraat 32, 1017 HL Amsterdam 10:10 - 10:30 8. Man-made & Custom-tailored Pnina Avidar 14:30 - 16:30 Urban Safari#6 10:30 - 10:50 9. The Politics of Design Urban Cultures Ruben Pater Imagine IC, Frankemaheerd 2, 1102 AN Amsterdam-Zuidoost 10:50 - 11:10 10. Multaka: Meeting Point Museum - Refugees as Guides in Berlin Museums Razan Nassreddine & Robert Winkler 14:30 - 16:30 Urban Safari#7 Making the Exhibition 11:10 - 11:30 11. A Flowery Creation of Cohesion De Appel arts centre, Prins Hendrikkade 142, 1011 AT Amsterdam Janine Prins De Oude Kerk, Oudekerksplein 23, 1012 GX Amsterdam 11:30 - 11:45 Coffee break

11:45 - 12:05 12. The Identity of the Innovator 14:30 - 16:30 Urban Safari#8 Trilce Navarrete Do-It-Yourself Waag Society, Nieuwmarkt 4, 1012 CR Amsterdam 12:05 - 12:25 13. Festival Industrie Cultuur: Celebrating industrial heritage Ellen Holleman 16:30 End of the programme 12:25 - 12:45 14. Seeing Europe - Design for the Interior of the European Council XML / David Mulder van der Vegt

12:45 - 12:55 The RICHES Legacy and the Highlights of the Project Neil Forbes, Antonella Fresa & Tim Hammerton. Select one Urban Safari per day At the end of the morning programme the groups to the locations. Every group will 12:55 - 13:00 Logistics of the afternoon programme moderators will give instructions for the be accompanied by a tour lead. Make a Robin van Westen & Dick van Dijk Urban Safaris. After lunch we will travel in selection from the following Urban Safaris. 42 43 Urban Safaris

44 45 9 Urban Safari #1 5 Mediamatic 3 Thursday 14th of April 2016, 14:30 - 16:30 1 Dijkspark 6, 1019 BS Amsterdam T: +31 (0)20 638 9901 mediamatic.net Theme: Identity and Locality 6 Since 1983 Mediamatic has been active as down industrial areas, empty warehouses a cultural institution; interested in cultural or yards. By organizing cultural events and developments and new technologies building “campsites” for creatives, they 4 that spur cultural developments. They revitalize and transform the identity of those organize exhibitions, workshops, lectures, areas. Willem Velthoven will talk about the performances and all kind of activities. activities Mediamatic organized over the 2 The locations Mediamatic inhabited over years and the impact that had on the areas 7 10 the last years can be characterized as run they inhabited. 8 Local foods In many European cities and regions, local to many of the trends that can be seen. Some food movements aim to recover the ‘true’ projects, for example, seek to re-skill citizens meaning of food, restoring it to a more in food production and preparation or use central role in the social and cultural lives food as a ‘bridge’ for building connections of people and communities. In the context between people of diverse cultural heritage. of rapid urbanization and the emergence Others seek to connect urban citizens to of convenience culture, many local food regional food producers by building local movements have a strong commitment economies around traditional farming and to reviving or defending traditional food artisan foods and resisting the standardizing cultures. Moya Kneafsey of Coventry and globalizing tendencies of contemporary University has researched many of these food systems. European initiatives and will introduce you

resources.riches-project.eu/documents

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Some tips to go on your own urban safari in this neighbourhood 8. The Architecture Centre Amsterdam - ARCAM Prins Hendrikkade 600, 1011 VX Amsterdam The building is designed by René van Zuuk coated aluminum that flows from bottom to in 1999-2002 and was completed in 2003. It roof and over, all around the building. Coffee/drinks is a compact, sculptural building covered in 1. Hannekes Boom (terrace) arcam.nl Dijksgracht 4, 1019 BS Amsterdam Opening hours Thu / Fri: 11 .00 - 01.00/03.00 9. Java-eiland and its nine bridges 2. Amsterdam Roest (drinks) Javakade/Sumatrakade, Amsterdam Jacob Bontiusplaats 1, 1018 PL Amsterdam The harbour basins of Amsterdam’s eastern reason for having more than one architect Opening hours Thu / Fri: 16.00 - 01.00/03.00 docklands fell into disuse with the arrival of work on a single block is to try to attain the container transport and given the increasing variety found in central Amsterdam’s canal size of ships. It was decided in the 1980s to frontages. The four canals that traverse Java- prime the area to transform the piers into eiland can be crossed via nine black wrought- tranquil residential enclaves. Urban design iron bridges, designed by the Belgian artists Restaurants Java-eiland (1991-2000) by Sjoerd Soeters’ Guy Rombouts and Monica Droste (realized 3. Café restaurant Barco (boat, mediterrean, menu price: 24,50) small-scale variegated urban structure in 2000). Dijksgracht 4d, 1019 BS Amsterdam interspersed with canals set breadthways. The Opening hours Thu / Fri: 16.00 - 00.00 T: +31 (0)20 626 9383 architectureguide.nl 4. Pension Homeland (Homeland brewery, international, menu price: 36,00) 10. The Marineterrein Amsterdam Building 006, Kattenburgerstraat 5, 1018 Amsterdam Kattenburgerstraat 5,1018 JA Amsterdam Opening hours Thu / Fri: 07.00 - 15.30 and 18.00 - 22.30 This previously closed-off marine area world will work together on innovative ideas is being transformed into a new and and projects that promote a sustainable public city district. In this serene location, society. Cultural Hotspots entrepreneurs, academics and citizens of the marineterrein.nl 5. Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ – Bimhuis (stage for contemporary music) Piet Heinkade 1, 1019 BR Amsterdam muziekgebouw.nl

6. Science Center NEMO Oosterdok 2, 1011 VX Amsterdam e-nemo.nl

7. The National Maritime Museum Kattenburgerplein 1, 1018 KK Amsterdam hetscheepvaartmuseum.nl 48 49 Urban Safari #2 Waag Society Thursday 14th of April 2016, 14:30 - 16:30 3 Nieuwmarkt 4, 1012 CR Amsterdam T: +31 (0)20 557 9898 1 waag.org Theme: New Performativity 7 The world of theatre is becoming more and programs or by literally crossing borders, 5 2 more inventive in finding ways to engage theatre makers are creating a place for new audiences. By developing new ways dialogue and engagement in their theatres. of storytelling, creating multidisciplinary 4 9 Urban Myth and Expanding Theatre We will hear from Jörgen Tjon a Fong, Expanding Theatre in the city’s largest artistic director of Urban Myth. Urban theatre. With Expanding Theatre, bridges Myth is an Amsterdam based theatre are built between themes in performances, group that creates multidisciplinary and themes that are relevant in Amsterdam, and 10 engaged performances that are often artists from other sectors. Events are created aimed at a very young, urban audience. around themes that Amsterdams’ young Jörgen will talk about their projects and residents are committed to. And in doing so, share his ideas about the need for such a a new audience is welcomed in the theatre 6 theatre group in the city. We will also hear and get’s to know its performances. from Wiepke Westbroek, who produces

Distributed performance Lastly, Marc Aguilar (I2CAT, Barcelona) and and Coventry. This created not only a digital Professor Sarah Whatley PhD (Coventry version of a live performance, but a hybrid University) will present their take on novel performance form that has many more ‘distributed events’: how can geographically opportunities for exploration. Sarah and remote audiences be connected in one Marc will start a dialogue about the impact performance? In a very unique RICHES this form has on the quality of performance, research project a dance performance was but also go into a heritage-related perspective: created and executed between Barcelona how could you preserve the performance?

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Some tips to go on your own urban safari in this neighbourhood 8. De Waag building Nieuwmarkt 4, 1012 CR Amsterdam This stout two-storey structure was built this combination of weighing-house and in 1488 as town entrance and was named market the Nieuwmarkt became recognised Coffee/drinks the “St Anthony’s Gate”. As the city of as a general market in 1755. Every morning 1. Hofje van Wijs Amsterdam expanded, the gate lost its the members of the various guilds (the Zeedijk 43, 1012 AR Amsterdam defence function in 1612. It was transformed smiths, the masons, the painters, and the Opening hours Thu / Fri: 12.00 - 23.00 into a weighing-house, that replaced the one surgeons) would converge towards their own on Dam square (the “Plaetse”). Because of (decorated) entrance to the Waag building. 2. Latei Zeedijk 143, 1012 AW Amsterdam waag.org/en/de-waag-building Opening hours Thu / Fri: 8.00 - 22.00 9. Nieuwmarkt area and Pentagon building Nieuwmarkt area, Amsterdam Restaurants After the war, the Nieuwmarktbuurt the neighbourhood was rebuilt following 3. Dwaze zaken (French-international, menu price: 21,00) impoverished and according to the the old street pattern, according to a plan Prins Hendrikkade 50, 1012 AC Amsterdam prevailing ‘city-vorming’-thought a four-lane by Theo Bosch and Aldo van Eyck. Around Opening hours Thu / Fri: 9.00 - 00.00 highway and a metro line were planned the Zuiderkerkhof Theo Bosch realized T: +31 (0)20 612 4175 through the neighbourhood. Only the the Pentagon building (1983), an irregularly metro line was realized. After many protests shaped block of 88 houses and a number of 4. Me Naam Naan (Thai, menu price: 27,50) from local residents, activists and architects, shops. Koningstraat 29, 1011 ET Amsterdam Opening hours Thu / Fri: 17.00 - 22.30 arcam.nl/pentagon/ T: +31 (0)20 423 3344

10. Zuiderkerk (church) Zuiderkerkhof 72, 1011 WB Amsterdam Cultural Hotspots The Zuiderkerk (1611) was designed by the Hagenbeek restored and adapted the city architect Hendrick de Keyser. This interior to the new use as cultural venue. 5. Fo Guang Shan He Hue Temple Zeedijk 118, 1012 BB Amsterdam Protestant church is built in the Renaissance The restoration of the building’s exterior and style, with classical ornaments and forms. the roof covering began in 2011 by the plan ibps.nl After the last church service in 1929, the of Archivolt architects and was completed 6. Museum Het Rembrandthuis building fell into disrepair and was closed in 2012. Jodenbreestraat 4, 1011 NK Amsterdam in 1970. In the late 1970s architect Hans rembrandthuis.nl arcam.nl/en/zuiderkerk/ 7. W139 (art gallery) Warmoesstraat 139, 1012 JB Amsterdam w139.nl

52 53 Urban Safari #3 6 Tropenmuseum Thursday 14th of April 2016, 14:30 - 16:30 5 Linnaeusstraat 2, 1092 CK Amsterdam T: +31 (0) 88 004 2800 tropenmuseum.nl

3 Theme: World Cultures The Tropenmuseum is a museum about universal human themes like mourning, people, housed in an impressive building celebration, ornamentation, prayer, conflict. overlooking Amsterdam’s Oosterpark. The From Africa to West and Southeast Asia, extensive permanent display and regularly from New Guinea to Latin America: the changing exhibitions feature objects that Tropenmuseum lets visitors discover that, 2 all have a story to tell about humankind. We despite cultural differences, we are all start our afternoon program with a guided essentially the same. 4 tour through the museum. Stories about

#Decolonizethemuseum After the tour we gather in the Reinwardt assumed neutrality and its excuses of “only 7 Academie to listen to Simone Zeefuik, having so much time/space”. We base this Hodan Warsame and Tirza Balk, who have critique on the museum experience of developed #Decolonizethemuseum as one ourselves and our friends whose heritage is of the interventions of the Riches project, studied and analysed, but who are seldom which aims to confront the colonial ideas the target group of ethnographic museums. and practices present in ethnographic Can ethnographic museums contribute 1 museums up until this day. The intervention to reinstating the agency and histories critiques the language, imagery and of colonized peoples, life and territories? accessibility of its current exhibitions. It How to challenge the organizations so that intents to expose the violence perpetuated neo-liberal conceptions of ‘diversity’ do by ethnographic museums by critiquing not become the limit of change for these its Eurocentrism, white supremacy, its institutions.

#decolonizethemuseum

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Some tips to go on your own urban safari in this neighbourhood 8. Berlage blocks (worker’s housing by architect H.P. Berlage) Balistraat 129-141, Benkoelenstraat 1-12, Javaplein 20-38, Javastraat 128-130 en Langkatstraat 1-12, Amsterdam The so-called ‘Berlage blocks’ (1915-1916) class. The last large-scale renovation was in Coffee/drinks were among the first dwellings built for 1969-1971. The dwellings were given a real 1. Bar Bukowski Amsterdam’s poorest inhabitants after the kitchen and a shower. In 1999, local residents Oosterpark 10, 1092 AE Amsterdam passing of the Housing Act in 1902. The responded to a proposal by Zeeburg district Opening hours Thu / Fri: 08.00 - 01.00/03.00 entire complex, two freestanding blocks council to demolish the blocks by setting up and a built-on block, contains 169 workers’ the action group ‘Save the Berlage blocks’. 2. De Biertuin (beers) dwellings. The floor plan is based on the The protest and the efforts of well-known Linnaeusstraat 29, 1093 EE Amsterdam British ‘model cottage’. Berlage believed this architects resulted in a ‘listed building status’ Opening hours Thu / Fri: 11.00 - 01.00/03.00 architecture to be suitable for the working for the blocks. arcam.nl/en/berlageblokken/

Restaurants 9. Tropenmuseum (main venue on the map) 3. Boi Boi (Thai, menu price: 10,00) Prins Hendrikkade 50, 1012 AC Amsterdam Linnaeusstraat 2, 1092 CK Amsterdam Opening hours Thu / Fri: 09.00 - 00.00 The Tropenmuseum is a successor to the roofs was built on a site that warps around T: +31 (0)20 612 4175 Koloniaal Museum (Colonial Museum) an entire city block, 44,000 square metres in Haarlem of 1871. In 1910, the city council in size. The brick facades were decorated 4. Roopram Roti (Surinamese eatery) of Amsterdam promised a site on the edge with granite, marble, wall paintings and Eerste van Swindenstraat 4, 1093 GC Amsterdam of Oosterpark. J.J. van Nieukerken was sculptures in French lime sandstone. For the Opening hours Thu / Fri: 14.00 - 21.00 selected from three other architects for the sculptural programme, a special Symbolism T: +31 (0)20 693 2902 commission. When Nieukerken died in 1913, Committee was set up, which selected his son, M.A. van Nieukerken took over the subjects from national and colonial history, project. Despite complaints by the amenities science and trade and sought suitable artists inspectorate and fellow designers about to execute this work. In the periods 1968-1978 Cultural Hotspots the outmoded style and the chaotic ground and 1989-1990, the complex of buildings was plan, in 1915 construction work began. The restored, reorganized and extended. 5. De Gooyer (windmill) reinforced concrete structure with wooden Funenkade 5, 1018 AL Amsterdam arcam.nl/en/koninklijk-instituut-voor-de-tropen-tropenmuseum/ 6. Museum ’t Kromhout Hoogte Kadijk 147, 1018 BJ Amsterdam kromhoutmotorenmuseum.nl

7. Oosterpark (park) Oosterparkbuurt, Amsterdam amsterdam.nl

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Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam Thursday 14th of April 2016, 14:30 - 16:30 Plantage Middenlaan 2a, 1018 DD Amsterdam T: +31 (0)20 625 9021 3 dehortus.nl 11 9 8 Theme: New Narratives The Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam is offers an oasis of tranquility, a flowery relief 6 7 one of the oldest botanical gardens in the in the urban busyness. 1 world. Located in the city centre of the The participants are treated to a walking Dutch capital, the garden is a beautiful and tour through the Hortus, where you see the 4 intimate place with a unique collection of historical green houses and the plants in plants. In the midst of the city the Hortus springtime. 5 Co-creation & New Forms of Storytelling Waag Society’s creative director Dick van project in terms of stakeholders, aims and Dijk will demonstrate the toolkit for co- long term planning, before diving into the 10 creation that was developed in RICHES. It project head first. Together we explore the is aimed especially at heritage professionals toolkit and hear more about Waag Society’s and allows you to strategize your co-creation vision for co-creation.

Planting the Future Lastly Joke ‘t Hart, project leader of Planting strategy for outreach to new target groups. the Future, a project of the Dutch Society of But first of all the gardens needed a full botanic gardens, will share her experiences understanding of each other and worked on in collaborating with 24 different Dutch shared collective goals. Co-creation helped botanical gardens. Through co-creation them a lot in finding out all of this. the gardens have worked on a shared understanding of their audiences and a

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Some tips to go on your own urban safari in this neighbourhood 9. City Hall and Stopera (National Opera & Ballet) Waterlooplein 22, 1011 PG Amsterdam Plans for Amsterdams present City Hall, with an opera house. The dual-function Coffee/drinks eventually completed in 1987, started as building was erected in the face of vehement long ago as 1937. The location for a new protests by other architects and Amsterdam 1. Café Koosje concert hall had similarly long remained residents, and was nicknamed the Stopera (a Plantage Middenlaan 37, 1018 DB Amsterdam undecided. So, in 1978 the Austrian architect contraction of Stadhuis and Opera House). Opening hours Thu / Fri: 09.00 - 01.00/03.00 Wilhelm Holzbauer, who won the second The critique of the protesters related mainly competition for the City Hall, produced a to the urban design of the project. 2. De Oranjerie (Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam) new design that combined the City Hall Plantage Middenlaan 2a, 1018 DD Amsterdam Opening hours Thu / Fri: 10.00 - 17.00 arcam.nl/en/stadhuismuziektheater/

Restaurants 10. De Magere Brug 3. Bloem eten en drinken (biological, menu price: 28,00) Kerkstraat, Amsterdam Entrepotdok 36, 1018 AD Amsterdam The history of this bridge goes back to the There are several amusing versions to the Opening hours Thu / Fri: 11.00 - 22.00 construction of the eastern canal ring in story of the origin of the bridge’s name T: +31 (0)20 330 0929 around 1660. The first bridge was built thirty (‘mager’ is Dutch for skinny). The only thing 4. Tempura (Japanese, menu price: 15,00) years later. Todays Magere Brug is the third that’s certain is that this name came into use Plantage Kerklaan 26, 1018 TC Amsterdam bridge and was built in 1931. sometime during the eighteenth century. Opening hours Thu / Fri: 17.00 - 22.30 arcam.nl/en/de-magere-brug/ T: +31 (0)20 428 7132

Cultural Hotspots 11. Waterlooplein (square) Waterlooplein, Amsterdam 5. Hermitage Amsterdam (museum) Waterlooplein was created in 1882 when accompanied by vehement protests. The Amstel 51, 1018 EJ Amsterdam the Leprozengracht and Houtgracht canals Stopera was realized (1987) and under the hermitage.nl were filled in. The square is named after the Waterlooplein and the Stopera the metro 6. Jewish Historical Museum Battle of Waterloo (1815). After the 2nd World line was built (1970s). Today the daily flea Nieuwe Amstelstraat 1, 1011 PL Amsterdam War, the Waterlooplein impoverished and a market on the Waterlooplein is a popular jhm.nl metro line and a new City Hall were planned tourist attraction. 7. Natura Artis Magistra (zoo) en Micropia (museum) Plantage Kerklaan 38-40, 1018 CZ Amsterdam artis.nl, micropia.nl 8. Portugese Synagoge Mr. Visserplein 3, 1011 RD Amsterdam portugesesynagoge.nl 60 61 Urban Safari #5 Amsterdam City Archives Friday 15th of April 2016, 14:30 - 16:30 5 Vijzelstraat 32, 1017 HL Amsterdam T: +31 (0)20 251 1511 9 stadsarchief.amsterdam.nl 2 10 Theme: New approaches to digitization The Amsterdam City Archives functions organizes exhibitions and events in its public as the memory of the city, with around 50 location at the Vijzelstraat, but is also a very 3 1 kilometers of archival material. The archive active player in the field of digitization. Geotagging in Crowdsourced Heritage 6 Projects After a short tour of the archive Nelleke involves the audience in adding metadata to van Zeeland and Marc Holtman, project digitized collections. Any heritage institution leaders for digitization projects of the City can initiate projects on the platform and Archives present the Archives’ demand invite the crowd to help improving the 7 driven digitization policy. Any individual accessibility of their collections online. 4 can express interest in the digitization of an Recently, the City Archives added a new object and ask the organization via an online geotagging functionality to enrich historical system to digitize this object. Next to that, the maps with a geographical location. archive is initiator and host of the website VeleHanden (literally: ManyHands), which

Linked Open Data for Heritage Websites The Rijksmuseum Twente has a different by Claude Monet, for example, will offer approach to digitization and presentation website users not only information about of collections. Project leader Gemma Boon this particular painting from our own will talk about the new collection website database, but also from sources such as of Rijksmuseum Twenthe, which will be Europeana, Wikipedia, RKD Artists and the first website to connect a large number RKD images. A search on the enriched of data from different archives through collection website of Rijksmuseum Twenthe Linked Open Data (expected launch second opens the door to databases from all over the half of 2016). A simple search for a painting world.

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Some tips to go on your own urban safari in this neighbourhood 8. De Bazel Vijzelstraat 32, 1017 HL Amsterdam The building was built in 1926, to a design of the entrances are provided with glass, by the architect K.P.C. de Bazel. Since 2007, offering views of what goes on inside the Coffee/drinks Amsterdams city archives are housed in the atrium. On the second and third floors, in 1. Blue Amsterdam (for a view) former bank building, after a renovation the restored period rooms with original Singel 457, 1012 WP Amsterdam by Claus and Kaan architects. With its furniture by De Bazel, something of the Opening hours Thu / Fri: 10.00 - 21.00 / 18.30 large-scale, closed plinths and introverted bank building’s original atmosphere can still character, the building did not suit its new be experienced. 2. Gartine (lunch, high tea) public function. The niches on either side Taksteeg 7 BG, 1012 PB Amsterdam arcam.nl/en/stadsarchief-amsterdam-de-bazel/ Opening hours Thu / Fri: 10.00 - 18.00

9. Begijnhof Begijnhof 30, 1012 RM Amsterdam The Begijnhof was originally a Beguinage various alterations were made to the Restaurants founded in the 14th century. It is a group of houses in the Beguinage; in the 17th and 3. Restaurant Johannes (French-international, menu price: 48,00) historic buildings, mostly private dwellings, 18th centuries the wooden façades were Herengracht 413, 1017 BP Amsterdam around one of the oldest inner courts of changed, though 18 houses do still have their Opening hours Thu / Fri: 18.00 - 22.30 Amsterdam. The Begijnhof is at medieval gothic wooden frame. At the restoration of T: +31 (0)20 626 9503 street level, which means a meter below the the Beguinage (1984-1987), the courtyard was 4. Restaurant Red (French, menu price: 25,00) rest of the old city center. In later centuries, renovated and some houses were enlarged. Keizersgracht 594, 1017 EN Amsterdam begijnhofamsterdam.nl Opening hours Thu / Fri: 18.00 - 00.00 T: +31 (0)20 320 1824 10. Oudemanhuispoort Oudemanhuispoort 4-6, 1012 Amsterdam The building was called the Oudemanhuis- recesses were created and these were rented poort, after the passageway in the south wing. out to traders selling luxury articles, such as Cultural Hotspots This care home for the elderly was taken into jewellery, precious metals and books. Today, 5. Amsterdam Museum use in 1602. The site was redeveloped in the only the booksellers remain. In 1880 it was Kalverstraat 92, 1012 PH Amsterdam mid 18th century and a new gate was built given the use it still has today, as a university amsterdammuseum.nl and the passageway was roofed over. Small complex. 6. Museum Willet-Holthuysen (canal house) arcam.nl/en/oudemanhuispoort/ Herengracht 605, 1017 CE Amsterdam willetholthuysen.nl 7. Foam (photography) Keizersgracht 609, 1017 DS Amsterdam foam.org 64 65 Urban Safari #6 4 Imagine IC Friday 15th of April 2016, 14:30 - 16:30 Frankemaheerd 2, 1102 AN Amsterdam-Zuidoost 9 T: +31 (0)20 489 4866 imagineic.nl 8 Theme: Urban Cultures The Bijlmermeer neighbourhood, which through the years into the cultural melting today houses almost 100,000 people of over pot that it is today. 6 150 nationalities, was designed as a single Then we visit Imagine IC. Storytellers of all project. The original neighbourhood was backgrounds are invited by Imagine IC to designed as a series of nearly identical high- describe their lives, their neighbourhoods, 5 rise buildings laid out in a hexagonal grid. As their city and their country. Imagine IC people came and went, cheap social housing collects and presents these contemporary remained a central fixture of the area, stories as future heritage at exhibitions and attracting more immigrants. The Bijlmer other events. Imagine IC is thereby adding has always been host to many different to the enrichment of the concept, the sources 1 ethnicities simultaneously. and content of Dutch heritage, and is also Lecturer in cross cultural management making a sustainable contribution to an and initiator of Amy’s Tafel, Amy Abdou, inclusive view of the Netherlands’ history, will take us on a walking tour through identity and future. the Bijlmer, showing you how it evolved

Exhibition: Leip! 3 Project leader Danielle Kuijten will tell us all Imagine IC has collected and recorded 7 about Imagine IC, its mission and its projects. modern language in Amsterdam and Danielle has a Master of Museology and has presents them in a sound installations. 2 worked as a freelancer on collection projects Robin Vermeulen will guide us through the for Imagine IC. Her most recent project is exhibition ‘Leip!’. Robin Vermeulen finished Bijlmer Meer, a neighborhood archive on his BA in Cultural Heritage at the Reinwardt Amsterdam Southeast. Academie in 2015. Robin is an educator You also get a chance to visit the current at Imagine IC and works at the Stedelijk exhibition ‘Leip!’ which is all about the use Museum Amsterdam. of language in Amsterdam’s youth culture.

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Some tips to go on your own urban safari in this neighbourhood 8. Bijlmermeer area Nellesteinpad, 1103 Amsterdam-Zuidoost The urban design scheme by Amsterdam’s space, within which honeycomb-shaped, public works department (1956) provided for ten-storey flats were erected designed by F. Coffee/drinks 40,000 dwellings, ninety per cent of which Ottenhof and realized in 1971. Criticism of 1. Lebkov & Sons was to be housed in high-rise built in an the Bijlmer was being voiced long before Hoekenrode 6, 1102 BR Amsterdam-Zuidoost ‘industrialized way’. A rectangular system its completion. Now, urban renewal is Opening hours Thu / Fri: 06.00 - 18.00 of raised roads was constructed in green everywhere in evidence. arcam.nl/en/kleiburg/ 2. Oma Ietje Heesterveld 3, 1102 SB Amsterdam-Zuidoost Opening hours Thu / Fri: 08.00 - 20.00 9. Monument Bijlmerramp Nellesteinpad, 1103 Amsterdam-Zuidoost On October 4th 1992 a jumbo cargo of the a wall with texts around ‘the tree that saw Restaurants Israeli airline El Al crashed into the Bijlmer everything’ as the core of the monument. 3. Restaurant Bullewijck (French-international, menu price: 12,50) flats. 43 people died. Architect Herman Eye-catcher is the mosaic ‘carpet’ consisting Hertzberger was given the difficult task of two thousand pavement tiles made by Hogehilweg 20, 1101 CD Amsterdam-Zuidoost of designing a memorial. How could the relatives, friends and neighbours of the Opening hours Thu / Fri: 8.30 - 00.00 different cultures of the bereaved be met victims. T: +31 (0)20 820 7520 in the design? In 1996, Hertzberger realized 4. World of Food (food court in former parking Develstein) Develstein 100, 1102 AK Amsterdam-Zuidoost buitenbeeldinbeeld.nl/Amsterdam_ZO/Bijlmermonument A rich variety of culinary entrepreneurs from Zuidoost present their best dishes and open their kitchen doors to a broad public. worldoffoodamsterdam.nl 10. Metrostation Kraaiennest Kraaiennest, 1104 Amsterdam-Zuidoost The old Kraaiennest station had undergone a the existing platform and metro track, a radical transformation. The redevelopment functional, easy to manage and safe station, Cultural Hotspots of Kraaiennest metro station (2012) was part whose architectural quality would impact 5. Bijlmer Parktheater in the Nelson Mandela Park of the Bijlmer regeneration project and of the on the surrounding area. The decorative Anton de Komplein 240, 1102 DR Amsterdam-Zuidoost Oostlijn renovation project. The architects of elements and the warm colours contrast bijlmerparktheater.nl MaccreanerLavington were faced with the with the sober concrete of the existing metro challenge of designing, around and over tracks and the platform. 6. CBK Zuidoost Anton de Komplein 120, 1102 DR Amsterdam-Zuidoost arcam.nl/en/metrostation-kraaiennest/ cbkzuidoost.nl 7. Heesterveld Creative Community Heesterveld, 1102 Amsterdam-Zuidoost heesterveldcc.nl

68 69 9 Urban Safari #7 De Appel arts centre De Oude Kerk

Prins Hendrikkade 142, Oudekerksplein 23, 1011 AT Amsterdam 1012 GX Amsterdam T: +31 (0)20 625 5651 T: +31 (0)20 625 8284 deappel.nl oudekerk.nl

3 10 Friday 15th of April 2016, 14:30 - 16:30 1 8 7 Theme: Making the Exhibition 4 2 Dissecting the making of an exhibition De Appel arts centre is an international During our visit we will be present at the 5 institution for contemporary art, fulfilling a construction of their final assignment; a key role in the arts in Amsterdam and the collaborative exhibition. With Saskia van 6 Netherlands, determining relevant trends in der Kroef, coordinator of the Curatorial contemporary art. De Appel arts centre also Program and some of the participants we organizes a Curatorial Program, providing will talk about the making of an exhibition. young curators with opportunities to What does the process look like? What develop their expertise and curatorial choices are being made? What elements are thinking. The participants come from all important in the decision making? around the world.

Linking old and new culture to urban youth culture The oldest building in the city (1306) is historical monument with contemporary a meeting place and freezone, which art. It seems like a simple transition, however, embraces people from across the globe. the combination of (religious) heritage and De Oude Kerk (Old Church) has cultural heritage of the future often leads to public memory and (immaterial) heritage as debates. We will discuss this set course with starting points for her programme of Jacqueline Grandjean, Director and Curator contemporary art, which aims to encourage of de Oude Kerk. Followed by a listening reflection and identification in a rapidly route about the history of the church, changing, pluralistic society. After an historical characters, hidden stories and extensive restoration between 1955 and 2013, contemporary art. de Oude Kerk presents itself therefore as 70 71 Urban Safari #7 Architecture Some tips to go on your own urban safari in this neighbourhood 8. Beurs van Berlage (former stock exchange building) Damrak 243, 1012 ZJ Amsterdam Coffee/drinks The architect H.P. Berlage is considered to sculptors and painters the Exchange became be the father of modern architecture in the a ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’. The building’s users 1. Brouwerij de Prael (beers) Netherlands, mainly because of his design did not appreciate its avant-garde character. Oudezijds Voorburgwal 30, 1012 GD Amsterdam for the Stock Exchange (realized in 1903). The many bare, unplastered brick walls Opening hours Thu / Fri: 10.00 - 19.00 Berlage succeeded in freeing himself of the were so unpopular that wall hangings historicizing styles and gave architecture were placed in front of them. Following 2. Metropolitan Deli a rational basis, in which he subordinated the restoration in 1990 the three halls in the Warmoesstraat 135, 1012 JB Amsterdam decoration to architectural elements. exchange were given a cultural function. Opening hours Thu / Fri: 9.00 - 01.00 Because of the collaboration with poets, beursvanberlage.com

Restaurants 9. Amsterdam Central Station 3. Pasta Pasta (Italian eatery) Stationsplein,1012 AB Amsterdam Warmoesstraat 49, 1012 HW Amsterdam Railway stations had always been built to a 1876. The building is executed in an eclectic Opening hours Thu / Fri: 11.00 - 00.00 / 02.00 prescribed standard by state engineers. As a style, which draws on late Gothic and early T: +31 (0)20 331 1199 front door to the capital city, however, Central Renaissance examples. The station was 4. Toko Dun Yung (food store) Station needed to be a landmark building. completed in 1889. Since 1997 Central Station Stormsteeg 9, 1012 BD Amsterdam It was consequently the first station in the undergoes a large renovation to meet up to Opening hours Thu / Fri: 9.00 - 19.00 Netherlands whose design was entrusted current and future demands. Completion is T: +31 (0)20 622 1763 to architects. P.J.H. Cuypers and A.L. van foreseen in 2020. Gendt won the commission for the station in arcam.nl/en/centraal-station/

Cultural Hotspots 10. OBA - Public Library Amsterdam 5. De Nieuwe Kerk (church) Oosterdokskade 143, 1011 DL Amsterdam Dam, 1012 NP Amsterdam Amsterdams central public library (OBA), are the usual bookcases, reading tables and nieuwekerk.nl taken into use on 07-07-07 is the largest study areas, but also theatres, museums, public library in the Netherlands. Inside art projects, conference rooms, a restaurant 6. Koninklijk Paleis (Royal Palace) this ‘experience library’, designed by former with a spectacular view and hundreds of Dam, 1012 NP Amsterdam chief government architect Jo Coenen, there publicly accessible computers. nieuwekerk.nl 7. Museum Ons’Lieve Heer op Solder (Museum Our Lord in the Attic) arcam.nl/en/openbare-bibliotheek-amsterdam/ Oudezijds Voorburgwal 38, 1012 GE Amsterdam opsolder.nl

72 73 Urban Safari #8 Waag Society Friday 15th of April 2016, 14:30 - 16:30 3 Nieuwmarkt 4, 1012 CR Amsterdam T: +31 (0)20 557 9898 waag.org 1 Theme: Do-It-Yourself 7 There is a notable need for museums and professionals to create their own interactive, 5 2 cultural heritage sites to engage visitors in smart and tangible exhibits. new ways. The meSch project wants to put the physical experience back in the centre The meSch approach is grounded on of cultural heritage experiences. Several principles of co-design: the participation 4 tools have been developed for this purpose, of designers, developers and stake-holders most notably an online editing platform into the process of creation and evaluation 9 and starter toolkit. Through these tools the as equal partners, and on a Do-It-Yourself project aims to empower cultural heritage philosophy of making and experimenting. 10 Using smart objects in exhibitions The meSch platform and starter kit facilitate between real objects and the digital world. a step-by-step design process through the And we will demo the starter kit that 6 use of ‘recipes’. The recipes use cultural connects to the online authoring platform artefacts, state of the art technology and with various recipes for interactive exhibits. visitor actions to activate a contextualized In addition participants will actively explore presentation of that content. To facilitate scenarios for the use of smart objects in a adoption, we encourage the reuse of existing museum environment themselves. The recipes and the design of new ones. session will be hosted by Merel van der Vaart In the session we will present the case (Allard Pierson Museum), Hub Kockelkorn studies of Museon and Allard Pierson (Museon), Mark Marshall (Sheffield Hallam Museum in which smart objects were University) and Dick van Dijk (Waag introduced in exhibitions, building a link Society).

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76 77 Thank you!

A big thanks to all our speakers, the Urban Safari hosts and venues, the RICHES consortium partners and to the Volkshotel.

The conference is organized by Waag Society: Christine van den Horn, Tessel van Leeuwen, Jimena Gauna, Ester van der Geest, Laurie Skelton, Job Spierings, Robin van Westen and Dick van Dijk.

RICHES Programme committee: Katerina Charatzopoulou, Neil Forbes, Antonella Fresa, Tim Hammerton, Trilce Navarete, Charlotte Waelde, Sarah Whatley, Dick van Dijk, Robin van Westen and Christine van den Horn.

The conference is moderated by Robin van Westen and Dick van Dijk.

The programme booklet is created by Jimena Guana, Marc Kunst and Mariska Hamelink. The IMage of Europe tool is created by Douwe-Sjoerd Boschman, Taco van Dijk and Martin Risseeuw.

Thanks to our communications partner Digitalmeetsculture.

RICHES is funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 612789.

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