This Saturday the 10th annual museumnacht (museum night) will be organised in our hometown Amsterdam. Non-fiction will take part with a special marathon on museums and the city, in their basecamp De Verdieping. A wide group of institutions, designers and thinkers will join us at the table to discuss how pervasive urban museums are, and [...]
“The age of ubiquitous computation is condensing around us even as you read this. The various systems throughout a modern city that you probably interact with everyday are beginning to maintain persistent memories of their own use, communicate with each other about their status, and even reconfigure themselves based on your dynamic needs.” This is [...]
Another week of Non-fiction events in Amsterdam, starting with the collaboration with the Filmmuseum and DOKU.ARTS festival on Wednesday at De Verdieping. We will screen the documentary ‘Rem Koolhaas – A Kind of Architect‘, with a brief interview with festival director Andreas Lewin. Entrance is free of charge. More information on this on Facebook. On [...]
What does a contemporary artist do with the vibrant past of a former hiding place on one of Amsterdam’s canals? Is it the aura, the uniqueness and authenticity of this place to be captured and can it be transformed into something new and relevant? Those questions live at the heart of the art project Aura: [...]
The Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam is celebrating its 100th birthday this year with the exhibition ‘Plan Zuid, in bewerking‘. The exhibition displays works by students of architecture that have responded to the 1915 urban development project ’Plan Zuid‘ by infamous Amsterdam architect Berlage. The opening of the exhibition will be at De Verdieping today at 4.30 pm, with [...]
With only 6 entries in Google at time of writing, ‘data as architecture’ is either a mistake of my tourist-mind, or it opens a new way of thinking about the convergence of the physical and the virtual. Now that the field of data visualisation is rapidly taking over the world (have a look at the New [...]
In 9 days Trouw, the new club and restaurant on the Wibautstraat in Amsterdam, will open its doors for the public. Downstairs, its cultural add-on De Verdieping is still under construction, and should be fully functioning in the second part of March, when we will host the nachtsalon afterparty to get things out of ‘beta’. [...]
Today we visited Trouw and de Verdieping to talk with the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam about a possible collaboration. We are pretty excited about the prospect of aggregating organisations to create new projects at de Verdieping. One would be the role of architecture in hip hop aesthetics, an idea pondered by Michiel and subscribed [...]
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