We are in the last day of our Time Out Amsterdam Future City tweet aggregation, and have been enthused by the imaginative, witty and sometimes harsh messages from the future. Artist Aaron Koblin hopped off the 5 minute electro-magnet train from Utrecht, transcontinental VURB founder Ben Cerveny printed 30 bikes and discovered that the floating [...]
In little more than a month we will be millennial teenagers. The nameless decade of the ‘noughties’ will have passed, and the ‘tens’ will give us renewed inspiration and wonder for yet another future. The Amsterdam branch of the international city periodical Time Out has invited architects, designers and thinkers to envision Amsterdam at the [...]
Juha van ‘t Zelfde > Who are you and what do you do? James Burke > Presently, Narb consists of Tijs Teulings and James Burke. I’m a former chef who became an interaction designer across a number of different fields. I’m mainly known as one of the guys behind the Roomware project and separately also [...]
It is unclear whether construction on the new North-South line of the Amsterdam metro will ever be completed. After a long history of technical and financial setbacks and disputes with the construction company work on this megalomaniac project has virtually halted. In anticipation of a possible cancellation of the project, we wonder what will happen [...]
In times of crisis the tendency of cultural institutions to emphasise the value of their services seems to juxtapose the willingnes of corporate sponsors to commit funding for exhibitions and programmes. We are looking for people with bold new ideas about improving cultural patronage. Hearing Flying Lotus and Hudson Mohawke play live at the Bimhuis [...]
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