Tag Archives: Amsterdam

Opinion article in Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad

Following my article ‘People Can’t Live in Museums‘ and an interview in this month’s Time Out Amsterdam, I decided to share some of my thoughts on the effects of an UNESCO-enlistment with the Dutch readers of the national daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad. They published my opinion article together with a crazy cartoon by Hajo de Reijger. [...]

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Time Out interview on Amsterdam’s UNESCO-listing

Non-fiction’s co-founder Michiel van Iersel is featured in this month’s edition of Time Out Amsterdam, talking about Amsterdam’s enlistment on UNESCO‘s World Heritage List and the possible pros and cons. In 2007 he already wrote on this topic, concluding that ‘people can’t live in museum’s’. This paper can be downloaded here. The Hot Seat ‘People [...]

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New column in Metropolis M: Museum Manager 2011

Inspired by the computer game Football Manager, in which you are the trainer of a top football club, Juha van ’t Zelfde dreams of the game Museum Manager, in which you get to run a top museum. It will have been in 1995 that I managed to get my hands on my first copy of [...]

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Is there still a future for classical music?

From this year on the annual Three-Day Music Festival in the Dutch city of The Hague will become the epicenter for innovations in classical music: “Is there a future for classical music?“, “How can we engage a new and young(er) audience?” and “what will a concert (hall) be like in the year 2030?“. Non-fiction sets out to [...]

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Can we still trust you?

How can banks, museums, governments and other institutions regain a sense of trust from the public? That is the question that lies at the heart of an ambitious project titled ‘Trustville‘. Initiated by communication agency Vandejong and its idiosyncratic founder and namesake Pjotr de Jong, Trustville encompasses a series of themed expert meetings focusing on [...]

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Nike launches True City application for iPhone

Today Nike has released True City, an iPhone application that promises to make ‘the hidden visible through the knowledge and insight of Nike Insiders.’ Six European cities – Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, London, Milan and Paris – have been selected by Nike, and in these cities 5 individuals – so called Nike Insiders – will share [...]

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Amsterdam Creative Metropolis #1

We have been invited by the city of Amsterdam and the alderman of culture Caroline Gehrels to participate in a series of public discussion and open brainstorms on the future of the creative industries in Amsterdam. Tonight is the kick off, at 20.00 in Pakhuis de Zwijger in the Eastern Docklands. We hope to see [...]

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Contribution to Time Out magazine out now

With contributions from 36 of our dearest friends and heroes, including Ben Cerveny, Nalden, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Saskia Sassen and Winy Maas, our co-created vison of Amsterdam in 2020 appeared in the new year’s edition of Time Out magazine Amsterdam. Download it here. Tweet This Post

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