Opening Open Atelier: Subjective Atlas of Amsterdam

You are invited to the Open Atelier of the Subjective Atlas of Amsterdam on Friday 22 April, 5 pm at Arcam. Follow the process, get inspired by the various contributions and other subjective atlases, and map out your own perspective!

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Maps give the impression that they contain objective information, but leave out the layered social, political, and cultural realities of a location or area. This Subjective Atlas of Amsterdam charts a collection of place-specific perspectives from different Amsterdam inhabitants, with particular attention to underrepresented voices in this diverse city. The atlas consists of diverse individual experiences, as recorded during one of the working sessions with the partner organizations. These personal contributions thus became the Subjective Atlas of Amsterdam. The goal of this publication is to contribute to a broader and more inclusive architectural debate by taking the conversation about the city out of the exclusive domain of experts on the subject.

After four workshops, the project is halfway and we invite you to see some of the results. During the opening of the Open Atelier, we will present the project and the insights it has yielded so far.

Programme and guests

17.00 uur – Doors open
17.15 uur – Welcome and introdution* by Indira van ‘t Klooster (Director Arcam), Annelys de Vet (Subjective Editions), Anne Vera Veen (Projectleader Subjective Atlas of Amsterdam) and Wouter Stroet (graphic design and visual support)
17.30 uur – Presentation of the personal maps by three workshop participants
18.00 uur – Drinks (non-alcoholic)
19.00 uur – End

*Since the people involved in the project speak several languages, we present the programme in a mix of English and Dutch.

Speakers

Indira van ‘t Klooster Annelys de Vet Anne Vera Veen Wouter Stroet

Indira van ‘t Klooster

Moderator

Indira van 't Klooster has been director of Arcam since 1 November 2019. At Pakhuis de Zwijger she presents Architecture Now, on current themes in architecture. Author of Reactivate! Innovators of Dutch Architecture. In the past year she has been exploring with many parties how a city model with digital layers can be a tool in the use of data for the big design questions for the future. As chair of the foundation Lokale Architectuur Initiatieven, she works together with AiR (Rotterdam, secretary), ABC (Haarlem, treasurer), the Instituut Rijksbouwmeester (Floris Alkemade) and a growing network of local architecture initiatives, towards a more powerful, national architecture network.

Annelys de Vet

Speaker

Annelys de Vet is a designer, researcher and teacher. She is the Course Director of the 2-year Master Disarming Design at the Sandberg Institute and is currently researching the conditions of design pedagogy to counter oppression and injustice through design. Annelys is the initiator of Subjective Editions, a series of atlases made from a human perspective by the inhabitants themselves, together with local designers and artists. The Subjective Atlas of Amsterdam is the fourteenth in the series.

Anne Vera Veen

Speaker

Anne Vera Veen is a Visual Anthropologist and cultural entrepreneur. Visual Anthropology is a study that aims to convey insights from social research in experimental audiovisual ways. Anne Vera previously expressed this in her artistic research on photo archives, as an exhibition designer at Het Nieuwe Instituut and as co-founder and artistic director of Galerie de Jaloezie, a platform for film and audiovisual art. As project leader and program maker at Arcam, she is interested in the social side of the built environment.

Wouter Stroet

Speaker

Wouter Stroet is an artist, activist and graphic designer whose work makes use of contemporary cartographic methods such as photographic measurements and aerial and satellite images. With these methods, he questions authoritarian narratives by unravelling success stories of linear progress. Wouter is active in Verdedig Noord, a creative residents collective that feels responsible for Amsterdam-Noord and takes action against gentrification.

The Subjective Atlas of..

During the four workshops we organised with our partners Radio Voorwaarts, We Sell Reality, Sandberg Institute and IHLIA Archive for Queer History, different intriguing perspectives emerged.

During the opening, several visual authors will talk about the atlas contribution they made and explain the (thought) process that preceded it.

Visit the Open Atelier

The Open Atelier can be visited on the first floor of Arcam from Friday 22 April until the end of 2022. Follow the process, get inspired by the various contributions and other subjective atlases, and map out your own perspective!

Contact

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