Veranstaltungsdetails

Sprechstunde Amsterdam: On how not to be ‘Creative™’
mit einer Einführung auf Deutsch, die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.

We want to invite you to a space-time-odyssey through three decades of city development, state policy and counter culture.

Amsterdam ™: Sin City? Liberty City? New Babylon?

In the minds of many, Amsterdam still is the freedom capital of the world.

This evening of collective ‘Denkgymnastik’ will challenge this view.

Through the eyes of policy makers, office clerks, artists and citizens we will investigate the processes which led to our contemporary ‘Januskopf’ called ‘incubator policy’. Together with the audience we will develop a tool kit of surgical instruments to strategically dissect this ever growing monster.

With contributions from a.o.

Partizan Publik

Chris Keulemans

Edwin Gardner

Partizan Publik is a research, design and action practice led by Joost Janmaat and Christian Ernsten. Partizan Publik works with the instruments of arts, activism and academia on commissioned, collaborative or self-initiated projects.

Current activities include amongst others the creative directorship of the Liberation day events in Amsterdam, the realization of a residency - coop in Detroit, the development of user-sourced social housing scenarios for the former USSR and the design and programming of the Staalvilla in Amsterdam.

Chris Keulemans is a writer, journalist, former director of DeBalie and currently artistic director of the Tolhuistuin.

Edwin Gardner is a writer, theorist and architect. In 2009 he graduated at TU Delft on a thesis with the outlandish title: Reasoning in Architecture; About the Diagrammatic Nature of Thinking with Real and Imagined Objects. Currently he’s working as an Editorial Consultant for Volume Magazine and researcher for Partizan Publik.