Urban Diary New project on urban commoning in Amsterdam’s Zeeburgereiland This project will start in 2020 and receives funding from the NWO/SIA Smart Culture program to research how The Commons...
Urban Diary Lost (Cultural) Paradise? The displacement of artists from inner-city neighbourhoods due to rising rents: it has become an all too familiar phenomenon and...
Urban Diary Meditations on Housing as Commons: A Solution to the Amsterdam Housing Crisis? This text was presented as a column at the launch of Urban Commons of Culture in April 2018 As living...
Urban Diary The Valley (Portugal) – A not so Urban Diary While nowadays, more and more people decide to live in urban areas, resulting in staggering global urbanisation rates, others choose...
Urban Diary Travelling dilemmas Returning home to Amsterdam after a trip to Copenhagen, I ask myself: was I one of them? Was I one...
Urban Diary Les Rambles – A Commons in Conflict, a Resource for Social Justice? Conflict is not evident in the great promenade in the centre of Barcelona. Shoppers sell, buskers busk, tourists look in...
Urban Diary Milan: Culture = Capital Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Milan Notwithstanding the rise of on-line bookselling, “real” bookshops still are important. Not just because of the...
Urban Diary Amsterdam: Time Machines It’s high time for time travel! Time travel?! Isn’t that about other dimensions and wormholes? Not anymore! 120 something years...