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DRIFT MATTER: WALKING AS ATTENDING TO AN ANARCHIVE OF PLACE


2024 - 2025
UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM,
BUURTWERKPLAATS NOORDERHOF
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Conducted within the container of the Research Masters in Artistic Research at the University of Amsterdam, this ongoing project is occupied with how walking as artistic research practice can be used as an embodied methodology when attending to an anarchive of place.

For this iteration of my research, I have been working within the Slotermeer neighbourhood of Amsterdam, one of Amsterdam’s oldest ‘Garden Cities’ whose development began in the post-war climate of the 1950s. Slotermeer is a neighbourhood laden with evidence of experimental and meticulous urban planning, diversely populated and with relatively recent history that often overlooks the legacy of farms and marshlands that lay here before. It is also home to Buurtwerkplaats Noorderhof - the neighbourhood workplace in which I host workshops, and volunteer as part of their Klusteam. Owing to its layered properties, and my growing familiarity with its locality, Slotermeer has emerged as an ideal site for my walking research.

The aim of this project is to develop different walking methodologies that work towards stimulating a reimagined perspective of Slotermeer, reshuffling and resurfacing its layers. Looking ahead, I hope to develop a toolkit that will enhance my own artistic research trajectory wherever it might take me. I am working towards opportunities that allow me to apply this research to different places.

WORKSHOPS




ROUTE-FINDING TOWARDS POSSIBLE FUTURES 

Conducted in collaboration with Rosalie Bak
11th May 2025
Buurtwerkplaats Noorderhof, Amsterdam




A POSTCARD FROM SLOTERMEER ︎︎︎

28th Feb 2025
Buurtwerkplaats Noorderhof, Amsterdam




WALKING NOTBOOKS: INTUITIVE CARTOGRAPHY

Conducted in collaboration with Giulia Morlando
29th May 2024
Buurtwerkplaats Noorderhof, Amsterdam















HOW TO BE A GOOD NEIGHBOUR 

Conducted in collaboration with Lucienne Walstra
5th April 2025
Zone2Source,
Amsterdam




FINDING VIEWS ︎︎︎

21st Feb 2025
Buurtwerkplaats Noorderhof, Amsterdam




WALKING TO THE DINNER TABLE: A COLLABORATIVE WALKING WORKSHOP

Conducted in collaboration with Giulia Morlando
22nd May 2024
Buurtwerkplaats Noorderhof, Amsterdam







THE WALKING WORKING GROUP AT RECLAIM THE SEEDS 

Conducted as part of the program at the 2025 edition of Reclaim the Seeds Festival
15th Mar 2025
Fruittuin van West,
Amsterdam




ACTS OF CARE

A collective workshop between artists Rebecca Douglass, Giulia Morlando, Clara Arámburo,  Jetske Verhoeven and Margarita García Jiménez
9th Nov 2024
Buurtwerkplaats Noorderhof, Amsterdam




CENTREPIECING IT TOGETHER: WALKING METHODOLOGIES FOR LAYING THE TABLE

Conducted in collaboration with Giulia Morlando
10th May 2024
Buurtwerkplaats Noorderhof, Amsterdam


PHOTOGRAPHS