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New Dutch FoodInternational became national.

OutroThe end.

Amsterdam Z.O.Ghetto Renaissance

Dutch DesignTrue Dutch gems.

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Special Thanks ToChris Kampel, Pietro Rivasi, Noem 507, Neal Wass,Shyamantha Asokan, Sylvia Witteman, Jan Joritsma, Mike Lemamski, Jude Webber, Tom Philips, Joe Francheschi, Nico de Boer, Peter ten Zaaldam, Kenny van Hummel, Patrick Serku,Johnney Green, Matt Seaton, Guy Andrews.

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EditorialA word from Andrew de Koning.

A smart guide to RotterdamEverything you need to know.

Piet ParraInterview with an artist.

Geert WildersBuilder or destroyer?

Dutch ArchitectureMade in Holland

CONTENTSJUNE 2011


Design GuideDutch Artist:Piet Parra

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Piet Parra

You wouldn’t call Piet Parra, Dutch artist and clothing designer, an “overnight success,” but it also wouldn’t be far from the truth. The accidental urban art celebrity stumbled onto his talent just a few years back while designing party flyers, and his phone has been ringing off the hook ever since. Parra has worked with just about every major sportswear company—Nike, Vans, Converse—in bringing his distinctive vision to their merchandise and has also launched his own apparel company, Rockwell. It would seem that anything he puts his signature on quickly becomes a sneakerhead’s desirable.


PaRRa is also PaRt of thE gRowing gRouP of stREEt aRtists

whose credibility has carried over into the art world. Having put on well-received solo shows in Los Angeles, Milan, Paris, and, most recently, Berlin, the entrepreneur is now sell-ing prints of his distinctive and playful work, which feature a dry wit, striking typography, and all manner of curious human-bird hybrid creatures.P

I try to stay away from reading the blogs. They get really critical, and well… there’s so much product out there. Before the Internet, stuff used to be cool when you saw someone wearing it. And you’d ask, where did you get that? I got it in New York. You’d think: That’s so cool but I’ll never get that. Now, if it’s on your screen, you can get it. And also you may not even sell anything but people know who you are. You’ve seen it online, and that’s how you exist.

You’re transitioning from having been a more “street” artist to being a legitimate artist with gallery exhibits.I come from skateboarding, not really street art. I started designing because I needed a job—I was hoping to be a pro skateboarder and that didn’t work out. So I ended up doing flyers and posters, and through all of that, I developed my own style. I am not a traditional designer. But then one thing led to another… I did a Foot Locker campaign and that snowballed into getting me more gigs.

Do you have a ritual for making creative work?I don’t put paper in front of my nose. I listen to music, watch some TV, take a walk. It takes a long time for ideas to take shape. Taking a blank piece of paper every day and sitting there… it’s not going to happen. I need to get an influence from the outside world. Ideas are like dreams, and they come to me sometimes when I sleep—it happens quite a lot.

You have a very distinctive style. Tell me about your color, using such an intentionally limited palette.I like the poppy colors, like the oranges, blues, and pinks. This is the palette that makes me happy. From the clothing I put on, I’m very happy with these restrictions, and simplicity. I hardly use yellow but I did it for the Nike jacket because it worked so well together. I’ll break the rules some-times because they’re my own.

What about the people you illustrate, like the buxom women with the beaks, for example?When I was doing the flyers, I got into that hand-drawn style. My father was a painter, an artist, and he used to say draw one line and if it’s no good, do it again. The style came to me fairly quickly. It felt like it was always inside of me. Those beaked people actually came from not being able to draw a face.

That wasn’t too long ago. This has been a busy couple of years.Well, it’s been a wild ride. The compa-nies come out of the woodwork when you start getting street cred. It’s kind of evil—they use you and you use them. But it’s not street cred, really, it’s more like blog cred. If you’re on the blogs, then things start snowballing.

You seem pretty aware of the mutual use. Does that sit well with you?Today I had a pretty bad day.

Yet, despite his speedy rise to promi-nence, the day we speak with Parra, he’s feeling somewhat unsettled by exceeding his own expectations. We chatted about the wild ride of the past three years–the highs and lows that come with success, the need to start saying “no,” and where those damn beaks came from.

You’ve worked with so many big-name clients—InCase, Nike, Vans. What was your first major collaboration?Etnies. I think that was in 2007.


Mike Lemans ~MAP~ Magazine 2011

When I did draw a face, it was too real-looking. It looked like a specific person, almost referential. I was try-ing to do something long lasting, like a character, a cartoon. Instead of working on the face, the eyes to show emotion, it’s both harder and easier this way.

You have witty quotes and one-liners in your art. Where do they come from?I make them up 8 out of 10 times. Some of the others fly by in music and movies. I don’t pay attention for that reason—that would be fake. When stuff flies by in a stupid movie, I write it down. Sometimes you make a drawing and the words also pop in my head, like that line feels really right with this picture.

How often do you draw and paint?Not often enough. I called my father in a panic once and told him, I can’t do this anymore. I felt like I was drying up. You have these bursts of energy and creativity and bang out these in-credible drawings, but then you’ll have this stretch of time for weeks when you can’t do anything. I couldn’t draw every day because it would probably make me hate this.

How do you approach the different brands that you’re working on, like how would Vans be different from Nike?Vans is a skating company, and Nike would be about winning. So with Vans, my way of personalizing it was writing, “Don’t forget to skate in these.” But Nike is all about winning, and I thought it would be a lot of fun if I designed a jacket and sneakers about losing. It’s all about humor for me, and it’s important to add that to everything I do.

Everything has happened to you in the past three years. How are you digesting all of this sudden success?This is one of the things I’m dealing with right now. I find myself wonder-ing what do people like, what are they getting into? Do they like my jokes, do they find them childish? Am I doing something right, and, if so, what is it that I’m doing right? Success makes you think a lot. It’s human nature—I should try to just enjoy it, and I’m trying, but it’s like a train. The mind keeps working and running. It’s not keeping me up at night—it’s not that bad, it’s just that sometimes I don’t know exactly who I am.

Now that you’re at a crossroads, do you find yourself thinking about

relationships with people more often?Yes, definitely. I’m not sure if I should get into this really, but yes, of course you think about it. But I’ve also start-ing saying no to people. I can’t do everything. I have something coming out with Converse because I agreed to that a while back, but I think I need to take a break for a while. Just take a deep breath.

Are you excited about the future?I’m really excited but I’m also fucking scared. My life has surpassed expec-tations. You can say that to yourself but it’s hard to believe it. Well, it’s true. The past few years have been surreal. Absolutely surreal. I hope the world doesn’t forget about me, but I also have happy thoughts that I can do animation, I can do sculptures. The creative world is open to me right and that’s a great thought. But there are some overcast skies every once in awhile.

So how did you break out from being a local artist doing flyers in Amsterdam, to reach the level you are at today?This art director literally picked a flyer I had done up off the street and tracked me down. Amsterdam is really small, so he found me in a day. Back then, everybody was into design, and every-thing was nice and straight, and I had done this weird flyer with hand-written fonts, so it stood out for that period. He was looking for an illustrator to do a campaign for a sneaker store. He dragged me in and that really gave me a push. So I just started drawing more and more, and began to be able to live off my work. After I had a solo art show in London, I got picked up by the agency Big Active and everything went

easier from there.

Your work features bright colors and humor; it seems happy and whimsical. Is this a reflection of your personality?My name, Parra, is short for paranoid. I want to be light and happy, but I’m not. I’m never positive. But I’m a wor-rier more than a dark person. If you view my work, and don’t know what it’s about, it appears happy. It has happy colors and is easy to digest. Someone from 8 to 80 years old might like it. But deeper in, most of my work has something dark. Irony is my favorite stuff. Some of the most crappy stuff in life, I find amusing.

You work predominantly with Giclé prints. How did you come upon this medium, and are you worried that, as a fine art medium, a digital print may have less intrinsic value than an original drawing, lithograph, or even screen print?When I had the opportunity to do my first solo show, I needed something fast and I figured that Giclé posters would be easy. And I kind of stuck with it. The thing is, I draw on paper. I could easily do bigger sketches and frame them and they’d be more valuable. But deep down, I still love graphic design so much - printed matter, and I really love color in a big way, and you have to be a damn good painter to get it that tight, and I still want to learn that one day, so for now, it’s posters mainly.I think the silk screen was the Giclé of that time period. It was intended to reproduce an image. So that’s not many prints.

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Current affairsDutch Politics:Geert Wilders

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Yankees, Geert Wilders is coming your way! He will take a break from the formation of a new Dutch government and speak out against the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ in New York, this Saturday. In order to avoid an international scandal, De Pers presents a special Wilders Dictionary. What does Geert actually mean, whenever he gets a bit foul-mouthed?


gEERt wildERs

Geert Wilders, the prominent Dutch politician being prosecuted for hate speech over his campaign against Islam in public life, is a deeply divisive figure.

On the one hand, he has antagonised the Muslim world by calling for a ban on the Koran, which he likened to Ad-olf Hitler’s Mein Kampf. On the other, he was voted politician of the year in 2007 by the Dutch political press, partly because of his “well-timed one-liners”. If his views on Islam are inflammatory, his other opinions sit in the Dutch libertarian tradition, and he argues that he is only “intolerant of the intolerant”. Instantly recognisable for his mane of platinum blond hair, which earned him the nickname “Mo-zart”, he is a charismatic leader.His Freedom Party went from winning nine seats in the 2006 election to 24 in 2010, taking a bigger share of the vote than the Christian Demo-crats - the main party in the outgoing coalition. Days before his hate speech trial was due to open in Amsterdam, he was playing the role of kingmaker in Dutch politics.

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Mr Wilders made a high-profile foray into the world of global politics on 11 September 2010, when he marked the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with a visit to Ground Zero in New York.

By attacking the symbols of the Mus-lim religion, he [Geert Wilders] also in-sulted Muslim believers” Dutch judges In a speech to a rally against the construction of an Islamic centrenear the site, he contrasted the “forces of Jihad” with New York’s tradition of tolerance, which he tied to his own country’s. His speech echoed themes from Fitna (which roughly translates from Arabic as “strife”), his hugely controversial film which juxtaposes the Koran with 9/11 and other atrocities.No TV company in the Netherlands would broadcast the 17-minute film and some Dutch politicians tried to im-pose a ban before Mr Wilders posted it on the internet in March 2008.Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen complained the furore over Fitna could endanger Dutch compa-nies, soldiers and residents abroad.Asked about the impact of his film, Mr Wilders said: “It’s not the aim of the movie but people might be offended, I know that. So, what the hell? It’s their problem, not my problem.”

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Political foes like Maxime Verhagen (left) are having to accommodate Mr Wilders Former colleagues describe Mr Wilders as a 24/7 politician with no time for other interests.

Born in the Limburg town of Venlo in 1963, he came from a Roman Catholic background but has since said he is not religious. The son of a printing company director, he began a career in social and health insurance, and socio-economic policy brought him into politics, as a speech-writer for the Dutch Liberal Party (VVD). He was elected as a city councillor in Utrecht in 1997 and MP the following year but he disagreed with the party’s support for Turkish entry into the EU and left it in 2002 to strike out on his own.It is a measure of his meteoric rise through Dutch politics that in Septem-ber 2010 the VVD found itself relying on Mr Wilders to form a new govern-ment. Mr Wilders prompted compari-sons with Pim Fortuyn, the maverick political leader who famously de-scribed Islam as a backward religion. Fortuyn was murdered by an animal rights activist in 2002, shortly before an election. It was another high-profile murder, in November 2004, which al-tered Mr Wilders’s career dramatically: the slaying of Dutch film-maker Theo van Gogh by a radical Islamist.Together with ethnic Somali politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Van Gogh had produced the short film Submis-sion, which featured an actress in see-through clothing with Koranic script on her body. Although he had no involvement in the film, Mr Wilders was given a permanent bodyguard, as was Ms Hirsi Ali, because of their outspoken views on Islam.Mr Wilders set up the Freedom Party with policies such as banning the burka, the Muslim garment that cov-ers most of the body.

‘Just want dEbatE’

Mr Wilders, whose wife is Hungarian, is adamant that he is not a racist.

Speaking to the BBC in October 2009He told the BBC his intention had only ever been “to have a debate about freedom of speech and the threat of Islamisation of our Western socie-ties”. “It’s not my intention to have anything at all to do with violence,” he said. “On the contrary, I despise violence - I just want a debate.”Unlike other figures on the fringes of

European politics, he has never been accused of anti-Semitism. On the con-trary, he is a strong admirer of Israel, visiting the country frequently.“My allies are not Le Pen or Haider...” he told the Guardian newspaper.“We’ll never join up with the Fascists and Mussolinis of Italy. I’m very afraid of being linked with the wrong, rightist, Fascist groups.” One of his criticisms of Muslims in the Netherlands is their conservative stance on sexual freedoms, such as gay rights.“I believe we have been too tolerant of the intolerant,” he told the BBC.“We should learn to become intolerant of the intolerant.”

But Dutch judges moved in January 2009 to try Mr Wilders for inciting hatred and discrimination.

Explaining their decision, they said: “By attacking the symbols of the Mus-lim religion, he also insulted Muslim believers. In a democratic system, hate speech is considered to be so serious that it is in the general inter-est to draw a clear line.”

fitna

melancholic road movie

In 2008 Wilders released an internet movie about the threat the Islam pos-es to the West. The Dutch government tried hard to prevent Fitna (Arabic for: tribulation) out of fear for retaliation. There was a happy ending: no riots in The Netherlands.

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the wise prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him

One of the many nicknames Wilders has in stock for the prophet of Allah. It does NOT mean that he does not respect Mohammed, it means that he holds different opinions on a wide range of subjects (see also: Mass Murderer & Paedophile).

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respectable climate scientist

Geert Wilders is a bit of a climate sceptic and no friend of the Democrats. This does NOT mean he is in favour of destroying the earth, it means he doesn’t believe in driving slowly (the new coalition will raise the maximum speed to 80 miles per hour).

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hEadscaRf tax

economic stimulus bill for The Netherlands

Though some people would explain this as a measure to wipe out all head-scarves in the Dutch streets, Wilders forgot to calculate the expected benefits of this new tax and apparently wasn’t very serious about it himself.

hank and ingRid

the average people who love their Muslim neighbours

Wilders likes to call his fictitious fans Henk and Ingrid, two common Dutch names. One and half million men and women voted for his Freedom Party at the last elections, some 15 percent of the electorate. They are worried about immigration and security, but most of them do not support extreme measures like an official ban of the Quran, or something else like that.

WILDERS DISLIkES DUTch LEfT LEanIng mEDIa, ESpEcIaLLY hILvERSUmBaSED pUBLIc TELEvISIOn

islamofascism

the majority of moderate Muslims

Wilders believes Islam is a totalitarian ideology, instead of a religion. However, that does NOT stop him from signing a deal with CDA and VVD, political parties that do regard Islam as a religion.

lEft chuRch

Wilders’ dear friends from Dutch television

Wilders dislikes Dutch left leaning media, especially Hilversum-based public television – the Left Church - almost as much as he dislikes the Islam. He will never appear on their shows, EXCEPT when elections are near. Unlike reverend Terry Jones, Wilders has never made plans to burn Qurans.

Chris Tates ~MAP~ Magazine 2011

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Dutch DesignArchitecture:International

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Current AffairsAmsterdam Z.O.:

Ghetto Renaissance

Z.o. Zuidoost ghetto Renesaince

In 1995 the Amsterdam Bijlmermeer neighbourhood, a part of the Southeast district, was assigned funding by the European Commission, within the context of the Community Initiative URBAN. One of the program requirements was an organizational structure, composed of a Steering Committee and a Supervisory Committee.


However, froM THe ouTSeT, THere wAS A publiC ouTCry by THe loCAl (priMArily) ‘blACk’ populATioN, AGAiNST THiS orGANizATioNAl STruC-Ture.

Especially the one-sided, mainly ‘white’ composition of the URBAN organiza-tional structure, as well as the minor representation of ethnic minority groups and neighbourhood residents were heavily criticized.

Many of the Southeast District councilors shared this opinion and supported the protest. The protest re-sulted in a heated discussion, that has become known as the ‘black and white discussion’ and caused a huge delay in the implementation of the URBAN program in the Bijlmermeer: from May 1996 until January 1997 there was a program ‘time-out’. However, the result of this discussion was a significant change in the organizational structure, as well as a serious shift with respect to the content of the original URBAN Bijlmermeer program.

The questions that I would like to ad-dress today are: what were the original points of departure of the URBAN Bijlmermeer program? What precisely caused this public outcry and how did the discussion develop? And finally, what was the outcome, especially in terms of gains for the local population? To what extent could the increased participation be ascribed to the Com-munity Initiative URBAN?

THe iNforMATioN iS derived froM THe CASe STudy THAT i AM preSeNTly workiNG oN wiTHiN THe frAMework of THe europeAN uGiS-pro-GrAM, iN wHiCH SeverAl eu MeMber STATeS pArTiCipATe.

The more general question, at the beginning of the case study was: How has the presence of the Community Initiative URBAN changed the interplay between the various actors involved in the program?

As the case study has not been finished yet, you have to keep in mind that much of the following material is quite preliminary. In my PhD research I will examine some remaining questions in more detail.

First of all I would like to briefly intro-duce the Bijlmer neighbourhood and the Community Initiative URBAN.

THe CiTy of AMSTerdAM iS Subdivided iN 15 diSTriCTS. every diSTriCT iS HeAded by iTS owN AdMiNiSTrATioN.

One of these districts, called ‘Amster-dam Southeast,’ (‘Amsterdam South-east’) is located to the southeast of the City of Amsterdam. It can be character-ized as a peripheral new social housing estate.

The area to which is usually referred as ‘the Bijlmer or the Bijlmermeer,’ is part of this district and is home to almost 50.000 people.

The Bijlmer construction, which started in 1966, attracted worldwide atten-tion, as it concerned a large scale, and therefore unique ‘functional town’, based on the concept of the architect Le Corbusier. In the lay-out of this functional town, living, working, traffic and recreation were separated. The Bijlmer mainly consisted of high-rise (10-floor) deck-access apartment blocks in a honeycomb pattern. Of the total 18,000 units, 13,000 were built in this way. Between the large, high-rise apartment blocks, spacious green parks were developed, traversed by bicycle and pedestrian routes. Car traffic was led above ground level and metro lines crossed the roadways (Projectbureau Vernieuwing Bijlmermeer, 1994; Stads-deel Zuidoost et al., 1995; UBO URBAN Bijlmermeer, 1999).

THe SpACiouS ANd CoMforT-Able HiGH-riSe ApArTMeNTS, MoSTly developed AS pub-liC HouSiNG, were iNTeNded for (lower) Middle-ClASS fAMilieS froM THe old iN-Ner CiTy AreAS of AMSTer-dAM.

However, soon after the Bijlmer con-struction had started, it became clear already that the way of building (high-rise blocks) was not in accordance with the markets; the people for whom it was meant did not move to the Bijlmer.

This resulted in a lack of occupancy and these vacant apartments attracted many people who for some reason could not easily find a place to live else-where. Between 1970 and 1975, pre-ceding the independence of Surinam (a former colony of the Netherlands), many Surinamese came to the Netherlands and settled in the Bijlmer. Other im-migrants, from the Netherlands Antilles, followed. In the middle of the 1980s, many fringe groups, such as refugees,

migrants, illegal foreigners, and so on, found refuge in the Bijlmer area.

As rents were high, people shared dwellings, causing overpopulation in some blocks. Especially among the ethnic minority groups, the educational level was low and the level of unemploy-ment considerable. People who could afford it, left the Bijlmer area and were replaced with an influx of deprived, many of whom newcomers. The unique spatial organization of the area (separa-tion of traffic, the lay out of (semi-) public space) promoted and supported un-safety, vandalism, and an increasing drug abuse (Projectbureau Vernieuwing Bijlmermeer, 1994; Stadsdeel Zuidoost et al., 1995; UBO URBAN Bijlmermeer, 1999). In the 1980s measures were taken to improve the Bijlmermeer situ-ation.

Examining the ethnic composition of the population, the Bijlmer is characterized by a large diversity of people: more than 80 different cultures are represented in this area. In 1996, the year of the ‘black and white discussion,’ the share of eth-nic minority groups in the Bijlmer area was already almost twice the share of these groups in the city of Amsterdam. The Dutch, on the other hand, made up less than a quarter of the total Bijlmer population. The largest ethnic minority group consisted of Surinamese and An-tillean inhabitants: in 1996 their share was 43 percent of the total Bijlmer population. Moreover, these groups made up more than half (56 percent) of the ethnic minority groups in the Bijlmer. Another category that was quite substantial consisted of ethnic minority groups from non-industrialized coun-tries (such as Africa, South America, Asia and eastern and southern Europe): in 1996 they made up about a quarter of the total Bijlmer population.

Over time and due to a combination of factors, the Bijlmer became one of the most problematic neighbourhoods in the Netherlands. The results of the measures that had been taken in the 1980s turned out to be disappointing: the Bijlmermeer image remained poor, the economic position of the population did not really improve. In July 1992, the Southeast District Council, the Nieuw Amsterdam housing corporation and the Amsterdam municipality settled for a large-scale integral renewal operation of the Bijlmermeer (Stadsdeel Zuidoost, 1995). The main purpose of the Bijlmermeer renewal operation was a revaluation of the Bijlmermeer in order to create a neighbourhood with a

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favourable living climate. Initially it was primarily spatial renewal that was at-tended to, as it was judged to have the best chance of success in priming the Bijlmer renewal operation (Stadsdeel Zuidoost, 1998). But at the same time, a wide audience supported the under-standing that social-economic renewal should be undertaken as well.

In the summer of 1994, the Amster-dam municipality was informed that an application for funding could be submitted with the European Commis-sion, within the framework of the Com-munity Initiative URBAN. Because of its emphasis on social-economic renewal activities, this European program would perfectly match with the needs in the Bijlmermeer. The Dutch government re-sponded to the appeal and submitted a request for funding of the Bijlmermeer. In September 1995, the European Commission approved the ‘URBAN Bijlmermeer program.’ Financial sup-port for the program would be received from the European Fund for Regional Development (ERDF) and

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the European Social Fund (ESF), on the basis of co-financing.

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At about the same time that the Euro-pean Commission approved the URBAN Bijlmermeer program, the news got out that (partly because of the URBAN condition of co-financing) the Dutch national government would financially support the Bijlmer renewal operation as well, within the Major Cities Policy framework (Stadsdeel Zuidoost, 1998).

URBAN Bijlmermeer had to be inte-grated in the ongoing social-economic renewal operation in the Bijlmermeer that had started in 1992. What did the URBAN-Bijlmermeer program look like in 1995, regarding, actors involved, responsibilities, organizational structure and financing?


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