N A P – Trusted Subcultures
New Amsterdam Park (N A P) – Trusted Subcultures is a cross-disciplinary research project initiated by RAAAF. It explores how philosophy, cognitive science, visual art, and landscape architecture can jointly contribute to the city’s social fabric and to a well-functioning public domain.
The project is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) through a Veni grant awarded to Erik Rietveld (Harvard University).
N A P (i.c.w. Atelier de Lyon and Kim Tuin, NDSM) connects the port with the citizens of Amsterdam and creates a new public domain in the heart of the old city. A grid of 30 large barges (90 x 11.40 x 5.5 m) creates a hidden water world on the river IJ. The 30 park spaces are offered to different initiatives, ranging from the park’s neighbors, city government and various (sub)cultural initiatives. The park spaces will be publicly accessible. N A P can be reached by private boats, public boat traffic-lines, and a pedestrian bridge form NDSM.”
Although the project is meant to give place to different interest groups in the city to organize their own specific activities, an opportunity is provided to get aquatinted with other lifestyles. A system of stairs and openings provides a labyrinth-like experience enabling people to surf around in the different barges.
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New Amsterdam Park (NAP) – Trusted Strangers
Phase 1: Philosophical concept, 2007–2017: RAAAF
Phase 2: Concept NAP, 2008: RAAAF | Atelier de Lyon
Phase 3: Desgin RAAAF | i.c.w. with Kim Tuin, NDSM and the Municipality of Amsterdam, 2009–2017
Team: Ronald Rietveld, Erick de Lyon, Erik Rietveld, Joop Schroën, Arna Mackic, David Habets
Client: Municipality of Amsterdam – Haven-Stad
Animation Stills: i.c.w. Olivier Campagne, ArtefactoryLab
