Opening 5 November at WOW: the Week of the City on the most dynamic part of Amsterdam, the A10 ring road. While the inner city only gets busier and more expensive, the ringzone still allows for experiment. Discover the new ring!
Opening
The Week of the City will be opened at WOW at 5 November, from 16-18.00.
The opening on November 5 includes the performance Alpen by Manolis Tsipos and Tycho Hupperets around 17:15h. Form 18.00h it’s possible to have a Ring-diner at WOW for only 7,50 euro. Please make your reservation in advance via reservations@wow-amsterdam.nl. See for more information: Stad Forum.
More information on the Week of the City
All along the ring you find people living, working and spending their time off in a unique part of the city. Often undervalued and neglected, it is exactly these areas right at the ring road which are on the rise. No longer the city’s dead strip, but a vital ring embracing and feeding the inner city. These 64 kilometres of new urban space are fruitful grounds for initiatives that have a hard time setting up shop elsewhere.
A (f)ring(e)zone
Due to concurring developments, amongst which a saturated real estate market in the inner city and the vacancy of property along the ring road, the so-called ‘ringzone’ is popping up on the radar of more and more people. The ringzone is full of fringes and offers room – spatially, mentally and institutionally – for new initiatives by residents, entrepreneurs, artists and creatives. At a time in which industrial areas and abandoned brownfields such as the NDSM-shipyards have been redeveloped, attention is shifting towards the city’s greyfields – vacant apartment and office blocks along Amsterdam’s ring road which are becoming the city’s frontier.
64 kilometres of urban dynamics
During the Week of the City, we’re looking at the ring with fresh eyes, discovering the city’s ringzone and revealing its special traits and recent developments. We will show the enormous changes, but also the wide range of small initiatives that are transforming the ringzone from a no-go area into a popular destination. We won’t romanticise, however: the ring is also still home to noisy traffic flows, unpleasant underpasses, and new initiatives that don’t connect well with their surroundings yet. Problems will be scrutinised and successes celebrated, but most of all this Week of the City aims to make the ring more for everyone: by not seeing it as a monolithic structure, but rather as 64 kilometres of new urban dynamics.
There are many activities, see for more information on the program: Week van de Stad.
Other Activities at WOW
Film night and talk show about urban ring roads worldwide Friday 7 November, 20.30.
Guided Tour in the WOW Plantage at Sunday 9 November, 12.00.
For questions, suggestions or comments regarding the Week of the City, please send a note to info@weekvandestad.nl.