Arcam, the architecture centre Amsterdam, just opened a brand-new multimedia installation that tells the spatial story of Port-City – the largest urban extension in the Netherlands and the largest expansion of Amsterdam since IJburg. Our team member Nynke Anna van der Mark has created stories about some of the historicalContinue Reading
The Amsterdam Time Machine is working on several different applications, each illustrating a part of the ATM philosophy. In the Jewish Quarter project, the subject of an earlier post, the central goal is to connect datasets from different archives and museums that enable story telling about people, houses, and eventsContinue Reading
As the year is coming to an end, we are looking back upon the last couple of months, in which our Amsterdam Time Machine Team has been busy presenting their research projects on various different academic conferences and workshops. In September, postdoctoral researcher Janna Aerts took the night train toContinue Reading
The Amsterdam Time Machine collaborates with researchers from Amsterdam Diaries, a project led by Babs Boter (Free University Amsterdam) and Marleen Rensen (University of Amsterdam). This project aims to collect, study, and present personal stories on the city of Amsterdam throughout the centuries to a broad audience. With an interdisciplinaryContinue Reading
Today, ‘Sloterdijk’ is primarily used by many Amsterdammers as an abbreviation for ‘Station Amsterdam Sloterdijk.’ However, the history of Sloterdijk goes back many ages before the existence of the station. Sloterdijk originated in the Middle Ages along the Spaarndammerdijk, a dyke that protected the rural hinterland against the yet untamedContinue Reading
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