TRAVEL PROGRAM
The different days of the Travel Program were devoted to different aspects of the city of Amsterdam: its history, inhabitants, biology and urban planning and art. Mariëlle Videler invited several guests to come and talk about four main topics: HISTORY, PEOPLE, ART and NATURE. The program consisted of two parts: a day program and an evening program. During the day program there was contact with five reporters, the ears and eyes of the outside world. The reporters were on hand to help the residents and carried out the research tasks they had been given. The second part was an evening program, a series of small scale and personal meetings with different experts. The evening program was only limited open for visitors.
HISTORY > Lecture by Gabri Tussenbroek, historian, expert on Amsterdam, writer of the book ‘Amsterdam in 1597’. Lecture by Leon Deben (sociologist) about people living and working in and around the Amsterdam Warmoesstraat.
PEOPLE > An evening with guests who work and live around W139. Thanks to: Stock Exchange Amsterdam, Prostitution Information Centre, ‘de Bakkerswinkel’, ‘de Condomerie’ and the Old Church.
NATURE > Lecture by Remco Daalder, urban ecologist of Amsterdam and writer of the book ‘Urban Animals’. Lecture by Grieta Spannenburg
, meteorologist and co-writer of the book ‘Dutch cloudy skies’
ART > Lecture by Ad de Jong (artist and founder of W139) about the creative and chaotic times in begin period of W139.
Gijs Frieling (artist and director of W139) about his work as the director of W139. Frank Koolen (artist), Els van de Meersch (artist) and Eric von Robertson (artist) finished the evening with a presentation of the work they exhibited in W139.
Blinded Tourists: Zhou Bin (China), Caroline Doherty (USA), Davide Savorani (Italy), Henrique César de Oliveira (Brazil)