Noord
Noord is the first Arabic travel guide to the Netherlands. Mediamatic has brought 22 Arabic and Dutch artists and graphic designers. They will map the visible and invisible locations, people, and data flows, and explore the history and future of Amsterdam-Noord — the ‘unspecial’ side of Amsterdam across the Ij water. Amsterdam Noord is in itself a Netherlands in small.
Wietske is one of the local artists who has made an ‘urbanibalist’ chapter contribution that provides a culinary compass to North. Botanists, domestic and professional cooks, forrester, fisherpeople, biologists, toxicologists and local inhabitants share their curiousity, know-how and appetite to uncover some of the hidden culinary ecologies of Noord.
Streets populated by edible weeds; rowan, sloe and elderberry trees along the perimeters of volkstuin gardens; tasty thistle roots in forgotten margins of parklands and spicy succulent primrose flowers adorning empty building allotments. From housing terrains to arable polders, Amsterdam Noord boasts an abundance of palatable vegetation and untried meat sources. Here the skies rain geese and parakeets, the pavements populated by snails. Not to mention the edible aquatic treasures of the Ij. The Noord archipelago is a real life Cockaigne.