Imagine IC, Amsterdam: The Commodification of Diversity

In June 2009, we got together in Barcelona to discuss strategies for collecting the ‘future heritage’ of contemporary entrepreneurial cultures in European cities. The various museums involved are collecting objects and personal histories of new European entrepreneurs. In the exhibition project Supertoko, Imagine IC in Amsterdam, in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam Institute for [...]

Call for your contribution !!

Do you have or did you go to an orientalised restaurant in a European city and do you have pictures of it ? Please share them and your stories with us. You can send them to us and they will be made available at this website.

The Ryad Raval restaurant in Barcelona markets exotism. According to [...]

Symposium 16-18/06/09 Barcelona: Contemporary collecting and citizen participation

On the first meeting day, we visited the exhibition « Connected Barcelona, Transnational Citizens » and discussed the MUHBA strategic plan and the topic of contemporary collecting. In the afternoon, we walked through the district El Raval where we got impressions of the fieldwork done with and by foreign communities. First, we had a [...]