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Communally Imagining Identity: Out of The Blue at The Blue House

James David Morgan wrote this post at 11:27 am on July 10th, 2009.

Out of the Blue

Amsterdam’s The Blue House (Het Blauwe Huis) will host Out of the Blue, an international symposium on Instant Urbanism, Hospitality and Accelerated History, from August 3rd – 9th 2009.

The three main strands used by the organizers, Instant Urbanism, Hospitality, and Accelerated History, are employed to understand experimental communities, particularly the burgeoning identity of their own unique place – the IJburg district, a recent zoning and development project of the Amsterdam City Council.  The House’s background offers some insight into their thinking here.  In essence, their mission is to imagine a historiography for IJburg, in parallel to the search for and evolution of its identity.

According to the organizers, the event will provide a

discursive forum where a number of investigative questions will be articulated via workshops, intense dialogues, in-conversations, study sessions, public deliberation plenaries, performances, and discussions with a number of guests on stage.

Out of the Blue is curated by Yane Calovski, and part of the ongoing Blue House project Parade of Urbanism.

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