Events

Exhibition Wolffert College 2024

For the second year in a row, Wolffert College created an exhibition to conclude the METRO O1O project. During the project, the book was read in Dutch and children could make a Haiku about the city. In history and geography, the assignment was to film a tour of the city or design a zoning plan of their neighborhood. The beautiful results were on display during an exhibition in the auditorium, also conceived and created by the children themselves. The opening was a grand success, with all the parents coming to watch. Thanks to all the children and all the teachers who participated in this successful project!

Meet the Authors

The time has finally come: the authors for the Berlin book have been announced! Behzad Karim Khani, Anne Schmedding, Benedikt Crone en Anja Zuckermann are the new author team. And at a first workshop they immediately set to work with the preliminary results from the Berlinische Gallerie workshop. We added and deleted, discussed and criticized, but slowly the contours of the Berlin book are emerging. We don’t have a title yet, but the stories slowly become clear. Now it’s time for research, writing and rewriting. To be continued.

Berlinische Gallerie

On 23 November 2023, a workshop with some 45 Berlin architects, artists, historians, cultural representatives, tour guides, students, teachers, volunteers, historians, urban planners, authors, graphic designers, etc. took place at the Berlinische Gallerie. Together, we asked ourselves the question: ‘Berlin, who are you?’ Using a Mettrage, an amalgamation of collage and the French ‘mettre’ (lay), we explored which stories should necessarily be included in the Berlin book. At the end of the day, we laid the foundations of the Berlin version of METRO O1O.

Exhibition library Rotterdam

In the central hall of the Municipal Library of Rotterdam, 14 double-sided panels are presented on which all chapters of the graphic novel METRO O1O are highlighted. On the various floors we then take a deeper look at different themes, such as philosophy, colonialism, housing, etc. These themes are richly illustrated using books from the library’s collection. And of course, there is room for poetry and photography.

Exhibition Zuid.Boijmans

In the hall on the ground floor of Hillevliet 90, where Zuid.Boijmans is located, a selection of the panels that were on display earlier in the year at the Central Library Rotterdam is on display. Visitors can see a presentation of chapters from the book, along with some poems and photos. Two workshops for schools will be offered to accompany the exhibition.

Workshop Polis.WERKSTADT

During the POLIS Convention 2024 (Düsseldorf 2024), De Zwarte Hond organized in the polisWERK.STADT. together with representatives of cities and professional city makers the “Manifesto of the City Makers of Tomorrow,” to offer it to cities and professional city makers with a concrete approach in the near future.

Wolfert College

Wolfert College has included the book in its curriculum from the start of the METRO O1O project. Every year in autumn all seventh graders start working on assignments around the book. Foundation YOU gives a short introduction and after that the subjects Dutch, History, Geography and Art work on the book for a week. The week ends with an exhibition of the work, by and for the students, and their parents may also come and learn about their children’s work. The exhibition is about living in Rotterdam, about zoning plans for your neighborhood and about what Rotterdam as a city means to you.

City maker Congress

De Zwarte Hond organised ism AIR Rotterdam’s first Youth Makathon! A programme for high school and college students. Makathon is a pun on Hackathon: known as a pressure cooker in which hackers achieve technological breakthroughs in a short time. In an hour and a half, we set to work with young people to design future scenarios for Rotterdam. The graphic novel METRO O1O was used as a source of inspiration. At the end of the morning, we presented the results of seven new future cities to the audience of the Stadmakerscongres.

Presentation METRO O1O in schools

The book is printed and ready to be distributed to the first-year classes in Rotterdam. And we are celebrating by presenting an introductory program at the first three schools to receive the book. The Rotterdam Montessori Lyceum, the OSG Hugo de Groot and the Melanchton Mavo Schiebroek invited us to present the book, together with a poet and an illustrator.

Presentation METRO O1O

The book is ready, now it belongs to the city! In a full hall of Theater Zuidplein, Tracy Metz speaks with a number of guests who were involved in the book. Initiator Ellen Schindler talks about how the book came about, author of the book Abdelkader Benali talks about the story that connects all the chapters, Liesbeth Levy emphasized the graphic novel as a genre, Karin Amghar explains the importance of the book for the great cultural diversity that the city of Rotterdam has and Matthias Rottmann elaborates on how a book has everything to do with city making.