amsterdam art factories 18 03 10
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Best practice - Providing spaces to the creative people and companies – Broedplaatsen (Art Factories), Ms Joke van Antwerpen, Director Amsterdamse Innovatie Motor (Stockholm Blender)TRANSCRIPT
Art Factories in AmsterdamStockholm, March 18, 2010Marja van NieuwkerkDepartment of Art & Culture, City of Amsterdam
Results: - around 50 different spots- 1440 spaces, 2500 places of employment- 25 other spaces: expo, cafe/club/resto, meeting
- The bureau has an independent role in between the city central departments and district authorities
- The bureau is funded by and part of the City of Amsterdam, eight civil servants (5 fte) work at the bureau
What is the Bureau Broedplaatsen
- Executive political responsibility in hands of the Alderman for City Planning and Land (what spaces to build?)
- Means: expertise, projectmanagement, networking, matching supply/demand, facilities, subsidies
- Related political responsibility by Alderman for Culture and Arts (allocate spaces to whom?)
- Ambition in 2000: realisation of 1400 – 2000 spaces for subcultural groups and artists
- Squatting movement ‘subculture’ had to leave some warehouses at the IJ-banks in 1999
Why Policy Broedplaatsen (policy on art-facories and affordable studios)
- Partners: target group organisations, housing corporations and district authorities
- 2000: City Council agrees on Plan and funding of Broedplaatsenfonds by revenues from land lease fund
- Supporting adress by the unions of visual artists for more affordable studios
- Change in 2005: Programme: joint ventures with stakeholders and less governmental funding
- 2010: Amsterdam and Triodosbank launch the Garantee Fund Broedplaatsen
Programme Broedplaatsen 2008 - 2012 AmsterdamWhy do we work on broedplaatsen?
Economic- Base of employment- attractive scene incentive- broedplaatsen as entreprise- R&D for top CI
Cultural- Amsterdam as Laboratorium- affordable space for young artists- affordable space for high talented
Social- within group interaction- link up with neighborhood- perform activities on social and educational programmes
Spatial- metropoolregio Amsterdam- empty office floors- contra gentrification
Partners of Bureau Broedplaatsen
Market section- real estate developers- real estate brookers- banks- creative industry top segment
Cultural section- visual artist unions- network of broedplaatsen- ‘Vrije Ruimte’ (grass root squats)- art academies
Government- metropolitan area Amsterdam- city of Amsterdam- all 14 district authorities
social targeted- six housing corporations - social entreprises- facilitators
Programma Broedplaatsen 2008 - 2012 AmsterdamAgreed by City Council on 29 October 2008
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overall rentor
purchaseof building
Recon-Struc-tion
Time >
€initial Subsidy
Rent reduced ‘Cost covering rent’ without initial subsidy
Maximum rent for artists (€56/m2/year
initial fase Exploitation fase
Principle of subsidizing
Lessons from the past
- we cherish the Amsterdam tradion: diverse, intense, merchandisers, free and tolerant
- be good for this basis, do not spoil them, support them in their efforts on housing
As government…..know yourself,
so…restrict yourself
Since you know…
best ideas come from the creative basis
- artists and broedplaatsen are (more or less) non-commercial creative entrepreneurs