Zone2Source - Launch of Zoöp Amstelpark

Together with the Zoönomisch Instituut, we are presenting Zoöp Amstelpark as a learning space for the city to all residents of Amsterdam, to help them learn to live better with the enormous diversity of life that populates the city.
A Zoöp is an organisation that strives to represent the interests of all life in everything it does. Zoöp Amstelpark will start as a collaboration between Zone2Source, the Zoönomisch Instituut and the Municipality of Amsterdam. After the launch, several other social and educational institutions and stakeholders from the Amstelpark will become part of the Zoö.

Can Amstelpark – where many encounters between human and more-than-human city dwellers take place every day and where Zone2Source has been working with artists since 2013 on new representations and relationships between humans and other living beings – become a testing ground for the city to experiment, together with politicians and citizens, with the systemic change needed to create a liveable world for all life?

Official launch and ceremony at the pavilion in Dahliarama with speeches by Rocco Piers (district administrator of Stadsdeel Zuid) and deputy children’s mayor Lauren, Alice Smits (director of Zone2Source), Klaas Kuitenbrouwer (Zoönomisch Instituut). Introduction of the Speakers for the Living Anne de Andrade and Theun Karelse.

Musical improvisation accompanied by Nadine Strang (Kobranie Foundation) in which we will compose together with the living world.

Guided tours of Amstelpark accompanied by artists and ecologists:
Zackery Denfield of Genomic Gastronomy talks about the Genomic Gastronomy Garden, which is activated around projects that focus on our food.
Jonmar van Vlijmen of the artists’ collective De Onkruidenier takes us to the SchaduwTuin (Shadow Garden), where we are introduced to Mrs. Buxus.

Zone2Source - Launch of Zoöp Amstelpark

Together with the Zoönomisch Instituut, we are presenting Zoöp Amstelpark as a learning space for the city to all residents of Amsterdam, to help them learn to live better with the enormous diversity of life that populates the city.
A Zoöp is an organisation that strives to represent the interests of all life in everything it does. Zoöp Amstelpark will start as a collaboration between Zone2Source, the Zoönomisch Instituut and the Municipality of Amsterdam. After the launch, several other social and educational institutions and stakeholders from the Amstelpark will become part of the Zoö.

Can Amstelpark – where many encounters between human and more-than-human city dwellers take place every day and where Zone2Source has been working with artists since 2013 on new representations and relationships between humans and other living beings – become a testing ground for the city to experiment, together with politicians and citizens, with the systemic change needed to create a liveable world for all life?

Official launch and ceremony at the pavilion in Dahliarama with speeches by Rocco Piers (district administrator of Stadsdeel Zuid) and deputy children’s mayor Lauren, Alice Smits (director of Zone2Source), Klaas Kuitenbrouwer (Zoönomisch Instituut). Introduction of the Speakers for the Living Anne de Andrade and Theun Karelse.

Musical improvisation accompanied by Nadine Strang (Kobranie Foundation) in which we will compose together with the living world.

Guided tours of Amstelpark accompanied by artists and ecologists:
Zackery Denfield of Genomic Gastronomy talks about the Genomic Gastronomy Garden, which is activated around projects that focus on our food.
Jonmar van Vlijmen of the artists’ collective De Onkruidenier takes us to the SchaduwTuin (Shadow Garden), where we are introduced to Mrs. Buxus.