OpTrek in Transvaal. On the role of public art in urban development. Interventions and research.

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ISBN: 9789490322069
English/Dutch edition
Jap Sam Books
Softcover, 400 pages
17 x 24 cm
colour
April 2010
€29,72 (excl. VAT)

OpTrek in Transvaal. On the role of public art in urban development. Interventions and research.

Veronica Hekking, Sabrina Lindemann, Annechien Meier Ed(s)

In the Netherlands large-scale restructuring has been taking place for the past few decades in many of the older urban districts. The artist organisation, Mobiel Projectbureau OpTrek, an initiative of Sabrina Lindemann and Annechien Meier, has been studying the drastic restructuring scheme that will continue to grip the multi-ethnic district Transvaal in The Hague until 2014. This operation involves the demolition of some three thousand dwellings, to make way for 1,600 new homes, most of them in a higher price class. OpTrek invited artists to study these changes and to make them visible for a wider audience, as well as to explore the underlying political policies. In this publication an overview of art projects, interviews, debates, interventions and research between 2002-2009 is presented.