Issue Wrestling: The Dark Side of Placemaking

Issue Wrestling: The Dark Side of Placemaking 
Food - Panel(discussion) - live Issue Wrestling (performance by Natasha Taylor)

Thursday 26 September 2024
18:00 (doors open), start event: 19:00-21:00h
Gemaal op Zuid, Pretorialaan 141
This event is in English but with Dutch translation available

Panel (o.a.):
Mustapha Eaisaouiyen (o.a. Recht op Stad, Afrikaanderwijk Coöperatie)
Eeva Liukku (Vers Beton)
Martijn van der Mark (Gemeente Rotterdam)
Pieter le Roux (Hogeschool Rotterdam)
Vincent Taapken (New Industry)
Moderated by: Aryan Oosterbroek


Placemaking is widely celebrated for strategically shaping neighborhoods and cities and empowering communities. However, it is often paving the way for gentrification processes and potentially decreasing accessibility for long-term residents.

Cultuur&Campus Putselaan, the Afrikaanderwijk Cooperative and artist Natasha Taylor are organizing this evening about (the dark side of) placemaking. Together with invited guests and the public we are entering the conversation and we are going to experience a wrestling match that visualizes the struggle and complexity behind these themes and concepts.

Issue Wrestling serves as a platform to confront social issues through the spectacle of wrestling, providing an arena for open discourse within a community. Issue Wrestling investigates whether a wrestling match can foster connection and stimulate a dialogue by magnifying differences in a lighthearted manner.

It’s rrrumble time, join us for a slam-packed event, where the real-world challenges of Feijenoord with a focus on Bloemhof and Afrikaanderwijk, and insights of residents, take center stage in an unforgettable showdown with Natasha Taylor’s Issue Wrestling!
This event is free for all, no reservation needed.