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