Aesthetics Of Exclusion
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Javastraat.cloud is a collection of Instagram posts shot on the Javastraat in Amsterdam between 2010 and 2021. The experiment gives insight into the amplified gentrification of neigbourhood hotspots through social media.
17th March '22
News
News | 22nd September '20

Dutch newspaper NRC featured StreetSwipe in the news paper of 22nd of September 2020. Which aesthetics do we associate with gentrification? StreetSwipe…

News | 7th September '20

Please listen to the Podcast MENS of magazine Vrij Nederland where journalist Sander Pleij interviewed Sjoerd ter Borg about Aesthetics of Exclusion. 

News | 18th August '20

Which aesthetics do we associate with gentrification? StreetSwipe let’s the audience determine if they think a photo of a storefront of bar…

Articles
3rd March '22

Cities are being overwhelmed by a top-down, algorithmically-enabled attempt to make them legible, quantifiable and replicable. Can a project of nonsense-making disrupt the seemingly inexorable march of "progress"?

To live in London is to live in what Mayor Sadiq Khan has called a “global “test-bed” city for civic innovation” in…

Article
6th August '21

Hidden data infrastructure is integral to advancements in the UK's immigration enforcement capabilities. Exposing this infrastructure will therefore be an increasingly necessary first step in any future challenge to the government's "Hostile Environment" policy.

In the not so distant future, when all of our physical and online activity is tracked…

Article
28th July '21

As big mapping corporations substitute public institutions in curating spatial data, informal residents' voices are still yet to be acknowledged.

Sunday, July 23rd of 2017, a 22-year-old Uber driver Guilherme e Silva Maia was waiting for a passenger at Ancuri, a peripheral neighbourhood of Fortaleza, when two unknown assailants…

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Projects
Project | 17th March '22

Javastraat.cloud is a collection of Instagram posts shot on the Javastraat in Amsterdam between 2010 and 2021. The experiment gives insight into…

Project | 13th October '19

Which aesthetics do we associate with gentrification? StreetSwipe let’s the audience determine if they think a photo of a storefront of bar…

Project | 13th October '19

What traces do we leave online when we visit the city? And how do these traces seduce us into exploring sameness? In…

Project | 28th September '19

Contrary to popular belief, it is not the human species that selects the houseplant to furnish the domestic environment; it is the

Project | 27th September '19

“Should I classify the luxuriant growth of objects as we do a flora or fauna, complete with tropical and glacial species, sudden

Project | 27th September '19

Bias is a collection of the mobile location data history of the artist Sjoerd ter Borg. Automatically downloaded Street View images of…