Amstelpark
Zoöp since: 2025 | Location: Amsterdam, NL | Speakers for the Living: Anne de Andrade and Theun Karelse
Zoöp Amstelpark works towards a multispecies politics in Amsterdam. This is made possible through collaboration between the City of Amsterdam, Zone2Source, and knowledge partners such as UvA and VU. This heritage park in the city is a learning space for coexistence with all forms of life.
Highlights
Highlights of the goals Amstelpark is working towards as a Zoöp:
- Actively engaging Amsterdam residents in the park as a place of learning
The Amstelpark is becoming a place where residents and visitors actively learn about living together with all life. Through public programmes, art, a children's council and conversations in the park, people are invited to think and participate. The idea of the park as a 'shared garden' also plays a role here. - Connecting zoonomic principles with heritage
The Amstelpark is a national monument. Within that context, research is being done into how care for all life can be incorporated into regulations, management and policy. Together with knowledge institutions and experts, the aim is to better align heritage conservation and ecological values. - Exploring emotions and the relationship with the living environment
Research in the park examines how people experience the park and nature, and how that influences their behaviour. Through workshops and research within the School for Multispecies Knowledges (a Zone2Source programme), participants learn how to better observe, listen and pay attention to their surroundings so that they engage with them more carefully.
