An inclusive city is a city “including everyone”, where various
people meet each other and where everyone feels welcome.
This includes equality of opportunity. Amsterdam is synonymous with
freedom of faith, emancipation and diversity. We value
openness, tolerance, free speech and being able to be yourself.
Diversity must be reflected in our society, in the
politics and administration.
Previous words are not mine — it's an abbreviated
anthology from various sources.
From the Amsterdam2050 Environmental Vision, I quote the section
Inclusive city, from Debatcentrum De Balie, the text “Amsterdam is
“from all of us” and from Groen Links Amsterdam (the paragraph)
Diversity.
I don't know how that works for you, but I'll take these kinds of texts for you.
notice to. I agree and the words don't do anything
fly mad. But that same fly won't move because of it.
You can go in any direction with nice words. When they say links
they sometimes mean right. If only it were that simple that we had
a fixed list of tropes — irony, hyperbole, understatement —
were able to recognize manipulative language. Unfortunately, many are lying
argue just as disguised as stylish.
Language is like electricity: you can use it to get everything moving
but whether the resulting movement is good or bad only becomes clear
visible in the result. The language of behavior says more than the language
of words.
The great thing about A Lab is that it is a lab. Here will be
experimented, dreamed and, above all, worked a lot. The city as
verb.
During this anniversary celebration, A Lab is a talking house for a while, but
normally, this is a lab of actions.
This is where a new form of journalism was born. Here came
The Correspondent hatches only to fly out a little later and a
to inspire other journalistic innovators. On the same
way, in recent years, this lab has been a battery of creative and
were innovative companies.
A Lab also took responsibility on a social level.
Where others are sometimes pompous about inclusiveness and tolerance
talked, a floor was quietly placed on the building here
to give status holders a safe place to live. scarcely
publicity, hardly any hassles left in the neighborhood
and above all: no publicity.
That's A Lab: don't think but feel. Don't talk, do it.
This anniversary is also about making connections.
in and for the city.
While we're here on the banks of the IJ: Amsterdam is the city
with the largest bridge density in the world. It is also the only
city in the world where two major boroughs separate
are through a bridgeless water of about 200 meters. About those
The necessary bridge has been talked about for almost 200 years! The past
For 10 years, the College in the Stopera has spoken with one mouth: the first
The bridge must be built very quickly. Empty words because that first bridge is
further away than ever.
“First, let's check out the obstructing Passenger Terminal again.
grant a contract extension. Order an extra round of ferries!”
Free to Jan Schaefer: “You can't walk over nonsense”.
That's why I believe in actions rather than words. Words can
hypocrites but facts are too simple for that, they speak for themselves.
Isn't that how it works for you too?
Test question: if you have to choose, who will you board a helicopter with? You may
choose from two candidates, only one of whom can be a helicopter
govern.
You chatted with the first person for a while. Sympathetic
woman who tells you in scents and colors about the day she had her
obtained a certificate. You don't know person 2. She comes flying into her
reversible blade, lands perfectly in the appropriate round and gives
a hand silently.
I bet we'll all board the pilot without
words.
Back to A Lab. Over the past ten years, hard work has been done here and from
Another ten new years are coming up on Wednesday. A lab does not stand
for nice talk - but for experimenting, dreaming, thinking
and do one.
And if it wasn't clear yet: I love that.
