Claartje Rasterhoff (C.)
- 2021- present: coordinator Task Force Digital Studies Lab FASoS
- 2020-2022 - I'm co-applicant in the transdisciplinary research project (2020-2022) Contemporary Commoning. Investigating the role of art and design in creating spaces for public action, funded by NWO-SIA in the Smart Culture program, led by dr. Jeroen Boomgaard and coordinated by René Boer at the Research Institute for Art and Public Space (Sandberg Institute). The research consortium further consists of Raaaf (Rietveld Architecture-Art-Affordances); Waag: Institute for technology and society; the Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons; and Nautilus, a collective housing project on Zeeburgereiland. This project focuses on the ways in which the notion of ‘the commons’ can contribute to new forms of (digital) public space and initiate different forms of urban development, while taking the potential contribution of design and art towards processes of 'commoning' as the main point of departure. The project zooms in on the Amsterdam neighbourhood Zeeburgereilandand will run for the duration of two years. Together with prof.dr. Robert Kloosterman (UvA, Urban Studies) and dr. Suzanna Tomor (post-doc researcher) I study existing and historical forms of commoning in urban public space in the project Common Spaces? A long-term study of the use of public spaces in Amsterdam, 1880 to the present
- Until 2020 I coordinated, together with Julia Noordegraaf, the program Amsterdam Time Machine. The Amsterdam Time Machine (ATM) is a public research resource on the history of Amsterdam. ATM is committed to the creation and reuse of historical data for the benefit of – and together with – researchers, societal partners and local communities. With the Time Machine, users will ultimately be able to travel back in time and navigate the city on the levels of neighborhoods, streets, houses, rooms, ultimately zooming in on the pictures that adorned the walls. The systematic linkage of datasets from various sources allows users to retrieve historical information, support public interfaces, and ask new questions on, for instance, cultural events, everyday life, social relations, or the use of public space in the city of Amsterdam. ATM is built upon linked data infrastructures from key academic and cultural heritage institutions in the Netherlands, including CLARIAH and Adamnet. It benefits and contributes to funded research and heritage projects that digitise, explore and remodel historical data. ATM is powered by a consortium of people and institutions in academia, cultural heritage and industry. I'm also collaborating in the realisation of the large-scale research infrastructure program Time Machine Europe.
Previous research focused on the painting and publishing industries in the early modern Dutch Republic (Open Access), the organization of the early modern international art trade, the history of Dutch Design as a cultural industry, and the history of urban nightlife.
Other projects include:
- Virtual Interiors: PhD supervisor for Weixuan Li
- CLARIAH/HisGIS. In this project, the geo-infrastructure HisGIS of the Fryske Akademy will be made available to ATM and the general CLARIAH-infrastructure;
- Global Knowledge Societies: Creating a knowledge society in a globalizing world, 1450-1800;
- Stedelijk Museum Textmining Project, with Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Maastricht University;
Claartje Rasterhoff (C.)
Assistant Professor
Letteren en Kunst
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences