eprintid: 3923
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datestamp: 2022-07-26 08:55:43
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type: thesis
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creators_name: Kelly, Louis-Thomas
creators_id: S4852354
creators_email: louisthomaskelly@gmail.com
title: Planning to Remember: Determining contested public memory at Amsterdam’s Indië-Nederland Monument and reflecting on counter-memorial spatial intervention
ispublished: unpub
full_text_status: public
abstract: In 1935 the van Heutsz Monument, Amsterdam was unveiled; in the sixties it was first 
bombed; in the eighties there was a second bombing by anti-colonial activists; in the early two 
thousands the monument was renamed, re-purposed, and renovated; and then, most recently in 
2021, it was the venue for an inclusive ceremony in remembrance of the difficult past tying 
Netherlands to Indonesia. The Indië-Nederland Monument was once, and still is, a contested site 
of Dutch public memory that falls within the reach of spatial planning and municipal policy-making. Following an agonistic framework for counter-commemorative spatial planning and 
design, this research is premised on dissonant heritage, its appearance in the built environment, 
and the dialogical interventions available for authors of public memory to reshape the way we 
see memory commemorated in the city. First analyzing the site through a semiotics focused on 
displays of significance, authorship, and interpretation, this planner’s semiotics determines the 
intentions behind the site, and looks into its reception amongst audiences. Then, constricted in 
application due to Covid-19 conditions in the winter of 2022, this research makes 
recommendation for, but also provides a visual prompt for, an agonistic and participatory art-based approach to dealing with the colonially significant and contentious Indië-Nederland 
Monument in function with Indo-Dutch mnemonic communities. Reflecting on the counter-commemorative vigilance of such an agonistic approach to planning critical remembrance 
reveals that an art-based co-authorship holds the potential to reframe the way people think and 
interact with divisive monuments and the meanings they embody.
date: 2022
pages: 99
thesis_type: master
degree_programme: SP
tutors_name: Hoven, B. van
tutors_name: Vaart, G. van der
tutors_organization: Fac. Ruimtelijke wetenschappen, Basiseenheid Culturele Geografie
tutors_organization: Fac. Ruimtelijke wetenschappen, Basiseenheid Planologie
tutors_email: B.van.Hoven@rug.nl
tutors_email: G.van.der.Vaart@rug.nl
security: public
keywords_local: counter-commemorative vigilance
keywords_local: mnemonic community
keywords_local: public memorial space
keywords_local: dissonant heritage
keywords_local: semiotics
keywords_local: critical art
language_iso: en
date_issued: 2022-07-25
citation:   Kelly, Louis-Thomas  (2022) Planning to Remember: Determining contested public memory at Amsterdam’s Indië-Nederland Monument and reflecting on counter-memorial spatial intervention.  Master thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3923/1/Planning%20to%20Remember%20-%20Amsterdam%20%28MSc%20Kelly%202022%29%20.pdf