Join us for this program inviting you to walk through the Diamantbuurt and uncover its architectural, social, and historical layers.

The tour evolves around the stories of migration, womanhood, resilience, and belonging while exploring the forces that have shaped its spaces and communities over time.

The tour has been developed by historian and curator İrem Sezer (Ben Sanattan Anlamam Ki).

Check out the full On Living Archive #1: Komşu Zuid Progamm. 

Komşu Zuid is the first edition of The Living Archive, a socially engaged, multidisciplinary, and multi-year art programme curated by İpek M. Sur and produced by CC Amstel & 7 Hills Foundation.

Rooted in the Diamantbuurt, this pilot edition celebrates the voices, memories, and lived experiences of Turkish-Dutch women who have lived in the neighbourhood for decades. Through weekly listening sessions with two artists-in-residencies, it aims to create a living archive that honours their narratives. As komşu “’the Turkish word for neighbour” and as cornerstones of both the Diamantbuurt and Turkish-Dutch migration history, their stories of love, loss, migration, motherhood, labour, language, and resilience form the emotional and narrative foundation of the programme.

The project seeks to create a space for sharing, intergenerational communication, artistic exchange, collective healing, and the archiving of memories that have helped shape Dutch society today. While The Living Archive will continue to grow as a mosaic of identities wherever it travels, this first edition focuses on Diamantbuurt in collaboration with the women who made it home. This project is powered by City of Amsterdam, Fonds Sluyterman van Loo and Cultuurfonds.