Mapping

We have chosen to map out a park. We have all chosen a park close to our homes.

Myriam Mansoer
Prinsenpark

Merel Robi Michels
Griftpark Utrecht

Doris Laging
Houtpark Haarlem

Prinsenpark
The park I visited I have been going to for 10 years. From riding through it to school to hanging out at the skate park to eventually hanging out at my go to spot. The park has lately been busier than it has ever been. With new accommodations being adding last year. The things I noticed when visiting.
-Youth hanging out
-old ladies taking a walk and taking a break on a bench
-Grafitti artists slaving away at the wall.
-Kids with their parents heading to the skatepark
-There is an enclosed playground that you have to pay for to enter. This playground is mostly children that go to daycare there.
-swings
-outdoor gym
-Scooters
-A lot of traffic runs through this park. Bikes, scooters, people and dog walkers. There is almost always someone in this park.
- A man playing golf
-A football field
-Skatepark

Things that stood out to me.
-Skatepark is dominated by children and parent early in the afternoon, towards the end of the afternoon more and more youth and young adults arrive to skate. There is a peaceful co-sharing of the park going on. But you see that the more young adults come, the parents leave with their young children.
-People are always watching, every person that bikes by gives a glance.
-This is a place used most by the youth.

What I enjoy most about this park is that there is life but it is really quiet and calm. My favorite spot is a table behind the grafitti wall. Where you can hang out in privacy, where others cant overhear your conversations and you can smoke or roll a blunt without being bothered or without bothering others. Music can be put on pretty loud because others cant hear it. Also admiring the art on the wall is always fun.

The park is being used in so many different ways, by different people. And all at the same time.

I visited the hout park, it’s a big park at the end of the city centre of Haarlem.
The old provincial house is right in front of it what gives it a old but rich look.
Houtpark is known that every year there is the biggest liberation festival of the netherlands.
The first festival started in Haarlem in this park and that’s why it’s now the biggest. But unfortunately this year because of Covid there was no festival.

I visited the park two times. One time in the day time and one time in the night.

In the day time it was quite busy, there were family’s visiting the small farm in the middle of the park, people alone were walking their dog, friends laying and talking in the grass. I felt at peace at it was busy but nice busy. I noticed one unwritten rule that people were saying hello when passing each other. it was either a real hello or a small nod or smile. A friendly reminder to maybe say: i’m not here to kill you.

I noticed people were using the park for:
- For sports. (big groups and people alone)
- To relax
- To take a walk
- To visit farm with their family
- Walking their dog
- Hanging with friends and smoke
- Taking a faster route with the bike trough the park instead of the langer route outside the park
- Eating lunch
- Playing (kids)
- Having conversations

In the night time it was almost empty except for me and a group of girls sitting on the small theater. I felt quite scared, i don’t know why there wasn’t anything there to be scared of. it was really dark but the cars were also close and everywhere i looked i saw some sort of light. But i felt uncomfortable to be there. The was also a sport class but it moved outside the park. Right next to it but it took place on the sidewalk. A same sort of class i was in de daylight but they were in side the park. I thought about it, maybe i didn’t feel that uncomfortable when i was in the park in the day time and saw the sun doing down and left the park in the dark. But now walking into the park in the night felt wrong to do. Maybe because i’m a woman. My roommate also wanted to go with me because “a woman alone in the park at night is scary”.

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I live next to Griftpark for 5 years now.

I have enjoyed BBq's, birthdays, Covid-19 chillings in this park.
Mostly I go to the park to play with my younger brothers. Beeing in a park fills me with joy.
One of my most early memories are in Vondelpark, Amsterdam.
The only bad memories I have are when I met with my ex to argue about staying together or not :P.

Walking through this park I followed people, recorded and spied on them.
It was a semi sunny, semi cloudy day.

- I saw skaters, young and old.
They always seem so chill, one of the guys came up to make conversation.
- The basketballers were visually the most diverse in nationalities.
- The steppers were all young, cruising in the bowl. Skaters hate steppers, they are too 'cool' for them
- I saw a group of pregnant woman working out
- and two other groups working out with personal coaches.
- The playground and animal farm were closed.
- I saw couples on the benches.
- Bikers, just crossing through, illegal, because you have to walk here.
- A lady feeding the ducks, that came flying at her in group of 30.
-People chilling in the Covid directed sprayed areas on the grass.
- Some kids smoking beer and weed.


I loved listening in on a conversation where somebody got interrupted by his phone, he picked up and said : "So did you lose your virginity?" he repeated it twice.

I Loved all these people playing and sporting. I whish there was a playground that fits Adults and children, instead of just kids.

FILM PARK eddit

FIVE YEARS OF PARK MEMORIES
2015 till 2020

I love the park, I love the people I am in parks with. Usually I am with my younger brothers, so I always have an excuse to play, even though I am an "ADULT"

mmd123

Memories

I have been hanging out in prinsenpark for years and my go to people are my friends. Friends from all around have joined me here for years. anyone that knows me, knows this is my favorite place to hang out.

MEMORIES

The memories at the park are always nice, to dancing on music at the festival or hanging with friends. only good memories