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Kick-off the Anti-City Guide
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Seminar
1 September 2025, Cultura Nova festival, Heerlen NL
The international seminar Kick-off The Anti-City Guide brings together stories from the cities of Heerlen and Zenica (Bosnia-Herzegovina), inviting you to think along about the future of European industrial new towns—cities that emerged through the arrival of industry. In Heerlen, mine closure is a memory; in Zenica, the last mine closed only recently, exactly fifty years after the last Dutch mine ON I shut its doors. Two cities, connected by the same industrial past, but each at a different point in their transition.
This international seminar marks the kick-off for The Anti-City Guide: a trans-European research and publication project by Maurice Hermans. The Anti-City Guide will become a travel guide that invites to (re)value and (re)discover unseen cities. The first edition, to be co-published by nai010 publishers and Bosnian publisher IK Vrijeme in the summer 2026, focuses on the cities of Heerlen and Zenica.