The first person we spoke with during our fieldwork was the 84 year old Frau Meyer. She lives on the German side of the Nieuwstraat/Neustraße and was trying to defrost the front window of her car by pouring lukewarm water over it when we walked past her. She said hello and we decided to try…
Marlies explained that based on their [Dear Hunter – Marlies and Remy) experience working on the artistic research project ‘Border Encyclopedia’, they realized that the border often differs more lenthways than it does across. In this border street as well, this statement, for the most part, holds true. The only exception being the ‘European interior’…
The building of the Eurode Business Centre—located on the border that runs through the middle of the Aachener Straße, creates a clear ‘end’ to the street. Of course this is not the first dead end street we have ever encountered – but this street emphasizes access, linking, passage, but at this particular location, actually does…
We left our apartment at around 2 pm to walk down the two-kilometer-long border street – Aachener Straße followed by the Nieuwstraat/Neustraße. We walked down the Aachener Straße for about 200 meters when we ‘hit’ the back of the cross-border business centre: Eurode Business Centre (EBC). An office building from the 1990s that is placed…
Noud Willers contacted us and sent these images he recently came across. He used to live in the neighborhood Holz and went to secondary school at Rolduc, just steps away from the Nieuwstraat/Neustraße.