Thirty years after the fall of the last dictatorships in Europe, the Iron Curtain Project in collaboration with Autres Directions Foundation and Studio Europa presents the How to Survive a Democracy Pop-up Museum.
Creative direction: Tijl Akkermans & Emmie Kollau
Management: Tijl Akkermans
Curator: Emmie Kollau
Design: Tijl Akkermans
Production: Aldus’ productions
Production of exhibition design: Anything is Possible
Canvasses and prints: PPS Imaging
Building supervision: Tijl Akkermans
Technical architecture: Sylvain Vriens
Texts: Emmie Kollau
Copy-editing: Liza Titawano
Translation: Heleen Schröder
Boiling Frog Game
Research and concept: Catrien Spijkerman, Tijl Akkermans, Adinda Akkermans, Emmie Kollau
Design: Tijl Akkermans
Web development: Kresten van Leeuwen
Symbols and animation: Janneke de Rooij
Sound: Emmie Kollau
Translation: Catrien Spijkerman
WinWin
Concept: James Graves & Nienke Huitenga
Development: James Graves & Amanda Verberne
Spatial design: Tijl Akkermans
Video’s
Direction/Interviews: Emmie Kollau
Camera/Sound: Maarten Kal
Editing: Emmie Kollau, Maarten Kal
Animatie: Ineke Goes
Research: Emmie Kollau, Catrien Spijkerman, Caspar van Gemund
Populist Game
Concept/text/research: Emmie Kollau
Interaction design: Tijl Akkermans
Webdevelopment: Kresten van Leeuwen
Translation: Heleen Schröder
Sound: Emmie Kollau
Moving Posters
Concept and design: Tijl Akkermans
Research: Emmie Kollau
Production: Anything is possible
Supported by
European Fund for Citizens, Studio Europa Maastricht, Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, Act for Liberty.
We would like to thank
De mensen van Masterpeace en het Museum of Occupations in Tallinn, Evert van der Zweerde, Yvette Nieuwstad, Lieke Noorman, Filipe Oliveira Rodriguez, Caspar van Gemund, Mathieu Segers (Maastricht University), Anne-Marijn Epker (De Balie), Pilar Tena (Cervantes Instituut), Adinda Akkermans, Roos Menkhorst, Mira Zeehandelaar, Noor Hulskamp, Drieuwes de Jongh, Liza Titawano en vooral alle mensen die hun persoonlijke verhaal de afgelopen jaren met ons deelden, met name Eva Pieper, Dick Ernest, Piret Toomet, Fernando Lameirinhas, Iwona Biliecka en Mira Feticu.
Sources
Innumerable sources were used in the development of this museum. For a bibliography, see www.ironcurtainproject.eu.
We would like to mention here the researchers and writers who have influenced our thinking. In random order: Niccolò Machiavelli, Hannah Arendt, Svetlana Alexievich, Herta Müller, Cas Mudde, Timothy Snyder, Jan-Werner Müller, Yascha Mounk, Evert van der Zweerde, Anne Applebaum, Nino Haratischwili, Francis Fukuyama, Elias Canetti, Pankaj Mishra, Edith Sheffer en vele anderen.