Nature Strikes Back By ANNA LEA JAKOBS | April 24, 2020 Illustration by Anna Lea Jakobs / The Amsterdammer Wild deer walk through the concrete jungle of New York. The Venetian canals have welcomed dolphins again. A puma strides, looking for something to feed on in the conventional residential areas of Santiago, Chile, while donkeys pay a visit to the ICICI Bank in Prayagraj, North India. Animals are defying the formal lines of…
Reportage: COVID-19 Isolation Center By CHARLEY ROUSSET | April 22, 2020 On Monday, April 6, The Amsterdammer visited an Isolation Center in Eindhoven receiving patients suffering from Coronavirus, which was created by a group of GPs and nurses. The GGD GHOR organisation in The Netherlands gives guidelines on how healthcare professionals should receive patients with COVID-19. However, doctor’s offices have to set up their own testing facilities in order to…
My Quarantine Skin Care Routine By Cyrine Ettriki | April 20th, 2020 Cover photo: Photo by Content Pixie on Unsplash. Being in quarantine is by no means easy. Luckily, I have found comfort in creating and maintaining a consistent skin care routine to start and end my day on a good note. I have, therefore, decided to share the products I swear by in helping me maintain my skin healthy despite…
ideo killed the radio Video Calling in Times of Corona By YARA JAKOBS | April 20th, 2020 Due the current ongoing lockdown, people have collectively turned to video calling as an alternative for face-to-face interaction. Naturally, this does not come without its difficulties. Yara Yakoby is a student of Fine Arts and Illustration at Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg and works as a freelance illustrator. In her work she tells stories of…
Launch of the ‘Amsterdam City Doughnut’ Establishing the Sweet Spot of Society By JOSEPHINE SYLVESTRE | April 20th, 2020 Amsterdam canals on a summer day. Elisa Morand / The Amsterdammer. On April 7, 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, the Municipal Executive of Amsterdam decided to adopt British economist Kate Raworth’s Doughnut economic model for sustainable development, making Amsterdam the first city in the world to do so.…
The Lesser of Two Evils: On the Closure of Fast Fashion Factories By Linh Nguyen | April 19th, 2020 Photo by Firdaus Roslan on Unsplash A couple of nights ago, as I was scrolling through my favorite app Tik Tok, I stumbled across a video talking about how the coronavirus has forced many fast fashion brand factories in Asia to close. If you follow our magazine, you might have seen an article…
