We encourage you to read all about our new plans here. We asked those who have experienced, and experiences of, WORM, to comment on how they see us in this transition year.
You live in Rotterdam, can you tell us a bit about your relationship with the city? Rotterdam felt more free and less defined than The Hague, and became the European capital culture the next year. Besides that there was that [famous] industrial atmosphere that for me connected with Eindhoven where I was born and living before I moved. Basically I felt home here. I guess that in itself does create those special warm places where people who are diverse come together.
About four years ago I moved to Hoek van Holland, just two months before Corona took hold, and just before I discovered my own identity. Or maybe I moved there to find out⦠Until then, I would not have believed that I would be transgender, but now I finally, after discovery and transitioning, love to live my life.
Hoek van Holland is also part of Rotterdam, so I never really left. You have been an integral part of WORM over time: but can you remember your first impressions of the place? Yes, I do. But I also remember how it looked after everything was ready to be used. The Wunderbar did not yet exist, that was two simple looking office rooms where we had our meetings and Moddr workshops. Yes, Moddr was also still there, a geeky hackerspace that at some time ceased to exist.
One of their main computers is still my working machine! I started working at WORM about half a year before we moved to the centre. We made cardboard computers after an idea of Moddr. In I started work here after the system guy before me had left in a worrying state of mind⦠Sometime after that, the server, which was situated in the vault, caught fire.
