![A student holding a sign that is titled "Contrary to popular belief".](https://publicintervention.humanities.uva.nl/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image3-768x1024.jpg)
We took a few quotes as our departure points and stood in front of certain buildings in Amsterdam by holding hand-written banners giving information on the colonial history of these buildings. We wanted to ask the passersby: “Did you know about the colonial history?”