The Speakers

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Prof. dr. Filip de Boeck

A professor of anthropology at the University of Leuven, writer, film-maker and curator Filip De Boeck has conducted extensive field research in both rural and urban communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo. De Boeck's current theoretical interests include youth and the politics of culture, urban infrastructure, and the transformation of private and public space in the urban context in Africa. He has published extensively on these topics. Co-authored with photographer Sammy Baloji, his most recent book is Suturing the City. Living Together in Congo's Urban Worlds (London: Autograph ABP, 2016). Other book publications include Kinshasa. Tales of the Invisible City, a joint book project with photographer Marie-Françoise Plissart (Ghent/ Tervuren: Ludion / Royal Museum of Central Africa, 2004). De Boeck has also curated several exhibitions, including Kinshasa: The Imaginary City for the ninth International Architecture Biennial in Venice (2004), and Urban Now. City Life in Congo at the WIELS contemporary art centre in Brussels (2016).

Ms. Ore Fika

Ms. Ore Fika (MSc. Urban Planning and Development) is an urban planner and architect. She is a specialist in urban land and housing development. Her main area of expertise. Before her time at IHS, she worked as an architect and project manager for several years and her tasks included the design and development of multiple housing units in Lagos, Nigeria, in response to the housing shortage in the city, which ignited her interest in urban development as a whole. She also worked on development projects in South Africa, Liberia, Ghana and briefly in Tunisia. In 2008 she completed her Master’s degree in urban planning and development at the Institute for Housing and Urban Development (IHS), where she specialized in Housing and Land Development Strategies. During her Masters study she carried out her research on slum formation and consolidation focusing on water front communities, also known as “Landless Slums”.

Dr. Andrea Stultiens

Andrea Stultiens (NL, 1974) was educated as a photographer in the Netherlands. Her practice developed into a research based one, and she defended the dissertation “Ebifananyi, a study of photographs in Uganda in and through an artistic practice” at Leiden University in 2018. Stultiens’ artistic practice deals with photographs in relation to the ways in which particular histories are presented. Since 2007 she mainly works with photographs made on the African continent. She thinks of her artistic and research practice as a non-hierarchical ‘Collective Making’ that is necessary to explore photographic imagery in complex and potentially problematic post-colonial settings. Stultiens is, as lecturer and researcher, connected to Minerva Art Academy in Groningen and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.

Dr.ir. Nelson Mota

Nelson Mota is Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology, where he teaches architectural design and theory. He is the author of the book A Arquitectura do Quotidiano (e|darq, 2010) as well as several essays and articles published in scholarly journals and professional magazines. He is co-editor of thematic issues for the journals Footprint (2015, 2019) and Joelho (2017). In his doctoral dissertation “An Archaeology of the Ordinary” (Delft University of Technology, 2014) he examined the relationship between housing design and the reproduction of vernacular social and spatial practices. He is production editor and member of the editorial board of Footprint.

ir. Anteneh Tola

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Rachel Keeton

Rachel Keeton is an urban researcher and founder of Urban Anecdote, a research office concerned with questions about the city. An architect by training, Keeton has worked in the field of urban analysis for the last ten years, specializing in contemporary New Towns in Asia and Africa. She worked as a researcher for the International New Town Institute (INTI) from 2009 - 2015, where she led INTI's satellite program in Nairobi, Kenya. She is co-editor of To Build a City in Africa: A History and a Manual (Nai010, 2019), and author of Rising in the East: Contemporary New Towns in Asia (SUN, 2011). Keeton is also a board member of Amateur Cities, and advisory committee member of the Dutch Creative Industries Fund for Internationalization. In 2016 she was the recipient of a four-year Delft Global Development Fellowship. Keeton is currently pursuing a PhD in urbanism at TU Delft.

MSc. Remco Rolvink

Remco Rolvink is founder of Remco Rolvink Spatial Strategies, co-founder and secretary general of DASUDA Foundation. T raining as architect but always engaged in large scale masterplans, Remco is landscape architect, urban planner and master planner for large scale schemes. He developed a spatial strategic approach to all kind of urban, peri-urban and rural challenges and creates strategies and concepts for sustainable and innovative domains for people in urban and rural areas in the Netherlands and in Africa.

Msc. Ir. Berrie van Elderen

Since 2019 Berrie is partner in design agency VE-R. He previously worked at Hosper landscape architecture and urban design and then had his own firm v-eld for 12 years. He has extensive experience with landscape and urban development projects, both at the scale level of the location and at the scale level of the region. These encompass both abstract investigations and complex content. He is also a guest lecturer at the University of Wageningen and at the University of Delft, where, among other things, he tutored several times for the interfaculty minor 'Integrated Infrastructure Design'. Berrie likes to collaborate with other design agencies (eg with CDR in Lagos for the wetlands in Ilubirin) as on a complex urban scale level (eg with Karres and Brands for the development around Ahoy and Zuidplein in Rotterdam) as regional scale level (eg with Posad for the energy transition for South East Brabant and Central Holland). Berrie has approximately 25 years of experience in design and implementation of public space, landscape and regional design.