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Where is Here?
Editors Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Francien van Westrenen
Contributors Arturo Escobar, Claudia Rot, Miguel Heilbron, Leonoor Zuiderveen Borgesius, Malique Mohamud

Architecture has long been used as an instrument to divide, to distance, to exclude, to separate, to segregate. But architecture can also be a means to unite, to include, to gather, to care, to listen, to acknowledge, to celebrate. In this we must continue to ask who “we” is, but we must also recognize that “we” already is and always has been here. The question, then, is perhaps where “here” actually is.

Where is Here? is a collaboration between Het Nieuwe Instituut and e-flux Architecture following Who is We?, the Dutch pavilion at 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale.

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Reimagining Public Space
Malique Mohamud
For the past few years, we’ve been working together with the community of Bospolderplein, another public square in Rotterdam West, on a project called Het Plein, or “the square.”
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Refusing to be Wild
Leonoor Zuiderveen Borgesius
Located roughly thirty kilometers east from Amsterdam, the Oostvaardersplassen nature reserve stretches out over about 5,600 hectares, about 3,000 of ...
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“Not for Surinamese”: How Amsterdam closed entire neighborhoods to non-white Dutch people
Miguel Heilbron
In the 1970s, my parents were not allowed to live in the Van der Pekstraat in Amsterdam-North. Not around the corner in the Meeuwenlaan either. The reason? Amsterdam had designated neighborhoods, areas, streets, and apartment buildings where Surinamese were not welcome, even though they had a Dutch passport like everyone else.
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New Land and Sacrifice Zones
Claudia Rot
With its iconic archipelago of polders, clear-cut boundaries between rural and urban, straightened or purposely bent waterways, and highly efficient y...
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On the Ontological Metrofitting of Cities
Arturo Escobar
Introduction: Earth and the City About three years ago, I started a presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers b...
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Editorial
Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, and Francien van Westrenen
Where is Here? is a collaboration between Het Nieuwe Instituut and e-flux Architecture following Who is We?, the Dutch pavilion at the 2021 Venice Arc...
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Category
Nature & Ecology, Urbanism, Posthumanism
Subject
Architecture, Decolonization, Multiculturalism, Animals, Landscape, Human - Nonhuman Relations

Where is Here? is a collaboration between Het Nieuwe Instituut and e-flux Architecture following Who is We?, the Dutch pavilion at 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale.

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