My 2nd. story. Written at Marres, House for Contemporary Culture in Maastricht, as one of the jurors for the Limburg Biënnale 2024.
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 A letter to Grada Wolffensperger, the Netherlands’ first female architect graduate!
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 My letter to Grada Wolffensperger is in line with the theme I chose for my room at the Limburg Biënnale 2024. 
 I think a lot about the ‘utopian city.’ Like the gaze of urban planners, the city is not neutral. Its systematic adherence to dominant social categories and structures makes it inherently biased. So, what makes a city safe, inclusive, user-friendly, caring? Asking these questions requires a new perspective that is aware of how a city reflects the patriarchal system.

That is why I took a symbolic tabula rasa as a starting point for my selection of works. My room is a post-apocalyptic place where the viewer can think about how we want to shape our cities, if ever we get the chance to start over. The works are desolate, dark, and people are nowhere to be found. A figurative thought experiment and a blank canvas for contemplating what the new city might look like in these times, so that it becomes a place not just for the few, but for all.
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 Thank you: 
 - Oonah Duchateau for designing the letter.
 - Marres Maastricht & Oda Park Venray for the invitation.