Merve Bedir and Huib Haye van der Werf

Merve Bedir is an architect whose work focuses on infrastructures of hospitality and mobility. A secondary line of research refers to the collective intelligences and imaginaries of the landscape. She is a co-initiating member of Aformal Academy in Pearl River Delta region, Kitchen Workshop in Gaziantep, and Center for Spatial Justice in Istanbul. Her recent design projects include an industrial kitchen in Gaziantep, and Postane repair and regeneration project in Istanbul, in Turkey.

Huib Haye van der Werf was the interim director at de appel arts center in Amsteram in 2022, and before that he initiated/led in Amsterdam the organization mistral together with Radna Rumping, a space dedicated to archives and abundance. From 2013 to 2020 he was head of the artistic program at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. from 2012 to 2014 huib worked as founder/curator for TAAK, an international organization for social-artistic commissioning, and from 2011 to 2012 as curator for the national Art in Public Space Foundation (SKOR) of The Netherlands having previously advised the national government on artistic commissions. He also has a podcast series called The Listening Tide - on how we listen and the meaning that comes from this - which he hosts in his living room in Amsterdam, where he lives/works.