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The following committee of experts supervises this study:

• Dirk van den Heuvel, head of the Jaap Bakema Study Center (JBSC), a collaboration between Het Nieuwe Instituut and TU Delft, and associate professor in the Department of Architecture at TU Delft.
• Ludo Groen, researcher at Het Nieuwe Instituut's R&D department and tutor at the Berlage Institute.
• Dr Freek Schmidt, Professor of History of Architecture and the Living Environment at VU, Amsterdam.

Invented from Copies is one of the research projects that Het Nieuwe Instituut is developing as part of the Rethinking the Collection initiative, within the framework of Disclosing Architecture. Het Nieuwe Instituut's six-year Disclosing Architecture programme aims to increase the visibility and accessibility of the National Collection for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning. It is made possible by a one-time investment of 11 million euros from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. In this context, Het Nieuwe Instituut considers it necessary to ask fundamental questions about the value and significance of the documents in the collection - questions that can contribute to a reorientation of what heritage and its collection can or should mean at specific points in time.

• Concept and project management: Ellen Smit (conservator).
• Research: Hetty Berens (conservator), Clara Stille-Haardt (conservator), Ellen Smit (conservator).
• Client: Behrang Mousavi (Head of Collection Department).
• Disclosing Architecture project leader: Gijs Broos.
• Web editor: Petra van der Ree.
• Communications: Martine Willekens, Yerma da Silva.
• Translations: Jason Coburn and Jane Szita.
• Digitisation: Herman Gelton, digitisation team.
• Video: Pia van den Beuken, Rafael Romero.

Architectural historian Hetty Berens gained her doctorate under Dr Auke van der Woud at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. As a senior curator at Het Nieuwe Instituut, she is responsible for acquisitions, research in the collection and for Sonneveld House, the museum home next to Het Nieuwe Instituut. Her curated exhibitions include Spaces for Learning (2019), Pleasure Parks (2018), Architecture of Appropriation (2017) and Architecture and Interiors: The Desire for Style (2017). She publishes and gives lectures and guest lectures. She recently wrote the Healthy House, a new audio tour for Sonneveld House. She is a board member of the Art History Research School (OSK) and of Iconic Houses.

Architectural historian Ellen Smit is a senior curator at Het Nieuwe Instituut. She researches the collection's exhibitions, publications, loans, podcasts, lectures and acquisitions of archives. She has co-curated exhibitions such as Architecture The Dutch Way at the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg (2013) and, together with the Jaap Bakema Study Centre, she worked on the exhibitions Structuralism (2014) and Habitat Expanding Architecture (2018 ). She received a research grant from NWO in 2016 to research the drawing and design methods during Dutch structuralism, about which she has also published and lectured.

Architectural historian Clara Stille-Haardt is a senior archivist/curator at Het Nieuwe Instituut. She works on the inventory of architect Pi de Bruijn's archive and is involved in various projects, including Open Archive, Disclosing Architecture and the publication of a collection book for children. Her Paper Story+ brand develops sustainable paper products inspired by designs from museum collections and archives.

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