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In this edition of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre, we will reflect on the ambiguous nature of modern architecture, particularly in relation to exploitative colonial practices that stand in stark contrast to the progressive ideals of modernism.

The fourth edition of the Queer Salon focuses on the garden as a queer sanctuary. We will explore the archives of landscape designers and take a stroll through the New Garden and the Museumpark.

With this year’s conference, the Jaap Bakema Study Centre celebrates its 10th anniversary and the centennial of the National Collection of Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning.

The Queer Salon #3 explores the intersectional acts of queering and cripping with Simon(e) van Saarloos, Kenny Fries, Eliza Steinbock and Dirk van den Heuvel.

This year’s Jaap Bakema Study Centre conference revisits a broad topic: the digital. This time, the focus is on the vast amount of data that is generated and stored.

The second edition of The Queer Salon explores the hidden histories of diverse LGBTIQ+ individuals and communities.

The Jaap Bakema Study Centre conference explores ethnography's influence on architecture. Since the 19th century, architects have used ethnography - a form of research in which immersion in a community allows observers to closely study behaviours and interactions - to develop the discipline and reshape the architect's social role.

What sort of tacit, embodied and social knowledge can we find in an archive? How can we activate that knowledge? What even constitutes an archive in architecture? And is there a craft to archiving itself? Join us as we discuss these questions and more with Albena Yaneva, who will present research on the tacit knowledge of archiving from her recent book Crafting History: Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy.

The Queer Salon series aims to connect institutionalised, "insider" heritage spaces, such as national archives and collections, with the "outsider" heritage spaces of "critical visitors", in order to open up and transform the practices of institutionalisation and canonisation.

As part of the programme for the Jaap Bakema Study Centre conference, which aims to critically explore the interplay between architecture and digital culture since the 1970s, Armin Linke discusses a selection of projects with Georg Vrachliotis and Dirk van den Heuvel. This presentation reflects on the current state of global technological landscapes, from media archives and data archaeology to control rooms and server farms.

This year's Jaap Bakema Study Centre conference aims to critically explore the interplay between architecture and digital culture since the 1970s. How has the emergent data society materialised in architecture? What new typologies have been developed? And what role did architecture play in the emerging discussion about artificial intelligence?

Esra Akcan is the keynote speaker for the Jaap Bakema Study Centre conference 2019 Architecture and Democracy 1965-1989: Urban Renewal, Populism and the Welfare State. Akcan's research explores the concept of 'open architecture' through the thorough investigation of the urban renewal of Kreuzberg, Berlin's immigrant neighbourhood, in the 1980s.

This year's international conference of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre focuses on the years 1965 to 1989, in which welfare state arrangements were contested on both left and right, by counterculture movements and the rise of populism. While government institutions sought a proper response, urban renewal and city repair became a new field of work for architects and planners.