Letters to the Mayor
At the opening event of Letters to the Mayor: Rotterdam on 12 January 2018, Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb invited the 46 architects who wrote a letter to condense their ideas into five key questions for local government.
These questions will form the centre of a meeting with the responsible aldermen to discuss how this might shape new strategies for Rotterdam. This event will take place just before summer 2018. As a first step towards reflecting on the body of texts, critical thinkers (Adeola Enigbokan, Mark Minkjan, Malique Mohamud), each with a different relation to the city of Rotterdam and the field of architecture, were invited to write a reflection on these 46 letters. These reflections, published in instalments, contextualise, summarise or critique the letters and give the reader a first way into the collection of letters.