Contributors

Sean Leonard

Sean Leonard is a practising architect who trained in London and works and lives in Trinidad and Tobago. He is one of the founding directors of the architecture practice co-rd Limited, and has held executive positions in the Trinidad and Tobago Institute of Architects and the Federation of Caribbean Associations of Architects. Leonard is also one of the founding directors of Alice Yard (2006), a contemporary art space located in Port-of-Spain. With the support of his practice and Alice Yard, he has been engaged in an ongoing exercise of conducting and compiling an audio archive of interviews of key professionals and players of the generation before him, who were critical in shaping the construction and experience of Trinidad and Tobago's built environment.

Andrea Andersson

Andrea Andersson is founding director and chief curator of Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought, a multi-platform organisation based in New Orleans. As a writer and curator, she has organised internationally touring exhibitions; she co-edits a series of artist’s books together with Siglio Press including Adam Pendleton: Becoming Imperceptible, Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen, and Hinge Pictures: Eight Women Artists Occupy the Third Dimension. She most recently co-edited (with Antonio Sergio Bessa) Sanford Biggers: Codeswitch (Yale UP), which accompanies the eponymous co-organised exhibition currently on view at the Bronx Museum of Art and travelling in spring 2021 to the California African American Museum in Los Angeles.

Dirk Sijmons

Dirk Sijmons is one of the founders of H+N+S Landscape architects. At the office, he was responsible for regional plans and research projects. H+N+S received the Prince Bernard Culture award in 2001. In 2002, he received the Rotterdam-Maaskant award and in 2007 the prestigious Edgar Doncker award for his contribution to ‘Dutch Culture’. His book publications in English are = Landscape (1998), Greetings from Europe (2008), Landscape and Energy (2014), Moved Movement (2015) and Room-for-the-River (2017). Sijmons was appointed first State Landscape Architect of the Netherlands (2004-2008). He held the chair of Environmental Design (2008-2011) and that of Landscape Architecture (2011-2015) at TU-Delft. He was curator of IABR--2014 themed Urban-by-Nature. At the World Design summit 2017 in Montreal he received the IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe award.

Erik Wong

Erik Wong has a background in graphic design, teaches at the Rietveld Academy and founded Wongema: a place for work, contemplation and surprising encounters in the far north of the Netherlands. Recently he made room for a new generation of Wongema hosts, returned to Amsterdam and continues his editorial practice.