Caroline Drieënhuizen

Caroline Drieënhuizen is a cultural historian. She obtained her PhD at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) in 2012. She works as a teacher in cultural science at the UvA and as an assistant-professor at the Open University. In her work, she researches the development of the European colonial elite of the Dutch East Indies between 1811 and 1957, by looking at the material collections of these families. Drieënhuizen’s research into their collections not only shows how the elite functioned in Dutch and colonial society, but also how objects played a role in the achievement of status and prestige.

Amanda Pinatih

Amanda Pinatih is Design Curator at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Here, she provides the vast design collection with new perspectives. Her experimental working method is characterised by developing other forms of knowledge transfer and explores how historical collections can work participatively and associatively on younger generations. Through exhibitions and projects, she responds to today’s social, political, decolonial, environmental and economic issues. Simultaneously as a PhD candidate at the VU Amsterdam, Pinatih is researching what Indonesian objects, which came to the Netherlands during colonial times, afford in contestations of belonging for young people who self-identify as Dutch-Indonesian.

Robin Hartanto Honggare

Robin Hartanto Honggare is a writer and curator, and, presently, a PhD student at Columbia GSAPP. His current research focuses on the architectures of cultivation and the histories of colonial modernities in Southeast-Asia. He is a visiting scholar within Het Nieuwe Instituut’s research team for 2021-2022. He curated the Indonesia Pavilion at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice (2014); A Conservation Story, an exhibition of five awardees of UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation in Indonesia (2014); and the Universitas Pelita Harapan Architecture Triennial Waktu Adalah Ruang in Kota Tua, Jakarta (2015).