Marten Kuijpers

Marten Kuijpers is senior researcher at Het Nieuwe Instituut. His work concerns the often invisible political and economic forces, scripts and mechanisms that shape cities and their hinterlands. His current research focuses on the implications of automation for the built environment, as part of the research project Automated Landscapes. Marten was curator of several exhibitions at the institute, including Sicco Mansholt: A Good European, which examined the spatial implications of postwar agricultural policies in the Netherlands. Marten studied architecture at the University of Technology in Eindhoven. Between 2010 and 2013, he curated the lectures and debates program of the Netherlands Architecture Institute.