Locality and Identity: Henri Maclaine Pont and the Politics of Representation in the Late Colonial Dutch East Indies

This paper investigates issues of representation, interpretation, and difference in architecture in colonial and racialised environments, through a case study of the work of Dutch engineer, architect, and archaeologist Henri Maclaine Pont in the late colonial Dutch East Indies. Pont extensively surveyed regional Javanese building forms, and...

Looking into a Historical Mirror: How TU Delft’s Global Housing studio has addressed or perpetuated colonialism and neo-colonialism while practicing in the Global South

Collaboration between the Global South and Global North is inevitable. It can work. It can be emphatic, effective, and more equal. However, there is a deeply embedded history of colonialism involving power asymmetries that give rise to the dismissal of value systems, which pervert this type of collaboration from being truly realised. Hence,...