Netherlands

Mar Muñoz Aparici is a practicing architect developing design-driven research on public space from urban and architectural perspectives. She is currently a PhD candidate in Delft University of Technology. Her research focuses on cultural building design can strengthen public life. The design of makerspaces within libraries is a relevant case study of her design-research.

In her own practice–lamardebe– she develops design, research and curatorship projects between the Netherlands and Spain. She has worked in multiple offices on international projects, from interior design to masterplan, housing or public buildings. She holds a Masters from TU Delft, where she studied the socio-political development of planning for tourism in Spain during Franchoism and graduated with a public building design based on civic engagement as a tool for urban regeneration.

Olindo Caso graduated at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Naples ‘Federico II’. In 1990 he began to collaborate with the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, where he achieved his Ph.D. in 1999 with a dissertation about the impact of ICT applications on the design of spatial settings. Presently he is part of the ‘Complex Projects’ Group at the Department of Architecture of the TU Delft, and the coordinator of the research group ‘Architecture and the City’. Olindo’s specific research interests include the architecture of the infrastructure, in particular the cultural infrastructure and the infrastructure of mobility. He is the author of (international) publications and research reports, among which Architettura contemporanea: Olanda (Milan: Motta, 2009), ATLAS: Makerspaces in Public Libraries in the Netherlands (Delft: TU Open, 2019), and Living Stations (Delft TU Open, 2021).