Ole Bouman

With two “doctoraal” degrees (old style) in the generalist disciplines of Cultural History and Art History, and with a early track record of initiating and producing international projects at the Delft University of Technology, I embarked on a career including a variety of jobs and cultural projects and developed a broad set of skills, ranging from organizational and project management, up to cultural analysis, event design, art/architecture criticism and creative leadership in curatorial, editorial and educational work.

See www.olebouman.agency and LinkedIn.

Education

1990Degrees  (doctoraal, oude stijl) in Cultural History and Art History (cum laude), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Positions and employments

2022Visiting professor Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology (BIFT), School of Art & Design

2022Expert Committee Member of Shanghai List of 100 Design Figures

2022Board member – Independent School for the City, Rotterdam

2021-Principal olebouman.agency, Shenzhen, creative museum consultancy.

2015-2021Founding Director Design Society, Shenzhen

2019-2020Honorary director Sea World Culture & Arts Center, Shenzhen; director Design Society brand, urban curator China Merchants Shekou

2017-2019Executive Director Design Society, Sea World Culture & Arts Center, Shenzhen and General Manager Sea World Culture & Arts Center

2013-2014Creative Director - 5^th Urbanism/Architecture Bi-City Biennale*Shenzhen, China

2013-2015Principal - Ole Bouman Architecture Network Ideas (OLEANI)

2012-2015Board member - THNK The Amsterdam School of Creative Leadership, Amsterdam

2012-2013Board member - Manifesta the European Biennale of Contemporary Art, Amsterdam

2011-2015Member steering committee - Cultural Emergency Response, Amsterdam

2007-2015Contributing editor - Volume magazine and Volume project online magazine, Amsterdam

2007-2013General Director - Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI), Rotterdam

2005-2007Editor in chief - Volume, Magazine for going beyond architecture, Amsterdam

1996-2004Editor in chief - Archis, magazine for Architecture, City and Visual Culture

1991-1995free lance curator, critic, writer, visiting professor

Projects

books:

- 2019 Design Society; a Creative Platform in Action

- 2017 Design Society: the Making of a New Creative Platform

- 2012 ‘Highlights of Dutch Architecture; preserved by the Netherlands Architecture Institute’, Rotterdam

- 2010 ‘Al Manakh c’tinued’, Amsterdam

- 2009 ‘Architecture of Consequence’, Rotterdam

- 2007 ‘Al Manakh’, Amsterdam

- 2003 ‘The Battle for Time’, Amsterdam

- 2003 ‘General culture policy plan’ for the municipality of Tilburg

- 1999 ‘On the Edge of Two Millennia. Essays on the Future of Architecture’, Rotterdam

- 1997 ‘RealSpace in QuickTimes; architecture and digitization’, Rotterdam

- 1996 ‘Destination Future’, Rotterdam

- 1994 ‘The Invisible in Architecture’, London

- 1994 ‘And justice for all...’, Maastricht

articles:

- own website olebouman.agency

- daily newspapers: Het Parool, Volkskrant, Trouw, The Independent

- architectural magazines: Harvard Design Review, Volume, Archis, Architectural Design, ARK, Bauwelt, Tefchos, Any-Magazine, El Croquis, De Architect, Lotus, Arkitectura Murator, Project Russia, Arquitectura & Viva, Hunch, World Architecture, BASA, Hunch, AD, Time+Architecture, Urban Flux, A+D, A+U, Architecture + Time, Urban Flux, among others

- art magazines: BEELD, Arti, Metropolis M, Artforum, Museum Review

- literary magazines: Hollands Maandblad, Raster, De Gids, De Revisor, De XXIe eeuw & between 1988 and 1999 weekly contributions on art, architecture, visual culture and new media in De Groene Amsterdammer, weekly on culture and politics

- design magazines: Items, Domus, City of Design Shenzhen

- anthologies, catalogues and more

design

2016Co-creative direction brand design Design Society, Shenzhen

2013Creative Direction and final design Value Factory Shenzhen

2004-2012event design - RSVP events in Berlin, Brussels, New York, Athens, Detroit, Oslo, Ramallah, Amman, Istanbul, Mexico, Prishtina, among others

2002competition entry (together with Design under Construction

several multimedia ‘’modes’’ for visitor pavilion Transports, in collaboration with Oosterhuis.NL) - Museum Insel Berlin

2000exhibition design - Freeze, Arti Amsterdam

1996RealSpace in QuickTimes (together with Ben van Berkel en René van Raalte) - Dutch entry Triennale di Milano

1996exhibition design Egotecture - Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

curation

2022co-curator Connecting Dreamworlds, art and design in the Cold War, Wende Museum Los Angeles

2020Country of Honor, virtual pavilion of the Netherlands at Shenzhen Design Week

2017Wayfinding Creative Shenzhen, Shenzhen Design Week

2014Re-Creation, Finnish entry to the Venice Architecture Biennale (with Juulia Kauste)

2012Louis Kahn, The Power of Architecture (co-curator, with Stanislaus von Moos and Jochen Eisenbrandt)

2012Re-set, Dutch entry to the Venice Architecture Biennale (with Petra Blaisse)

2011Housing with a Mission, Shenzhen

2011 Unsolicited Architecture, São Paulo

2007-12Several exhibitions for the Netherlands Architecture Institute

2004-12RSVP Events (response-based interventions)

2000Freeze - Arti, Amsterdam

2000Manifesta 3, Ljubljana (together with Francesco Bonami, Maria Lhavajova and Katrin Rhomberg

1996RealSpace in QuickTimes; Architecture and Digitization - Dutch entry to the Triennale di Milano

1996Egotecture; Essay exhibition taken from the collection of Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

1991exhibition Europan II, Netherlands

teaching

2019-21visiting professor Beijing Insitute of Fashion and Technology

2015Studio Master design – Hong Kong University

2014Founding director Value Factory Academy, Shenzhen

2013-4tutor/visiting professor Berlage Institute, Delft

2007Studio master design - Architecture School of MIT,…

2003-2006tutor/visiting professor - Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, Amsterdam

1994-1999tutor/visiting professor - Academy of Architecture, Amsterdam

1999tutor Goldsmith College, London

Awards and accolades

2021Listed in Top 50 Global Design Power 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Interni Magazine

2018Shenzhen Creative Influencer Award

2018Design Society listed among Time World Top 100 of “Greatest Places”

2014Organization Committee Award for Value Factory transformation Shenzhen Urbanism Architecture Bi-City Biennale (UABB)

2013Architecture+Design & CERA Awards, India:  ‘Golden Award for Global Contribution in Architecture’.

2012Organization Committee Award for best pavilion Urbanism Architecture Bi-City Biennale

lecturing

universities, cultural institutions and professional and political organisations: worldwide.

memberships

several memberships for juries and steering committees. Recently for the Rebuilding by Design, Hurricane Sandy Reconstruction Task Force, Architizer A+ Awards, Mies van der Rohe Prize, Medaglio d’Oro Italia, European Public Space Prize, Tchernikov Prize, Curry Stone Prize, Cultural Emergency Response (CER), THNK, Manifesta Foundation, Volume Magazine, Shenzhen Design Week, UABB Academic Committee, Shenzhen Design Week advisory committee, Design Trust Hong Kong. Personal member of ICAM (International Confederation of Architectural Museums).