The Dark City is part of the programme in the context of I See That I See What You Don't See. This exhibition takes the complex relationships between light and dark, between seeing and not seeing, as a starting point for an exploration of their conflicting effects on humans, the Earth and other organisms.

Edwin Gardner

Edwin Gardner is a futurologist and partner at Studio Monnik which helps organisations to innovate, think strategically, and develop their vision on speculative futures. With Christiaan Fruneaux and Marjolijn van Heemstra, Edwin founded the Academy of Urban Astronauts, and led the Night Lab.

Iris Dijkstra 

Iris Dijkstra is founder and director of Atelier LEK, an independent design agency specialising in light for public spaces and the interior and exterior of buildings. She has developed a lighting design approach for the dark city. 

Like Bijlsma 

Like Bijlsma is an architect, geographer, and founder of the architecture firm SUB Office. She has developed a dark housing typology for the dark city.

Thijs van Spaandonk & Gerjan Streng 

Thijs van Spaandonk and Gerjan Streng founded Bright, a research and development laboratory using different scenarios to explore spatial questions. They have investigated the urban planning instruments, laws and regulations that could make a dark city a reality.

Sander van Iersel

Sander van Iersel is a photographer and filmmaker with a background in biology. His 'objective camera' maps the differences between natural darkness and our brightly lit cities.

Piet Vollaard 

Formerly the director of Archined, Piet Vollaard co-founded Stad in de Maak to manage emptiness in an alternative way, and De Natuurlijke Stad, a collective of ecologists, urban planners, city gardeners and architects. He organised a night walk to map the nightlife of Rotterdam from sunset to sunrise.