Ole Bouman

7. 9. 2016

Ole Bouman is a Dutch-German cultural historian, art historian and archeologist. He is Founding Director Emeritus of Design Society, the new design museum and platform in Shenzhen, listed by Time Magazine among the World Top 100 Greatest Places. Past roles include editor-in-chief of Volume (2005-2007, a magazine he co-founded with OMA and Columbia University) and director of the national Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) (2006-2013). He worked as a curator for Manifesta 3 (2000), and curated national pavilions at the Biennales of Shenzhen, São Paulo and Venice. He was Creative Director of the Urbanism/Architecture Bi-City Biennale Shenzhen (UABB) in 2013-14. His publications include The Invisible in Architecture (co-author, 1994), Ubiquitous China (2006), Architecture of Consequence (2009) and (co-editor, 2017) Design Society: the Making of a New Creative Platform. Bouman taught architecture and design at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Hong Kong. In 2018 he received the Shenzhen Creative Influencer Award. Since 2022, he is full professor at the College of Architecture & Urbanism, Tongji University, Shanghai. In 2024 he rode from Amsterdam to Shanghai by bicycle.