Co-founder of Loom & Failed Architecture
Michiel van Iersel is a curator, urbanist, writer, teacher, and co-founder of Failed Architecture and Loom, an Amsterdam-based collective working at the intersection of art, heritage, and the public domain. He is Partner at Loom and Program Lead of the Chair of Architecture & Urban Transformation at ETH Zurich. He co-authored Re-writing Architecture – 10 + 1 Actions for a More Adaptive Architecture (Valiz, 2020), was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and curated the 2016 International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2016 themed The Next Economy. He has initiated several cultural research projects, including Failed Architecture, Tussen-ruimte, and De Verdieping, and has taught, lectured, and published internationally on architecture, urbanism, and cultural transformation.
