Daphne Bakker

Daphne Bakker is a researcher and editor whose work focuses on the intersections of architecture, landscape, and post-colonial histories. They were a lead collaborator on Soengoe Kondre (Submerged Heritage), a project with artist-filmmaker Miguel Peres Dos Santos and curator Vincent van Velsen for Het Nieuwe Instituut, which examined the ancestral land of the Saramaccan Maroon community in Suriname, submerged by a hydroelectric dam built to support bauxite mining.

Bakker also worked as an editor at Failed Architecture, a platform rethinking urban failure, and at Rotterdam Late Night, where they researched and interviewed politicians, artists, and activists shaping the city’s cultural and political fabric. They served as a member of the Talent Development Advisory Committee for the Creative Industries Fund NL, advising on grants for emerging creatives.