BK Expo. Indigenous Intelligence
Tentoonstelling
From April 1st to June 30th, 2025, the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft will host the exhibition Indigenous Intelligence: ancient knowledge, current design.
This exhibition brings together practices, stories, and designs rooted in Indigenous intelligence — knowledge cultivated over centuries of living in close relationship with land, water, and community. The works on display highlight approaches grounded in reciprocity, resilience, and care, offering perspectives that contrast with extractive and colonial systems.
Projects range from matriarchal place-making and ecological governance to vernacular construction and cultural storytelling. All have been recently produced by students, PhD researchers, and educators at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment.
Indigenous Intelligence invites visitors to reflect on how Indigenous knowledge can inspire future design and education. It challenges assumptions about technology and nature and explores how architecture and urbanism can shape not just spaces, but relationships between people, environments, and generations — with humility and care.
We warmly thank all contributors and those who responded to the faculty-wide open call.
The exhibition is part of BK Public Programs, an initiative led by Dean Dick van Gameren.
Curator of Public Programs: Javier Arpa Fernández
Team: Jesse Verdoes, Max Bernaerts, Rens Hoofs, and Neha Sreekumar
Coordination: Linda van Keeken