René Boer works as a critic, curator and organizer in and beyond the fields of architecture, design, heritage and the arts. In his practice he seeks to articulate new perspectives on spatial matters and facilitate fertile ground for imagining and materialising alternatives. He is a founding partner of Loom - practice for cultural transformation, a driving force behind the transnational platform Failed Architecture and affiliated with various urban social movements. In recent years, he developed a wide range of exhibitions, public programmes and research projects, often in close collaboration with a network of likeminded institutions, movements and experts. These include Architecture of Appropriation with Het Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam), Grounded Urban Practices with CLUSTER (Cairo), Contemporary Commoning with the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (Amsterdam) and Terraforming Indonesia/Lahan Becek with the Research Center for Material Cultures (Amsterdam) and ruangrupa/gudskul (Jakarta). René Boer has taught at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture, Cairo Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, Design Academy Eindhoven, Independent School for the City (Rotterdam) and Gerrit Rietveld Academy (Amsterdam). His work has appeared in among others Hardvard Design Magazine, Architectural Review and Volume. In 2023, he published 'Smooth City' with Valiz Publishers.