Floor van Ditzhuyzen | Editor and Columnist
Floor van Ditzhuyzen is an architect, researcher, curator and tutor based in Rotterdam. Educated as an architect and urban designer at the Faculty of Architecture – TU Delft and the Universitat Polytècnica de Catalunya, she has long-standing interest in, and experience with public space.
She is founding partner of the interdisciplinary designstudio the Ontwerpwerkplaats and has won awards with projects like the Pop-Up Bus Stop. Furthermore, she is co-founder of the international ‘We Love Public Space’ Festival. Floor has been a tutor at the Rotterdam Academy of Art and the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design. Currently she teaches at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built environment – TU Delft.
In 2020 she founded the Public Space Detective blog, an ongoing research project investigating common and uncommon phenomena in public space. The blog reflects the results of Floor’s visual scavenging, roaming the streets of Rotterdam and other cities, with the objective not only to document but also to unravel and question what is observed.