Amsterdam-based artist, writer and teacher with a special interest in art and architectural history, cultural geography and the future of work.

charlieclemoes@gmail.com
(+31)0624360147
   
Collaborations
AHK Academie van Bouwkunst (NL) ALT_CPH (DN) Art Book Fair (CN)Bartlett School of Architecture (UK) Building Workers International (KE) Design Academy Eindhoven (NL) Failed Architecture (NL) fanfare (NL) FNV (NL) Fontys Tilburg (NL) Galeria Jaroslav Fragnera (CZ) Gerrit Rietveld Academie (NL) Het Nieuwe Instituut (NL) International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam (NL)It’s a Book (DE) Libros Mutantes (ES) LINA (EU) Lisbon Trienal (PT) Manifesta 12 (IT) Higher School of Economics (RS) Impakt Festival (NL) Jan van Eyck Academie (NL)Netherlands Angry Architects (NL) Soft Protest Digest (FR) topos Magazine (DE) Venice Biennale (IT) VI PER Gallery (CZ) Vrije Universiteit (NL)

Current work  
(2025) Theory teacher, Basic Year, Gerrit Rietveld Academie
(2024) Graduation mentor (four graduation projects), Master's in Architecture, Academie van Bouwkunst, Amsterdam
(2019) Theory teacher, Architectural Design, Gerrit Rietveld Academie 
(2019) Teacher, Amsterdam, Master's in Architecture, Academie van Bouwkunst, Amsterdam
(2014) Editor, Failed Architecture (FA)
 
Courses Taught
(2026) “P4O4: Building an Intentional Community in Amsterdam Noord”, Master’s in Architecture (MArch), Academie van Bouwkunst (AvB), Amsterdam
(2025) “P4O4: Disrupting the Smooth City” MArch AvB, Amsterdam
(2024) “P4O4: Un/Smooth Dwelling”, MArch AvB, Amsterdam
(2022) “Media Content Production” workshop, MArch Fontys Tilburg
(2021) “Podcasting Architecture” seminar New Architecture Writers programme in London 
(2021-22) “O2b: Reflection and Argumentation” course, MArch AvB, Amsterdam
(2020) Theory seminar series for “Prototyping Future Cities”, Master's, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
(2020) “Podcasting Architecture” seminar, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London
(2019-24) Theory teacher Fontys Tilburg
(2019-20) “O3a: Politics and Society” course, MArch AvB, Amsterdam
(2018) Writing workshop, Social Design Masters, Design Academy Eindhoven
(2018) “Urban Intensity” Colloquium, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

Selected writing, audio and video
(2024) “A Just Transition for the Building Sector w/ Architecture Lobby’s Green New Deal Working Group
(2023) “Overhaalstraat 1 or: Developers Destroyed Our Neighbour’s Allotment”
(2023) “Riding for Deliveroo w/Callum Cant,” Failed Architecture Podcast
(2023) “Unionising Architectural Workers in NL & The Qatar Legacy w/ Zamaney Menso (FNV),” Failed Architecture Podcast
(2023) “This 19C Pastry Chef Predicted Architecture’s Crisis of Values,” Failed Architecture (forthcoming)
(2022) “Architectural Workers Organising in Europe w/Marisa Cortright,” Failed Architecture Podcast
(2022) Organiser, NAA! Netherlands Angry Architects
(2021) “Resolve Collective,” fanfare tetatet (2:4)
(2021) “Design Justice w/ Quilian Riano” Failed Architecture Podcast
(2021) “Introduction,” Marie-Antoine Careme and Adel Cersaque, Patisserie Pittoresque Mises en Couleur
(2021) “Heroin is Everywhere Now and It’s Everyone’s Problem,” Failed Architecture Podcast
(2021) “Paint Your Town Red: An Interview with Rhian E. Jones” Failed Architecture Podcast
(2021) “Assemble,” fanfare tetatet (2:3)
(2021) “Darknet Markets are Bringing More Kinds of Drugs to Many More Places Than Ever Before,” Failed Architecture
(2020) “Containerization,” topos (113)
(2020) “Manifold,” fanfare tetatet (2:2)
(2020) “Ayn Rand’s Libertarian Utopia Provided the Blueprint for Billionaire Doomsday Prepping,” Failed Architecture
(2020) “Slavs and Tatars,” fanfare tetatet (2:1)
(2020) “When Beyonce Seized the Louvre,” Failed Architecture Podcast
(2020) “A Different Perspective on Walkability,” topos (110)
(2019) “Architects Unionise!,” Failed Architecture Podcast
(2019) “‘Next Hype’: Taking and Making Space in the 2010 U.K. Student Protest Movement,” The Funambulist (21)
(2018) “Looking After the Nighthawks: The Night Mayor of Amsterdam Shamiro van der Geld,” topos (105)
(2018) “Speer in Qatar or: How Architects Learned to Stop Caring and Love the Client,” Failed Architecture Podcast
(2018) “City Gameplay: The Influence of Video Games on Our Urban Experience,” Failed Architecture Podcast
(2017) “Werker Collective and the Worker Photographers: Taking Back Control of the Image,” Novara Media
(2015) “Red Bologna Today,” Jacobin
   
Selected other projects
(2025) Taking More Than What’s There to Give, exhibition Lisbon Trienal & VI PER Gallery, Prague
(2025) Bookstore Project Amsterdam, Resident
(2024) LINA Fellowship
(2024) “Animal Politics” PhD application stipend, Rietveld-Sandberg Research
(2024) “fanfare Sister Display System manual,” abC (Art Book Fair China) (publication 04-2024)
(2024) “Audio and Dialogue Production: Professionalisation and Deepening of Practice” grant, Stimuleringsfonds
(2023) Resident, Jan van Eyck Academie
(2023) Rietveld Fellow, Gerrit Rietveld Academie
(2022) “Arch Work NL,” Workers Inquiry on Failed Architecture Instagram
(2021) “Architectural Workers Hotline,” Netherlands (public artwork)
(2021) “The Video Gaming Landscape,” Next Landscapes, Praha (talk)
(2021) “Fake Tour Istanbul,” Failed Architecture Situation #8, Istanbul (event)
(2021) “Swarming the Red Light District with Sound,” Failed Architecture Situation #2, Amsterdam (event)
(2021) “Swarming the Red Light District,” Failed Architecture Situation #1 Amsterdam (event)
(2019) “DREAM #2: Pleased to Meet You,” RAUM, Utrecht (talk)
(2018) Regular contributor, topos Magazine, Munich (writing)
(2018) fanfare inc. at Manifesta 12, Palermo (exhibition)
(2018) fanfare inc. at Libros Mutantes, Madrid (exhibition)
(2018) The Live Archive, ALT_CPN, Copenhagen (exhibition)
(2018) fanfare inc. at It’s a Book, Leipzig (exhibition)
(2018) Host, Failed Architecture Podcast
(2017) fanfare tetatet (1), Amsterdam (podcast)
(2017) “Augmented Cities Panel,” Impakt Festival 2018: Algorithmic Superstructures, Utrecht (talk)
(2017) “#Keepingitreal Symposium,” Tent, Rotterdam (talk)
(2017) “Rendering Reality,” Blueprint: Whose Urban Appropriation Is This?, Tent, Rotterdam (exhibition)
(2017) “Less is More, Less is a Bore”, RIBA Late (event)
(2016-2022) Trend Commentator, Cultural Streetscapes, Kantar Consulting

Education
(2013) Urban Studies MSc , University College London
(2011)  Middle Eastern History MA, University of Exeter
(2008) History BA , University of Bristol