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Experiences

Alejandro Rodriguez

The primary goal of this fellowship was to experience, document, and reflect upon the aspects of Dutch culture I’ve romanticized. To what extent was my assessment accurate or inaccurate? How does my assessment manifest in cities? In buildings? In materials? In people? How would I compare and contrast the Dutch to similar, proximal cultures through this lens?

Number of
countries visited
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  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Sweden
  • Denmark
  • Germany
  • Austria
  • Czech Republic
  • Belgium
  • Ireland
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Alejandro's Travel Photos

With my thesis project and my initial thoughts for this fellowship, I sought semi-concrete answers on how to engineer interaction and spontaneity within and around buildings. I’m still very interested in this and it’s an important pursuit considering the influences that continue to fragment us. But I guess my biggest takeaway, which unites the whole experience and draws on others, is that while I did observe design as a facilitator in this context, it seems like culture is so much stronger.

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