On Wednesday, December 4, 2024, at 7:00 PM, the new issue of the architecture magazine Forum (Volume LVII, No. 9) is presented to the public. It features contributions around the theme The Bedroom, with work by Bart de Baets, Like Bijlsma, Carmen Buitenhuis, Anne Dessing, Niels Geerts, Vibeke Gieskes, Birgitte Louise Hanssen, Rozalie Hirs, Lieke van Hooijdonk, Sandra Kassenaar, Jan Richard Kikkert, Luuk Kramer, Aliki van der Kruijs, Ianthe Mantingh and Patrick Colly, Jeroen Musch, Patrick Roegiers, Elsbeth Ronner, Romy Schuit, Eva Souren, and Dirk Vis.

Forum No. 09 ‘The Bedroom’ invites us on a journey or a dream. Driven by the primal need for safety, humans craft private bedrooms as sanctuaries. Shaped by familial needs, care, and housing revolutions, the bedroom evolves—sometimes a collective sleeping space, at other times a room for multifaceted purposes. Yet at its core, it remains a place where intimacy is sought. In that intimacy, we traverse memories and dreams, charting a course to the universe, only to return and sink once more into the soft embrace of downy comfort upon waking.

The editorial team of Forum consists of Machiel Spaan, Elsbeth Ronner, Like Bijlsma, Luuk Kramer, Sandra Kassenaar, and Bart de Baets. Graphic design is by Sandra Kassenaar and Bart de Baets. The core editorial team for this issue includes Bart de Baets, Sandra Kassenaar, Elsbeth Ronner, and Machiel Spaan.

Program
7:00 PM – reception with coffee and tea
7:15 PM – introduction by Machiel Spaan
7:30 PM – lecture by Uri Gilad, WINHOV, on the Pillows Grand Boutique Hotel Maurits at the Park
8:00 PM – presentation of the new Forum No. 09, The Bedroom, by Like Bijlsma and Jan Richard Kikkert
9:00 PM – drinks at Bar Fitz

Date: 2024-12-04
Doors open: 7:00 PM
Location: Park Salon, Pillows Grand Boutique Hotel Maurits at the Park, Mauritskade 61, Amsterdam