Delany Boutkan

Delany Boutkan (NL, 1993) is a writer, curator, and educator based in the Netherlands. Her work explores how organisational conditions and infrastructures shape what can be remembered, shown, and imagined. She treats policies, contracts, and (institutional) languages not as neutral frameworks but as designed materials with their own textures, powers, and possibilities.Delany is a Researcher at the Nieuwe Instituut, where she coordinates the International Research Fellowship and develops models and methods for publishing and situated knowledge. She is also a thesis mentor at the Sandberg Instituut’s Studio for Immediate Spaces and founder of Design Drafts (2022), a publishing network with Nieuwe Instituut for more embodied and experimental writing in design. Her writing and editing have appeared in Extra Extra, PIN–UP, Metropolis M, Disegno, and Kunstlicht, amongst others. She is co-author of Remapping Collaborations (2025) and Collecting Otherwise Manuals (2025), was part of the advisory board for the Van Abbemuseum’s Bridging Minds (2026), and sits on the editorial and governance boards of MacGuffin Magazine and Design Platform Rotterdam.