Mike Emmerik was trained as an urbanist at Delft University of Technology and is partner at Crimson Historians & Urbanists since 2018. Mike is specialized in research and design projects at the intersection of urban development and policymaking and is affiliated with the Dutch Board of Government Advisors from which he advises national and local authorities about issues related to urbanisation and mobility. He has taught at Delft University of Technology within the chair of Design as Politics from 2014 to 2019 and has been involved in various international teaching and design projects amongst others in Lebanon, Germany, Ghana and Cuba. Mike is also co-founder and director of the Independent School for the City - a post graduate institute for urban research, development and activism initiated by Crimson in collaboration with ZUS architects.