Sjoerd Wagenaar first visited Ukiha as one of the speakers at Holland x Kyushu Expert Meeting in 2016. His profile encompasses a vast range of expertise from being an artist, carpenter, advisor to numerous organizations and government, academia projects, as well as being the owner of DGA Donderboerkamp, a grand-scale residency in the north of the Netherlands, a former military compound now consists of 40 studios, outdoor theatre and restaurants.