In her role as Director of Alserkal Avenue, Vilma Jurkute welcomed all to FIELD MEETING Take 6 edition in Dubai, acknowledging the importance of hosting FIELD MEETING at Alserkal Avenue. Aligning with ACAW’s mission to connect Asia with itself, she views this gathering as the enabling of Dubai to reach beyond the MENASA region. It is an opportunity to connect with artistic communities of East and Southeast Asia through the distinguished perspectives of the invited FIELD MEETING presenters’ projects. Though Dubai has received criticism for being a neoliberal city of “super-fast” urbanism, Jurkute advocates that Alserkal Avenue works to “renegotiate, the new borders of knowledge geography” as a space not only for cultural and artistic production but one that allows for discussion and critic –a task FIELD MEETING readily takes on. To Alserkal Avenue, “thinking collections” means a “slowing down” to contemplate what the organization has learned from its collected knowledge over its 10 years in operation.