How can applied research in Facility Management accelerate the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals? This interactive workshop invites academics and professionals in FM to reimagine their role as change agents for sustainable transformation. We will explore how research can drive SDG …

For designers, materials and production processes are crucial to the creation and quality of products like tablecloth and clay jars. Nowadays, utilitarian objects are mass- produced, far away. This contributes to environmental degradation, ecological imbalance and a loss of crafts and knowledge. To understand …

Sustainable Ceramics: Shaping the FutureWhat will ceramics look like in 20, 50, or even 100 years? This engaging lecture explores the future of ceramics, where social and environmental responsibility take center stage.Ceramics production has a significant environmental footprint, but innovative artists, …

Kunstenaars koesteren vandaag de dag nog steeds een liefde voor het Waddenlandschap, maar zijn zich in toenemende mate bewust van vervuiling van het landschap.Bijvoorbeeld door microplastics in verf. Linde Ex werkt daarom met zelfgemaakte inkten, op basis van zeewier, algen of klei. Samen met Ex gaan …

This presentation was given at the 30st anneversary conference of Tronrud Engeneers, the producer of the TC2 digital handloom about the Dreamweave Factory project currently executed at Hanze Applied University, Biobased Economy

Deluge: a conversationFriday 28th February, 2025Organised alongside the exhibition, this community conference will conclude three years of research and artwork. The event will include conversations and presentations from the Deluge artists, ecologists and salt marsh experts, connecting the three tidal …

Te midden van veranderende landschappen en hedendaagse druk op zowel de kunst als het plattelandsleven, richten beleidsmakers en kunstenaars steeds meer aandacht op rurale en niet-stedelijke culturele praktijken. Participatieve kunstvormen, zoals muziek, bieden een uniek potentieel om mensen met elkaar …

Living Lines of the Barely Noticeable is a long-term artistic research project aiming to develop distinct artistic approaches to relate to and interact with flying insects and provide the artistic research with a theoretical and practical context by reflecting on relationships and connections with the …

In hun bijdrage laten Imka Buurke en Vanessa Bakhuizen-van ’t Hoogt zien hoe zintuigelijke ervaringen als voelen en horen tijdens het leren maken een essentiële rol spelen. Met voorbeelden uit hun onderzoeksprojecten maken ze duidelijk dat tijdens het maken handen en hoofd, doen en denken, hand in hand …

How does defamiliarization relate to that which it assumes to be familiar? This chapter explores this question in the context of toxicity, an often invisible and imperceptible power, with the aid of two case studies from landscape art. Wout Berger’ s work Giflandschap (Poisoned Landscape, 1992) is exemplary …