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Temple of Peace

‘Temple of Peace’ is an art project and installation by Ingeborg Bloem and Stefany Rietkerk, founded…

  • Week of Peace

Co-residence Bread Art

Since my residency in 2019, I have returned to Amsterdam-Noord after five years at the invitation…

  • Framer Framed

Social Safety

Together with social designer Maurits Brans and commissioned by DJI (Dutch Department of Correctional Institutions), we…

  • Custodial Institutions Agency

Soft Activism

On May 24, together with Madelinde Hageman I gave the workshop ‘Soft Activism – small sorrow’…

  • AHK Master Art Education

Future Monuments

The Nieuw-West district of Amsterdam is changing at a rapid pace, which means dwellers no longer…

  • Plein 40-45,
  • Theo Tegelaers

Make Space Together

In Toronto I wrote the article ‘This land is our land’ as a contribution to the…

  • Flanders Architecture Institute

Wu Zetian

The Windbeast is back! This time because of the exhibition ‘Wu Zetian, the only female emperor…

  • Ceramic Museum Princessehof

Seeing Others

May 2024, I gave a lecture about ‘Seeing Others’ with an in-depth session on ‘the art…

  • NS inspiration session

Floating Environments of Radical Repair

‘Art, creativity and the artist as a natural, self-evident part of the personal, daily life and…

  • Buurtwerkplaats Noorderhof

Mobile Printing

This was our exhibition Rijker dan een Miljonair in Amsterdam-North with a festive launch of the…

  • Pexpo

Lets Gro

‘Lets Gro’ festival about the future of Groningen took place in Het Forum on November 3,…

  • Het Forum Groningen

Buro MIX

At the invitation of Buro MIX, participants from COA and women’s shelter WENDER have expressed emotional…

  • COA Groningen

Partner Day Vriendenloterij

During a warm ‘Partnerday’ organized by Vriendenloterij at Museum Arnhem for 100 employees from various museums…

  • Museum Arnhem

The Social Market

In June The Social Market was festively opened for people with a tight budget in Amsterdam-North.…

  • De NoordAs

RAUM placemaking

French anthropologist and philosopher Bruno Latour (who died last year) found that after COVID the question…

  • RAUM Berlijnplein

Baking Body Stories

During Ruimtekoers Akademie 2023 participants visualised concepts such as health, care, friends and family, by using…

  • De Voorkamer

The Art of Connection

Together with lector Jeroen van den Eijnde and Future Makers of ArtEZ University of Arts we…

  • Future Makers ArtEZ

Art Meets Art

Art Meets Art interdisciplinary projectweek Moulding Discomfort coordinated by @peerkedora @aynouk.tan @heeringmerel was intense and impressive working…

  • Fontys Art school

Beyond Lumbung

Back in Kassel: being part of panel to discuss and share thoughts ‘Beyond Lumbung’ finding common…

  • Dutch Embassy Kassel

Matching Gifts

On the 5th of December workshops and talks about the history of Sinterklaas and the importance…

  • Worldmuseum

DDW

During Dutch Design Week together with Yosser Dekker [Bureau Ruimtekoers] we organized for the community of Innovatielabs a work session on accessibility…

  • Innovatielabs

Embassy of Inclusive Society

Invited by curator Shay Raviv to talk about design anthropology in context of social issues together with Yosser Dekker…

  • Van Abbemuseum

Participatory Art

At the invitation of Bob Selderslaghs, I gave my first research seminar with a focus on…

  • Royal Conservatoire Antwerp

Almanac for Radical Imagination

Radical imagination is the ability to see the world not as it is, but as it…

  • DOEN foundation

HKU Design Research

June 2022 was the last assessment at the HKU Graphic Design department: saying goodbye to a…

  • HKU Media

Designing Trust

Last March, commissioned by Diana Krabbendam The Beach and the Municipality of Amsterdam, 5 design teams…

  • The Beach

Mapping The Home

Last great day of co-teaching the course Design Anthropology with visual anthropologist Isabelle Makay & applied…

  • Design Academy Eindhoven

Women Day

What a beautiful women(day) in Amsterdam-West! With the warm oven of ‘Bakkerij de Eenvoud’ together with…

  • Bakkerij de Eenvoud

Tower of Babel

What would it be like if we built the Tower of Babel today with as many…

  • Mosque El Moutaquine

Lonely Protest

LONELY PROTEST of participants who have cherished, translated, visualized, manifested, sacrificed and burned solitude over the…

  • Framer Framed

Paper Paradise

Artist and filmmaker Guido van der Werve wondered what it would be like if were to…

  • Stichting NDSM

Happy Norooz

‘Silver linings’ made in collaboration with Malburgers, shopkeepers and light artist Rinaldo Klein Bleumink were handed…

  • Bureau Ruimtekoers

Exhibition fieldwork

On September 4, the opening of the exhibition Ritueel Geopend took place during Ruimtekoers festival. Together…

  • Yosser Dekker

Public Lecture Beijing

Lecture at CAFA  Beijing. Thanks to PhD student Xinyue Wang who assisted me during both public…

  • School of Design Beijing

CAFA School of Design

At School of Design, Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing 58 master & PhD students…

  • CAFA Beijing

Werkplaats Molenwijk

FieldField worksFrom June till September 2019 together with filmmaker Magda Augusteijn we’ll do participatory research about…

  • Framer Framed

Exploring Fieldwork

At the practice Cultural Diversity WdKA students observe and experience societal issues through immersing oneself in the…

  • WdKA Social Practice

A Tale of Seven Planets

Bruno Latour at Zuiderkerk Amsterdam November 16th “A Tale of Seven Planets – An Exercise in Gaiapolitics”:…

  • Bruno Latour

Studium Generale ArtEZ

Together with art programmer Anne van der Weijden & performance artist Najendra Caldera we organised a masterclass…

  • ArtEZ,
  • Zwolle

Bias in Design

September & November 2018 I was invited by department Creative Business at University of Applied Science…

  • Bias in Design

[UN]balanced

At Balance-Unbalance, a conference about art and design as catalysts to explore intersections between nature, science, technology…

  • Balance-Unbalance

Moving Moengo

January 2018, together with filmmaker Magda Augusteijn, I’ll do research by mapping rituals as conversation pieces of different…

  • Magda Augusteijn

Provocation Pieces

Together with Deanna Herst I gave a lecture about generative design research. During one day students New Frontiers of academy…

  • WdKA Provocation Pieces

My Home Your Home

Op 16 maart 2017 vond de ArtEZ Studium Generale Lost in Transition – Identity in a changing…

  • Studium Generale ArtEZ

West Bank co-creations

So many inspiration during the co-creating workshops with 50 young people in Ramallah, Hebron & Nablus.…

  • Palestina

Lecturing Design Research

Back in Breda. My former art school St.Joost, in the South of te Netherlands, where I studied…

  • Graduation AKV St.Joost

ArtEZ Art Research Conference

Friday November 18th I gave a lecture at ArtEZ Art & Design Research conference about my research Design Education and the…

  • ArtEZ Conference

Bar Lonely

Invited by Call for Loneliness I’m doing research called Rituals for Loneliness by connecting people in different…

  • Call for Loneliness

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