With focus on imaginative ethnography I love to invite people into collective artistic research. In 1999 I completed my master’s degree at Sandberg Instituut. In 2009 I participated in a premaster in anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit, followed by an Erasmus exchange at the University of KU Leuven. In 2017 I completed a master’s degree in Art Education at the Amsterdam University of the Arts. My fieldwork based on action research together with students, residents and other participants. Activities are grounded on the following principles of design anthropology: local participation, collaboration, forward-looking, performative, iterative, transdisciplinair, transformation and unfolding of possibilities.
In 2018 together with filmmaker Magda Augusteijn we initiated Moving Moengo a design research for residents of Moengo Surinam in collaboration with students of art academy Nola Hatterman Paramaribo with a contribution from Creative Industries Fund NL. In 2019 we were artist-in-residence at Framer Framed / Werkplaats Molenwijk Framer Framed and realized with support of Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst the exhibition Van Amulet to Artefact. In 2020 the artistic research Ritueel Opened was set up with fieldwork at Drieslag shopping center on behalf of Bureau Ruimtekoers. Together with Yosser Dekker, artistic director Bureau Ruimtekoers, the spring festival Norooz was launched with support from the Fund for Cultural Participation. In 2021 invited by NDSM Foundationtogether with local communities we build visual narratives for the installation Toren van Babel in Amsterdam North. The exploratory study Radical Imagination was carried out till June 2022 on behalf of the VriendenLoterij Fonds, part of the DOEN Foundation. In addition to conversations, observations, making vignettes and applying active methods, participants shared their perceptions by responding to the question: what impression has participation in social art practice left on you? Invited by curator Theo Tegelaers I organized emphatic fieldwork for RAUM creative placemaking together with students of Social Geography & Urban Planning University Utrecht. With emotion cards we evoked dialogue with residents & commuters of Leidsche Rijn. Urban geographer Dr. Irina van Aalst wrote the article Closing The Gap based on my participatory & artistic research. Together with social designer Madelinde Hageman we develop a participatory study from 2023 to end of 2025 mapping emotional capital. Participants will collectively express personal perceptions of poverty and wealth through reflective imagination. From September 100 residents collected memories from the past and pass on to the future as emotional heritage. Future Monuments was commissioned by curator Theo Tegelaers in collaboration with cultural institutions of Amsterdam New West: The Beach, Van Eesteren Museum, Cascoland, Care Design Lab. The installation was arranged by BeamSystems and on display at Plein 40-45. The celebration of 750 years of Amsterdam was the reason for me together with Sterre Herstel & Werkplaats Molenwijk / Framer Framed to involve the Molenwijk in Amsterdam-Noord in a participatory and festive way. Residents of neighborhood the Molenwijk will make bread art among themselves and with twelve artists from March to October 2025. At the invitation of social designer Maurits Brans and commissioned by DJI (Dutch Department of Correctional Institutions), we are developing a pilot about social safety in collaboration with penitentiary institution workers at Vught. The aim is to better map the undercurrent surrounding and develop a sustainable social design toolkit.
Tina Lenz
With focus on imaginative ethnography I love to invite people into collective artistic research. In 1999 I completed my master’s degree at Sandberg Instituut. In 2009 I participated in a premaster in anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit, followed by an Erasmus exchange at the University of KU Leuven. In 2017 I completed a master’s degree in Art Education at the Amsterdam University of the Arts. My fieldwork based on action research together with students, residents and other participants. Activities are grounded on the following principles of design anthropology: local participation, collaboration, forward-looking, performative, iterative, transdisciplinair, transformation and unfolding of possibilities.
In 2018 together with filmmaker Magda Augusteijn we initiated Moving Moengo a design research for residents of Moengo Surinam in collaboration with students of art academy Nola Hatterman Paramaribo with a contribution from Creative Industries Fund NL. In 2019 we were artist-in-residence at Framer Framed / Werkplaats Molenwijk Framer Framed and realized with support of Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst the exhibition Van Amulet to Artefact. In 2020 the artistic research Ritueel Opened was set up with fieldwork at Drieslag shopping center on behalf of Bureau Ruimtekoers. Together with Yosser Dekker, artistic director Bureau Ruimtekoers, the spring festival Norooz was launched with support from the Fund for Cultural Participation. In 2021 invited by NDSM Foundation together with local communities we build visual narratives for the installation Toren van Babel in Amsterdam North. The exploratory study Radical Imagination was carried out till June 2022 on behalf of the VriendenLoterij Fonds, part of the DOEN Foundation. In addition to conversations, observations, making vignettes and applying active methods, participants shared their perceptions by responding to the question: what impression has participation in social art practice left on you? Invited by curator Theo Tegelaers I organized emphatic fieldwork for RAUM creative placemaking together with students of Social Geography & Urban Planning University Utrecht. With emotion cards we evoked dialogue with residents & commuters of Leidsche Rijn. Urban geographer Dr. Irina van Aalst wrote the article Closing The Gap based on my participatory & artistic research. Together with social designer Madelinde Hageman we develop a participatory study from 2023 to end of 2025 mapping emotional capital. Participants will collectively express personal perceptions of poverty and wealth through reflective imagination. From September 100 residents collected memories from the past and pass on to the future as emotional heritage. Future Monuments was commissioned by curator Theo Tegelaers in collaboration with cultural institutions of Amsterdam New West: The Beach, Van Eesteren Museum, Cascoland, Care Design Lab. The installation was arranged by BeamSystems and on display at Plein 40-45. The celebration of 750 years of Amsterdam was the reason for me together with Sterre Herstel & Werkplaats Molenwijk / Framer Framed to involve the Molenwijk in Amsterdam-Noord in a participatory and festive way. Residents of neighborhood the Molenwijk will make bread art among themselves and with twelve artists from March to October 2025. At the invitation of social designer Maurits Brans and commissioned by DJI (Dutch Department of Correctional Institutions), we are developing a pilot about social safety in collaboration with penitentiary institution workers at Vught. The aim is to better map the undercurrent surrounding and develop a sustainable social design toolkit.
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