With focus on radical imagination Tina loves to invite people in co-creation. Her fieldwork is based on artistic research together with students, residents and other participants. Activities are grounded on the following principles of design anthropology: local participation, collaboration, forward-looking by embracing the past, performative, iterative, trans-disciplinair, transformative, unfolding of possibilities.
Educated as Bachelor Graphic Design AKV | St. Joost in 1996, she achieved a Master degree Design in 1999 at Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam. In 2009 she participated a Premaster Anthropology at Free University followed by an Erasmus exchange Master Social & Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven. From 2015 till 2017 she developed the course Design Anthropology for art schools during her Master Art Education Amsterdam University of the Arts. Tina has been tutor for seventeen years at fourteen art schools in the Netherlands, Belgium, South-Africa, China and Master Industrial Design at Technical University, Delft.
• In 2018 with filmmaker Magda Augusteijn we initiated a design research for residents of Moengo Surinam in collaboration with students of art academy Nola Hatterman Paramaribo thanks to a contribution of Creative Industries Fund NL.
• With filmmaker Magda Augusteijn we were artist-in-residence at Framer Framed and Werkplaats Molenwijk and realized the exhibition Van Amulet to Artefact with the support of Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst. • In 2020 an artistic research was set up doing fieldwork for two years at a shopping center in the south of Arnhem on behalf of Bureau Ruimtekoers. At the end a spring festival was launched with support from the Fund for Cultural Participation.
• In 2021 I got an invitation of NDSM Foundation & curator Theo Tegelaers to do participatory research with local communities to build visual narratives which were part of the installation Toren van Babel at Amsterdam North.
• In 2022 the exploratory study Almanac for Radical Imagination was carried out on behalf of the VriendenLoterij Fonds, part of 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 did fieldwork for RAUM creative placemaking together with students of Social Geography & Urban Planning University Utrecht. We did emotion mapping with 172 residents & commuters of Leidsche Rijn. The article Closing The Gap was based on our participatory & artistic research.
• From September 2024 memories were collected with 100 residents to talk about the past passing on to the future as emotional heritage. Future Monuments was commissioned by curator Theo Tegelaers in collaboration with cultural institutions The Beach, Van Eesteren Museum, Cascoland, Care Design Lab. BeamSystems arranged the light installation on display at Plein 40-45.
• From 2023 till 2025 with social designer Madelinde Hageman 155 participants expressed their feelings of poverty and wealth through printing amounts of emotional capital in a mobile printing house. The program Rijker dan een Miljonair is a nod to paper money and the final exhibition was at TENT Rotterdam.
• 750 years Amsterdam was the reason for curator Sterre Herstel, Werkplaats Molenwijk and Framer Framed to involve residents of the neighborhood Molenwijk in a festive way. Bread art was created together with twelve artists with the support of Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst and foundation 750 jaar Amsterdam.
• Commissioned in 2025 by DJI Dutch Department of Correctional Institutions with social designer Maurits Brans we are developing a pilot about social safety in collaboration with penitentiary institution workers. The aim is to better map the undercurrent surrounding and develop a sustainable social design toolkit.
Tina Lenz
With focus on radical imagination Tina loves to invite people in co-creation. Her fieldwork is based on artistic research together with students, residents and other participants. Activities are grounded on the following principles of design anthropology: local participation, collaboration, forward-looking by embracing the past, performative, iterative, trans-disciplinair, transformative, unfolding of possibilities.
Educated as Bachelor Graphic Design AKV | St. Joost in 1996, she achieved a Master degree Design in 1999 at Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam. In 2009 she participated a Premaster Anthropology at Free University followed by an Erasmus exchange Master Social & Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven. From 2015 till 2017 she developed the course Design Anthropology for art schools during her Master Art Education Amsterdam University of the Arts. Tina has been tutor for seventeen years at fourteen art schools in the Netherlands, Belgium, South-Africa, China and Master Industrial Design at Technical University, Delft.
• In 2018 with filmmaker Magda Augusteijn we initiated a design research for residents of Moengo Surinam in collaboration with students of art academy Nola Hatterman Paramaribo thanks to a contribution of Creative Industries Fund NL.
• With filmmaker Magda Augusteijn we were artist-in-residence at Framer Framed and Werkplaats Molenwijk and realized the exhibition Van Amulet to Artefact with the support of Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst.
• In 2020 an artistic research was set up doing fieldwork for two years at a shopping center in the south of Arnhem on behalf of Bureau Ruimtekoers. At the end a spring festival was launched with support from the Fund for Cultural Participation.
• In 2021 I got an invitation of NDSM Foundation & curator Theo Tegelaers to do participatory research with local communities to build visual narratives which were part of the installation Toren van Babel at Amsterdam North.
• In 2022 the exploratory study Almanac for Radical Imagination was carried out on behalf of the VriendenLoterij Fonds, part of 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 did fieldwork for RAUM creative placemaking together with students of Social Geography & Urban Planning University Utrecht. We did emotion mapping with 172 residents & commuters of Leidsche Rijn. The article Closing The Gap was based on our participatory & artistic research.
• From September 2024 memories were collected with 100 residents to talk about the past passing on to the future as emotional heritage. Future Monuments was commissioned by curator Theo Tegelaers in collaboration with cultural institutions The Beach, Van Eesteren Museum, Cascoland, Care Design Lab. BeamSystems arranged the light installation on display at Plein 40-45.
• From 2023 till 2025 with social designer Madelinde Hageman 155 participants expressed their feelings of poverty and wealth through printing amounts of emotional capital in a mobile printing house. The program Rijker dan een Miljonair is a nod to paper money and the final exhibition was at TENT Rotterdam.
• 750 years Amsterdam was the reason for curator Sterre Herstel, Werkplaats Molenwijk and Framer Framed to involve residents of the neighborhood Molenwijk in a festive way. Bread art was created together with twelve artists with the support of Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst and foundation 750 jaar Amsterdam.
• Commissioned in 2025 by DJI Dutch Department of Correctional Institutions with social designer Maurits Brans we are developing a pilot about social safety in collaboration with penitentiary institution workers. The aim is to better map the undercurrent surrounding and develop a sustainable social design toolkit.
© Photo: Diederick Bulstra Photography