People

Who decides  the relevance of a knowledge area?  Does information have to be true to be valuable?

I am an ethnographer and have studied how the yeast of practices like brewing, baking and being allergic disrupts Western/Northern metaphysical assumptions about ‘the world’. 

My artistic work is driven by a curiosity for the intangible and the urge to embody the invisible in order to be able to communicate about it. My main media are smell and glass. Glass is a protective...

Jennifer Kumer is a game thinker, consultant, and design researcher. Fusing design research with the techniques of game design, she explores new ways of designing for connectedness through socially...

Roland van Dierendonck (NL, 1991) is an artist, biologist and PhD researcher at the Lab4Living, Sheffield Hallam University, translating human-microbe connections into sensory experiences using...

Maro Pebo is an artist whose work aims to release the indiscipline of living cells. Born in Mexico City. Ph.D. in Creative Media (City University of Hong Kong), MA in Critical and Gender Studies...

My name is Nina and I study Artscience at KABK. I like to work with digital media (website or video) while researching topics as post-humanism, comics, biochemistry or the relationship between human...

I am a media artist and designer from Mexico City, currently based in Germany. My artistic practice focuses mainly in the merge of life, science and technology. I have a bachelor degree in Graphic...

Mijn plan is om het onderwijs klimaatcrisis bestendig te maken! Hoe? Samen met jou!

Racha pushes design norms to challenge us to connect and collaborate as our most authentic selves. She experiments with physical and virtual spaces, material objects, and new media to develop...

I am a product designer based in Luxembourg. In my work, I like to question and make people question the ordinary, trigger their imagination and playfulness and make them smile for a moment. I like...

Krisztina Czika was born and raised in Hungary before she moved to the Netherlands to complete her studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. During her studies she was researching materials and it soon...

Maaike Anne Stevens is a visual artist based in Amsterdam and London. She is a graduate of Goldsmiths College, London (MFA 2012), where she was included in the Catlin Guide 2013 ‘introducing the 40...

Arthur Guilleminot is an ecodeviant artist and positive maverick that practices fertile and generative disobedience. Intersecting disciplines such as design, performance, fashion, and visual art, he...

Born in Kobe, Japan, Mariko Hori studied architecture and is currently working as an artist between Amsterdam, Netherlands and Belgrade, Serbia . She has recently participated in Folkestone...

In mijn werk onderzoek ik hoe het verstrijken van de tijd impact heeft op de manier waarop wij ergens betekenis aan ontlenen. Dit doe ik met gebruik van plantaardig, veranderlijk materiaal, waarmee...

Sieta van Horck is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of ecology, technology, spirituality and embodiment. In her installations, meditation lectures, gatherings and rituals she...

My practice focuses on expanding the boundaries of storytelling through the use of unconventional pairings of senses, such as smell and sound, to form experiences of narratives.

Diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion lay at the heart of all of Viviana's sociocultural creative projects. With her latest audiovisual installation on textile circularity, coproduced by...

Sharp & Sour is a multidisciplinary design studio focused on the futures of food. We help food companies and organizations navigate through uncertain times and new food scenarios. We focus on food...

Irina Birger was born in Moscow and lived in Serbia as a teenager. She received a BA from the Bezalel Academy of Fine Art and Design in Jerusalem and an MFA from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam...

In order to concentrate on developing public space Urban Agriculture and prompted by a commission from Stroom Den Haag to develop an urban agriculture project for the Hague borough Schilderswijk

Margherita has a strong interest in tactility and tactile perception at the intersection of art and healthcare, supported by material research with a focus on the creation of patterns and textures.  ...

David Kerssens Goedhart is an artist, photographer and recent graduate of the Audio-Visual department from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. He believes that communicating simple observations can lead to...

Mandy den Elzen is a visual artist bridging the realms of nature, science and art. Particularly interested in tactile properties of organic structures, Mandy den Elzen brings to light aesthetic side...

Susanne Duijvestein (1986) is trained as an organizational expert and after eleven years of cooperative banking and other positions at Slow Food and the Amsterdam Economic Board made a switch to the...

Dr. Simon Niedenthal is an Associate Professor of Interaction Design at Malmö University, Sweden. He is currently engaged in 'Nosewise,’ a research project which aims to investigate the potential of...

Profile of Jonas Klinkenberg, a Germany-based artist and performer. He is involved with Mediamatic's Olfactory History of Oosterdok upcoming exhibition, through the ongoing 'Private Dreams and Public...

Angela Kerr   is a freelance journalist and editor originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland.  

Aya Yoshida is a Japanese composer. Born in Kobe, Japan in 1992. She graduated from Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo and completed her postgraduate studies in composition at The Royal Danish...

In 2004 Debra Solomon (US/NL) began publishing her independent research on culiblog.org on food, food culture, and the culture that grows our food. Her recent work includes a series of temporary...

Emily Bates is an artist and photographer based in Amsterdam. Her work explores landscape narratives, rituals and nature’s rhythms.  

How do we experience the loss of our Data? How can we say goodbye to loved ones' stream of media, and devices that they leave behind? How we one disentangle ourselves from our data when we die?

Cecilia Casabona is a an interdisciplinary research designer. Her practice focuses on collective strategies of thinking and “doing otherwise” with a particular interest around the notion of...

Guy works in circular financing at Gemeente Amsterdam, and tinkers at AMS Institute. He is passionate about making cities sustainable.

Lena Kuzmich (they/no pronouns) is a non-binary and multidisciplinary artist from Vienna currently based in Amsterdam. Their work, a fluid remix of photographic and videographic fragments taken from...

Leo's work sits somewhere between participatory social art, workshop, happening and artistic research. His current practice uses fermentation as a metaphor and action, focusing primarily on...

Lianca van der Merwe  (aka Lala3xl) critically reflects on the dimensions of reality and experience.

Lucia Babina is an artivist focusing on research and reactivation of sustainable forms of cohabitation and coexistence.

Marc van Will Opleiding: drs. Geofysica / vanaf 1990 actief in co-creatie van creatieve werkvormen en projecten rond milieuthema's, groeneducatie, sociale transformatie (kookatelier De Smaak te...

I was trained as a biology and handicraft teacher for the secondary school. I’m loving nature since I was a child and in my work I have always tried to be outside as much as possible. I started my...

I graduate from Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2019 Fine Art department. I'm interested in exploring our presence via the senses, with questions on 'what make us human'.  

I am a Medical Doctor and Neuroscientist living in Italy and pursuing an ideal future: to connect people with nature through a deep exploration of human senses by showing how to use them to make more...

Miguel Matos likes to see himself as a fragrance curator, investigating the possibiilities of perfume as contemporary art

Klara Ravat (Berlin, Germany)   is an olfactory artist an experimental filmmaker. 

''I look at the world with an immense fascination for medicine and nature. Thus, I am curious about processes and how things come into being. In my vision, the body and nature are intimately...

"Over the past few years, I have been writing essays and stories for art & design journals and magazines, exhibitions, independent publishers, and developing workshops and performance for art...

Nino Basilashvili makes art on the crossroad of data and emotion. Her vision of a future in which there is a symbiosis of nature, humans and technology is expressed in her work and attitude towards...

Paolo Bosca is a writer and researcher based in Turin. 

Qiaochu Guo (1995) is an artist currently based in Eindhoven, a humid hesitating limp creature. Their recent works explore the embodied tension of the power dynamics between their identity and the...

    Renata De Bonis (São Paulo,BR, 1984) is an artist and researcher living and working in Amsterdam.  

Mijn naam is Renée Pruim en dit jaar ben ik afgestudeerd aan de Academie Artemis als allround creative met de focus op trendforecast en innovatie. Ik ben altijd op zoek naar het verhaal en bedoeling...

In my academic research I recently collaborated with historians, philosophers and linguists to study dairy cow communication.  My fieldwork at farms revealed to me how cows are constantly taking...

I am Sophia Schullan—a multi-disciplinary conceptual designer based in Rotterdam. In my opinion design has the power to influence what we think, how we act, and by extension how we experience the...

Stephanie Pau researches methodologies and practices to widen participation in futures studies as an artist, a participatory speculative designer and an ex-solution architect at Studio ANDNAND .

Sujata Majumdar is a visual and transdisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam / London with a background in Physics, Photography, and ICT.  

Takoko's current knotweed project

Yi-Jing Chen  (1993) is a Taiwanese fashion researcher and designer based in Arnhem. Her current research is dedicated to interspecies collaborative design in fashion. Through her works, she designs...

Na mijn studie Acting op de HKU ben ik gaan werken als acteur en theatermaker. Ik heb voorstellingen gemaakt over facebook, dwalen en hoe feiten soms mooier zijn dat fictie. Ik heb op meerde...

Uno  Fujisawa , born in Japan in 1982 and currently based in Amsterdam, is not only an artist but also a chef. Her artistic endeavours are rooted in a profound exploration of the seemingly simple...

A visual artist from Japan. Miku Sato ’s work spans from video to installation and performance/workshop.