Baltan Laboratories

Artist and activist Paolo Cirio deep dives into the research behind his work and shares insights about legal and financial claims using “Attribution Science” and “Majors Carbon Databases”. Raphael...

During Dutch Design Week, visual and performance artist Jesse Asselman becomes a living, breathing house plant at Natlab. With the help of body paint and make-up, they fully immerse themselves into...

At Dutch Design Week we have daily presentations by various artists at sundown. In this edition we talk about how we can (re)create other species with all their textures and complexities through...

At Dutch Design Week, we have daily presentations by various artists at sundown. In this edition we talk about how we can embody and feel more like other species through fashion with fashion designer...

At Dutch Design Week we have daily presentations by various artists at sundown. In this edition we talk about how dressing up can playfully bring us closer to other species with performance artist...

At Dutch Design Week we have daily presentations by various artists at sundown. In this edition we talk about how we can get closer to nature through tufting with Nadie Borggreve . Are you curious...

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The conceptual artist, Paolo Cirio created an algorithm that computes data of over 40,000 endangered species with data on fossil fuel emissions from major oil, gas, and carbon companies to calculate...

How does it feel to be an earthworm, bee, plant, or fungus? During Dutch Design Week, we are hosting a big open costume lab, exhibitions, workshops and talks where we invite artists, designers, and...

In the first flickering moments of the 21st century, luminous as it is unstable, we, its citizens, awake in a new age of data and connectivity. 


Baltan Laboratories launches its new publication A Blueprint for a Lab of the Future on Wednesday, 7 September 2011 from 5-7 PM in the NatLab at Strijp-S in Eindhoven. This extensive publication...

Imagine huge blankets of genetically modified silks that can absorb reactor meltdown by-products at nuclear accident sites such Chernobyl and Fukushima. Sounds like science-fiction right? In this...