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  • Image: Natlab Anisa Xhomaqi

    Frank Bloem talking about the species smells that…

    Frank Bloem talks about the olfactory installation Olfactory Cross-Dressing that is part of Inhuman Carnaval during Dutch Design Week. Visitors can disguise themselves as a different species through...

  • Dutch Design Week
  • biodiversity
  • Storytelling
  • research
  • Culture
  • Diversiteit
  • smell
  • olfactory
  • species
  • senses
  • Project proposal: Viviana Selena

    Inclusive Patching.

    Textile & Sustainability

    Is not news. We're running out of time to save our natural world and resources. So this two in one, workshops + inclusive and diverse get togethers, aim to be informa(c)tive and inspiring to spread...

  • Why Beftival?

    A Conversation with Ine Poppe and Olga Middendorp

    Beftival is coming, and, along with our growing anticipation, we also got curious to know more about the conceptual behind the scenes of it all. What pressing societal issues gave inspiration to this...

  • Stitches, Threads and Needles

    Exploring the edges of contemporary embroidery

    From feminist empowerment and craftivism, to DIY material experimentations, embroidery is crossing boundaries left and right. Our new Radical Embroidery workshop has been inspired by a lot of...

  • Project proposal: Jennifer Kumer

    When My Time Comes

    an End-of-Life Conversation Game

    How do we prepare to die? Not usually a question we want to spend a lot of time thinking about, and yet, it's incredibly important. It’s often a question not answered until it is too late. This...

  • Project proposal: Racha Tarazi

    My Dinner

    Ingesting emotions

    My Dinner is an immersive art installation: part food art and part theatrical set up. Thematically, it resembles a sit-down table-for-six dinner party. My Dinner attempts to explore the process and...

  • Project proposal: Nina Anin

    Wind Airwave transmission

    Sustainable radio show

    WIND TURBINE My project mainly revolves around this windturbine I have built. The windturbine is connected (through gears) to a motor which generates power. The mini circuitboard is then connected to...

  • Project proposal: Arthur Guilleminot

    Piss Soap

    Ecodeviant Research

    My project of Piss Soap is an ecodeviant product aiming to regenerate our local urban environments, while questioning our social conditioning about disgust. Piss soap is made entirely out of human...

  • Project proposal: Margherita Falqui

    Liquid Maquis

    Connecting with places through the senses

    Exploring the connection to a territory and its curative potential by drinking it, ingesting it, feeling it.

  • Project proposal: Azucena Sánchez

    Oak Tales

    Genomic Soundscapes

    Plants are our ancestors, the ones that see the real in us, the only ones who saw the world before it got inhabited, the ones that created forms, aesthetics and structure. If nature were to be...

  • Project Proposal: Lena Trost

    (Digital) Glass Tasting

    How glass becomes odour

    My artistic research is about how glass becomes odour. Glass is an odourless material. But therefore, I claim, it can be used to tap into our own biological olfactory memory - which is the goal of...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Alessandra Avanzi

    Ancient Egypt and the culture of perfume.

    The use of smelly components in Egyptian daily life: Kyphi, incense and other perfume.

    Incense was considered the “Fragrance of the Gods” in Ancient Egypt. Making incense meant in a mysterious way creating the body of the gods and communicating with them.   Do you know that the...

  • Project proposal: Lucie Majerus

    Colour-Smells of Amsterdam

    Sustainable souvenirs

    As a product designer, I am interested in how countries design nation branding and souvenirs. How can we find new ways for tourists to experience a place while giving them new sensual possibilities?

  • Project proposal: Krisztina Czika

    What's left to capture?

    Underwater journey

    'What's left to capture?' is inspired by a research project I have started in Sri Lanka back in the beginning of 2020. In our world today, the natural resources we use are, sadly taken for granted...

  • Project proposal: Maaike Anne Stevens

    Bipolaris

    Essay film

    Bipolaris is an essay film of about 30 minutes about the fundamental difference in the way our two brain hemispheres experience the world. By means of documentary shots, fictional scenes, interviews...

  • Project proposal: Bas Huijbers

    Green Office

    Klimaatactie in het onderwijs

    Samen met leerlingen, docenten en schoolleiders, het onderwijs in Amsterdam klimaatcrisis bestendig maken. Met als basisproject: een Green Office

  • Project proposal: René Nissen, Avery Franken

    Disrupting Citizenship

    Arrhythmia as the Urban Condition

    The world around us may make us feel like we are required to be our most “productive” selves, and like “unproductive” behaviour is penalised. These rules can be written – a contract, for example, may...

  • We all know turtles and kangaroos - but what…

    A reinterpretation of Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals

    “We cannot describe the cries of admiring joy let loose by an enthusiastic public. In the immense oeuvre of Camille Saint-Saëns, The Carnival of the Animals is certainly one of his magnificent...

  • Project proposal: Alena Grahn

    Erotic Ecology

    & Our Human Bodies

    This project aims to explore the erotic in our local ecology through the senses. As we are expanding our relationship with this idea, the research will be performed as ritual. In our exploration, we...

  • Project proposal: Thom van Hoek

    Object Permanence

    Levend sculptuur

    Object Permanence wordt een sculptuur bestaande uit 100% agar-agar (ook wel E406 genoemd) met daarin zaadjes van een nog nader – eventueel in overleg – te bepalen plant. Ik wil een geschikt autowiel...

  • Project proposal: Mario Mimoso

    Floating Havens

    Regenerating city life

    Floating Havens is a project aimed at regenerating life inside the urban landscape. Using Amsterdam’s canals as a way to gain land to the crowded and congested city streets, we want to dedicate these...

  • Project proposal: Roland van Dierendonck, Maro Pebo

    Chili Pepper Pleasure

    A hedonistic experience

    Half the planet is addicted to capsaicin, the working substance in chili peppers. It is described as a stimulant or even an aphrodisiac. There has been proven to be a relationship between capsaicin...

  • Project proposal: Lidewij Sloot

    Neurodiversiteit en de toegankelijkheid van…

    Inclusieve tools voor kunstfondsen

    Met het project ‘Inclusieve tools voor kunstfondsen’ verken  ik de toegankelijkheid van subsidies voor kunstenaars die zich identificeren als neurodivers. Hoe kunnen we gestandaardiseerde...

  • Project proposal: Mariko Hori

    Archive something we don't know yet

    Understanding water conditions through paper making

    This project is a study and a little hope to archive potential data of current water conditions of Amsterdam, for future generations.

  • Project proposal: Si Knight

    Multisensory Listening Rituals

    for Reducing Stress

    As you may well have experienced, life today can be very stressful. As a result of this, many people are currently in desperate need of finding ways to reduce their stress levels. Yet contemporary...

created Iliana Metaxa modified Anne Hofstra

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