Culture

We grew a new project nursery: Penny for your…

Project Nursery

There is something uniquely inspiring when looking into artistic processes that are still in progress: unpolished, experimental, and open-ended. Penny for your Thoughts is our project nursery

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: 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...

Project proposal: Pauline Rip

Cooking Ghosts

Researching elficology

How can we reimagine the richness of our cultural relationships with plants and nature through the imaginary creatures they inhabit? "Cooking Ghosts" is a project based on research done by...

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...

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...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Anoniem

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Sieta van Horck

Bodies of Land

Rituals to connect with land

Bodies of Land is a radical ritual that explores the relationships of inter-being between multispecies bodies and local lands. How do we build living relationships and design practices that reawaken...

Project proposal: Viviana M. Calderon de la Barca

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...