Jalila Essaïdi has been appointed Ambassador of Dutch Design Week 2019 Dutch Design Week is still a long way off, yet behind the scenes the preparations for the 18th edition of the festival, which will take place in October, are already in full swing. What can...
Mutating Systems, Bodies and Perspectives If you keep looking long enough, you can see how everything changes. Animal species, plants, bacteria, mountain ranges, continents, solar systems—nothings retains its shape forever. Living and non-living things respond to each other in an endless, complex inter- action that scientists...
Every day we flush away 1.4 litres of our own urine with 33 litres of clean drinking water. We are using a lot of energy to throw away our bodily waste. But what if we could make this resource useful again? Anthroponix is a transdisciplinary research...
Our Dutch Design Week exhibition of 2018 is one for the books. Who would have thought that with less then a year to refurbish our new location we would be able to host such a compelling exposition? Together with the talents from the Talent Pressure Cooker,...
A thrilling remake of a 1904 experiment in which live trees antennas act as antennas for radio contact. Simple and magical at the same time: the combination of nature and technology. This concept was not developed any further at the time, but now BioArt Laboratories...
In biology, metamorphosis is traditionally viewed as a significant stage in the life history of an organism: the change from one form to another - from the caterpillar to the butterfly. Yet, this biological principle also resonates within other disciplines. Folklore, literature and fine arts...
A dance of humans and viruses to the tune of evolution, a compass needle made of iron extracted from placentas and 3D printed materials inspired by the development of human organs. In May 2016, these three proposals were proclaimed the winners of the Bio Art &...
While the maximum age for humans is estimated to be 125, certain bacteria can subsist in a vegetative state for tens of thousands of years, only to awaken when conditions are more favourable. Researchers even claim to have found bacteria that survived this way for millions of years....
Wunderkammer, also known as Kunstkabinett, Cabinets of Wonder or wonder-rooms, is a concept that was created during the Renaissance. The Cabinets of Wonder were encyclopedic collections of objects whose categorical boundaries were not yet defined. In October 2013, several inspiring works were collected for the Biobased...
The Donor Design Week is a unique initiative, organized by six artists and designers inspired by human skin, the human body, transience and organ donation. They join forces during the Donor Design Week to seek attention for the importance of donor registration. They do so,...