Atelier Luma

Arles - France - 2016 - present

Atelier Luma creates new and sustainable ways of using the natural and cultural sources of the surrounding wetland region: from recycling agricultural waste to reinventing local techniques, as well as facilitating daring transdisciplinairy collaborations (...)

Walking Seminar – Water in the city

The Hague - The Netherlands - 2021

A podcast walk and walk-driven research project into the future of water in the city, following the Haagse Beek. (...)

Fortuna Vlieland

Vlieland - The Netherlands - 2019 - present

Brewery that makes sparkling water and beer using ingredients from the surrounding Wadden nature. (...)

Collection Zero
San Vero Milis

San Vero Milis - Sardinia - 2019 - present

Ecosystem design that partners with local community to revitalize the 7000 years old weaving ecosystem of San Vero Milis. (...)

May Your Rice Never Burn

Camargue - France - 2019

Community-centered design to craft sustainable rituals for environmental protection (...)

Living with Rising Water

Arles / Camargue region - France - 2018

On-site project, uncovering opportunities that rising water could offer for the next generation of designers, architects, curators, artists, and other creatives. From ecological and environmental narratives to emotional and social ones (...)

Metamorfoselokaal

Middelburg - The Netherlands - 2017

open-air classroom and sanctuary for free thought (...)

Bierberaad

Amsterdam - The Netherlands - 2013 - 2017

Cross-disciplinary platform for beer design, fermentation and education. Including failures and crossovers. (...)

Mining Water – Mien Bleech

Eisden - Belgium - 2015

Socio-geographical research with miners and water bottles. Mining Water illuminates the economic and cultural paradox of ground water in Belgium Limburg (...)

Vacancy Safaris

The Hague - The Netherlands - 2013

a series of interventions in the vacant Tower of Oud which inspired to reimagine its future as a commons (...)

Hunnie

Wilnis - The Netherlands - 2009-2013

Hunnie is site-specific, participatory and performative action research into new forms of nature recreation and management in a dutch polder. (...)

Potato Pilots

Haarlemmermeer - The Netherlands - 2014

Potato Pilots examines the love-hate relationship between farmers and Schiphol Airport through the potato. (...)

NIMBY

Ljubljana - Slovenia - 2014

On-site installation of a urine fermenting toilet in a community garden in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana. (...)

Master Social Design

Eindhoven - The Netherlands - 2013-present

Creating and supervising experimental programs for the Master Social Design at Design Academy Eindhoven, attuned to contemporary eco-social challenges (...)

Werkplaats Buijtenland

Rhoon - The Netherlands - 2012

Design for nature recreation and education in sink with agrarian production (...)

Halbe

The Netherlands - 2011 - present

Protest design and beer label named after Halbe Zijlstra, the then State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science, who made cutbacks in the Dutch art and culture industry. (...)

Market Academy Naschmarkt

Vienna - Austria - 2010

The Market Academy develops, rediscovers and shares market knowledge, ideas and products, allowing stallholders to profit from a market in transition. (...)

The Cook, the Farmer, His Wife and Their Neighbour

Amsterdam - The Netherlands - 2009

The project combines visual art with social architecture and returned ownership of the neighbourhood to the residents by means of a shared vegetable garden and a communal kitchen. (...)

Outside Brewery

Nomadic - The Netherlands - 2008 - present

The Outside Brewery purifies water from ditches and adds wild plants, allowing drinkers to taste the landscape in their beer. (...)

Beauty adventure gallery

Amsterdam - The Netherlands - 2017

Programming ‘unloved’ public space. Beauty Adventure Gallery is a pop-up outdoor beauty salon on a neglected playground by Aldo van Eyck in the historic centre of Amsterdam. (...)