Introducing Michel van Dartel as the new figurehead at Route Kunst

Janneke Wesseling, who will soon retire, recently resigned from her duties as figurehead at Route Kunst. She was wholeheartedly supported by the Route Kunst steering committee in the proposal of Michel van Dartel as her successor.

Van Dartel is director of V2_Lab, a platform for art and media technology in Rotterdam, and lecturer at Avans Centre of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology.

‘I experience the confidence that the route instills in me as an enormous stimulus, also for the work that I do as a director and lecturer’ says Van Dartel.

In this article he explains more about his work and his ambitions for Route Kunst.

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NWO offers an online workshop, ‘Creative Concepts’, on 17 February

The ‘Creative Concepts’ workshop is organized on the occasion of the publication of Critical Concepts for the Creative Humanities by Iris van der Tuin and Nanna Verhoeff. The workshop is offered by NWO and will be held on 17 February 2022 2-5.15 pm.

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Situated Design Methods (2016 – 2020)

This research project focuses on innovation in the design education of the New Design & Attitudes programme of St. Joost Academy of Art & Design.

Presentatie ontwerpresultaten wijk Boschveld in ’s-Hertogenbosch. © Cindy van Ree

‘People are the product of their relationships with their environment. It’s important to understand how technological developments influence these relationships.’

Michel van Dartel is Research Professor Situated Art, Design and Technology at the Avans Centre of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology (CARADT) and was affiliated with V2_Lab for the Unstable Media between 2005-2024. He holds an MSc in cognitive psychology and a PhD in artificial intelligence.

Michel van Dartel

Research Group: Situated Art, Design and Technology

The research group Situated Art, Design and Technology (SADT) focuses on the societal embedding and embodiment of knowledge production that art and design research enables. The conducted research contributes to a deeper understanding of technological developments and their impact on people, society, and the environment, and to the development of situated approaches in the creative sector and beyond. In doing so, it advances a wider acknowledgement of artistic and design research as a mode of knowledge production, one that is grounded in creativity and critical imagination as a way of generating insight into, and intervening in, societal transitions driven by technology.

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Introducing Michel van Dartel as the new figurehead at Route Kunst

Janneke Wesseling, who will soon retire, recently resigned from her duties as figurehead at Route Kunst. She was wholeheartedly supported by the Route Kunst steering committee in the proposal of Michel van Dartel as her successor.

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Situated Design Methods (2016 – 2020)

Michel van Dartel

Research Group: Situated Art, Design and Technology