, together with Studium Generale, is inviting you to join the student-led walk and workshop ‘Eyes on Water’ with Elna Aurand (Master student of Design Academy Eindhoven).
Place: Den Bosch
Starting point of the excursion: around 11:00 gather in front of Avans Hogeschool, Onderwijsboulvard 215, Den Bosch
Date and time: May 07, 2025, from 11:00 AM to 13:00 PM
Bring your own lunch, or join us in the canteen at Avans Onderwijsboulvard location
If you have rainboots, bring them with you.
To join the walk, register via this link
The workshop invites locals from Den Bosch to engage with the Westerpark pond through visual
cues. By crafting woollen water sensing tools, participants are able to question current water
surveillance systems, driven by data and human interest. The workshop includes a screening of
Elna’s in-progress film about the project’s research.
By signing up to this free walking program, we are kindly inviting you to walk the common grounds with us and engage with the local landscapes in the series of field trips between our art academies in Den Bosch and Breda. Together with foragers, mycologists, lichenologists, researchers, artists, and enthusiasts we will learn about the ecologies of places, assemblages of micro and macro-organisms and elements which co-create the surrounding ecosystems. Walking in the fields is presented as an extended open-air learning environment where we are encouraged to look, hear, smell, dig, taste, stay with, and learn how to live and work reciprocally.
Elna Aurand is a social designer based in the Netherlands. Her practice looks at the politics,
infrastructures, vocabulary and gestures of materials which are conventionally labelled as
undesirable. Currently, she is focusing on monitoring water systems, with ongoing research in
Den Bosch.
Follow Elna Aurand on Instagram
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