Annemarie Piscaer

Annemarie completed a bachelor’s degree at the Design Academy Eindhoven and a master’s in Education in Arts at the Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam, where her research project was as a designer I’m an expert I’m an amateur (2017). Currently, Annemarie is a PhD candidate in the Doctoral Program at KU Leuven, LUCA School of Arts in Genk (supervised by Dr. Vrancken, Dr. Claes & Dr. van Dartel). Her research Aerial and Airing, a Situated Design Approach: Mapping Environmental Data through Material will address the urgent and complex issue of mapping environmental data, particularly through the lens of ‘Air’.  The research focus on materiality, challenges conventional approaches to data representation and will integrate principles of situated knowledges and pedagogy into design practices.

Annemarie’s design-activist research projects focus on materials, with a love of dust. She is founder of Studio Dust, a participatory research-by-design studio with the principle that everything has value, even dust: from dust to dust. She was also co-founder, with Iris de Kievith, of Lab AIR, a design collective addressing aerial issues. Their first project, Smogware, involved creating ceramic tableware colored by air pollution, linking everyday objects to environmental impact -developed at the Ceramic residency Sundaymorning@EKWC. Pieces from the Smogware series are bought by several institutions, has been on show at many international exhibitions and has had more than 100 national and international publications.

At CARADT, Annemarie is a researcher involved in the Situated Art, Design and Technology research group with her current research project Terroir: Mapping Data Through Material in the Wild. Her past work includes research with the Biobased Art and Design group, focusing on more-than-human learning environments, The Garden that Sees, Smells, and Hears (2022 – 2024). She is also teaching at St. Joost School of Art & Design New Design & Attitudes study programme, where she developed the minor Material Ecologies.

Annemarie previously lectured at the Design Academy Eindhoven (2018-2023) and Artemis Academy (2014-2016). She has been visiting lecturer in several institutions, including Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam, the Summer School Design Campus by the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Dresden, and Summer School LT Ranch in Lithuania, Summer School at the Institute of Creativity and Innovation (ICI), Xiamen University China. She lectures about her practice at institutions such as Piet Zwart Institute (NL),LUCA School of Arts Genk (BE), Weißensee School of Art and Design Master Design an Experiment (DE), and more. She has served as an external commission member for organizations like the Creative Industries Fund NL (Open Call City Lab 2018-19) or Crafts Council (2025). Currently she is member of the supervisory board of the international post-academic work center and research center for ceramics, the EKWC. She has published an article, co-authored with Dr. A. Nigten, titled Colliding systems: formal and real-life learning, 2019.

Photo credits: Roel van Tour