Date and time: Thursday 10 April 2025, 9.00AM – 5.00PM
Location: Nieuwe Instituut, Museumpark 25 3015 CB Rotterdam
Tickets: Tickets are available on Eventbrite, using the following link.
Compos(t)ing is a participatory and inspiring event designed to uncover the meaning and scope of regenerative design. It offers a platform for learning and exploration through diverse creative practices. The symposium addresses the urgent need for a regenerative economy, highlighting the essential role of the arts and design sector in driving innovation and positive change. Our primary goal is to develop and share knowledge, methods, skills, and fresh ideas in regenerative design.
Central to the symposium is a showcase of regenerative creative practices presented through multiple work sessions. These sessions will explore thematic threads such as Regenerative Economies, More-than-human Ecologies, and Transforming Didactic Skills through Regenerative Pedagogies. By bringing together diverse perspectives and practical insights, the symposium invites attendees to reimagine the potential of regenerative practices and education in shaping a sustainable future.
Participating creative practices include Amper Design, de Kleverbergh, Land & Hand, The Linen Project, New Store, de Onkruidenier, Oyster Heaven, Selçuk Balamir and Shivant Jhagroe.
Also participating are regenerative educational representatives Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca, Anthony Heidweiller, Emilie Gallier, Nienke Terpsma, Nina Boas, Jay-J Taukave and Juha van ‘t Zelfde from ATD; Anke Jongejan, Martijn van Gessel, Ruben Jacobs, and Shirley Niemans from HKU; Una Henry, Kas Houthuijs, Loes Bogers, Aymeric Mansoux, Aldje van Meer, and Phyllis Wong from WdKA; Michaela Davidová, Delfina Fantini van Ditmar, Wander Eikelboom, Bas van den Hurk, Risk Hazekamp and Annemarie Piscaer from CARADT; Henrike Gootjes from ArtEZ, Klaas Kuitenbrouwer from Nieuwe Instituut and Judith van den Boom from Central Saint Martins, UAL London.
Keynote speaker for the event is art historian Estelle Zhong Mengual and our moderator is Shailoh Phillips. More details about the program will follow shortly.
Compos(t)ing is an interdisciplinary collaboration, co-curated by educators and researchers from Centre of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology (CARADT) of Avans University of Applied Sciences, Willem de Kooning Academy, University of the Arts Utrecht HKU, Academy of Theatre and Dance Amsterdam AHK, and Nieuwe Instituut.
For more enquires about the symposium, contact Annemarie Piscaer (researcher at CARADT and co-curator of the symposium).
‘How can art and design cultivate critical expressions rooted in ethics of care and relationality to influence ecological, social, and economic structures?’
Delfina Fantini van Ditmar, PhD, focuses on ecological design and reflective practices as Professor Regenerative Art and Design. With a background in biology and design research, she explores paradigm shifts and material ethics, advancing regenerative and more-than-human perspectives
‘Humans are atmospheric beings, particles, dust, in intimate cycles of exchange, actors with an incredible force.’
‘We need to become attuned actors with a deeper understanding of all the other particles.’
Annemarie Piscaer is a researcher in the Situated Art, Design and Technology research group, tutor on the New Design & Attitudes study programme at St. Joost School of Art & Design, and PhD candidate in the Doctoral Program at KU Leuven.
‘It is through the “not-knowing” that a stimulating and caring environment can be created to confidently share vulnerability.’
Risk Hazekamp is researcher within the Regenerative Art and Design research group and tutor for the Art & Research study programme at St. Joost School of Art & Design.
‘How can we disrupt the notion of being human while staying true to being humane?’
Wander Eikelboom (1973) is a researcher and cultural critic who studied critical humanities at the University of Utrecht.
‘How do we live together, how do we work together? How do we give shape and form to ‘being together’ in the broadest sense?’
bas van den hurk is an artist, tutor and researcher. He studied Fine Art at Academy St. Joost in Breda and Philosophy of Aesthetics at the University of Amsterdam. van den hurk teaches contemporary theory, research and practice at St. Joost, and is a regular lecturer at different academies and institutions in the Netherlands and abroad.
‘A bio lab is a place of working with living organisms, brought out of their habitat so we can learn to think outside of the Petri dish. Let’s take care of these teachers!’
At the Avans Centre of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology (CARADT), Michaela Davidová is lab coordinator at creative research lab Material Incubator and a researcher at the Regenerative Art & Design group.
Living in cities developed around data and acting within the inscrutable structure of our techno-society demands art and design that can help understand how we relate to these rapidly changing surroundings and to reflect on that relationship. The research group Situated Art, Design and Technology responds to this exigency by fostering a situated turn in art and design through a diverse portfolio of interdisciplinary research projects in partnership with academic and cultural partners, as well as with government and industry.
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