In 2023, Universities of Applied Sciences will commence a pilot program for their doctoral track called the Professional Doctorate
(PD). This new learning path aims to expand the boundaries of professional practice. The Netherlands Association of Universities of Applied Sciences (Vereniging Hogescholen) has partnered with the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and Regieorgaan SIA to develop this initiative. On May 30th, Regieorgaan SIA granted the first 11 funding grants to the first PD candidates.
Analogue photography and toxicity are intimately linked by almost all chemical photographic production processes. In addition, photography’s contribution to creating dominant socio-political power structures of defining and categorising can also be considered toxic.
As a way out of these toxic histories, Risk Hazekamp investigates alternative photographic methodologies, to envision the world without a camera, through a sustainable production process and with a more-than-human gaze.
Hazekamp proposes a new approach to photography, where the photographer is no longer in control of the image, but rather creates circumstances in which photographic images can evolve.
The aim of this PD-project is to create a breathing work of art, in which transformation is the image, and the result is always in progress; a ‘living micro-organic photographic process’ that continuously converts carbon dioxide and releases oxygen.
Credits:
Risk Hazekamp – Experiment (Petri Dish) – 2021
Risk Hazekamp (with Scape Agency) – ‘How do we take care of our failures?’ – Stroom Den Haag – 2022
Risk Hazekamp – an analogue photo negative dissolved by Cyanobacteria – 2022
Risk Hazekamp – an analogue photo negative dissolved by Cyanobacteria – 2022
‘It is through the “not-knowing” that a stimulating and caring environment can be created to confidently share vulnerability.’
Risk Hazekamp is researcher in the Regenerative Art and Design research group of the Centre of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology (Avans), the Art & Sustainability research group of the Research Centre Art & Society (Hanze) and the Centre of Design Research for Regenerative Material Ecologies (DREAM) at the Technical University Delft.
Hazekamp, R., Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 (2025). “You press the button, we do the rest” – How to cede agency to the more-than-human? In Applied design research: The societal impact (pp. 362–379), K. Van Turnhout, P. Joore, R. van der Lugt, T. Nachtigall, & L. Terzieva (Eds.). Routledge/CRC Press. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.1201/9781003609766-24/press-button-rest-cede-agency-human-risk-hazekamp?context=ubx
Hazekamp, R., Ambrózy, M. (2025, Oct.) From wonder to disposal (3-day open lab) [Conference presentation]. ūmėdė: Post-media and related matter research festival + symposium, SODAS2123, Vilnius, Lithuania. https://caradt.nl/2025/11/06/open-laboratory-from-wonder-to-disposal-at-umede-research-festival/
Hazekamp, R., schäfer s. (2025, Jun.). Ecological response-ability [Conference presentation]. The resonance of PD research, LocHal, Tilburg, Netherlands. https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3558568/3788228
Hazekamp, R. (2025, Apr.). Practising living systems (Initiated and led by Judith van den Boom) [Conference presentation]. Compos(t)ing regenerative creative practice symposium, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands. https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/events/compost-t-ing
Hazekamp, R., Ambrózy, M. (2025, Feb.). Dancing and dirting: Close-sensing images. Landing No. 1: Edge of the Glacier, 17–36. https://doi.org/10.37522/775akg96
Hazekamp, R., Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 (2025, Jan.). What does it mean to care for a unicellular micro-organism? Photography as mutualistic care [Conference presentation]. 3rd International care ethics research consortium conference: care, aesthetics, and repair, University of Humanistic Studies Utrecht, Soesterberg, Netherlands. https://cerc2025.com/6-panels-4
Hazekamp, R. (2024, Oct.). Limited ‘makeability’ of society. The societal impact of applied design research, NADR Symposium. Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven https://nadr.nl/events/the-societal-impact-of-applied-design-research/
Hazekamp, R., Coordes, H.H. (2024, Sep.) Expanded semantic levels in fashion // Unlearning photography: listening to Cyanobacteria [Conference presentation]. Encounters in artistic research, Minerva Art Academy https://www.researchcatalogue.net/portal/announcement?announcement=3025428
Hazekamp, R. (2024, Apr.). How can BioArt facilitate a living alternative photographic methodology to envision our world without a camera, through a non-chemical production process and with a non-human gaze? [Conference presentation]. Helsinki photomedia conference 2024, Aalto University, Finland.
https://helsinkiphotomedia.aalto.fi/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/94_Hazekamp_Risk_UnlearningPhotography.pdf
Hazekamp, R. (2024, Apr.). The art of mycelium teachings. [Book review: Y. Ostendorf-Rodríguez, ‘LET’S BECOME FUNGAL! Mycelium teachings and the arts’]. https://doi.org/10.5117/FORUM2024.1.008.HAZE
Hazekamp, R. (2023, Nov.). Cyanobacteria stories: Moving inside out of Elizabeth Povinelli’s “carbon imaginary”. TRIGGER: Magazine for Research, Reflection and Debate on All Things Photographic, (5), 14 – 24. FUTURES Yearbook: Energy. FOMU (Fotomuseum Antwerpen). https://fomu.be/trigger/articles/cyanobacteria-stories
The Regenerative Art and Design (RAD) research group seeks to contribute to a new generation of regenerative designers and artists who address the pressing need for transitions that support planetary health. By taking whole systems responsibility through collaborative practices, the group aims to create transformative pathways for reimagining design futures grounded in care and ecological integrity.
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