Max Receveur

Research Group: Cultural and Creative Industries

‘My research focuses on provocation, surprise, and disruption within philosophy, the arts, and urban development.’

Max Receveur is a researcher at the Cultural and Creative Industries research group.

Human beings are constantly organizing both themselves and the world around them: from agendas and self-help literature to cadastral maps and systems of visual governance. This pursuit of order leaves little room for disorder, which is often avoided, corrected, or concealed in both our thinking and our architectural environment.

My research examines the consequences of this human drive toward organization, focusing on moments where order is challenged through provocation, surprise, and disruption. By foregrounding disorder as an essential and generative force, my work explores how unexpected interruptions can reveal alternative ways of seeing, thinking, and structuring the world we live in.

MA in Continental Philosophy at Radboud University (Cum Laude), founder of City Nomads Nijmegen, Chair of Proces-Verbaal (a multifaceted production house with a rebellious publishing division), festival philosopher at Misty Fields Festival (among others), and previously advisor to the National Youth Council’s Hoofdzaken project.

Research Group: Cultural and Creative Industries

The research group Cultural and Creative Industries investigates the role of artists and designers as creative innovators and drivers of social and economic change. Affiliated researchers analyse the cultural and creative industries from a critical point of view and examine the conditions under which timely forms of aesthetic expression and social connectedness can actually take place within the precarious reality of this field. What economic models are required by artists and designers to create a meaningful practice within the aesthetic, social, and economic intentions of the cultural and creative industries? What skills sets are required for those artists and designers who don’t just want to follow movements, but actually shape novel social and economic models of the future?

‘Our research group investigates the role artists, designers and cultural producers in general can play in developing the aesthetics and poetics of a desirable future.’

Sebastian Olma

‘‘How will our graduates make a living without selling their soul?’’

Sepp Eckenhaussen

‘In social and cultural research there is increasing importance in research methodologies and devices that cut across fields and disciplines, becoming transdisciplinary.’

Jess Henderson

‘As a result of my current research, I ask the students the questions “what is your work” and “what works for you.’

Rob Leijdekkers

‘How can we disrupt the notion of being human while staying true to being humane?’

Wander Eikelboom

‘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

‘Disrupting our contemporary society can be a serious design goal.’

Eke Rebergen

‘Interested in human behaviour as the basics underlying the way we design and innovate our society and economy.’

Marianne van Bommel

‘Within my practice I create spaces for introspection while exploring ethical dilemmas. ’

Renée van Oploo

‘Well beyond their common characterisation as problem-solvers, designers have a role to play in materialising public engagement with collective concern’

Laurens Kolks

‘Performance is about engaging with versions of the self, stretching the gaze to see what others see when they look at you.’

Philippine Hoegen

‘Consumers are creatures of habit. If we want them to break routine and live sustainably, we have to do more than just offer sustainable alternatives. ’