Wander Eikelboom

Research Group: Cultural and Creative Industries

‘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.

He works as a tutor and researcher at the Communication and Multimedia Design Breda design school. He has published on critical design practices, participatory media cultures, and embodied experience in interactive media-technologies.

His current research explores more-than-human-design practices and ecosystemic ways of learning in the post-Anthropocene era. Between 2017 and 2019 Eikelboom was part of Polymorf, an artistic collective, for which he co-designed an internationally acclaimed installation, ‘Famous Deaths’, another installation, ‘The Entangled Body’, and Sense of Smell, a publication.

ws.eikelboom@avans.nl

Publications

Eikelboom, W., van den hurk, b. (2024, Sep) Collaborative Handwork: A Materialization of Learning Ecosystems. Workshop at ATGENDER ‘Gender Studies and The Precarious Labor of Making a Difference’ 2024 Conference, Utrecht University

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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?

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‘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 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. ’