(re)growing the city

CrAFt Student think/do tank Amsterdam 2024

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European League of Institutes of the Arts

Move to a new location

—> BIG NEWS !!!

We are now in our new location!

ON MONDAY the 22nd of January we left Blaak 4.1 and moved to Wijnhaven 01.118 (on the first floor) near the Dig lab.

We are now easier to find and in a better room.

Come to visit us!

You can see here the new space and construction in progress:

Electives October 2023 – Biobased materials

A new edition of making biobased and therefore biodegradable materials. It is a field in development where you can innovate and design new ideas.

This time, we had some inspiring presentations and students were free to experiment in teams grouped by center of interest.

It has been a very inspiring week.

Lectures

Kas Houthuijs: Non-human perspectives

Anna Vershinina: ExoGardens: Designing Eco-Habitats for Extreme Frontiers

Discussion around design perspectives focusing on sustainability:

Some examples of the created samples:

MAKING LEAF MOULD–EMBODIED RESEARCH

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Explorative Actions – Embodied Research 

Making Leaf Mould  

Workshops for 3 different groups on November 6th, 7th and 13th  from 9.00-10.30 am
By collecting leaf litter, we investigate the difference between leaf litter, composted leaves and GFT (Vegetables, Fruit & Garden waste) compost. What is the effect of the environment on the material, what can you use it for and how and in what can we compost the leaf litter on our rooftop garden? At the same time, we investigate our environment and human behaviour. We meet outside Blaak 10 

On Wednesday 15th November from 5.30-7  all three groups will meet in our Research Station for a joint inventory of observations and collected material and to start with selecting and editing,  and the presentation of sketches (maquettes) of containers for the leaf litter. We meet in WH 0.301 

Tutors: Wilma Knol & Sandrine D’Haene 

References 

1. Arnold, Catherine. Healthy soils are live-giving black gold. ScienceNewsExplores, Febr 25 2021; 

1. Don, Monty. How to make leaf mould. Gardenersworld.com ; BBC, 22 July 2019 “00:01:28 

1. Bladeren uit Rotterdamse straten worden booster voor het bodemleven. Open Rotterdam, 30 nov. 2021 

1. Anne Geene, fine artists & photographer, made a book:  Geene, Anne. No. 235 : Encyclopaedia of an Allotment. De HEF, 2014.  This was her graduation project in 2010 at Academie St. Joost Breda 

1. Crowther, Thomas. The global movement to restore nature’s biodiversity. Youtube “00:11:36 

#Rotterdam#leaf mould#leaf litter #environment#sensory explorations#human behavior#urban nature#exploring #observing&documenting #collecting #filing #editing 

Re/generation

Exhibition Re/generation

Thusrday 19th of october till Sunday 12th of november 2023

Lange Nieuwstraat 191 Schiedam

With:

Conor Croasdell
Jasper van den Ende
Moritz Liedtke
Esther Maij
Mick Santman
Anne Visser
Vincent Zanni
Jake Lalor Zakrzewski

https://www.deschiedammeronline.nl/artikel/details/tentoonstelling-re-generation-bij-kunstwerk

https://www.sdam.nl/uitagenda/event/re-generation

Prep Talk on Tuesday 10th of october 12:30 – 16:00 >>> Register NOW

Dear student! 

Are you the sustainable doer of the future or curious about the sustainable innovations of our time? This program is for you!

We would like to invite you to the student symposium ‘Mission: Transition: Prep Talks’ on Tuesday 10^th October from 12.30 – 4 pm.

This afternoon is full of interesting speakers and activities. Marie-Joan from the Erasmus MC talks about the challenges of making healthcare and labs more sustainable, go on a walk with Eric for a hands-on session about nature as a source of inspiration for collaboration, or be inspired by Julia from Chainable about producing circular kitchens! And there is much more!

The Sustainable Development Goals Coalition offers helps looking for sustainable internships or talks to the Startup Academy about opportunities and support. Would you like to discuss sustainability and develop some new ideas for Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences? Let’s talk with GO HR!

You can find more about this in the program below.

Register now

Register here quickly and we will reserve a drink for you. Minor students have first access, so register before the event opens to the entire university,

Location & Travel

The event is in the Drijvend Paviljoen at the RDM Campus

Take the water taxi from Marconistraat to RDM for free with your student card, bus 68 to RDM Campus, or take the bike!

Team Circular Makers Industry

Eveline Bijleveld, Nicole Daamen, Caroline van Alphen en Merlijn Boer

Contact: missiontransition@hr.nl

Permacomputing

Permacomputing lecture series: instrument vs instrumentalisation

This is a collaboration of Interaction Station with Living Station.

By Aymeric Mansoux

Description

In the coming months the Interaction Station will be the host for several lectures, seminars and workshops on the topic of permacomputing. Inspired by permaculture, permacomputing is a nascent idea and community of practice interested in developing more sustainable approaches to computer/net technology, maximizing hardware lifespans, minimizing energy use and focussing on the use of already available computational resources.

Each lecture will be given twice to provide more options to attend. A work-in-progress overview of the program can be found at  https://permacomputing.net/permacomputing_in_the_arts/

The first session will discuss computer and network technology and its problematisation. While computer and network technologies have an important place in art and design academies, there is an increasing tension between the potential of novel computer and network technologies as powerful creative instruments and media, versus the increasing instrumentalisation of the field of art and culture production by the computer industry. In this lecture, we will contrast this situation with permacomputing, a nascent concept and community of practice, that invites hackers, artists and designers to be more mindful of these new computational wonders, by radically rethinking their relationship and usage of extractive and unsustainable computers and network technology.

https://permacomputing.net/permacomputing_in_the_arts/

The lab is open!

The invisible made visible at the Living Station Lab

At the Living Station Lab you can bring samples for observation at the microscopic scale

We have several light microscopes. We are equipped to take movies and pictures.

Here is some footage made at the Living Station Lab with our microscopes:

Water flea (Daphnia) x160

Observation of salt crystal growth by Julius Enneking

ELECTIVES – DYEING WITH MICROBES

Although humans have used natural colors since the stone age, nowadays the development of chemistry has provided colors with a large variety and stability but with negative effects on the environment.

Bacteria and fungi are natural new sources of pigments to be exploded.

During the Electives, the students got introduced to several practices:

• Shibori
• Bacteria dye
• Fungi dye by Ilse Kremer

Questions that the students reflected on for their assignment:

-What is the hidden cost of life of the current system?

-What does it mean to use life for your pleasure?

-How can we respect life while working in art and design?

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