Closing reflection at the 2025 symposium with former Minister of Education, Culture and Science Ingrid van Engelshoven about the diversity and depth of the programme (picture by Barbara Medo)
PD candidate s†ëf/\n sch/\efer wearing a mountain costume by Carly Everaert in the work session 'Ecological Response-Ability' (picture by Barbara Medo)Exploring how listening can activate somatic and ecological co-creation in the Deep Listening Workshop by Feli Navarro (picture by Barbara Medo)
PD Arts + Creative in practice: an open and enabling third-cycle programme for curiosity and creativity
In artistic research, one's own art or creative practice is the reason for doing research. This research takes place in, and through, artistic and creative practices. The results of the research are therefore partly artistic practices and products: performances, compositions, shows, installations, sculptures.
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Design Research
Design research involves the use of artistic and/or design methods to achieve an intervention in another social practice or in a curatorial or pedagogical practice. Within this type of research, artists, heritage professionals and designers work on socially relevant innovations, together with all possible parties in the field in question.
These thematic lines emerge from the projects of our candidates, the participating art and design lectorates, and the field, representing ever-evolving lenses.
Quadratic Voting tool by Tara Karpinski. QV is a voting system for figuring out which issues a group cares about most by letting people express not just their choice but how strongly they feel about it.
'Mediated Encounters' work session at the PD A+C Symposium 2025: reflecting on how we project meaning onto machines and how artistic research can challenge dominant tech narratives (picture by Barbara Medo)Video still from 'It Happened Tomorrow, Tiny Cli-Fi for Living with Higher Waters', a video series by Carlo De Gaetano that remixes public domain materials from the Sound & Vision archives, inspired by conversations and drawings from a series of workshops to explore human and more-than-human relationships with water in the Netherlands.For published papers visit the research catalogue.Callisthenics, performance at Beyond Black Box festival 2025 in Antwerp, by Paloma Bouhana, Henny Dörr and PD Candidate Philippine Hoegen (picture by Karolina Maruszak)
'Little Jedi' wearing the orange poncho costume (made by s†ëf/\n sch/\efer) in the workshare Embodied Knowledge at the AHK Theatre and Dance Research Group (picture by Carly Everaerts)Keynote 'The River Speaks' by PD candidate Sophia Bardoutsou together with Maud van den Beuken at PD Day Symposium 2025 (picture by Barbara Medo)'Resonant Cycles' event with Sophia Bardoutsou at Buitenplaats Brienenoord (picture by Maurice Specht)
Co-creative working session of the collective 'Illness as Work', a collaboration within the PD research Performing Working by Philippine HoegenCounting ballots as documented during Tara Karpinski’s site-specific research in the run up to the Tweede Kamer elections in October 2025. Tara tested how far you can go to invalidate a ballot, first by adding a kiss to hers, and then counting it herself.For the latest updates follow us on linkedin.Video still from 'Three Attempts to Take the Place of a Fallen Rock'. s†ëf/\n sch/\efer, 2024 (picture by s†ëf/\n sch/\efer and hoch\/ogel /\/\oun†/\in)
'Queer as the Ocean' portrait series investigates interspecies relationships within aquatic environments, by Carlo De GaetanoThe experimental film 'Bring Back the Birds' by PD candidate Kim Spierenburg encourages introspection on the fragility of nature and ourselves.
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