Illustrating science workshop
A dissertation, report, or article contains a complex narrative. Illustrations and imagery can be great (and fun!) tools to help you tell the story your research wants to tell. Images take the reader by the hand, make ideas and processes easier to understand and add beauty to something you have been working on for months, or even years.
In my practice as an illustrator and educator, I have found great joy in unpacking narratives and ideas, and transforming them into images. In this workshop I will help you do the same for your own academic work. The goal is to brainstorm, reflect and experiment on what suits your text best, e.g. to help you with creating the cover of your thesis. No previous experience is needed.
Note: My workshops are focused on nurturing each person’s unique artistic language, aesthetics and preferences. That means that every participant is going to follow their own process and rhythm. Also, the sessions are self-standing, so you can decide for yourself whether you want to come to more than one.
max participants per session: 10
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Codename Seedling

This Erasmus+ project is a collaboration between scholars and artists from multiple European countries. The aim is to explore the climate crisis with youth via the arts. The project brought together youth-focused practitioners in arts, education, and activism to exchange knowledge, reflect on Earth's present and future, and empower youth-led projects through art-making.

I participated in the project as an artist, facilitator and documenter. 


'Let them Fall' by de laatvliegers and Yiorgos Katsaitis

Performance Roomservice festival, Wageningen, November 2024

'Them’ being the veils that hinder us from experiencing the beauty of life..
Past November me, Simone van Dam and Yiorgos Katsaitis (@itsdriopi) had the most beautiful experience performing for the room service festival in Wageningen.
Me and Simone are ‘de laatvliegers’, a beautiful kind of bat. Yiorgos is a musician from Glasgow that honoured us with his beautiful music.

 

Pictures by Livia Franssen (@Livia_franssen)


Residency with ‘Nyscaben’,  Lundø (June 2024)

Nyscaben is an initiative that brings together artists, artist researchers, art enthousiasts and educators. The aim is to support these practicioners to develop their practice in an interdisciplinary and transdiciplinary way, dive into place-based research, intervene, and form connections. 


Mysteries in science: an arts-based workshop

(April 2024)

 The Transformative Learning Hub @ WUR and the Centre for Unusual Collaborations (CUCo) commissioned us, Kristina Mau Hansen, sound artist, and Dafni Petratou, painter and illustrator, to facilitate this 2nd part of a 3-part series exploring the transformative power of different forms of storytelling, creative expression and writing. In this arts-based workshop, we delved into various aspects of how scholars perceive the 'unknown' or 'mysterious'. How do we navigate the unknown and mysterious? What challenges arise in this exploration? Using creative writing, recording, and drawing tools, we transformed our thoughts into a collective artwork. 

Our fascination with this topic stems from the observation that science communication often spotlights existing knowledge and that education focuses mainly on knowledge that has already been ‘produced’. Seeing the value in exploring the mysterious, the obscure, and the enigmatic within an academic multidisciplinary context, this collective journey illuminated diverse perspectives, researchers' interests, and, importantly, was a lot of fun.


The Jester- RUW Foundation

(from 2023)

RUW stands for: Rural University of Wageningen.  Most importantly, it’s WUR backwards. As a foundation it was born in the 60s by students that wished to bring life to science by involving citizens into research. 

The Jester is a part of this Foundation: an amateurish, satirical, and critical volunteer-driven newspaper. The name was chosen in honour of the professional jokers or ‘fools’ who entertained mediaeval courts, and sometimes were bearers of bad news. They were portraying their observations of the world through witticisms and satire. But the newspaper is not only that: it's also a platform for art documentation, it's a place for people to meet, it's a hub of interviewers, researchers and poets.

I've been one of the coordinators since 2023. 

 


Creative expression workshops

(May 2024)

 

These workshops have the aim of bringing people together, warming up their creative muscles, and throwing them out of their comfort
 zones in the MORE comfortable zone of creating. Come and explore this question through poetry, collage, and drawing. And each workshop has a topic, which are:
1st workshop: ‘Our 5 senses”
2nd workshop: “The art of satire”
3rd workshop: “Stories about the other”