Dutch Design Week 2025

During upcoming Dutch Design Week (October 18 – October 26), the bachelor program iArts, and the research centres What Art Knows and Technology-driven Art (all Academy of Arts Maastricht), present an open artistic research house. With artworks, lectures, workshops, interviews, live performances, and more! Join us at Sectie-C (building nr 6) in Eindhoven. Meet our students, teachers, professors and join for inspiring sessions on artistic research!

Program
The open artistic research house is daily opened from 11.00h to 18.00h. On display are artworks from the project ‘The Artistic Taste of Artificial Intelligence’ presented by the Research Centre Technologydrivenart.org; the ‘Kinetic Knits’ installation by Maartje Boer, an audioscoop with audioworks from second year’s iArt students, guided by petra Quaedvlieg, in context of the project Arts&Ecologies: On Water.

Tuesday October 21st
11.00h – 12.00h Lecture ‘When is artistic research?’, by Ties van de Werff
12.00h – 12.30h Official Launch MERIAN Skills Lab, by Ties van de Werff
13.00h – 15.00h Workshop ‘The Leaky Bodies Archives’, by Ulrike Scholtes & Mariëlle Kleyn Winkel (BLOB)

Wednesday (Oct 22), Thursday (Oct 23), Friday (Oct 24)
14.00h -16.30h Activations by second year’s iArts students on their artistic research for the project Arts&Ecologies: On Water#3, guided by Ronald Boer (De Onkruidenier) & Jacqueline Heerema.

Sunday October 26
14.00h – 14.45h Interview with Casper Wortmann (AI media artist), by Peter Missotten (head of research centre Technologydrivenart.org)
14.45h – 15.00h Award Ceremony Thesis Prize 2025
15.00h – 16.00h Drinks and closing

Where to find us: Open Research House, building  Nr. 6 (H4) @Sectie C. Address: Daalakkersweg 2, Eindhoven.

Buy your entrance ticket for DDW in advance via the website of DDW (Entrance ticket DDW includes entrance Sectie C: www.ddw.nl