Can we as humans and other living beings learn to live together, in difference? Can we create a future that actually has... more
After living a week under one roof, working together at the farm, walking together in silence, sharing breakfasts, dinners and thoughts,... more
Pascale Gatzen fell in love with fashion as a child, became a designer and quickly fell out of love with... more
We decide to have the conversation in a parked car, with an enormous hand made world-of-wool-map on our lap. As... more
We asked Chiara Sgaramella to join our Asturias edition because her practice as an artistic researcher focusses on the connection... more
Ana Carreño takes us to public beach in Gijón/Xixon that is sandwiched between two industrial sites. While we look for... more
Our guests, Ana Carreño, Chiara Sgaramella, Pascale Gatzen en Cynthia Hathaway have arrived. Before we dive into our 1 on... more
We have arrived in Asturias! We stay in a wonderful former casería (farm house), turned into a residence: PACA, Projectos... more
Before we travel to Asturias, we decide to make a pitstop in Madrid and visit the headquarters of INLAND: CAR,... more
During the exhibition In Search of the Pluriverse at Het Nieuwe Instituut (April-August 2022), artist, cook and weaver Aslı Hatipoğlu... more
Artist, cook, boxer, musician and cultural producer Yemoh Odoi was fascinated as a child by the desert and its nomadic... more
As a kid Grocco – artist name, his real name is a well kept secret – wanted to make a... more
We meet at Musée Collectif with all participants of this ‘who owns the city’ edition: Mouna, Bodil, Rubén, Samba and... more
Mohamed Faridji co-founded Atelier de l’Observatoire in 2011, around the same time we – Wong & Krier – lived and... more
After taking us to Lac d’Oulfa, Sidi Moumen and Hay Mohammedi for our vertical field trip (talk #2), today Samba... more
Bodil Ouédraogo was born and raised in Amsterdam by a Dutch mother and a father from Burkina Faso. As a... more
Mouna Belgrini is the perfect tour guide: she knows Casablanca in and out, and she effortlessly connects places, facts and... more
Rotterdam based photographer Rubén Dario Kleimeer portrays the urban landscape and the people inhabiting it. He uses the medium photography... more
In the meantime all four participants/makers of this Casablanca edition have arrived: Bodil Ouédraogo, Rubén Dario Kleimeer, Mouna Belgrini and... more
In 2010, we – Wong & Krier – lived and worked for three months in Casa, as locals call Casablanca.... more
Imagine a cold, dark and rainy afternoon in November. The group (Dimitrova, Espinosa, Zahn, Wong, Krier and audiotechnician Robert) gathers... more
We do realise that outside our hyperfocused Berlin bubble, this city hosts many other lives and voices that deserve to... more
Sabine Zahn lives and works in Berlin. She investigates how choreographic strategies can help understand how urban space can be... more
Tomás Espinosa is artist and activist. He works in both in Berlin and Bogotá. The tension between the ‘intimate’ and... more
Architectural researcher Kornelia Dimitrova co-founded Foundation We Are, a collective of nine creative minds and makers. We had a Warming Up... more
We start every pluriversal trip with a joined experience: a vertical fieldtrip, or an ‘acupuncture of place’ as Sophie Krier... more
Although in time it was our last conversation, we decided to start this string of talks with Daan van Kampenhout.... more
Ghanaian-Filipino architectural scientist Mae-ling Lokko is active in the field of biomaterials. A recent work discussed in this talk is... more
Just before we left we handed all the sounds we recorded along the way, over to sound engineer Martin Low.... more
Aslı Hatipoğlu is weaver, researcher and cook. “By cooking in specific environments, and engaging with people from different cultural backgrounds, I... more
After all these 1 on 1’s with our hosts Miek and Rutger, the neighbours, and guests Tim & Reiko, Tom... more
It is Anne van Leeuwen’s personal mission to bring about regenerative crossovers between nature and culture and to translate these... more
Architect Tom Morton founded ARC, a small architectural practice based in a former candle-making workshop in Cupar, Fife, in the... more
Scotland-based artist duo Collins+Goto Studio (Tim Collins and Reiko Goto) are known for their long-term projects that involve socially engaged... more
In the meantime our guests from the Netherlands and Scotland have arrived: Anne van Leeuwen, Tom Morton, Tim Collins &... more
A bit further down the road lives Jimmy Campbell, the third neighbour we talked to. Apart from taking care of... more
Judy Gibson spent all her childhood summers on the Isle of Erraid. 5 years ago she relocated here permanently. She... more
John and Linda Cameron live at Knockvologan 1, next door to where Miek and Rutger live. This is where the... more
While Erik and Miek are hiking, Sophie joins Rutger at his morning routine of baking bread. It took him more... more
Early Birds Miek and Erik go for a walk and enter a magical world. Eaten alive by the midges they... more
Finally: after a warming up that took us longer than expected, we take you to the weather beaten, Scottish Isle... more
On the weather-beaten island of Mull, off the west coast of Scotland, two artists from the Netherlands set up camp,... more
On the weather-beaten island of Mull, off the west coast of Scotland, two artists from the Netherlands set up camp,... more
As part of the podcast episode Testing İstanbul’s Waters, impact maker and Dutch politician with Kurdish roots Kıvılcım Özmen shares... more
In four short audio notes, Sophie and Erik reflect on the Thirst Talk. Sophie brings in Arturo Escobar’s writings and... more
With designer Nur Horsanalı, urbanist Yaşar Adnan Adanalı, river mobiliser Li An Phoa and architect Eva Pfannes from OOZE. Finally Sophie... more
In this extra Thirst Talk, Sophie crosses – virtual – paths with engineer and artist Serkan Taycan who initiated the... more
In Thirst Talk #4, Sophie meets up with urbanist and İstanbulite Yaşar Adnan Adanalı. A talk about how all spatial... more
In Thirst Talk #3, Erik has a conversation with Eva Pfannes, one of the founders of OOZE. A talk about... more
In this second Thirst Talk, Sophie meets designer and Istanbulite Nur Horsanalı, who spent a lot of time on the... more
Testing İstanbul‘s Waters: Thirst Talk #1 – with Li An Phoa In this first episode Erik meets up with researcher and... more
This bonus exercise, recorded by Jay and Isa themselves, is all about choosing a ‘sit-spot’ and building up a relation... more
Warming Up to the Pluriverse #8: On making the yes and the no With Jay Jordan & Isa Frémaux In this last... more
A pluriversal homework task by Arturo Escobar. For more information about In Search of the Pluriverse visit hnix.nl/pluriverse and follow @insearchofthepluriverse... more
In this talk we meet Arturo Escobar himself, author of ‘Designs for the Pluriverse. Radical Interdependence, Autonomy and the Making... more
The main conversation ends with the notion of a child-like sexual/sensual energy that we tend to disconnect with while growing... more
In this sixth Warming Up talk, we meet Camila Marambio – a being as plural as the worlds she inhabits,... more
In addition to our main conversation with architect/researcher Sean Leonard, co-founder of Alice Yard, we added a short audio clip... more
In the fifth talk we meet up online with architect/researcher Sean Leonard, part of Co-RD Limited, and co-founder of Alice... more
In this fourth talk, Wong & Krier speak with architectural researcher Kornelia Dimitrova and social designer Bernhard Lenger, co-founders of... more
Reference DD BNO magazinewww.bno.nl/page/dd For more information about In Search of the Pluriverse visit hnix.nl/pluriverse and follow @insearchofthepluriverse on Instagram.
In this third warming up talk we speak to Mariana Pestana, curator of the fifth Istanbul Biennale entitled “Empathy Revisited:... more
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In this second ‘warming up talk’ we meet Miquel Hervás Gómez, Catalan by birth, living and working for 10 years... more
In this talk we meet Joke Robaard, independent thinker and maker. Active since the 80s in the world of design.... more
In this second ‘warming up talk’ we meet Miquel Hervás Gómez, Catalan by birth, living and working for 10 years in Amsterdam.... more