Programme

This semester, the PhDArts doctoral study program will consist of lectures and workshops by PhDArts staff and invited guests, as well as presentations by doctoral candidates of their research projects.

Among the staff and guest speakers are:

• Anke Haarmann, Professor in the Practice and Theory of Research in the Visual Arts and director of PhDArts at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA), Leiden University, Professor of Design Theory/Research, and head of the Centre for Design Research at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW Hamburg);
  
• Sven Lütticken, Associate Professor at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University, and Assistant Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam;
  
• Anja Groten, Assistant Professor at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University, and course director of the design department at the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam;
  
• Liesbeth Bik and Jos van der Pol are artists who have worked together under the name Bik Van der Pol since 1995. Their practice aims to understand and articulate the ways in which art can create space for speculation and imagination within the public realm;
  – Varia is a Rotterdam-based initiative that started in 2017 from the need to open up their members' practices and organize ad hoc public or semi-public moments among different configurations. At its core, it aims to develop critical understandings of the technologies that surround us. Varia experiments with tools for building physical and digital infrastructures in a collective way.
• Philippa Driest (Flip) is an artist whose practices revolve around topics of maintenance, community, and distribution. In her work, she explores different sites of contamination and leakage through publishing, performance, and multi-media research installations. Flip runs Rotterdam-based KIOSK, a bookshop, (riso) print workshop, and Multi Tool Press;
  
• Nieuwe Instituut's Research department explores collective forms of knowledge creation through its projects, activities, fellowships, and other initiatives. Can research be a 'testing ground’ for regenerative, anti-colonial, feminist, racially and ethnically inclusive, more-than-human, and intersectional spaces for collective world-building?;
  
• The Institute of Network Cultures (INC) analyzes and shapes the terrain of network cultures through events, publications, and online dialogue. Their projects evolve around urgent publishing, alternative revenue models, critical design and making, digital counter culture, and much more;
  
• Rietveld Sandberg Research opens the possibilities of imagination by questioning dominant paradigms. This approach becomes embedded in the way they approach learning, making, and creating.

Only for PhDArts candidates and guests.