Activities
We experiment and execute all kinds of creative and research activities throughout the year. This is a snapshot





We experiment and execute all kinds of creative and research activities throughout the year. This is a snapshot
This physical facility aims to host a variety of cultural programming activities that will be carried over the following years. These will consist of work presentations for a small (by invitation only) audience and larger exhibitions aiming for public outreach (mostly free of charge).
The facility is an Urban Resort Space (https://urbanresort.nl).
Urban Resort Amsterdam is a non-profit organisation dedicated to transforming vacant buildings into affordable workspaces and cultural hubs in Amsterdam. Since its founding in 2008, Urban Resort has created spaces for artists, entrepreneurs, and social initiatives, fostering a vibrant and diverse community across the city. Urban Resort prioritises sustainability, social impact, and local engagement, supporting projects that benefit Amsterdam’s cultural and social landscape while preventing gentrification.
We helped 23 participants who advocated for a complete move of one month to Athens and run a residency for the local communities. Under the name Found & Lost the collective aimed for an open-ended, experience, exploration and research based fully open structure that left as much manoeuvring space as possible for all involved. This led to various smaller events both private and public, workshops and group excursions. The move was an (radical) alternative to an end-of-year show, event or exhibition in a confined space or building.
This open 2-day certified course (www.saffier.nl) aims to inspire and educate participants interested in how music therapy, arts-based interventions and creative interactions can be understood and practiced in the domain of mental health and general social wellbeing.
Researchers, artistist and practicioners emerge themselves in a two-day educational and experiential program and explore what music therapy is (with theory and a body of academic knowledge) in clinical settings, and how social and artistic interventions give room for care, human expressions and connections beyond existing social norms and pre-conceived ideas of what it means ‘to be yourself, ‘to be together’, ‘to share emotions’, ‘to express yourself’, ‘to play together’, ‘to learn from each other’, 'to care'
"Translating into AI" is an collaboration with Music Therapy researchers and AI scholars, and focuses on exploring and understanding the vast impacts of artificial intelligence on society, culture, and human experiences. his activity aims to explore the gaps between machine and human, and how the gap can potentially impact society and our futures. It starts with asking critical questions.
As AI technology advances at an unprecedented pace, the need for a nuanced and more international understanding of its implications on everyday lives becomes crucial. Our mission is to connect the world of AI and machine learning with real-life global and cross-cultural contexts and challenges, emphasising both the technological potential and the societal impacts of these tools.
To spread awareness and foster responsible AI usage, we collaborate with educational institutions and build short (remote or hybrid) courses or intensives. The project has a long term ambition to work closely with educational and research partners from around the globe and to make invisible (artistic) impacts visible. We raise awareness around AI's role in health, digital culture, human rights and beyond. In 2023, we facilitated an international scouting study around Artificial Intelligence- a critical analysis of the relation between humans and machines. AI for what?
In this explorative project, we work together with global experts and collect case-studies and stories from the Global South. Our activities cover a wide range of topics, including:
• The role of AI in arts and music therapy;
• Digital identity formation and emerging digital cultures;
• Ethical and social dimensions of AI applications in healthcare, human rights, and more.
2024 - Field Trip to Architecture Biennale (Venice, Italy)
We support and facilitate the development of the international training/research and global outreach in the paediatrics domain. We scout international scholars and experts, organising field trips, prepare publications, shortlist professional global partners and appointing international researchers. By developing Research Lab Settings and Flexible Educational Programming, we bring the latest insights and considerations to a wider audience. Our tasks includes solution building (operational support), international partner search, appoint global experts and artists in (field) research and offer short (online, on-site) educational modules
We facilitated an international contribution to the New York Printed Matter’s Art Book Fair 2022 titled Kardesler Groente & Fruit. This idea started from the existing fruit and vegetable shop located in Amsterdam-West, approximately 15 minutes away from our Amsterdam studio. The shop functions as a common place of interaction, a place of trading goods and stories, precious encounters and small gestures was compressed, transferred and decompressed to the huge art books marketplace in NY.
In New York, the participants published a shop for which each individual participant created a set of fresh products, publications and artefacts to share and sell. The idea was received well and attracted a lot of attention from the general public.