COMPOS(T)ING: Notions of Indigeneity COMPOS(T)ING: Notions of Indigeneity

• Walk-in from 15:00
• Workshops 15:30 – 17.45
• Keynote and panel 19:30 – 21:00

Valuing Living Land looks at mutual relationships between humans and other living things. Artefact Constellations encourages awareness of the agency of objects and the materials they are made of. Participants will be invited to listen, collaborate and rethink ownership, value and extractive habits, learning to design with others, not just for them.

Led by regenerative designer Akash Kumar, this workshop will explore embodied knowledge through spinning and weaving. Participants will investigate how the body thinks when making things, the knowledge that emerges through practice, and how listening to materials, places and people influences what and why we create.

With Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, researcher and initiator of the Zoöp movement, participants will learn to value land and its human and non-human inhabitants. Through a game-like process, we will explore economic relationships as part of embedding ecological and social systems. We will ask how living land can generate a surplus to support more-than-human communities without being exhausted.

Led by anti-disciplinary artist Anne de Andrade, this session invites participants to see objects as active entities within networks. By tuning into the ‘voices’ of materials, we will consider how their artistic or design practice might support life more effectively.

In the evening, Akash Kumar will discuss notions of indigeneity. The panel will explore what we mean by Indigenous in relation to the land, creative practices, communities, ancestral knowledge and design. The discussion will emphasise the importance of these ideas, demonstrating how they can be extended into design through material understanding and making, and how working with materials can become a form of listening and relating. The keynote challenges dominant production modes and opens up more reciprocal ways of making. It invites participants to reconsider how indigeneity can inform not only what we design, but also how and with whom we make it.

When you register, you will be asked to choose one of the three workshops. Please note that you will need a separate ticket to attend the lecture and panel discussion.

Collective Compos(t)ing is a group of educators, designers and researchers from eight art schools and the Nieuwe Instituut. Together, they promote regenerative creative practices and share knowledge across education, art, culture and society. They work from the regenerative principle of composting: breaking down harmful practices and transforming them into fertile ground for new, future-ready ways of working. Through curated gatherings and events, Collective Compos(t)ingexplores diverse regenerative approaches, exchanging knowledge while building a shared language and practice of regeneration across disciplines.