This is what I’m working on now:

• I’m making progress with a new upcoming project on the history and future of the ‘Groene Hart’ area, a green and open central area surrounded by a ring of cities in the Dutch Randstad (Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht). In cooperation with investigative journalist Dennis l’Ami, this cross medial project will focus on the theme of Landscape and Identity, and especially on how the historical development of this man-made landscape has shaped our collective identity.

• I am still doing ongoing research for my book project The supernormal, on ‘the art instinct’ and how more knowledge on this subject could influence future art and art education. These books stood out to me the most lately:
  • The age of insight by Eric R. Kandel
  • The Seductions of Darwin – Art, Evolution, Neuroscience by Matthew Rampley.

• I’m also preparing a new upcoming sound art project on city bells and the meaning of sound in pre-industrial societies. This book inspired me a lot:
  • Village Bells – The Culture of the Senses in the Nineteenth-Century French Countryside by Alain Corbin

• I’m slowly expanding my business to include technical and cross media coaching and consulting for artists and creatives. I just started coaching two artists in the fields of Fine Arts and Graphic Design. If you’re interested as well: get in touch and we’ll drink a cup of coffee first!

• And finally, here’s what the upcoming weeks of the new academic year of my job at Utrecht University of the Arts (HKU)  will entail:

• • I will be supervising a new group of students graduating from the Associate Degree Digital Media

• • I will be completing the final part of a didactics course for teachers

— December  2020