Anthotyping Landscapes Field Guide Launch & Activation Workshop

On the 24th of May, ‘Anthotyping Landscapes’ invites the public to experience the colors of the Amstelpark through a workshop of the textile technique of Anthotyping, an elemental printing technique using the force of the sun, wind, soil and water. In this workshop, we will experiment with Anthotyping with soil to test how plants become colors and motives on textiles. Participants will be introduced to our methodology through our Field Guide, and the event is opened by the end of the workshop to present the results to the public.

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Materials and Field Guide are included in the ticket price.

Agenda

14h – Noticing the landscape: Introduction to the Anthotyping techniques and walking-exercise

15h – Printing with the landscape: Soil Anthotyping technique: Crafting with soil and plants in the park

16h – Reading the landscape: Collecting and analysing pre-prepared soil samples, and setting up installation

17h – Pop-up exhibition (Open to public): Come drink a lemonade or Frisian beer with us, and see the process from Field Guide to Anthotyping outcomes of the workshop

About Anthotpying Landscapes
Anthotyping Landscapes, an innovative project supported by Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie under the “Eigentijds gebruik van ambachten” initiative, brings together Social Designers Freja Kræmmer Nielsen and Teresa Carvalheira with Natural Dye Researcher and Textile Maker Roua Alhalabi, founder of RouaAtelier. This collaboration aims to develop an outdoor textile lab and a participatory methodology for creating a hyper-localized palette of natural colors and prints derived from Dutch flora.

The project leverages the anthotype technique, which uses sunlight to imprint motives on fibers without the need for harsh chemicals. By utilizing photosensitive plant materials such as leaves, berries, and roots, Anthotyping offers a sustainable method of color creation. Using textiles as the medium, this technique fosters new interactions with the landscape, and allows for experimental interactions with local flora, soil and water, influencing the anthotyped outcomes and creating unique reflections of the landscapes in which they are crafted.

The project culminates in a physical publication, a field guide for the Anthotyping methodology that empowers anyone into a colourful way to (re)engage with landscapes, facilitating the Anthotyping technique developed with 4 elements: sun, soil, water and wind.

Who’s behind Anthotyping Landscapes?
Freja Kræmmer Nielsen is an artistic researcher and designer. Her practice focuses on ecological systems and symbiotic relations, and her recent projects have taken form in gardening concepts, herbariums, biomaterial development and participatory futures thinking workshops. Her interdisciplinary work experience of teaming up with scientists, citizens and other creatives feeds directly into her practice, and promotes hybrid methodologies of art, design and science.

More about Freja: https://linktr.ee/frejakraemmernielsen

Roua Alhalabi is a natural dye specialist, accumulating over 7 years of experience developing local natural dye pigments and dye methods. Roua frequently consults and collaborates with textile material designers and textile companies to develop ways of making sustainable textile production and is particularly devoted to the reduction of resources involved in the dye/printing techniques. With eye to detail and wide ecological knowledge, Roua works with all natural local elements available to develop high-quality results with a smaller hydric footprint. Parallel to that, Roua Atelier invests in education and knowledge sharing with a wide offer of workshops and pedagogical programmes, working closely with farmers to study and understand the cultivation of various plants and methods to enhance pigment production. Roua lectures as a guest lecturer in the Netherlands (DAE) and internationally and has collaborated with Fibershed and Cosh.

More about RouaAtelier: www.rouaatelier.com

Teresa Carvalheira is an activator, designer, seamstress and up-cycler with 6 years of experience as Community Manager for Fashion Revolution Portugal where she supports campaigns for the empowerment of the textile industry stakeholders and consumerism critique. She continues to work on interdisciplinary projects relating to crafts, environment and migration and collaborated recently with NOoF for the exhibition “Regeneration – Fashion from the ground up” (2023).

More about Teresa: linktr.ee/teresacarvalheira

Support and partners

Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie (Creative Industries Fund NL) https://www.stimuleringsfonds.nl/toekenningen/anthotyping-landscapes 

Nationaal Landschap Zuidwest Fryslân
https://nationaallandschap.frl/

More about Anthotyping Landscapes:
website: www.anthotyp.ing
instagram: @a.n.t.h.o.t.y.p.ing