It is with great pleasure that Zone2Source and Open Set will hold the School for MultiSpecies Knowledges with a selected number of participants. Developed by Open Set (an alternative learning platform) and Zone2Source (a platform for art, nature and technology), the School will transform the Amstelpark into a territory for research and experimentation between 14 May and 3 July 2022. A series of public events will be held, you are invited to participate in these conversations and experiments.

Participants will meet weekly with guests to explore how we can tune in to other life forms. The Orangerie and the Amstelpark will function as a laboratory during their research. The results of the research will be revealed as an exhibition and a public programme during the last two weeks of June. The questions they will bring to their research are as follows: what tactics do we need to tune into the rhythms of other life around us? And what public formats can we develop to bring people into our explorations?

Agenda

• 14 May
  Start of the programme with a kick-off event.
• 30 May
  Open studio with the participants of the School and Neal White & Victoria McKenzie from 11 – 17 hrs at the Orangerie.
• 20 June
  Open studio with the participants of the School, Heather Barnett and Budhaditya Chattopadhyay from 11 – 17 hrs at the Orangerie.
• 2 & 3 July
  Public programme.
• 3 July
  Finissage of the School with guest Laura Cull.

Participants of the 1st School for MultiSpecies Knowledges are:

Nadine Botha
(research designer preoccupied with the unseen social, political, economic, scientific and cultural values embedded in our material reality).

Anna Maria Fink
(a landscape architect, bookmaker and teacher, and the founder of Atelier Fischbach – an interdisciplinary design and research studio on landscape).

Samar Khan
( researcher and writer; History and Philosophy of Science).

Toni Kritzer
(is a trans*disciplinary performance artist. Their artistic practice is committed to queer ecology, spanning through various disciplines and modes of storytelling).

Angela Serino
(curator, researcher and writer).

The Center for Genomic Gastronomy
(artist-led think tank that examines the biotechnologies and biodiversity of human food systems).

Marie Ilse Bourlanges
(artist whose practice combines tangible, performative and written matter, within collaborative and individual trajectories).

Angela Jerardi
(writer, arboreal feminist (killjoy) & art school permaculturalist at the @garden_department, Gerrit Rietveld Academie).

Inês Paiva Vilar de Queirós
(Landscape Architect and Textile designer. Her artistic practice seeks to trace back traditional wisdom and make use of woven forms as a vehicle for storytelling and communication. Her textural archives trace the relationships between cloth, colour, the land and its people).

Ege Kökel
(designer and artistic researcher with an interest in natural sciences and futures, entangled relations between species, ecology and anthropocene).

Beast Mode collective
(combines psychology, performance and art)

Reon Cordova
(designer, educator and (self-published) author).

Studio Inscape
(architectural platform with a futuristic ecological thought. — We dissolve the boundaries between human and nature by design).

Roots Collective
(regenerative making designers Jesse Greulich & Lotte Gulpers).

Sandipan Nath
(Working across visual and sonic media, Nath’s work is rooted in socio-ecological explorations).

Katrijn Westland
(artistic practice brings into play more-than-human perspectives. Her work has a focus on multi-sensorial experiences, storytelling and material design).

Gill Baldwin
(design practice focuses on technology, machinery, intelligence, and the particularities of on- and offline worlds).