Flows-rond
2025 - ongoingReimagining Urban Water Relations in Amsterdam Nieuw-West
Artist-in-residency at Buurtwerkplaats Noorderhof.
Flows-rond is a participatory art project that explores how residents of Amsterdam Nieuw-West relate to the waterscape of Sloterplas—an artificial lake shaped by the modernist ideals of the Tuinstad (garden city).
Through walks, communal events, and participatory games, the project reflects on how these designed landscapes are lived, remembered, and regulated. It invites new ways of sensing and imagining urban water relations beyond human-centered planning.
This project is part of VOICE, a Horizon Europe initiative supporting artist-led interventions (ATSIs) that foster citizen engagement with local and regional environmental challenges. Receiving mentorship from Waag Futurelab.
Collaborating artists:
Rosalie Bak (Guided Walk),
Anastasija Diukova (Community game).
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Through walks, communal events, and participatory games, the project reflects on how these designed landscapes are lived, remembered, and regulated. It invites new ways of sensing and imagining urban water relations beyond human-centered planning.
This project is part of VOICE, a Horizon Europe initiative supporting artist-led interventions (ATSIs) that foster citizen engagement with local and regional environmental challenges. Receiving mentorship from Waag Futurelab.
Collaborating artists:
Rosalie Bak (Guided Walk),
Anastasija Diukova (Community game).
Guilded Walk workshop co-hosted with Rosalie Bak, tracing the eco-social relations of water in Amsterdam Nieuw-West‘s garden city.
We wandered through parks, canals, and rain-slicked paths, ending in a 1950s museum apartment by Van Eesteren Museum.
Photo by ieva maslinskaite.