09.05.2019——10.05.2019
Making Matters Symposium 2019
- West Den Haag
- w/ Dyne.org, Shailoh Phillips, Ramon Amaro, Anja Groten, Hackers & Designers, Dianaband, Constant (Femke Snelting), Ginger coons, Florian Cramer, Thalia Hoffman, Frans-Willem Korsten, Pia Louwerens, Dani Ploeger, Janneke Wesseling
Bridging Art, Design and Technology through Critical Making
The partners and researchers of the Critical Making consortium are excited to announce the two-day symposium Making Matters. The symposium takes place from 9-10th of May at West Den Haag, Lange Voorhout 102 in The Hague.
Making Matters invites makers, artists, students, activists, theorists, designers, humans and non-humans to think about making practices and their critical potential. By offering opportunity for exchange across disciplines, the symposium attempts to shift the discourse of making from maker culture to a wider set of creative practices, thereby proposing alternatives to the solutionism of contemporary techno-creative industries.
The project ‘Bridging Art, Design and Technology through Critical Making’ investigates how Critical Making — a notion originally developed in the context of social research, design and technology — can be adopted and developed in relation to artistic research and (post)critical theory.

Program
Thursday 9 May 2019
- 9.30 Welcome (coffee & tea)
- 10.00 Introduction Critical Making Consortium: Klaas Kuitenbrouwer (Het Nieuwe Instituut), Janneke Wesseling, Lucas Evers (Waag)
- 10.30 Presentation: Florian Cramer
- 11.15 Coffee break
- 11.30 Presentations: Dyne.org, Constant (Femke Snelting) followed by a discussion
- 12.45 Lunch break
- 13.45 Presentations: Shailoh Phillips, Pia Louwerens
- 14.45 Presentation: Dani Ploeger
- 15.45 Coffee break
- 16.00 Public discussion: ‘Challenges and Consequences of Critical Making Now’
- 17.00 Drinks
Friday 10 May 2019
- 9.30 Welcome (coffee & tea)
- 10.00 Introduction on Critical Making: Lucas Evers (Waag), Klaas Kuitenbrouwer (Het Nieuwe Instituut), Marie-José Sondeijker (West)
- 10.30 Presentations: Frans-Willem Korsten & ginger coons
- 11.30 Coffee break
- 11.45 Presentation: Ramon Amaro
- 12.15 Presentation: Anja Groten
- 12.45 Lunch break
- 13.45 Book presentation: Letizia Chiappini, Loes Bogers: The Critical Making Reader
- 14.00 Workshops:
Hackers & Designers with dianaband Ramon Amaro Thalia Hoffman Pia Louwerens
- 16.00 Public discussion & wrap up
- 17.00 Drinks
speakers include
Ramon Amaro, Constant (Femke Snelting), ginger coons, Florian Cramer, Dyne.org, Anja Groten, Thalia Hoffman, Frans-Willem Korsten, Pia Louwerens, Shailoh Phillips, Dani Ploeger, Janneke Wesseling
Partners
PhDArts / ACPA Willem de Kooning Academy Waag West Het Nieuwe Instituut