Algae Printing Lab with Morgan Rae from L’eautelier
An intimate, hands-on workshop exploring algae-based screen printing as a new language for textiles. Participants will learn the fundamentals of working with algae inks—mixing, handling, and printing—while customizing their own textile pieces. Wherever possible, we will print on seaweed-based textiles, offering a rare opportunity to experience a fully marine-derived material system in action. The session invites experimentation, tactility, and conversation around how ocean materials can redefine how we decorate, personalize, and value the surfaces we live with.
Find out more about Morgan under Program ->“Seaweed SuiteTM”
Storytelling Workshop
In 2015 Emma Holmes took to the stage for the first time and the rest, as they say, is history. She has spent the last decade of her life sharing her love of the performing arts as a Master of Ceremonies, event organiser, and entertainer.
She has organised over 500 shows in the world of improv, stand-up and storytelling, and hosted and performed at many more on top of that. She works throughout the country as a trainer, at distinguished improv schools such as Improv Utrecht and easylaughs Amsterdam, and as an entertainer, primarily as an MC and storyteller.
Find out more about Emma Holmes
Poorva Shrivastava (SeaSpark)
Poorva is a biotechnologist with a double Master in bioprocess engineering and biorefineries with an instinctive, creative streak. She likes to dig her teeth into innovative biorefinery approaches for a changing world. She has a soft spot for fermenting materials from microbes and finding value in "waste".
Her projects include:
- 3D printed bioluminescent marine dinoflagellates to create mechano-responsive, living shapes which emit light when touched
- Building a 3D bioprinter at home to grow a customized, orthotic footsole from mycelium composite
- Ferment and present home-grown bacterial cellulose textiles at Dutch Design Week '23
- Start the futurist biotech collective MycoPunk
- Provide consultancy to a Dutch mushroom producer to circularize their production of gourmet mushrooms by growing them on local biowaste like coffee grounds
- Found a circular startup in India, where their pilot plant filtered pesticides from drinking water using biochar made from agricultural and temple waste in a village (www.charkoyla.com)
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