The Technical ArtLab is dedicated to experimentation with historical materials and practices used for the creation of art/material culture/heritage.

Material engagement

The Technical ArtLab is a space for experimental research with materials and their making to new light on historical as well as contemporary heritage discourses and practices. “Traditional” materials, practices, and expertise are also increasingly important in establishing new ways of dealing with our current planetary crisis. Through material engagement workshops and cross-disciplinary collaboration, the Technical ArtLab explores how heritage materials, practices, and expertise can be (re)activated for climate mitigation.

Hands-on Learning / Learning by Doing

Hands-on experience and performative methods are at the heart of the teaching activities in the Technical ArtLab; from students grinding pigments to make paint and developing their own photos, to students following a sixteenth-century recipe to make ink. Learning by doing reaches beyond disciplines, and the ArtLab is therefore the perfect space for setting up cross-disciplinary educational projects.