{"id":27686,"date":"2025-04-25T13:38:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T11:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcadia.frl\/projecten\/veenweideatelier\/henriette-waal\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T16:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T14:11:07","slug":"henriette-waal","status":"publish","type":"program","link":"https:\/\/arcadia.frl\/en\/projecten\/veenweideatelier\/henriette-waal\/","title":{"rendered":"Henri\u00ebtte Waal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"block__introduction\">\n\t\n\n<p>Henri\u00ebtte Waal is a designer, researcher, and Artistic Research Director at Atelier Luma in Arles. Working from a systems perspective and grounded in material practice, she addresses urgent social and ecological challenges through design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She designs new relationships between people and landscapes and explores themes such as water, food, ecology, animal life, bio-based construction, and material development.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>As an eco-social designer and artist, Waal moves between the Netherlands and France. In Arles, southern France, she has led the artistic research at Atelier Luma for several years\u2014an experimental design lab of the Luma Foundation. There, designers and artists work with local, renewable materials to develop creative solutions to regional issues. For example, materials used in the construction of the new art centre in Arles include crystallized salt from nearby salt flats, pigments extracted from invasive plants, and waste from sunflower agriculture\u2014all developed through Atelier Luma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her work hasn\u2019t gone unnoticed beyond Arles. On the eve of the Atelier Luma building&#8217;s grand opening, now fully renovated with bio-based materials, she was visited by two guests from Friesland: Arcadia\u2019s Artistic Director Sjoerd Bootsma and Head of Development Dorine Schreurs. Their question: Would Henri\u00ebtte be willing to initiate a similar experimental lab in Frysl\u00e2n, where designers and locals explore the landscape challenges of the future?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe fact that they came all the way to southern France to meet me and see the lab with their own eyes showed me how aligned our ambitions are,\u201d Waal recalls. \u201cWhen you work closely with a landscape, you need to feel it\u2014see the materials, walk the soil. Sjoerd and Dorine understood that. They didn\u2019t just want to talk; they wanted to experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">designing the future of the peatlands<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Henri\u00ebtte has now been working in Frysl\u00e2n for over a year, leading the <em>Veenweide Atelier<\/em> (Peat Meadow Atelier). \u201cIt\u2019s always a bit vulnerable to go public with new ideas,\u201d she says. \u201cThey need space and time to take root. Long-term cooperation with the people in the region is crucial. Otherwise, it just snaps back into old systems. We\u2019re trying to find new ways forward\u2014and that requires room to grow, also politically.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Frisian peatlands represent one of the greatest landscape challenges in the region. This low-lying area is iconic to the Frisian identity and home to many people. But decades of drainage have caused the land to sink, disrupted the water balance, and led to high carbon emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past year, the Veenweide Atelier has launched four eco-social design trajectories in collaboration with local farmers, ecologists, policy makers, and soil scientists. At the heart of this work is collectivity: designing in connection with people, place, and nature. When disciplines cross paths, and outside perspectives are welcomed in, fresh and holistic ideas begin to emerge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">nine tasks for transformation<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Every design project in the Atelier must address at least some of the region\u2019s major transition challenges. These have been summarised into a \u201chomework list\u201d of nine urgent themes: peat, water, pollution, biodiversity, energy transition, new economies, heritage, housing, and foundations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe peat meadow is a region in crisis,\u201d says Henri\u00ebtte. \u201cBut that\u2019s also where the potential lies. If everything still works perfectly, there\u2019s little need for change. Crisis areas are the best places for innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">imagining new futures<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The hope is that the Veenweide Atelier will grow into a permanent design lab\u2014a place of research and imagination. A space where designers use their ability to navigate uncertainty, imagine alternatives, and make with purpose. And where collaboration across residents, governments, researchers, farmers, entrepreneurs, and artists leads to entirely new relationships with the land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine, for instance, a farmer inspired to grow plants that not only absorb CO\u2082 but can also be used for climate-friendly construction. Or seeing, firsthand, that using bacteria grown on waste streams to dye textiles really does work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Henri\u00ebtte: \u201cWhen you can experience something on a small scale, it becomes easier to imagine it on a large one. 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