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17-25 October 2026

The New Intimacy - Bodies, Objects and Spaces

Hosted by ArtEZ University of the Arts

This project is now archived and was part of DDW20

Rethinking Closeness - Eva Visch
Rethinking Closeness - Eva Visch
Eva Visch
The ArtEZ presentation at the Dutch Design Week 2020 shows some results of our education and research programme which are related to the changing intimate relationships between bodies, objects and spaces. Relationships that may make people vulnerable or might empower them.
The COVID-19 pandemic poses the question in what kind of future we want to live together. The most important policy measure taken in this context is a distance rule (varying from 1 to 2 meters in European countries) between people. What does (physical) di

About ArtEZ University of the Arts

ArtEZ aims to train future artists as change makers with societal impact. The focus is on the STEAM touch stones, i.e. changes that relate to Social, Technological, Embodied, Affective and Material aspects in society. ArtEZ tries to shape critical and reflective individuals for a rapidly changing, globalizing world in which they question preferable futures. Arts provides the space for a critical framework that enables sustainable change.

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Project Coordinator Anne Hendriks
Exhibition design Eric de Leeuw