TEAM
This growing interdisciplinary team of fantastic people unlock new chapters on Future Based. They zoom in on the complicated, and make the common extraordinary through podcasts, meetups, reading groups and exhibitions.
Sabine Winters
Sabine is the founder of Future Based and facilitator of the platform. As a freelance philosopher, Sabine has worked on many interdisciplinary projects. In her research on Scientific Imagination, she is focused on the function of imagination in the Natural Sciences. She is an intrinsically motivated enthusiastic explorer, always open to new ideas and perspectives because she firmly believes in lifelong learning.
Read more about the ‘how and why’ here. Get in touch with Sabine at: sabine@futurebased.org . Or visit her LinkedIn page.
Abdo Hassan
Abdelrahman lives on the intersection between software, critical theory, data, and poetry. His interests include memetics, internet geographies, technical utopias/dystopias and depictions of e-governance. His overarching goal is to bridge critical theory with digital practice and to limit accessibility gaps and hurdles to open access to knowledge.
Abdo is initiator and curator of the Future Based reading group: On Algorithmic (In)Equality.
Call, inquiry, query, request? Get in touch at: abdelrahman@futurebased.org
Dana Dijkgraaf
Dana Dijkgraaf is a Graphic Designer and Art Director, based in Arnhem (NL). With her love for form, colours and well-thought-of-concepts, she comes up with design that sparkles and visualizes the story well.
She started in 2014 with her own studio DDD in Arnhem, and never stopped enjoying her work. She works for different industries: fashion, art, non-profit, art education, nature and corporate organizations.
Dana is responsible for the Future Based logos, banners and logo photography and therefore is considered as our very own, in-house graphic designer.
Kees Müller
Language magician, philosopher and the kindest criticaster we know. We trust him with our life when it comes to checking, modifying and editing texts.
Call, inquiry, query, request? Get in touch at: kees@futurebased.org
Michela D’Acquisto
Michela is an independent art curator and writer currently based in Milan, Italy.
A graduate of Brera Academy of Fine Arts, also holding a background in design, she has many years of experience curating international exhibitions, both in private and public spaces. Her main curatorial interests include anthropology, human relationship with nature, and the connection between female bodies’ and society’s expectations.
Michela is also the co-founder of the applied arts project dueostudio, through which she produces objects designed by artists and presents a program of events at the intersection between art, design, and sustainability.
Floris Schleicher
Floris Schleicher is a Dutch philosopher, writer and teacher. He is specialized in the thought of Slavoj Zizek, Byung-Chul Han and the Frankfurt School. His main interests are marxism and sustainability. Starting from August, Floris hosts a new podcast series on Future Based: Future Based Politics.
This Future Based-podcast brings you conversations about our political institutions with leading thinkers from the Netherlands. Topics discussed include: How are our political institutions designed? To what extent can they cope with 21st century problems like climate change, inequality, polarization and migration? What do the possible alternatives to our current political institutions look like? And what might be their advantages and drawbacks? Big and interesting questions. If you want to know more about politics, justice and the future this is the right podcast for you.
Call, inquiry, query, request? Get in touch at: floris@futurebased.org
Annika van den Born
Annika is a master student in Philosophy of Behavioural Sciences at Radboud University. During her bachelor in Cultural Anthropology and Development studies she dove into the world of anti-anthropocentric anthropology. Asking questions of being, turning ontological world views and opening up possibilities for an ongoing future through creative co-operation and multispecies symbioses is what deeply drives her.
Annika is the second host of our podcast series ‘Beyond Human Relations’, she will build on what her teacher and thesis counselor Michelle Gerearts and founder Sabine beautifully initiated.
Call, inquiry, query, request? Get in touch at: annika@futurebased.org
Michelle Geraerts
Michelle Geraerts is a PhD student at University of Amsterdam’s department of Anthropology, with a specialization on natural resources. She is the co-host of the new podcast series: ‘Beyond Human Relations’, about existing as well as constructed relationships of humans with nonhumans.
Cindy Moorman
The work of visual artist Cindy Moorman is characterized as an ongoing research into human relationships. How do I relate to the Other(s)? What does it take to ‘belong’? These are questions that play a role in her work. Moorman is best known for her carefully staged performances that she has performed by various groups; from acrobats to dancers to choirs. The concept and plans behind this are translated in intriguing scenarios; drawings, paintings, photographs and clothing. Moorman studied at the School of the Arts in Arnhem (1999-2003) and the Master’s program of the Sint Joost in Breda (2003-2005).
Her work has been exhibited in renown places as Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar, the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Museum of Modern Art in Arnhem and the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam. And is included in various private and museum collections, including the collection of the Van Abbeuseum in Eindhoven.
In 2018, Moorman’s oeuvre was rewarded with the Stipend Established Artists. She is currently working on a new work for an exhibition in Kunstverein Ahlen (DE) and an artist’s book about her work.
Cindy is the initiator and curator of the Future Based reading sessions: Formations Rather than Forms: Exploring the choreographies of the human position.
General call, inquiry, query, request? Get in touch at: goodnews@futurebased.org