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BAD WINNER 2024
Microbial Prophetesses
A project in collaboration with Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ)
Ecotonal Beings
A project in collaboration with Meertens Institute, Victor Evink & Sophie Mars
BAD WINNER 2023
Close Encounters with Inner Aliens
A project in collaboration with Floris de Lange, Floortje Bouwkamp & Matthias Ekman (RU/Donders Instituut)
ExoGarden 3D-Printed Modular Eco-Habitats for Earth and Space
A project in collaboration with Wieger Wamelink (WUR)
re-c(O)unting: bodies, stories, laboratories
A project in collaboration with Joris Koene (VU/Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment)
BAD WINNER 2022
Hacking Heuristics
A project in collaboration with Marcel de Jeu & Jos van der Geest (Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC)
Mud & Flood: The Return of Nehalennia
A project in collaboration with Marte Stoorvogel (Department of Estuarine & Delta Systems, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, NIOZ)
Filthy Anatomy
A project in collaboration with Henry de Vries (Department of Infectious Diseases, and Department of Dermatology Public Health Service, GGD Amsterdam, and Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam UMC)
BAD WINNER 2020
The Orders of the Undead
A project in collaboration with Henry de Vries (Department of Infectious Diseases, Public Health Service (GGD), Amsterdam, and Department of Dermatology, Amsterdam University Medical Centres (AUMC))
Fur_tilize
A project in collaboration with Han Wösten (Microbiology Research Group, UU Utrecht)
Becoming a Sentinel Species
A project in collaboration with Heather Leslie (Department of Environment and Health, VU Amsterdam) and Juan Garcia Vallejo (Department Molecular Cell Biology & Immunology, Amsterdam UMC - location VUmc)
BAD WINNER 2019
Sex Shells
A project in collaboration with VU University Amsterdam
CMD: Experiments in Bio-Algorithmic-Politics
Fungkee | Fungal Supercoatings
A project in collaboration with Radboudumc & CWZ-Canisius-Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis Nijmegen
BAD WINNER 2018
No regrets for what you haven't been, Be the ghost you want to see in the machine
A project in collaboration with Musculoskeletal Imaging and Top sport, Academical Medical Centre Amsterdam
Microbiocene: Ancient ooze to future myths
A project in collaboration with Department of Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel
Horizontal Living
A project in collaboration with Diabetes and Metabolism Research Group - NUTRIM school for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University
BAD WINNER 2017
A Felicitous Neo-Past
A project in collaboration with Dept. of Environment and Health, VU, Amsterdam
Mother’s Hand Taste (Son-mat)
A project in collaboration with Institute of Environmental Biology, Microbiology group, Utrecht University
Seasynthesis
A project in collaboration with Marine Research Institute Wageningen University
BAD WINNER 2016
Dynamorphosis, the beauty of inner mechanisms
A project in collaboration with Swammerdam Institue for Life Sciences of the University of Amsterdam
Tame is to Tame
A project in collaboration with Viroscience lab, Erasmus University Medical Center (EMC)
Haem
A project in collaboration with The Netherlands Cancer Insitute / Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital.
BAD WINNER 2015
MSA: Microbiome Security Agency
A project in collaboration with Microbiology & Systems Biology Group at TNO
The Art of Deception
A project in collaboration with Department of Ecological Science (DES) at VU University Amsterdam
Drones with Desires
A project in collaboration with Department of Neuroscience - Erasmus MC
BAD WINNER 2014
Fungi Mutarium (Growing Food From Toxic Waste)
A project in collaboration with Utrecht University, Department of Microbiology
The Economics of Evolution: The Perfect Pigeon
A project in collaboration with University of Groningen, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies
Naval Gazing
A project in collaboration with Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
BAD WINNER 2012
Ergo Sum
A project in collaboration with Netherlands Proteomics Centre
Fish Bone Chapel
A project in collaboration with Netherlands Toxigenomics Centre
Living Mirror
A project in collaboration with FOM-Institute AMOLF
BAD WINNER 2011
In Vena Verbum
A project in collaboration with Center for BioSystem Genomics
Eat Less, Live More – and Pray for Beans
A project in collaboration with Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Ageing
Concrete Lichen
A project in collaboration with Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation
Aqua Vita
A project in collaboration with Netherlands Metabolomics Centre
BAD WINNER 2010
Bulletproof Skin: 2.6g 329m/s
A project in collaboration with Forensic Genomics Consortium Netherlands
System Synthetics
A project in collaboration with Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial
Microscopic Opera
A project in collaboration with The Netherlands Consortium for Systems Biology
