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BAD WINNER 2022
Hacking Heuristics
A project in collaboration with Marcel de Jeu & Jos van der Geest (Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC)
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)
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)
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: Gender fluidity in the modern age
A project in collaboration with VU University Amsterdam, department of Animal ecology
Fungkee | Fungal Supercoatings
A project in collaboration with the Center of Expertise in Mycology, Radboudumc/Canisius Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis Nijmegen
CMD: Experiments in Bio-Algorithmic-Politics
A project in collaboration with the Hybrid Forms ArtScience media lab of VU University Amsterdam
BAD WINNER 2018
Horizontal Living
A project in collaboration with Diabetes and Metabolism Research Group - NUTRIM school for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University
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
BAD WINNER 2017
Mother’s Hand Taste (Son-mat)
A project in collaboration with Institute of Environmental Biology, Microbiology group, Utrecht University
A Felicitous Neo-Past
A project in collaboration with Dept. of Environment and Health, VU, Amsterdam
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
The Art of Deception
A project in collaboration with Department of Ecological Science (DES) at VU University Amsterdam
MSA: Microbiome Security Agency
A project in collaboration with Microbiology & Systems Biology Group at TNO
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
Living Mirror
A project in collaboration with FOM-Institute AMOLF
Ergo Sum
A project in collaboration with Netherlands Proteomics Centre
Fish Bone Chapel
A project in collaboration with Netherlands Toxigenomics Centre
BAD WINNER 2011
Concrete Lichen
A project in collaboration with Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation
Aqua Vita
A project in collaboration with Netherlands Metabolomics Centre
Eat Less, Live More – and Pray for Beans
A project in collaboration with Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Ageing
In Vena Verbum
A project in collaboration with Center for BioSystem Genomics
BAD WINNER 2010
Microscopic Opera
A project in collaboration with The Netherlands Consortium for Systems Biology
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
