The Critical Inquiry Lab

Delighted that CIL 2025 grad Ze Qui was awarded the Page Not Found outstanding thesis prize for NL wide graduates, encompassing rigourous research and material precision. Coming soon to bookstores.

See https://page-not-found.nl/

As Critical Inquiry Lab 1, we are excited to invite you to "Some Matters Do Not Settle" our group exhibition opening on Friday 6th at
The exhibition will be open every day until the 8th of June.

"Some matters do not settle, some matters strain against their forms, their classifications, their uses. They are not passive backdrops to human activity, but agitated witnesses, instead, they metabolise, corrode, reverberate. Within this frame, the exhibition focuses on the presence of these objects, describing matter not as a passive substrate but as a restless participant in the ongoing composition of the world. Rather than presenting matter as inert, the exhibition traces its continuous metamorphosis, showing how, within every status and violent change, its forms are still deeply connected to one another."

Looking forward to another department lecture today!
We will be hosting (online from Toronto) on 4th floor, feel free to join!
> meeting room 4 ; 18h local time (NL)
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hosted by ma_nolopierson

The second year of the Critical Inquiry Lab warmly invites you to a showcase of initial materializations – the tangible results of a two-day workshop with wonderful , marking the transition from theorising towards experienceability.

Opening: 27.03.2025, 5:50 PM
Where: MM2, second floor in front of the reception DAE

Join us, Critical Inquiry Lab 1, at on Friday 21 March at 17.00 for the launch of our collective publication.
The publication "To hold the world under the tongue" brings together critical texts that examine infrastructures in an expansive way.
We thank theory tutor for capturing our impressions and showing us how to contain ideas of the world and then let them go.

We're delighted to host Lodovica Guarnieri for our Departmental Lecture Series on March 20, 2025. 18:00-19:30 CET!

Title: Material Counter-Poetics
Lodovica will join Online, and we'll gather IRL in Meeting Room 1

Friends from other Departments are welcome!

Moderated by: Bianca Maria Negrini & Sasha Ricci Rovatti

How to turn abstract thoughts into artistic works? How can research be an outcome? Who pays for it or supports it?

Join us on February 28th for a one-day Artistic Research Symposium hosted by the students of the Critical Inquiry Lab and open to all master students. This event explores the possible relations between research and artistic outcomes.

The symposium is a day about process rather than outcome, to inspire and discuss with each other as we advance towards our final thesis projects. We are pleased to welcome three inspiring guests: Kriistina Koskentola, Anastasia Eggers, and Bassem Saad. Our guests will initiate discussions by sharing insights into their research methodologies and experiences, providing an opportunity to reflect on research processes.

We look forward to learning from one another!

Walk-in: 10.00

Times: 10.30 - 17.30. Lunch, coffee, tea and snacks are served

Location: Meeting Room 1, DAE

Applications for Critical Inquiry Lab are now open at ! We're eager to welcome curious practitioners who are looking to pursue a transdisciplinary, praxis-theory MA in research-based design.

See URL below for application details.

https://www.designacademy.nl/page/5690/master-admissions

Another year, another Ego Design Workshop with .gijs

We're exhibiting the outputs at Meeting Room 1, join us at 17:30🍾🥂🧀🍇

Thank you so much to everyone that join us at the opening night of our exhibition “Deep Objects” at !! It was a lot of fun building and creating this exhibition from scratch altogether and we hope you appreciated it as much as we did! Cheers🥂🤍

With the work of :

Anton Kogge ( )





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Manolo Pierson


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🌫️ WE ARE GRATUATING 🌫️

The Critical Inquiry Lab presents Heaviness Within, an exhibition searching for points of access into the layered realities of our contemporary present through various sensorial mediums and offering diverse practices to resist falling into apathy. Presenting narratives that are personally/universally felt, and gathering themes of fluidity, interrelatedness and existential questioning, the project invites visitors into the labyrinthic spaces of minds, hoping to find themselves in these numb times.

Come to Microlab on Thursday to celebrate ✨🚨🎀