This lecture curated by Sanneke Huisman is part of the Media Arts Festival Arnhem (MAFA), which will take place from March 22 to 24, 2024. A festival with film programs, lectures, performances, experiments, workshops and conversations with artists in Focus Filmtheater, around the theme ‘LESS’. Part of the festival is a two-week exhibition in Museum Arnhem, also in March 2024.

MAFA is a collaboration between Focus Filmtheater, Museum Arnhem and ArtEZ Academy for Art & Design. 

Curator Sanneke Huisman will introduce the lecture.

Lecture on the principles of the Zoöp

How do we keep the earth livable for plants, animals and people? In a world where the climate is changing rapidly and ecosystems are under pressure, humans are looking for a balanced and sustainable relationship with the living world. The Zoöp is an alternative organisational model that ensures that the interests of other-than-human life are included in organisational decision-making. In this lecture, Klaas Kuitenbrouwer talks about the principles of the Zoöp and how it promotes the interests of human and other-than-human life. Kuitenbrouwer discusses the theoretical framework of the Zoöp and how it is practically applied in various places in the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe. More information on Zoöp

About Klaas Kuitenbrouwer

Klaas Kuitenbrouwer is senior researcher in regenerative practices at Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. He is director of the Zoönomic Institute, that helps organisations to become Zoöps, and teaches at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Since the late 1990s he has made public programs at the crossroads of different knowledge practices. At Nieuwe Instituut, he researched and curated, among other programs, Garden of Machines (2015), Gardening Mars (2017), Bot Club and the Neuhaus Temporary Academy for more-than-human knowledge (2019) which led to the initiation of the Zoöp project, and REBOOT: Pioneering Digital Art (2023). In 2022, Nieuwe Instituut became the first Zoöp in the world. In 2023, Broedplaats De Ceuvel, Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, and Bodemzicht Foundation were also inaugurated as Zoöps.