BioArt Laboratories welcomes people from diverse backgrounds to visit our facility and explore our projects and talents annually. Our visitors include young children from Columbus Childcare, Fontys, Yuverta, and Oxytoc students, as well as artists and individuals from organizations such as Greenpeace and the government. We take great pleasure in hosting these visitors and providing them with an enriching tour of our facility. Here are some of their stories.

Guided Tour – Future Cities

A group of enthusiastic Yuverta students, led by former intern Floris, visited BioArt Laboratories on the 15th of March for inspiration in designing the city of the future. During the tour, the foundation and its talented members introduced them to various artworks and projects, with nature as a connecting element. Examples such as the Tree Antenna project, the Azolla project, and the Geodesic Dome illustrated how designing from a non-human perspective offers alternative approaches to complex issues. After this educational tour, the students are now ready to develop their vision of the city of the future.

Guided Tour – S.V. Oxytoc

At the student association Oxytoc, excursion days are an annual event, and enthusiastic BML and Chemistry students travel to a major city in the Netherlands to gain insight into professional life through field visits. BioArt Laboratories is delighted to have hosted these young talents for an inspiring tour. Several experimental projects, such as plant adaptation with salt water and the interaction between cyanobacteria and Azolla for wet agriculture, exemplify how society can approach solutions through multidisciplinary collaboration between different fields such as design, art, and science. The Symbiocene perspective presents each project with non-human viewpoints to tackle today’s complex problems. Shaakira Jassat’s Aquatecture demonstrates how interdisciplinary approaches can address human-made challenges.

Guided Tour – Energy Minor

But what of the now? While in a housing shortage crisis, giving old, cultural-historical buildings and monuments a new sustainable meaning often remains challenging. In the guided tour with Fontys – Minor Energy students, they experienced new insights into how cultural heritage can function in an off-grid situation. The massive old brick walls in the former kitchen of the main building serve as a reminder to adapt to circumstances by using its inherent temperature-controlling capacity for a laboratory. By exploring new possibilities with energy storage, wind energy, and the unique properties of monumental buildings, we reveal new and alternative purposes for them.