MERIAN Skills Lab is an innovative learning space, where students and staff of UM, Zuyd and Jan van Eyck Academy collaborate in artistic research projects around societal issues that scream for crossing borders –academically, artistically and institutionally. With the launch of the MERIAN Skills Lab, MERIAN aims to broaden its artistic research program to bachelor and master students. MERIAN Skills Lab consists of a series of workshops and lectures throughout 2025-2026.
The kick-off is open to all visitors of Dutch Design Week, and takes place at the Open Research Space of iArts (Arts Academy Maastricht), at Sectie C.
Program Tuesday October 21
11.00h – 12.00h – Lecture: ‘When is Artistic Research’, by Ties van de Werff
12.30h – 13.00h – Official launch MERIAN Skills Lab, by Christian Ernsten & Ties van de Werff
13.00h – 15.00h – Workshop ‘The Leaky Bodies Archives’, by Ulrike Scholtes
About MERIAN
MERIAN is the Maastricht Experimental Research In and through the Arts Network. It is a space for collaborative research in between making and thinking. This collaboration between the Jan van Eyck Academie, Zuyd University of Applied Sciences (specifically the research center What Art Knows) and Maastricht University (specifically the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and University College Maastricht at the Faculty of Science and Engineering), builds on existing expertise from the research, arts and higher education networks in Maastricht. Artistic research of MERIAN aims to be interdisciplinary, problem-based, and engaged.
MERIAN Skills Lab is made possible by a UM and Zuyd collaboration grant.
