PLATFORM FOR ARTS X SCIENCE (ARIAS)
HINTERLANDS
My Job: Editor, producer, and contributing writer.
Designer: Jeanine van Berkel
Publisher: ARIAS
I had the pleasure of being both the editor and a contributing writer for a book published by ARIAS (Platform for Research through the Arts and Sciences). It was one of those rare projects that felt like a true alignment of curiosity, creativity, and community.
The best part? Without a doubt, it was the people. As editor, I had the privilege of interviewing artists, researchers, and thinkers whose practices orbit the edges of disciplines – people who blur boundaries and open up new ways of seeing. Getting to decide who would be part of the book felt like curating: who could speak to the themes in ways that were unexpected, vital, and deeply human?
Each conversation sparked new thoughts and rewired old ones. I found myself writing from a place of genuine joy, knowing the voices in the book weren’t just interesting – they were necessary. This wasn’t just about editing a publication; it was about gathering perspectives that show what becomes possible when art and science meet in the messy, generative space of research.
Being part of this project reminded me why I write, and why I listen.
The book contains contributions that address a multitude of dynamics within transdisciplinary work in relation to (including though not limited to): language, listening, risk, pedagogy, world building, expectation, care, transmedia, curation, writing, intersectionality and practicing medicine. These contents come in different forms; both reflective and/or poetic in style, narrated by single and multiple author(s), written out conversations, interviews and a graphic story.
Hinterlands, as the title of the first ARIAS book publication, grounds time and geography for tuning into the invisible in-between knowledge that emerges from hybrid collaborative research practices; practices which in other words are transdisciplinary. As a very real imaginary that playfully points to the outskirts of dominant research parameters; Hinterlands is a space to experiment and move slower.