"Storytelling for Earthly Survival" was an elective MA class held at the Royal Academy of Arts in Antwerp, Belgium, in February 2023, and at the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam, Netherlands, in June 2023.
With an imminent “apocalypse” coming and survival tactics and lifestyles permeating our cultural and political scenarios, thinking about the end has become, as Mark Bould argues, the central subject of our collective unconscious. From the end of a stable climatic condition, and massive extinctions to the downfall of global capitalist economies, the end of life as we know it is deemed terrifying. Still, this way of conceiving our relationship with the end serves to think critically about the underlying power structures that hold together problematic practices today.
Storytelling for earthly survival was structured as a workshop to critically explore ideas of survival, climate catastrophe and anthropocentrism. In the course, participants explored speculative writing and feminist methodologies as worldbuilding practices to produce a series of texts that delve into ecological violence, non-linear narratives and the urgencies of the climate emergency.
Throughout the course, students delved into fictional storytelling across both sound and written mediums. These narratives were presented in intimate settings, encouraging discussions and explorations of publishing as a collective practice. Through their imaginative storytelling, participants illuminated the complexities of our current environmental challenges and offered glimpses of alternative futures rooted in resilience and adaptation.
Workshop, Water Zines and Liquid Protocols, 2024
"Water Zines and Liquid Protocols" was an elective MA class offered at the Royal Academy of Arts in Antwerp, Belgium, in February 2024, and at the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam, Netherlands, in April 2024.
Structured as a collaborative workshop, this short course aimed to develop students' zine-making and publishing skills while focusing on watery entanglements, rising sea tides, survivalism and post-human theories. Throughout the course, students followed a series of liquid publishing protocols, enabling them to cultivate a critical voice and explore how water, as a storytelling device, prompts us to reconsider our relationship with the world around us.
Workshop, The End of Things, 2025
“The End of Things” was an elective MA class offered at the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam in January 2025.
Structured as a 5-day workshop, the course explored the notion of endings through the lenses of decay, obsolescence, and waste. Participants worked with an object, space, or project to reflect on its lifecycle and imagine its afterlife. Themes included programmed obsolescence, ruinification, extinction, and discard studies.
Through writing exercises, screenings, group discussions, and theoretical readings, students developed a text-based work that investigated how endings can also mark sites of transformation. The course introduced the concept of “compost publishing”—a method of layering, breaking down, and regenerating ideas in response to ecological crisis.
The workshop drew on Fix-Up #1: Endings and engaged with posthuman and feminist ecological thought. Final works were presented in a collective archive of endings, offering diverse perspectives on environmental collapse, storytelling, and worldmaking.
Workshop, Desire Paths, 2026
"Desire Paths" was a five-day elective workshop with MA-students from the University of Antwerp and the Royal Academy of Arts, held in Antwerp February 2026.
Structured around walking, writing, listening, and recording as investigative tools, the workshop engaged with the overlooked and in-between spaces of the city — tunnels, construction sites, riverbanks, vacant lots, parking edges, abandoned shopping malls, and backstreets.
Participants explored the politics and poetics of urban margins: the interruptions, gaps, and empty spaces that fall outside dominant narratives of the city. Central to the workshop was the experience of being lost as a methodological and perceptual practice — a way of attuning to what is ordinarily passed over or unheard.
Through collective fieldwork and editorial process, students developed a series of sound maps and audiowalks that document and reimagine these marginal geographies. The final works were gathered into a shared listening archive, offering multiple sonic perspectives on urban in-between-ness, spatial neglect, and the textures of unplanned life.
The resulting audiowalks can be listened to here: https://on.soundcloud.com