Filip Van Dingenen residency programme
In 2022, Artist Filip Van Dingenen was selected for a residency in the context of STARTS — Repairing The Present, organized by GLUON, Cleantech hub Snowball in Harelbeke, and together with Intermunicipal organisation Leiedal. With "Suskewiet Visions", Filip Van Dingenen aims to create awareness for the act of listening and learning from birds to shift our dominant human voice into a resonance for potential co—creation of a future landscape. Filip aspires to co—create a new shared language in navigation and orientation through the design of several thematic ‘fieldstations’ on various locations in the region of South West Flanders that is increasingly becoming a critical zone. Filip Van Dingenen is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and co—founder of the Ecole Mondiale in Brussels. He was PHD researcher at LUCA School of Arts in Ghent/ Brussels (2014—2019) and affiliated researcher at the Laboratory of Education and Society at KU Leuven. In his process-based art practice he uses a broad range of different methods and outputs merging participatory strategies with a social and ecological relevance, in between leisure, heritage and education. He worked extensively on zoological, botanical, ethnographic issues and observed the phenomena of zoo culture from different angles. At the moment he is developing the Platform for Algae Diplomacy, concerning the legal/animistic perspectives on sea plants.
Represented by Waldburger Wouters