Joost Conijn is an artist.
The motto is: do it. Go for it completely: a plan, a journey, a film. Inspired, deliberately uninhibited. Joost Conijn sets up a gate in the desert that opens automatically. Takes off in a plane that he built himself. Travels through Russia in a wood-powered car made of wood, all the way to the Chernobyl zone. Films the neighbourhood kids for a year, capturing their life on the fringes of society. Improves his plane and then crashes it. Cycles through the Moroccan Rif Mountains with two friends; they use their hands to communicate with one another about what’s going on in the world. He moves through life with an independent attitude and plays the big game of art. With bravura, and yet totally straight.
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For Speculative Peculiars he will elaborate on his ideas around the development and production of a Low Tech House.
Rutger Groot Wassink is historian and politician. He works as a policy advisor specialized in labor market and social security for FNV Vakcentrale (FNV Union). Currently, he is also working as fraction chairman of Groen Links for city council Amsterdam Westerpark. In the council his main area of interest is on social housing and urban development.
As one of the youngest and most of all happiest entrepreneurs in the world, Nalden is regularly sought out for his fresh perspective and obstinate but clever style of consulting on everything from music and gadgets to authenticity and reinventing word-of-mouth. With a background in the music- and advertising industry, his expertise of online-trends and most of all; as powerful blogger with his unique and internationally recognized blog, Nalden.net, he keeps reinventing himself and other businesses.
As a 'social entrepreneur' he's focused on exploring new ways to reach people without interrupting them, in which he already succeeded with his Wallpaper Advertising business model on Nalden.net. With his knowledge about technology and the impact this new media is having on the world he's always working on connecting the dots to make this a better world to live in, by sharing, supporting and investing.
Since 2005 Frederik Molenschot runs his Studio Frederik Molenschot. His work is about designing products, interiors and public spaces. He starts every job with a research into the topic(s) at stake and some of his projects are research based only. In this case the research becomes the product. His focus at Speculative Peculiars will be the growth of cities translated into a fine art piece and materials that are used in the cities.
Patricia de Ruijter is an artist. She is initiator and curator of several international experimental Test-Portal now-Art exhibitions. She presented these events among other places at NDSM Wharf in Amsterdam. Art is for her more than an end product. It is something to be experienced physically en mentally, something that takes a whole life to develop. We are responsible for our own life and therefore it is possible to design a lot ourselves. De Ruijter is interested in the human relation to its environment, mentally, digitally as well as physically and spiritually. Recently, she opened Test-Portal now-Art Gallery at Westerdok 272 in Amsterdam.
