Processes, Practices, and Production: Infrastructures for Collective Work

The workshop-filled day shows how the Doe-Het-Zelf Werkplaats collectively designed and built a party office for the PPP by making armor to protect yourself, floating ink printing, book-binding, and writing mythical stories.

Our impulse in taking on this project was to develop collective structures and working methods: How do we co-create a design? Allocate hours and responsibilities? Make decisions? We embraced infrastructures that let us improvise, hold complexity, and share a foundation (and Excel sheets), aiming to make this knowledge portable. Now that we’ve finished our build-up, we want to reflect as a collective on how our intentions arrived in practice. The office is also a working site: for growing potatoes, making ink, posters, publications, and potato paper—alongside items from the PPP fabriek, in the rear of W139.

Doe-Het-Zelf Werkplaats is a free-to-use, collectively-run (squatted) workshop space and community garden in Rotterdam operated by volunteers. Visitors come to fix their bikes with tools and spare parts that have been donated while neighbors can freely harvest herbs from the garden. Centered around learning together, reciprocal generosity, and anti-judgement, the space creates a welcoming environment where folks can safely relate to each other on the border of what they know and what they are trying to figure out. DHZ consists of Deniz Gülyurt, M.B. McGregor, Christian Lesmes, Florian Henschel, Sapozhnikov Mikhail, Linda Zeb Hang, Tomi Hilsee and Saina Salarian.

Programme

DHZ Introduction
12:00 – 13:00

Rhythmic Publications: Floating Ink Printing And Binding
Linda Zeb Hang
13:00 – 15:00

Learn the flow of Suminagashi, or the art of Japanese water marbling, which in this workshop is a large-scale collaborative printmaking process. Participants will be guided through the steps of using natural brushes to create floating ink designs on water with accordion wind fans to manipulate the surface. They will then transfer the design onto paper by hand pulling each unique print. Participants will be using 6 colors of inks to create the designs in a water vat installed at W139, and make up to 4 small and 4 medium sized prints. Prints will be bound into a booklet during the following workshop, folded into signatures and bound by hand using needle and thread.

Linda Zeb Hang is a queer Hmong-American, Rotterdam-based artist best known for their conceptual artist’s books, hypnagogic book design, sculptural installations, fine art printmaking and experimental video art. Their content of scanning voices cross-sections the invisible density, flavor profiles, and omniscient presence of the woven, yet frayed environment. They consider innovative organizing to be objective oxygen, interacting with media to animate the duality and ‘non-duality’ of space. They shape sound and material cultures through technical experimentation, working spontaneously, collecting and generating information to arrive at a knotty mixed-media synthesis. Flexibility, instinct and intuition are their chosen guides. Their tools are digital, machine age and ‘primitive.’ 

Mythical Storytelling: Potato Power Parables
Deni
14:00 – 16:00

This month, we dug beneath the surface —literally and metaphorically— with the potato as our guide. Often used to spin colonial myths, the potato reveals the tangled truths of global history: how the resources of the Global South have long fed the North, even as modern narratives claim the opposite. In this workshop, we’ll explore how dominant stories —crafted by colonial and capitalist powers— have shaped our understanding of history, identity, and belonging. We’ll ask: Whose stories get told, and whose are silenced? Together, we’ll read a short excerpt to break the spell of so-called “realistic” capitalist storytelling, then turn to the empowering art of mythical storytelling. Through writing laments, prayers, dreams, and wishes, we’ll reclaim our voices and imagine new worlds. Whether you want to mourn what’s lost, dream of what could be, or simply tell the world as you see it, this is a space to write the stories only you can tell. Come ready to question, imagine, and write your own myths—rooted in truth, resistance, and possibility.

Deni is a Rotterdam-based collective member who is interested in topics of individuality, nature of experience and perception, and creating multi-sensory media for self-expression. She is studying neuroscience and working in a wet lab everyday, where she gets to test and explore her own perceptual space and relatedness to the living organisms she is “manipulating.” She brings together her different selves to explore the boundaries of her material existence and expresses these ideas mostly through music, collages, and drawings. 

Press Play and Protect: Making Wearable Resistance (Armor) & A Sonic Ceremony of Collective Resilience
MB McGregor and Saina (DHZ)
15:00 – 18:00

This workshop brings together making and listening as ways to think about protection—both personal and collective. We’ll start with a hands-on session where you can create wearable pieces using discarded bike parts, soft fabrics, and found objects. Think of it as DIY armor: something that holds strength, softness, protest, or play. Materials like inner tubes, chains, grommets, and fabric will be provided, with space to experiment and shape things in your own way. You can follow examples, ask for support, or just dive in freely. 

MB (MaryBrown) McGregor is a Rotterdam-based, California born landscape architect, DJ and queer interdisciplinary artist whose practices live at the intersection of spatial design, social intervention, and collective resistance. They work to challenge status quos — whether through public space design, interactive installations, or nightlife politics. 

Saina is a Netherlands-based Iranian researcher and organizer. Their work floats somewhere between music and politics. Centering radical care and joyful activism in their work, Saina’s interests range from sound to solidarity; they aim to weave a sound tapestry dedicated to the interconnected struggles for liberation.

Sonic Ceremony
18:00 – 20:00

Later, we’ll shift into a shared listening session—a kind of sonic ceremony—featuring a mix of sounds and songs of resistance from different parts of the world. This will be an intentional space to sit or move with grief, rage, and uncertainty—transforming these emotions through sound and shared presence. In a world where relentless atrocities stream constantly into our hands, this gathering offers a moment to pause, listen deeply, and process together. Through movement, sound, or writing, we channel stagnant political rage into imagination, action, solace, and resistance. No experience is needed—just openness.

Come to build, to listen, to be with others in a space where making becomes a form of resistance, and sound becomes a way of holding space. Whether you’re crafting armor or simply showing up, this workshop is about presence, protection, and protest in many forms.

Frites de Passage: PPP Farewell Event

On the 27th of July, the PPP will leave the spaces of W139. After two months and more then 20 workshops, this day will be turned into a small harvest festival. You are very welcome to join! Together with all the participants and contributors, we will celebrate everything that has been sprouting, growing and surfacing during the last months.

This celebration of the PPP’s multivocality takes shape in the Potato Parliament, a workshop by Jody Aikman, where we practise political potato-representation. 

Together we will close off the PPP’s passage at W139 with potatoes, music and drinks.

Jody Aikman is a poet and performer exploring the intersection where artist, audience and message meet. She researches the silences in language by questing meaning, ambiguity, and implication through her writing. Her performances are created to blur the line between audience and artist, investigating the relationship between herself, the other and the world. 

Potato Harvesting Workshop

In this workshop series we will collectively learn about polyculture and the life cycle of plants—from seed to sowing, to growth, and harvest. In May, we collectively planted a variety of PPPotato-species during a Potato Growing Workshop. On the 25th of July, from 16.00 onwards, we will see what happened below the surface and harvest the grown potatoes. 

Polyculture, in opposition to monoculture, is a system of growing plants that are beneficial to each other and create a regenerative effect on the soil. We think of polyculture as a symbol of political practices of living together in community. In order to facilitate this thought process on the lifecycle of plants we will engage in an embodied personification exercise with all the elements that contribute to the life of our small garden.

The workshop will be outdoors, so please wear closed shoes and bring a bottle of water. No experience with farming or performance is needed.

Location: 4Siblings veld: President Allendelaan 1, Amsterdam (Google Maps pin)

4Siblings is an artist collective and a community garden focusing on creating ecofeminist and queer connections to food and land. They focus on land-based art and research, collectively creating gardens as artistic platforms. These outdoor spaces allow artists and makers to develop their practice from the perspective of community and ecology. 

Workshop on Feminist Printing and Poetry

In this workshop, we will dive into the history of feminist printing and protest poster-making. Participants will have the opportunity to create their own poster for change. Together, we will explore examples of feminist protest print and posters, read excerpts, and reflect on what’s happening in the world, and in political speech in the media. Through poetic alterations and letter-writing exercises, we will engage with how language and imagery can influence activism.

Periphery Center is a queer BIPOC collective of writers, curators and graphic designers based in Rotterdam and consisting of Leana Boven, Pelumi Adejumo, Yusser Al Obaidi, Jeanine van Berkel and Yessica Deira.

Reserve your spot on the Eventbrite-page of the event.
Participation is free, but donations are very welcome.

P(r)otato Propaganda Production workshop #

Make Playful P(r)otato Propaganda with Sunflower Soup! During this workshop, participants will engage in experimental ways of imagining politics, while creating new PPP slogans, pamphlets and monumental banners together. Using PPP’s very own Pulp-font stamps, and an amazing collection of fabrics, we will produce PPP propaganda that is poetic, colourful, and polyphonic. Let’s Peel the Power! And practise the politics of poetic potato promotion.

The workshop is open to all ages (grown up and baby potatoes) and no prior skills are required to take part. The banners produced in the first workshop will become part of the PPP and will be displayed in the space. 

P(r)otato Propaganda Production workshop with Sunflower Soup

Sunday May 25, 15:00 – 18:00
Wednesday June 4, 14:00-17:00 (sold out/full)
Saturday June 14, 14:00 – 17:00

Sunflower Soup was born out of a shared activist engagement and a need to explore what art can mean beyond the confines of the individual. The collective is driven by a number of questions:can a shared way of working contribute to a less detached experience of art? How do people relate to each other and to the more-than-human world? How do we reconcile the importance of activism with a poetic visual language that allows for humour, paradox and ambiguity?

Reserve your spot on the Eventbrite-page of the event.
Participation is free, but donations are very welcome.

P(r)otato Propaganda Production workshop #2

Make Playful P(r)otato Propaganda with Sunflower Soup! During this workshop, participants will engage in experimental ways of imagining politics, while creating new PPP slogans, pamphlets and monumental banners together. Using PPP’s very own Pulp-font stamps, and an amazing collection of fabrics, we will produce PPP propaganda that is poetic, colourful, and polyphonic. Let’s Peel the Power! And practise the politics of poetic potato promotion.

The workshop is open to all ages (grown up and baby potatoes) and no prior skills are required to take part. The banners produced in the first workshop will become part of the PPP and will be displayed in the space. 

P(r)otato Propaganda Production workshop with Sunflower Soup

Sunday May 25, 15:00 – 18:00
Saturday June 14, 14:00 – 17:00

Sunflower Soup was born out of a shared activist engagement and a need to explore what art can mean beyond the confines of the individual. The collective is driven by a number of questions:can a shared way of working contribute to a less detached experience of art? How do people relate to each other and to the more-than-human world? How do we reconcile the importance of activism with a poetic visual language that allows for humour, paradox and ambiguity?

Reserve your spot on the Eventbrite-page of the event.
Participation is free, but donations are very welcome.

Public Print Propaganda #2

Join Kasih Graphic for a second Public Propaganda Printmaking Workshop and explore experimental ways to produce and distribute printed matter and propaganda.

The workshop is centered around the Poster Signage—a sculptural sign made from a sheet of carved linoleum flooring, attached to a signage pole. This movable relief print will be installed around the W139 area, transforming everyday signage into sites of visual communication. Participants will make their prints directly off of the linoleum sign post, echoing the act of pasting posters on public walls and tagging street signs.

Together, we will create and distribute images and messages that emerge from group discussions with Kasih Graphic in connection to the PPP. You’ll also have the chance to personalize your prints with additional drawings or color.

Participants are welcome to bring their own materials, anything wearable, or sized A4 to A3 is perfect.

Kasih Graphic is a collaborative printmaking practice founded by Angga Cipta (Jakarta) and Chad Cordeiro (Johannesburg) . It emerged from their shared interests and overlapping practices in printmaking, arts pedagogy, and archiving.

Angga Cipta (Indonesia) is a visual artist, printmaker and educator whose work is focused on socio-political histories, migration, urban planning, and the dynamics of city life in the global south. His multi-media approach includes print, drawing, installation, publication, and video.

Chad Cordeiro (South Africa) is an artist, printmaker and educator who works across the mediums of collage, print, sound, and installation. His current research is centred on the DIY production of printmaking tools and materials, as well as open-source approaches to the archiving and dissemination of print-based media, history, and technical processes.

Reserve your spot on the Eventbrite-page of the event.
Participation is free, but donations are very welcome.

Public Print Propaganda #1

Join Kasih Graphic for a Public Printmaking Workshop and explore experimental ways to produce and distribute printed matter.

For this occasion, Kasih Graphic will bring their Print Bike—a mobile, modular printmaking studio equipped for silkscreen, relief, and intaglio printing. The Print Bike supports informal workshops, education programs, protest poster production, artist editions, and collaborative projects. It’s inspired by the Medu Art Ensemble’s “silkscreen workshop in a suitcase” and the Starling coffee bikes of Indonesia.

Together, we will create and distribute images and messages that emerge from group discussions with Kasih Graphic in connection to the PPP, and have the chance to personalize your prints with additional drawings or color.

Participants are welcome to bring their own materials, anything wearable or sized A4 to A3 is perfect.

Kasih Graphic is a collaborative printmaking practice founded by Angga Cipta (Jakarta) and Chad Cordeiro (Johannesburg) . It emerged from their shared interests and overlapping practices in printmaking, arts pedagogy, and archiving.

Angga Cipta (Indonesia) is a visual artist, printmaker and educator whose work is focused on socio-political histories, migration, urban planning, and the dynamics of city life in the global south. His multi-media approach includes print, drawing, installation, publication, and video.

Chad Cordeiro (South Africa) is an artist, printmaker and educator who works across the mediums of collage, print, sound, and installation. His current research is centred on the DIY production of printmaking tools and materials, as well as open-source approaches to the archiving and dissemination of print-based media, history, and technical processes.

Reserve your spot on the Eventbrite-page of the event.
Participation is free, but donations are very welcome.

Politics of Perceiving

This workshop explores how perception and touch shape the deep and layered relationship between bodies potato and soil. We’ll use the sensitive body as our main way to feel, mulch, peel, press, and (un)do. Joining in an act of collective care – we host a nurturing environment. Not for us, but for soil organic mattering. Today, it’s soil, that is our guest. The workshop unfolds in three parts: perceiving, relating, and storytelling.

We begin by attuning to the sensuous and responsive body through simple guided exercises rooted in the principles of Haptonomy—an approach that emphasizes touch and emotional connection.

From there, we extend our attention outward, working together with potatoes, and other living matter. We pay attention to texture, temperature, and weight. Each movement of peeling, rubbing and holding a gesture of presence and resistance. We’ll compost as a form of soft protest. Slowly we will start to map complex interactions.

We’ll end our work around the conversation pit where we bring together memories, recipes and frustrations. We tell stories and the stories ferment. They soak into the shared vessel of our labour. What we will collectively leave behind is not a product, but a process. A vessel of gestures as an offering. A living residue highlighting interdependence and need for refusal and ecological care.

This is not a workshop to make something, it’s a moment to undo, together.

Rosalie Bak is an artist and haptonomist that works at the intersection of affective research, embodiment, and spatial practices, with a strong focus on ecology, art, and somatic care.

Margherita Soldati is an artist whose work explores themes such as diagnosis, immunity, and the relationship between food and the senses, often in collaboration with scientists and communities.

Together, they explore how artistic, empirical, and embodied research can be combined to deepen the understanding and integration of knowledge about ecosystem health. They also investigate how this approach can help make research outcomes more accessible and relatable across different disciplines.

Reserve your spot on the Eventbrite-page of the event.
Participation is free, but donations are very welcome.

A Slow Conversation on Sustainable Practice

How can artists and designers make their own practice more sustainable for themselves? The current political and ecological climate requires urgent action. We need to move fast, before we run out of resources. But how do we navigate this landscape without burning ourselves down first? Let’s slow down for a moment, get personal, get engaged together, and move from there.    

This workshop is for students and beginning artists, designers and artistic researchers to exchange gained knowledge and ideas about what a sustainable art practice could look like – especially while taking your own needs and resources into account.

For this occasion, Urgent Ecologies (Gerrit Rietveld Academie) also invited several artists, designers, and artistic researchers to join the conversations in small groups. In between the conversations we will do body-awareness exercises by Rosalie Bak (affective, artistic researcher and haptonomic professional). 

During the workshop we will move between an individual and collective perspective by means of connecting to ourselves, the space we are holding together, and our shared responsibility for the world – we are also part of. We will highlight the importance of the moment itself and create a physical, collective output made of clay that will be part of the exhibition PPP by collective Sunflower Soup at W139.

Walk-in — 13:30
Start workshop— 14:00

Do you want to participate? Reserve your spot on the Eventbrite-page of the event.
Participation is free, but donations are very welcome. There are limited spots available.

Urgent Ecologies is an initiative of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie that focuses on fostering a fundamental ecological and sustainable approach throughout all levels of the academy—within (art) education, institutional activities, and policy. It aims to integrate sustainability as both a topic of discussion and a practice embedded in the day-to-day functioning of the academy.
 Urgent Ecologies provides policy advice and initiates, supports, and highlights various projects, events, and collaborations. Some initiatives have been a pilot project to create a vegan canteen, a community garden on campus (the Garden Department), a fund to encourage the use of sustainable production methods, and a materials library.

Rosalie Bak works at the intersection of affective research, embodiment, and spatial practices, with a strong focus on ecology, art, and somatic care. As an artist and haptonomic professional she is interested in the ambiguous relationship between people and their non/living environments and explores how to make complex predicaments experiential through the body. Her multidisciplinary practice spans from the development of new methodologies and pedagogies to storytelling, writing and the design of workshops, walks and experiences, often working with communities, scientists, (artistic) research groups and the more-than-human world.

Mariana Jurado Rico is an artist and curator working with printing, installation, publishing, radio, and video performance to facilitate points of merger between people. Her works build situations with elements of humor, failure, impatience, and contradiction as tools of resistance. Currently she is working on different collaborative projects that tackle her interest in independent initiatives and self-initiated processes.

Together with Francisca Khamis Giacoman, she founded Espacio Estamos Bien (EEB),  an autonomous non-autonomous space for contradictory things to happen based in Amsterdam that organizes gatherings, publications, exhibitions, and other formats. EEB started plotting the idea of a new space in Amsterdam—not necessarily a physical one—that could provide an affective and supportive context. A space for those who do not belong in the institutional circuit. A space that is always changing, always moving, but always available. EEB is an initiator of conversations and a facilitator of situations. 

Nina van Hartkamp is a multidisciplinary artist, botanical dyer, and story weaver. She graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2020. Her research-based practice unfolds through socially engaged projects that explore the interconnections between humans, non-humans, and the environment.

Working with materials such as plants, microbes, second-hand textiles, audio, video, and performance, Nina’s projects grow out of intimate exchanges with people and places. Her work is guided by questions of belonging, co-existence, and planetary interdependence.

Through site-specific, immersive experiences—including public installations, collective rituals, and community workshops—she invites participants and audiences to reflect on their relationships with each other and the more-than-human world. Her work offers poetic resistance to extractive systems, individualism, capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy. 

Harriet Rose Morley is a UK-born artist, researcher, and initiator based in the Netherlands since 2018. Her practice explores the gender and labour politics of technical skill within art, design, and architecture, focusing on the working conditions of cultural and technical practitioners. Through her ongoing research Hard Work, Soft Work, she investigates both visible technical skills and undervalued soft skills essential to collective work. A graduate of the Glasgow School of Art and a Dutch MA program, she has led material- and collaboration-based projects, taught across UK and Dutch institutions, and worked with diverse disciplines from architecture to blacksmithing. From 2023–2025, she was Co-Director of Platform BK. In 2025, she will be a Tech Fellow at the Rijksakademie and a resident at Kunsthal Gent.

Amalie ‘Sveske’ Ourø  is a Danish artist who has been living, studying and working in the Netherlands since 2018. Her work, mostly performative and site-specific, can be best described as art-anthropology and is inspired by her curiosity about humanity and reflections of the inner workings of our society. Through her work she actively engages with the audience through acts of play and subversion, inviting them to think critically about diverse societal urgencies within the field of sociology, urbanism, and ecology — encouraging meaningful and sustainable change along the way. Amalie Sveske Ourø is part of the art and garden collectives; The Garden Department (Gerrit Rietveld Academie) and Pleasure Ground.

Joakim Derlow is an artist who specialises in fragmented narratives and spatial comics. His practice brings together objects, found items, drawings and his own performative presence to tell stories of a fragmented nature. These elements thrive on their own, but are meant to be seen in a site specific arrangement which provokes the associations and perspectives of an audience. It is their mending eyes that read out trails or a sequence – inso forming the notion of a narrative.