Gert Biesta is Professor of Public Education in the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy, Maynooth University, Ireland, and Professor of Educational Theory and Pedagogy at the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, UK. From January 2023 onwards he started a four-year term as member of the Education Council of the Netherlands (Onderwijsraad), the advisory body of the Dutch government and parliament on educational matters.
In collaboration with ArtEZ Press he published in 2021 Letting Art Teach.
Daniëlle Bruggeman is a cultural theorist and Professor of Fashion at ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem. She teaches on the M.A. Critical Fashion Practices at ArtEZ. Bruggeman holds a PhD in Cultural Studies, which was part of the first large-scale interdisciplinary research project on fashion in the Netherlands, ‘Dutch Fashion Identity in a Globalised World’ (2010-2014) at Radboud University in Nijmegen. She has been a visiting scholar at Parsons New School for Design (NYC) and at the London College of Fashion. She has published on topics like the fluid, performative and embodied dimensions of identity, (Dutch) fashion photography, and fashion as a new materialist aesthetics. Her publication Dissolving the Ego of Fashion: Engaging with Human Matters (ArtEZ Press, 2018) presents the main research themes of the Fashion Professorship.
David Chipperfield studied architecture at the Kingston School of Art and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. He worked for Douglas Stephen, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster before founding his own practice in 1985 and establishing a design methodology that is now used across five offices in London, Berlin, Milan, Shanghai and Santiago de Compostela. David Chipperfield is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and an honorary fellow of both the American Institute of Architects and the Bund Deutscher Architekten. In 2016 he made together with Bernard Colenbrander & Christian Rapp the book The Embedded Nomad with ArtEZ Press.
Joep Christenhusz (1983) studied musicology at Utrecht University as well as music theory and composition at the Conservatory of Antwerp. He lectured in music history and analysis at ArtEZ University of the Arts for several years and is still a member of their Theory in the Arts Professorship. As a music journalist, Joep writes about music for the national newspaper NRC Handelsblad and for De Groene Amsterdammer.
In 2016, ArtEZ Press published his essay collection Componisten van Babel on the work of ten Dutch and Belgian composers of his own generation.
Annette Duburg studied fashion at the Vogue Studio in Amsterdam and Esmod in Paris, where she studied modeling and fashion drawing. She was a freelance fashion designer for various brands and companies. Over the years she has been a teacher at a number of fashion schools. She co-wrote Draping: Art and Craftmanship in Fashion Design (2017). There are only a limited number of people who can still learn the art of draping, which makes this manual absolutely indispensable. Moulage is now in its 5th edition.
Avi Gilboa received his BA in Psychology and Music from Bar-Ilan University, Israel and then his diploma in Music Therapy and his PhD in Cognitive Psychology. He has been a music therapist since 2001 in various settings and with different clinical populations. He is an associate professor and head of the Music Therapy Program at Bar-Ilan University. He supervises many music therapy PhD students and supervises music therapy students and graduates. He co-edited Breaking Strings: Explorations of Mistakes in Music Therapy (2022).
Marijke Goeting studied Graphic Design at ArtEZ. She graduated cum laude for her master’s degree in Art and Visual Culture at Radboud University in Nijmegen. Goeting teaches design and media theory to students of Graphic Design and Design Art Technology at ArtEZ. She obtained her PhD at Radboud University Nijmegen with her dissertation Fast, Fluid, Fragmented: Art and Design in the Digital Age (2021).
Marijke Groothuis is an associate professor at ArtEZ, Enschede. She also works in special education, teaching music therapy and music education to children ages 4-18 with physical and mental disabilities and chronic illnesses. Groothuis is co-author of Navigating Music Technology (2022).
Laurien Hakvoort obtained her PhD in Behavioral Sciences at Tilburg University. A music therapist since 1994, she has worked as a music therapist in forensic psychiatry for 17 years and currently has her own practice, Muzis.net. She teaches music therapy in the bachelor’s and (pre-)master’s programs at ArtEZ Enschede and is a freelance researcher. She has written Cognitive Behavorial Music Therapy in Forensic Psychiatry (2014) and co-edited Breaking Strings: Explorations of Mistakes in Music Therapy (2022).
Artur Jaschke is professor of music-based therapies and interventions at the Department of Music Therapy at ArtEZ Enschede. Jaschke is co-author of Navigating Music Technology (2022).
Charles Jencks was a renowned cultural theorist, landscape designer, architectural historian, and co-founder of the Maggie’s Cancer Care Centres. Jencks first studied English literature at Harvard University, later earning a master’s degree in architecture from the Graduate School of Design in 1965. He also has a PhD in architectural history from University College London. In 2012 he published Can Architecture Affect your Health with ArtEZ Press.
Dr. Narayan Khandekar is a distinguished scientist in the field of conservation and colour. Khandekar is the director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, director of the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, and head of the Analytical Laboratory of the Harvard Art Museums. His interests lie in the technical study of paintings and painting materials. He has more than sixty publications to his name. In 2017 he published together with ArtEZ Press the book Collecting Colour.
Jeroen Lutters is professor of Art education as Critical Tactics (AeCT) at ArtEZ University of the Arts. Lutters obtained his PhD on Art Based Learning (ABL) as a method under art and culture analyst Mieke Bal. He took part in the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA).He is the author of (a.o): Studies in Art-Based Learning (2019), No University. A Creative Turn in Higher Education (2020).
Dr. Nishant Shah is a feminist, humanist, technologist working in digital cultures. He wears many hats as an academic, researcher, educator and annotator, interested in translating research for public discourse and being informed by public discourse to orient his research.
He is Professor of Global Media and Director of the Digital Narratives Studio at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, School of Communication and Journalism (Hong Kong),
Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University (USA) Knowledge Partner to Point of View (Mumbai) and the Digital Asia Hub (Hong Kong/ Singapore).
His work is at the intersections of body, identity, digital technologies, digital governance, artistic practice, and activism. His current interest is in thinking through questions digital narrative practices towards building inclusive, diverse, resilient, and equitable societies.
With ArtEZ Press he (co-)published Small Books for Big Platforms (2022) and Formulating Fake Futures (2023).
Peter Sonderen is (lector) of Theory in the Arts at ArtEZ University of the Arts. Sonderen received his PhD in art history and aesthetics at the University of Amsterdam, in 2000, for his research on the origin of the idea of modern art. His current research circles around the basics of artistic research, the theories of making (in the arts), performativity in the arts and finally the question of materialism in the arts. He developed the ArtEZ Honours LAB theory and research for bachelor students and is also head of the programme. In 2012 he edited Denken in kunst (Leiden University Press, 2012, in 2014 he edited The Non-Urban Garden, AFDH Uitgevers,In 2016 he edited Unpacking Performativity (ArtEZ Press). In 2019 he edited and contributed to The Entanglement of Theory and Practices in the Arts (ArtEZ Press).
José Teunissen is Director of the Amsterdam Fashion Institute at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. She holds a Visiting Professorship in Fashion Theory and Research at ArtEZ and works as an independent fashion curator. In 2002 at ArtEZ, Teunissen was one of the first professors in the Netherlands to conduct research and develop theory in the field of fashion. Teunissen has co-edited many books including three books in collaboration with ArtEZ Press: Fashion and Imagination (2009), Fashion Odyssey (2013), Everything but Clothes (2015) and Koos van den Akker (2016).
Rixt van der Tol has been teacher at ArtEZ University of the Arts, one of the most renowned fashion schools in Europe for 35 years. She has co-written Draping: Art and Craftmanship in Fashion Design (2017). There are only a limited number of people who are still able to teach the art of draping, which makes this manual decidedly indispensable. Draping is now in the 5th edition.
Dr. Jeroen van den Eijnde was trained as product designer at ArtEZ University of the Arts and as a design historian at Leiden University. He holds a PhD on theory and ideology in Dutch design education. He has published articles and books related to the historical and current aspects of design education. Since 2016, he has been responsible for the professorship Product Design & Interior Architecture at ArtEZ. In cooperation with the ArtEZ Fashion Professorship, he runs the expertise centre ArtEZ Future Makers, which initiates design-driven innovation and research projects that contribute to a sustainable society. Together with ArtEZ Press he published Escape (2016), De Vijf Pijlers van Design (2018) and Designing for Precarious Citizens (2020).
Hanka van der Voet works as a researcher, writer, publisher and educator in the field of fashion. Her main focus is fashion media and fashion language, and the power structures involved. Van der Voet is senior lecturer on the M.A. Fashion Strategy at ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem, and a researcher at the ArtEZ Fashion Professorship.
Hanka collaborates with Artez Press for many years now and is (co)-author of Mode en Verbeelding (2009), Spijkers en Spijkers (2011), A Fashion Odyssey (2013), Piet Paris (2013), Mode Design Hotel Modez Arnhem (2013), Koos van den Akker (2016), Dissolving the Ego of Fashion (2018).
Eef Veldkamp (1993) is an artist, researcher and a lecturer at ArtEZ University of the Arts. In his work he researches the systems and structures that dictate life.
At ArtEZ, he researches questions around engaged practices. By intermingling artistic and philosophical research methods, he brings about subversive textual interventions that function as the point of departure for his artistic practice, in which he develops what he calls ‘counter-systems’. These are organizations erected to engage with a specific bottleneck in society, which they do through a multiplicity of forms that he terms ‘art on batteries’.
Between 2018-2020 he concluded a research project resulting in a series of thirteen essays called Notes towards engaged arts (2020-2021) for the Professorship for Art education as Critical Tactics (AeCT) published by ArtEZ Press (2023).
Carola Werger is a music therapist, music pedagogist, senior lecturer and head of the Music Therapy course at ArtEZ in Enschede. With an additional master’s degree in Learning and Innovation (MLI), her main interest lies in renewing curricular educational concepts. Werger is co-author of Navigating Music Technology (2022).
Onno Zijlstra is filosoof en voormalig docent filosofie aan ArtEZ in Zwolle. Hij heeft gepubliceerd over kunst, perceptie en esthetiek, waaronder Wat doet die rode vlek daar linksboven?, Inleiding in de esthetica (2007) en Verbeelding. Over waarneming en kunst (2020) and Kunst en de zin van het bestaan (2022).