I have a strong interest in the transformative power of the arts and am convinced that the arts can help us (as a society) to find hope, empathy and our way back to our bodies. Things that - in my opinion - are crucial for transforming the way we live on this planet. I hold a master’s degree in Cultural Studies from the Radboud University in Nijmegen (NL), where I graduated with a thesis on Harry Potter. The story about the boy who lived still gets to me. The naive believe in something purely good in this world inspires and comforts me. I try to bring this naive and hopeful attitude with me in my work at Baltan, a cultural in(ter)disciplinary lab based in Eindhoven that focusses on societal issues in an imaginative and collaborative manner by designing learning trajectories, projects and collaborations that bridge different ways of knowing through creative strategies, including embodied, sensory, intuitive and performative techniques.Together with Lorenzo Gerbi, I took on the directorship of Baltan from October 2022.