Henriette Waal

Master Program Social Design, Design Academy Eindhoven

Henriette Waal is co-initiator and artistic research director of Atelier Luma, a design research lab in the south of France. www.atelier-luma.org

Water in the city by Henriëtte Waal and Clemens Driessen, moderated by radio maker Marten Minkema

Presented were the Algae Lab, a film and results of workshops under artistic direction of Henriette Waal/Atelier Luma in Arles, Caïro, Istanbul and Italy that explored algae practises and ecosystems. Endangered algae species were regenerated, algae were used to 3D-print prototypes of domestic items as well as to color wool. Drawing on particular cultural archives from each location, a hybrid traditional-contemporary craft-digital aesthetic emerges, provoking us to unlearn the limiting preconceptions with which we value materials and production techniques. Supported by Luma Arles.

Rice is the most important foodstuff for much of the world’s population. The rice agricultural waste however represents a major environmental challenge. Leftover rice straw is often burned which causes serious air pollution. For the May Your Rice Never Burn project by Atelier Luma and Estelle Julian, Maria Vidagañ, Silvia Caballero, with Henriette Waal as artistic leader, sought a way to use this leftover matter as a raw material for something new: a construction material for reinforcing dunes and coastal areas in Camargue, a wetland in the south of France where lots of rice is grown.

Collection San Vero Milis, Plant-Object analysis by Henriette Waal

Object uit de Collection Zero San Vero Milis, weaver Annarita Spanu, design Henriette Waal / Atelier Luma, photo Adrian Deweerdt, supported by MEDSEA Foundation and Luma Arles

Under the artistic direction of Henriette Waal, the MEDSEA Foundation and Atelier Luma worked together on a Wetland Visitor Center and Weaver House in the Sardinian village of San Vero Milis and on a catalogue of objects aimed at preserving the unique Sardinian craft of weaving and at combining this with nature preservation. Olive Urchin was designed i.c.w. Mevce Ciraci

With the Buitenbrouwerij, her mobile beer brewery, Henriette Waal has since 2010 been developing beers with nature and stories from the Wadden, an area off the north coast of the Netherlands with wetlands and tidal flats. Together with a local home brewer, she developed Zeebier on Terschelling Island. The Eilander and Parelduiker beers with mineral-rich dune water and oysters from Vlieland Island were brewed for Into the Great Wide Open festival. To commemorate the forgotten war disaster off the coast of Vlieland in 1666, the Outside Brewery launched in 2016 ‘Rampzalig’ (a combination of the Dutch words for ‘disaster’ and ‘delicious’) a layered amber beer with smoked malt and seaweed. Brewing with the landscape on Vlieland Island has been embraced and made sustainable in collaboration with two inspired entrepreneurs. Fortuna Vlieland brewery opened at the end of 2019. The brewery has its own source of dune water, harvests the sun on its roof, and is likely to be the most beautifully located brewery in the Netherlands. Fortuna Vlieland makes sparkling water and beer using plants from the dunes and mudflats. The brewery not only adds a locally made product and remarkable attraction to the island but also offers a unique way of engaging with the landscape.

In the wake of a rising global interest for resilient cities and water management issues related to human habitat, Atelier Luma (Henriette Waal & Elisabeth Guyon) investigated this global concern on a superlocal level. In March 2018, Henriette Waal initiated and conducted a 6-days masterclass on floodproof and demountable architecture and self construction. Under the supervision of Nigerian architect Kunlé Adeyemi with Italian designer Paolo Cascone, 40 architecture and art students from various countries worked at Parc des Ateliers and on-site in the region on design solutions to inhabit flood-prone areas and adaptability to flood risks. The film Living with Rising Water and the Masterclass outcomes were presented in this exhibition for the Luma days. Following the masterclass exploration Waal brought international water specialists and architects of innovative constructions together with local experts in a public conference. Écoles participantes _ Participating schools ENSA École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture, Montpellier / France
ENSA École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture, Marseille / France
MEF University Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, Istanbul  / Turquie
Academy of Fine Arts Vienne / Autriche
African Fabbers School Douala / Cameroun Experts impliqués _ Involved experts  Association des quartiers Olga et Carteau - Sevince Bayrak (SO? Architecture) - Muséon Arlaten - Didier Bertrand - Serge Binotto - Frédéric Bon - CAUE13 - Émilie Gascon - Jean-Paul Gay (ville de Port-Saint-Louis du Rhône) - Jean Jalbert (Tour du Valat) - Han Meyer - Alain Montagnier (ACCM) - Laurence Nicolas - Dominique Noël (Ilotopie) -Silvain Ohl - OOZE architects - Madhia Rouah - Estelle Rouquette (PNRC) - Bruno Schnebelin (Ilotopie) - Bas Smet - Ghislaine Verrhiest-Leblanc (DREAL) - Julie Walker (PNRC)

The outdoor classroom is an initiative of Barbara Oomen, co-designed by Sophie Krier en Henriëtte Waal, in the context of 800 Years of Middelburg.

In Colour Geographies we explore how design can have an active and transformative impact on the forces that shape contemporary color geographies. We map and explore a real context, the potential, the interaction, and the neglected design possibilities of color, at the scale of the city. In mapping the spatiality, identity and instrumentality of color in relation to the city, we hope to open up discussions on the interrelations and sensations and—most importantly—the possibilities for color in Eindhoven Over the entire course we will experiment and design with color. Master Program Social Design, Design Academy Eindhoven.

On-site installation of toilet in the community garden of Mediamatic, Amsterdam. NIMBY, an acronym for the expression ‘Not In My Back Yard’, is a term that applies to people who back a proposal but resist its implementation in a manner that might require personal sacrifice. The NIMBY toilet a dry toilet, which ferments urine with lactobacillus cultures and converts it into nutrients that contribute to fertile soil. The toilet developed by Henriette Waal aims to introduce ‘pee-cycling’ in community gardens. The dry toilet’s seat is a reinterpretation of the Sedia 1 chair designed by Enzo Mari in 1974, a self-assembly product intended as a tool for theoretical and practical engagement. The urine-fermenting dry toilet underpins the self-sufficiency of food-producing garden. Besides the fact that dry toilets save lots of water, they also offer an alternative for chemical fertilizer.

Henriette Waal illuminated the economic and cultural paradox of ground water in Belgium Limburg, and she designed a series of distinctive and refillable bottles for ‘tapped water’.

Hunnie is a site-specific, participatory and performative action research focusing on the perception of the cultural landscape of De Bovenlanden.

Willow Braiding

Project Hunnie (‘them’ in local slang) is a site-specific, participatory and performative action research focusing on the perception of the cultural landscape of De Bovenlanden, a characteristic expanse of peat meadow in the province of Utrecht (NL). Hunnie offers an innovative perspective on the relationship between man and nature, in contrast to the somewhat dogmatic and conservative approach of existing nature organizations. This project was a finalist for the Dutch Design Awards.

The outdoor brewery connects crafts to local context and to terroir.

Design for nature recreation and education in sink with agricultural production