Henriëtte Waal

Henriëtte Waal works as an Artist and Designer. She holds a Bachelor’s degree of Design Academy Eindhoven’s Man and Public Space Department and a Master’s Degree of Interior Architecture from Sandberg Institute Amsterdam. She has been finalist for the Dutch Design Awards for her design research in the Netherlands rural area and was awarded by the International Award for Public Art for her placemaking approach.
As Curator for Mediamatic’s Bio-Me programme, she has developed a cross-disciplinary platform for knowledge exchange about brewing practices and design with micro-organisms. In addition to founding a number of socially engaged art and design projects, Henriëtte Waal has taught since 2013 in the Social Design Master Programme at Design Academy Eindhoven and the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.
Currently, she is Artistic and Research Director of Atelier LUMA, in Arles.