Petervan Artworks © 2023 – New New Babylon – Generated with MidJourney

Here is the latest update on Petervan Studios. The previous update already goes back to September 2022

As most of you know, Petervan Studios is the melting pot of three studios: The Art Studio, The Interventions Studio, and The Scaffold Studio

The Art Studio

My latest artworks are on the artworks section of the Petervan Studios site. Here is my cousin Joost standing in front of one of
my recent paintings: 4 panels together measuring 240cm x 200cm.

I am also working on a VR implementation of the New New Babylon (NNB) Project: a network of urban youth city districts that are connected through standard interfaces. 

We are working with Spectracities to launch a design challenge by April 2023. I am doing an intro talk on this project during the Spectracities meet-up on 9 March 2023.

And here is the recording: starts at minute 7:32

NNB will also have a number of virtual Art White Rooms that will host my latest artworks.

NNB will also host a New New Babylon TOWER, and I plan to make a physical model of that tower as an example of materializing my metaphors.

A new “Performance Lecture” will consolidate all of the above in a compelling multimedia narrative and performance.

Target date for the performance and the supporting NBB material is 1 Nov 2023

The Interventions Studio

Two interesting experiences with the Zen Bricks Project

One client asked me to run a 30 min online session, where all the participants are drawing little bricks in complete silence. I was very surprised to learn how this zen moment unleashed quite emotional reactions among the participants.

Another client invited me to do something similar in real life, as part of their corporate event that was organized around the theme of mental wellness and the importance of calm moments.

The Scaffold Studio

The Scaffold is a transdisciplinary learning studio for the never-normal.

We are working on two interesting leads.

Lead #1 is a services company that owns a beautiful physical building/campus with meeting rooms, study rooms, a library, auditoria, lush gardens, etc. They run it as a private infrastructure for the public good. We look at it as an imagination infrastructure. The hardware. What The Scaffold offers is the software: the expertise, network, and practice to curate and design a series of learning studios and expeditions. The study topics are non-hierarchical organizations and new democracies.

Lead #2 is a globally operating organization trying to get its head around the topic of corporate governance. Like the first lead, they own world-class real estate, including an auditorium and a museum. We are also looking to design a physical journey between cities leading toward a major event in 2024.

We have a great coalition of advisors. Last month, Lene Rachel Andersen joined our advisor’s group as the twelfth apostle. She specialises in Bildung, Metamodernity, and Libertism. Give Lene a warm welcome.

So, that’s it for this edition.  If there is something worth reporting, the next update is for Sep 2023.

Warmest,