Mirte van Aalst

°1996, NL
Ghent, BE
researcher
maker
teacher

PORTFOLIO>>>>>>>>

Alphabet of things

Agency
Assertive
Biomimicry
Contemplative
Creativity
Curious
Decentering design
Environmentalist
Experiment
Future crafts
Ghent based
Healing environment
Homemade pizza
Illustration
Independency
Interior architecture
J...?
Kindness
Left handed
Locality
Music enthousiast
More-than-human
Nature
Organized chaos
Perfectionist (recovering...)
People pleaser (recovering...)
Pessimist (recovering...)
Post-anthropocentrism
Queer
Recycling
Regenerative design
(Re)searching
Rituals
Sustainability
Teaching
Tufting
Umwelt
Uncertain
Versatile
Walking
Wanderlust
XYZ
...

WORK
2024-now Bachelor thesis theoretical supervisor - KU Leuven
2024-now Communications manager FTD - HOGENT
2021-now Teaching assistent BA interior architecture - KU Leuven
2021-now Researcher @ research center Futures Through Design- HOGENT



2021-23 Interior architect (renovation of private home)
2019 Student administration KU Leuven

INTERNSHIPS
2018 Studiolo Architectuur
2016 Studio Simple
2014 Piet Hein Eek

EDUCATION
2021-24 Illustration & cartoon drawing - Art Academy Ghent
2019-20 Educational MA in design science - KU Leuven
2018-19 MA interior architecture - KU Leuven, laureate
2017-18 Transition program interior architecture - KU Leuven
2014-17 BA interior design - LUCA School of Arts + exchange

2024-now: Project ‘Dementia Friendly Hospitals’
2023-24: Project ‘Decentering Design’
2021-23: Project ‘A new look at estates’

mixed media, digital art, paint, tufting, pencil, watercolour, ecoline, linoleum print, fineliner, acrylic paint, oil pastel, stencil art etc...

Shroom Prince in space

I love homemade pizza

merging humans and animals - live model drawing session

click on the image to find out what the purpose of this tower is

same place, different media: stencil - ecoline/pencil - collage

cheap etching technique using a milk carton

school projects, models, experiments, personal projects

SPATIAL DESIGN / 3D >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

ILLUSTRATIONS / 2D

inclu sive design

positive climate news

inspi ring people

local busi niss

cool mate rial

dream scen ario

ran dom things

RESEARCH / IMPORTANT THINGS

Personal toolkit

unnecessarily complex and stupidly simple - master's project

future research

???

curriculum vitae

It is we who think our world.

- Anna Püschel

THESAUROS