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Mirte van Aalst

°1996, NL
Ghent, BE
maker
researcher
teacher

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
Jaunty
Kindness
Left handed
Locality
Music enthousiast
More-than-human
Nature
Organized chaos
Perfectionist (ex-)
Pessimist (sometimes)
Post-anthropocentrism
Queer
Recycling
Regenerative design
Restless
(Re)searching
Rituals
Sustainability
Teaching
Tufting
Umwelt
Uncertain
Versatile
Walking
Wanderlust
XYZ
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		WORK

		2025-now	Arena consultant MA interior architecture - KU Leuven

		2024-now	Theoretical supervisor 3rd year BA interior architecture - KU Leuven

		2024-now	Communications manager FTD - HOGENT

		2021-2024	Teaching assistent 1st year 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’

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			ring people

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		OTHER RESEARCH / IMPORTANT THINGS
	

			dementia friendly design

		

		future research

	

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			riaal

It is we who think our world.

- Anna Püschel

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not a real gun.
= tufting gun <3

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RESEARCH

ILLUSTRATIONS

Bird Postcards

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PERSONAL ARCHIVE

Student work and personal projects through the years

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I love crafts,
see PERSONAL ARCHIVE

Wool, lots of it

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More-than-human

Welcome! I'm a busy bee, and a curious one.
On this website, I keep track of all the things I made, thought and investigated. Things that inspired those things.
Things I failed and succeeded at.
And maybe a few aspirations.
Enjoy!

TUFTING

THESAUROS