THESAUROS

Mirte van Aalst

°1996, NL
Ghent, BE
maker/designer
researcher
teacher

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!

It is we who think our world.

- Anna Püschel

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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Student work and personal projects through the years

More-than-human

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OTHER RESEARCH / IMPORTANT THINGS

CURRICULUM VITAE

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’

cool pro
jects

craf
ting inspo

future research

cool mate rial

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