Minke Nouwens

Trained as both an anthropologist (BSc, 2007; ResMSc, 2013) and visual artist (MFA, 2020), Minke is a passionate explorer of the spaces where anthropology and arts overlap. Minke is PhD candidate researching how the practice of ‘design thinking’ shapes the performance of collaborative creativity in makerspaces in Danish libraries, whose work has been recognised internationally by, among others, POINTS gallery (CH) and V2_lab for Unstable Media (NL), the International Symposium for Electronic Arts (2020), Creativity & Cognition (2024), the Bernard Cultuurfonds Rising Talent Scholarship (2013), and as a nomination for the EKP Excellence in Artistic Research Award (2020).