Leyla (all pronouns) is an artistic researcher and art educator with a practice of facilitating workshops that engage participants with art or activism through creative methods. For example, they use zine making, fiber arts and crafts or, recently, listening sessions to open up conversations and encounters around museum spaces and visual art pieces.

Leyla graduated from an MA in Art and Performance Research Studies (UvA) where they researched the potential of performance art as a mediation tool in museum spaces. Recently in Amsterdam she facilitated workshops on themes such as “Archiving Queer Personal Stories” (Framer Framed) and “Radical Quilting” (Anarchist Bookfair, Otherwise Wageningen). As an active member of grassroots group Dyke March Amsterdam he regularly organises events and the yearly Dyke March protest for and in collaboration with the anarchist, queer community.

Visual and conceptual artist Nathan Favot is the creator and manager of Black Magic Darkroom (BMDR), an analogue photography darkroom dedicated to classic and alternative analogue techniques. We want to provide a space for artists and amateurs to learn all the crafts associated with analogue photography.

Ruben Jurriën's fashion practice focuses on making visible and empowering bodies and identities that too often fall outside the norm of the fashion industry. The work proves that inclusive fashion does not have to be monotonous, but also innovative and sustainable. The clothing visualizes a research and advocacy for an inclusive fashion world with an innovative sizing system that fits a wide range of body types, with on-size customizable elements. These tools not only make the clothing comfortable, but allow the garments to grow with you. Hereby, the life span of the garment is significantly extended. The work is an explosion of love and positivity that celebrates childlike optimism and fuels it (again) in our adult lives. The design practice balances between couture and ready-to-wear and, in addition to fashion collections, develops comics and objects that focus on the power of being soft.

D A T A S K Y is a project developped at the Care Design Lab and supported by the Stimuleringsfonds.