FASoS researchers Christian Ernsten and Claartje Rasterhoff receive funding from CLICK NL for their REACCT research project on regenerative building practices
Research, Education and Action Lab into Collective and Circular Transformation (REACCT) is a new research project (2024-2027) – c. 1 million euro - developed together with Huis Veendam-Dynaplak, a design and biochemical company that produces, recycles and designs with renewable materials.
The project is funded by CLICK NL, the Dutch Knowledge and Innovation Network of the Creative Industry, in the programme Public & Private Collaborations.
Together with other partners (including the Jan van Eyck Academy) they will examine how design and production of buildings are conditioned locally and historically, and how these conditions can be leveraged towards more collective and circular practices. To this end it combines biochemical, historical and ethnographic research in the regions of Groningen and Maastricht towards the development of new building materials and production processes. Drawing on design research the project designs and tests these within the complex interplay between different actors – consumers, crafters, farmers, industrialists, academics, designers, nonhuman actors, and others – that is required for circular building action to be effectively pushed.
Claartje Rasterhoff is Assistant Professor in Cultural Policy & Management.
Christian Ernsten is Assistant Professor in Heritage Studies.