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The fourth edition of the JRC Makers-in-Residence programme addressed three topics:
- arctic
- biodiversity
- bioeconomy
Three makers were invited to a maximum 10-day funded residency taking place at the JRC Makerspace, located in Ispra, Italy. The kick-off meeting was held in the June 2024 and the residence planned for Autumn of 2024.
As in previous editions, makers were asked to develop a tangible outcome (e.g., workshop, prototype, artwork, exhibition), original and re-usable to respond to the challenges in one of the topics proposed.
Participants Profile
Christie Swallow
Christie is an artist and researcher whose practice evades a set medium. Christie thinks through making and through different methodologies. Christie is currently mixing textiles, carpentry, digital modelling and animation to explore how ways of making can change how we perceive the climate crisis, and in turn questions how traditional methodologies within art, design and politics have co-produced the issues which we now face. Christie has an undergraduate degree from the University of Cambridge in Architecture, and studied Environmental Architecture at Master's level at the Royal College of Art. Throughout the studies, Christie sought to understand the institutional knowledge as it exist, but tinker with experimental methodologies as means to transgress and transform the status quo.
Project title: Drawing as talking
Dewi Brunet
Dewi Brunet is an artist specialised in folding, based in Brussels. By combining art, science and technology, he applies folding to a large range of purpose. His work focus nowadays at the intersection of ecology and technology by making “Oribotics”, bioinspired folded robots. With a transdisciplinary background in social science, Dewi loves to collaborate with others. For his Oribotics, he worked with scientists from the Universities of Lille, Namur and Brussels. Dewi has also been very implicated in the fablabs of Brussels, where he cultivated his skills and values as an artist. He co-managed the fablab OpenFab for a few years and gives workshops at GreenFabric and Fablab’ke. Thanks to the Vulca European Program, he was also able in 2021 to make a residency in Ljubljana at fablab RogLab.
Project title: Fluxfoliage: Pollination in a robotic era
Lars Preisser
Lars is an artist interested in the expeditions and the discovery of the Arctic region, since one of the planes in which Amundsen landed at the North Pole was designed by his great-grandfather. As a child and as a descendant of aviation & weaving machine engineers, Lars was always drawing and wanted to become an artist. During art school, Lars chose weaving as a major as he was intrigued by the technique and its strong philosophical implications towards themes such as time, machinery, ecology, society. To not only work on a surface, but to create it in the first place, from nothing, is still profound to him. Lars is deeply invested in structures, contexts and research on the materials, topics and methods he employ. What he makes is based on a strict conceptual foundation and every decision counts towards the credibility of the outcome. This is also why he often adopts new methods of making to realise his ideas.
Project title: Artistic explorations of the Arctic
More information and links
| Originally Published | 27 Aug 2026 |
| Related project & activities | JRC MakerspaceJRC Makers-in-Residence programme |
| Related organisation(s) | JRC - Joint Research Centre |
| Knowledge service | Metadata | Participatory and Deliberative Democracy (CC-DEMOS) |
