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Kirsten Spruit (1993, NL) is a graphic designer and artist, interested in information structures, time-logging, the handmade web and the essay as form. They co-founded radio station and are a member of . Kirsten is based in Rotterdam.

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Kirsten brushing their teeth (2020)

Experience / Initiatives (7)

  • Extra Practice – collective space for learning and working w/ , , , ,
    Rotterdam (NL)
    2021–now
  • Good Times Bad Times – community radio station w/ ,
    Rotterdam (NL)
    2020–now
  • Freelance studio practice – working as graphic designer and web developer within the cultural sector
    Rotterdam (NL)
    2016–now
  • Elevator Radio – co-initiator of student-run community radio station @ Design Academy Eindhoven w/
    Eindhoven (NL)
    2021–2022
  • Mentaxis – design practice and synth-pop act w/
    Rotterdam–Amsterdam (NL)
    2015–2017
  • What Design Can Do – online communication
    Amsterdam (NL)
    2016–2017
  • WIM Ontwerpers – internship
    The Hague (NL)
    2014

Education (3)

  • MA Information Design @ Design Academy Eindhoven
    Eindhoven (NL)
    2017–2019
  • BA Graphic Design @ Willem De Kooning Academie
    Rotterdam (NL)
    2011–2015
  • Bilingual VWO + International Baccalaureate @ Rijnlands Lyceum Sassenheim
    Sassenheim (NL)
    2005–2011

Grants (3)

  • Stimuleringsfonds Experiment grant w/ , SWSWS69
    2024
  • Stimuleringsfonds Talent Development grant
    2022
  • Droom en Daad Makersloket grant
    2021

Selected workshops / tutoring (13)

  • Site-specific: A Webpage of One’s Own – workshop @ w/
    Crickhowell (CY)
    2026
  • Guest-tutoring in MA Social Design @ Design Academy Eindhoven
    Eindhoven (NL)
    2023–2026
  • Guest-tutoring in MA Industrial Design @ Royal Academy of Art
    The Hague (NL)
    2025–2026
  • Site-specific: Reimagining the Peak website – workshop @ w/
    Crickhowell (CY)
    2025
  • Freewriting on Site – workshop in MA Communication Design @ Falmouth University w/
    Falmouth (UK)
    2024
  • Site-specific: an introduction to making placeful websites – workshop @ w/
    Topolò (IT)
    2024
  • Radio as a Space-maker – workshop in MA Information Design @ Design Academy Eindhoven
    Eindhoven (NL)
    2022
  • The Case For Doing Nothing – workshop in BA Graphic Design @ Royal Academy of Art
    The Hague (NL)
    2022
  • Guest-tutoring in MA Information Design @ Design Academy Eindhoven
    Eindhoven (NL)
    2022
  • Making Waves: an introduction to Radio – workshop in BA Graphic Design @ Royal Academy of Art w/
    The Hague (NL)
    2021
  • On Doing Nothing – workshop in ArtCoDe @ Fontys Hogeschool Tilburg
    Tilburg (NL), online
    2020
  • Radio as an Educational Tool – workshop in MA Information Design @ Design Academy Eindhoven w/
    Eindhoven (NL)
    2020
  • Guest lecture and tutoring in BA Lifestyle and Transformation Design @ Willem De Kooning Academie
    Rotterdam (NL)
    2019

Selected exhibitions / performances / talks / radio broadcasts (13)

  • Coding in Situ radio interview @ w/
    Topolò (IT)
    2024
  • Stimuleringsfonds presents Talent – hosting radio programme @ Nieuwe Instituut w/
    Rotterdam (NL)
    2024
  • —Where was I? – lecture performance @ And And And
    Rotterdam (NL)
    2023
  • Essaying – lecture performance during Stimuleringsfonds presents Talent @ MU, Dutch Design Week
    Eindhoven (NL)
    2022
  • Personae ambient set for Hoekhuis zine launch @ KIOSK Rotterdam
    Rotterdam (NL)
    2022
  • Staging Stasis live performance @ WORM w/ Meghan Clarke
    Rotterdam (NL)
    2022
  • GTBT x Radio Paleis Maashaven – hosting radio programme @ Het Gemaal Op Zuid w/
    Rotterdam (NL)
    2022
  • Listening Out The Window – remote radio performance as part of Orchid & The Wasp @ NDSM Werf
    Amsterdam (NL), online
    2021
  • D'Un Moi À L'Autre – group exhibition @ Galerie Etienne de Causans
    Paris (FR)
    2020
  • Hours, Minutes, Seconds @ Pension Almonde
    Rotterdam (NL)
    2020
  • Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation Show (GS19) @ Dutch Design Week
    Eindhoven (NL)
    2019
  • How To Save Time – lecture performance for the Arena @ GS19, Dutch Design Week
    Eindhoven (NL)
    2019
  • How To Spend 10 Minutes – talk / video for The Unbearable Lightness of Designing Symposium @ MU
    Eindhoven (NL)
    2019

Selected published writing / press (6)

  • Pools for Conviviality – essay for are.na annual vol. 7 w/
    2025
  • Correspondence of Code – essay for Robida Magazine w/
    2024
  • Een Behang Om Naar Te Staren – essay for Tubelight Magazine’s issue on laziness
    2021
  • #FFF8E7 – interview in Hoekhuis Magazine
    2021
  • How rest and relaxation became an art – BBC Culture feature
    2020
  • An Act Of Sincerity – essay in Performance Society published by Bookfromthefuture w/
    2016