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Anja Groten is an Assistant Professor at Leiden University's Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) and a designer, educator, and researcher based in Amsterdam. She co-founded the collective Hackers & Designers in 2013, focusing on hands-on learning and collaboration across technology, design, and art. Her PhD research at PhDArts, titled "Figuring Things Out Together: On the Relationship Between Design and Collective Practice," explores the tensions and ambiguities of collective practice in the cultural sector, particularly through workshops and open-source methodologies.
- Education: PhD candidate at PhDArts (completed 2022)
- Affiliation: Co-founder of Hackers & Designers collective
- Roles: Course director at Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam's design department (Master of Rietveld Academie)
Her research critically examines how collective practices intersect with precarious working conditions in the cultural sector and challenges neoliberal trends in workshop formats. She emphasizes non-hierarchical learning environments and the development of living documents like Hackers & Designers' Code of Conduct to articulate implicit power dynamics. Her work spans both theoretical and practice-based outputs, including publications and modular workshop spaces.
While no explicit scientific awards are mentioned, her contributions include a dissertation and co-edited publication "First, Then… Repeat," which documents experimental workshop practices. She utilizes open-source tools and hybrid online/offline formats to democratize access to knowledge production.
