Professional Doctorate in Arts + Creative is an educational pilot program in The Netherlands for an advanced degree in universities of applied sciences. The PD program at an university of applied sciences is developed to train an investigative professional. PD Arts + Creative is a unique Professional Doctorate program that focuses on the role of arts + creative research: not as a solitary endeavor, but as a collective and relational practice that inspires change and bridges disciplines.
This portal is a platform for publishing artistic research generated by the PD candidates. Within the Professional Doctorate Arts + Creative programme, this portal will also be used as an internal tool for documentation.
Featured Expositions
D.E.A.D.LINE (2025)
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Experimental article for the Performance Philosophy journal Vol. 9 No. 2 (2024): With the Dead: Performance Philosophy, Dying, and Grief.
The Resonance of Vocalising (2025)
Sophia Bardoutsou
The aim of this PD project is to bring artists and citizens together with each other and their environment, and collectively explore how the wordless voice can be a means of communication.
Performing Working (ongoing)
Philippine Hoegen
The project Performing Working explores the performativity of work, with particular attention to undervalued, hidden, and unwaged forms of labour. On this page, Philippine aims to create a repository and a portfolio in one, to keep track and share the processes, methods, insights and fruits of the research project Performing Working.
Oh Doom is Coming (2025)
Kim Spierenburg
Report of the first year of understanding eco-anxiety. “Oh doom is coming” was one of the audience reactions Kim collected. What lies at the other end, or beyond doom? Kim spent the first year conceptually exploring and reflecting on understanding eco-anxiety.
Candidates & Research Projects
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"Processing Artistic and Design Research" gathers two PD candidates in a conversation about artistic and design research, the process of a research project in the context of a third cycle in education, and the links we can foster between research and practice.
Episodes:
- Ep.7: On the Ground, with Nadja van der Weide
- Ep.6: Research Is A Verb, with Emily Huurdeman and Philippine Hoegen
- Ep.5: Sitting with (Eco) Anxiety, with Carlo de Gaetano and Kim Spierenburg
- Ep.4: Bleeding Edge with Jonas Pastoors and Raymond Vermeulen
- Ep.3: Cycles of Life and Care with Risk Hazekamp and Stefan Schäfer
- Ep.2: Designing Playingfields, with Tara Karpinski and Raymond Vermeulen
- Ep.1: Be Like Water, with Thijs van den Houdt and Taka Taka
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If you have questions regarding Professional Doctorate Arts + Creative and the Research Catalogue, please email us at pd-arts-creative@avans.nl
PD Arts + Creative is a joint effort by Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (HKU), Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (AHK), Hogeschool van Amsterdam, University of the Arts The Hague, Hogeschool Rotterdam, Codarts Rotterdam, Hanze UAS, Avans Hogeschool, Buas Breda Universit of Applied Science, Fontys Academy of the Arts, Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE), Zuyd Maastricht Institute of Arts, Artez University of the Arts, Hogeschool InHolland and HZ University of Applied Sciences.