The Chimerical Intelligence Lab is based in the Netherlands and has no fixed venue. We work with hosts and collaborators wherever a project takes us: a convent on Lake Bolsena, a guesthouse in the Austrian Alps, an art centre in Brussels. There are four ways to get involved.
Four ways to get involved
Take part
Join one of our camps and workshops. The most recent were Beyond the Blue Marble, a week at a convent on Lake Bolsena in August 2025 with about twenty participants, and the Raise Your Voice winter camp in the Austrian Alps in November 2025. New dates appear under Events and on Instagram.
Collaborate
We work with artists, researchers and practitioners on thought experiments that overlap study, research and working groups, from ecomorphic finance (Cnidarian Economics) to planetary imaginaries (Mapping Blue Marble). If your question fits our method, or you would like to test the method on yours, write to us.
Host or commission
Bring a workshop or a lecture to your institution, festival or programme. We can offer a hypersynaesthetic workshop, a cinematic lecture, or help to shape a programme, as we did for the content sessions of Raise Your Voice with Baltan Laboratories. Below is how our workshops work.
Support
The lab runs on a patchwork of grants, hosts and self-initiated work. If you are a funder, a host institution or someone who wants to help, read how the lab is funded and get in touch.
How a workshop works
Our format grows out of the chimeric collage. This is how it ran at the 2025 summer camp, and it can be adapted to the time and the group you have:
- Gather. Ahead of the workshop, everyone sends texts and images they would like to add to a shared collection. A few online gatherings share the theoretical and historical ground.
- Collage. The collected images are edited and printed on transparent paper, so that they can be superimposed. With a single image at the centre, the emerging chimera becomes the starting point for discussion, note-taking and diagramming.
- Read. Participants pick pre-edited extracts from a reader and use them to address small parts of the collage.
- Go out. We take the classroom outside and record, with each person's own medium, what seems to carry undisclosed meaning.
- Assemble and reflect. Texts, images and recordings are brought together to see what non-linear discourse emerges, and what could follow from it.
What to tell us
A few lines are enough to start a conversation: who the participants are, how much time you have, where and when it could take place, in which language, and which theme or question you would like to explore. It also helps to know what budget or support is available.