• Raise Your Voice Autumn 2026 | Open Call 

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    Posted: 4 September 2026


    Call for young Netherlands-based talent

    Developing self-reflective situated design practices


    Raise Your Voice (RYV) is a learning and coaching trajectory for Netherlands-based designers, artists and makers with a technology oriented practice, who focus on social, economic, political and ecological challenges in their work. The aim is to support them in the development of their professional practice and to stimulate self-reflection. The programme consists of sessions that focus on the skills needed to set up a professional creative practice; individual coaching on either a content or practical level; and a tour of the cultural field of Eindhoven and its surroundings connecting the participants to the local professional field.

    The trajectory is intended for starting makers who work with and/or reflect on current developments in technology. The dominant technological narrative is based on the idea that technological progress is inevitable and needs to endlessly extract resources, human and material alike. At Baltan we reject the idea of a technological monoculture and we research and implement alternative technological frameworks, based on diversity, hope, solidarity and regeneration, rooted in contemporary philosophy, art&tech and tech-activism. We believe that artists and designers that work with a variety of technology can break through top-down narratives and have the ability to translate critical research to digital culture, bringing these important topics to a wider audience.

    Raise Your Voice is organised in collaboration with DutchCulture and the alumni department of Design Academy Eindhoven and kindly supported by Stichting Cultuur Eindhoven.

    About Baltan:
    Baltan is a cultural lab and development organisation for digital culture, based in Eindhoven. We focus on the relation between humans, non-humans and technology in the context of societal challenges. The lab embraces experiment, encourages curiosity and welcomes uncertainty, free from pre-defined outcomes or disciplinary restraints. Within the tech ecosystem of Eindhoven, we offer a platform for debate, making, critical thinking and reflection on the societal consequences of technology. In 2008 Baltan started as a lab on the intersection of art, science, design and technology. As an organisation with its roots in media art and technology, we feel a strong responsibility to keep focussing on technological developments and how they are intertwined with and often a driver of climate change, inequalities, warfare and a decline of freedom and rights.

    Part of Baltan is its BlaBlaLab, an arts and tech makerspace and community for (starting) makers to work, make and experiment together. BlaBlaLab offers the opportunity to work together in the space, experiment with technological equipment, meet other makers in meet-ups and further develop skills in making-oriented workshops.

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