1. Lofofora
  2. Touching: A Research Method in Art and Design
  3. And Sometimes I Just Feel Like Melting
  4. Theatre Kikker                        
  5. (M)eet de Plastics
  6. It’s Plastic Bitch!
  7. From the Womb to Fake Tits
  8. De Plasticene
  9. Bioplastic Cooking Workshop
  10. MAAT Cosmetics





From the Womb to Fake Tits: How plastic lives with, through and in-between usKABK Library, The Hague, July 2021
This thesis explores plastic in all its forms—material, metaphorical, and linguistic—unpacking its complex and often contradictory role in our lives. Moving beyond simplistic dichotomies of good and bad, it examines how plastic shapes and is shaped by human and non-human worlds, affecting bodies, ecosystems, and cultural narratives.

Through a combination of historical analysis, material experimentation, and speculative inquiry, the thesis navigates plastic’s entanglements: from its origins and environmental impact to its presence in human bodies and language. It considers the potential for collaboration with non-human agents in addressing plastic pollution and explores artistic and speculative strategies for reimagining plastic’s future.

Accompanied by images, examples, and even embedded plastic materials, the thesis is both a critical investigation and a tactile engagement with the material itself. It argues that to fully grasp plastic’s role in our world, we must embrace its complexity—recognising its capacity for both destruction and transformation, harm and potential.

Chapter Titles:

  1. Defining Change: What is Plastic?
  2. Remains to be Seen: Plastic Destruction and Repair
  3. Growing Plastic: The Non-Human and Plastics
  4. Life in Plastic, It’s Fantastic: Gender, The Body, and Plastic
  5. The Plasticene: The Future of Plastics
  6. Conclusions: Potentialities Materialized


This Thesis was awarded the Bachelor ArtScience Thesis Award. Read it online  here





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