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THE INSTITUTE FORUM \u00b7 FEATURED MEMBERS<\/p>

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Jeanne van Heeswijk<\/h1>

Artist \u00b7 Social Practice \u00b7 Public Space<\/p>

Art as a way for people to imagine, organise and shape the places they inhabit together.<\/p>\n

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Social Practice Library, image from Studio Jeanneworks<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/header>\n

Biography<\/h2>

Jeanne van Heeswijk is a Rotterdam-based artist whose long-term, community-embedded practice creates meeting places where public space, collective learning and civic action intersect. Her work often invites participants to become co-producers, building connections between local knowledge and wider political or cultural questions.<\/p><\/section>

Philosophy & approach<\/h2>

Rather than treating artistic practice as an autonomous object, van Heeswijk works with the relationships and infrastructures through which people can take greater part in shaping shared futures. Her approach is often described through the idea of radicalising the local: attending closely to specific places while allowing their questions to speak beyond them.<\/p><\/section>

Selected work & current practice<\/h2>

Her long-term projects include Trainings for the Not-Yet, the Ultradependent Public School, It’s OK… commoning uncertainties, the Social Practice Library and the Community Wellbeing Collective. Through Studio Jeanneworks, these projects have moved between educational experiments, cultural institutions, neighbourhood spaces and forms of collaborative organising.<\/p><\/section><\/div>\n