As a socially engaged, sustainable artists and entrepreneur I find my practice connecting to a variety fields of knowledge and expertise. These are some examples of people and projects that I’ve drawn inspiration and pointers from and on whose shoulders of experiences I’m creating off of.

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This video is from a motivational talk that Angelina Kumar gave at the company day of iChoosr, the theme was 'Taking risks and innovation'. In the video Angelina walks the audience through her journey as a social entrepreneur and a socially engaged artist to start a project called LDD – Lucrative Dumpster Dives. The inspiration, vision, needs, lows, highs and challenges are described in her talk, giving us an insight into what it entails to venture personally and professionally towards taking an active approach towards sustainability.

LDD Becoming a Foundation:

The LDD – Lucrative Dumpster Dives project started out with a goal of creating a platform for enacting the circular economy on a smaller scale within the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht. The reason for turning LDD into a foundation came from the desire to deepen the projects impact and widen its reach in the art and cultural sector as well as make a relevant connection in the local society. The journey of turning LDD into a foundation came through seeking out local advice from a range of various types of foundations, such as Casco, to explore the best suited format for LDD.

To broaden its reach in the local society and co-create the foundation, Angelina Kumar opened up LDD to the Staters for Communities program, where local professionals joined a course to learn about social entrepreneurship by working together with social project such as LDD.

Here is a little bit about this journey of co-creating with Theo Voortman, Florine Verhallen and Jeroen Vogel from the Starters for Communities program. The results of exploring and creating the vision for the foundation as well as defining it’s how, why, what outline.

New partnerships:

Through the Starters for Communities’ program a connection was made with the Perron West foundation to mutually support the vision of both foundations.

The Creative Playground:
A space that has been left vacant by the city hall, giving space for something creative to blossom. Perron West wanted to open up the space for an artistic flow that adds a new dynamic to the space with the vision, that the artistic actives will utilise the space in a manner that is open, welcoming and attractive for the local community. LDD sees the need for a public platform to be made available for socially engaged artists that want to expand and experiment with bringing their artistic practice into a public space. Through this platform we want to draw a wider bridge between the nuanced forms of socially engaged and sustainable art forms. Giving them the opportunity to go from the conceptual realm to a public testing ground. Subjects like sustainability, inclusivity and being together in a new way. By hosting this space at the Westplein we intend to give space for these artistic seeds to be emended into the fertile soil, outside of an artistic institution, where these artistic desires can be actualised and have room to grow. Thereby opening up a new space where more creative talent can be enacted and have room to reach outward and towards the world around it.

We are offering a starting place and platform to artists that are interested in learning through experimentation how to shift from their inner practice and art-world to a outside public space.

Art has the means to create change and action.

(Click here to see the first result of this collaboration was an art residency program in 2020)

Lucrative Dumpster Dives