University of the Underground

Thieu Custers (NL) is a bio-social designer and a bit of a tinkerer. He likes to let his imagination run wild, with twigs and stones, nuts and bolts. He is interested in connecting science to the field of philosophy and design, by working with natural processes and the human body as a source of inspiration. His work often ends up staging practical performative experiments that place him at the barrel end of the topic at hand. He delves into themes of sanitation, ecological space exploration, co-creation of placemaking and circular living.