Separation Anxiety in domestic cats: What happens when we leave our cats home alone?
In my proposal Separation Anxiety in Domestic Cats, I wanted to explore how cats might react when left home alone. The idea was to study their behavior through video recordings and owner questionnaires, looking for signs of stress such as restlessness or changes in eating and sleeping. Though it remained a proposal, it reflects my fascination with animal emotions and how science can help us care for them better.
Science to Experience
In this course, students learn to communicate scientific insights through a designed experience rather than the usual written format. The challenge is to “translate” a complex or abstract insight into something tangible, engaging, and interactive. After developing and testing concepts, the final works are presented during a public exhibition. Projects often take the form of installations, performances, or interactive pieces that invite visitors to actively engage with science in new ways.
Media Technology Exhibition
How important are connections in your life? Friends, family, lovers, or even total strangers. This artwork explores the social aspect of humans and how all those connections form the bigger picture. Witness how your interactions with others breathe life into a dynamic and organic display showcasing the beauty of human connections.
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Bob van Dorresteijn, Charlotte Marosvölgyi, Sven Paqué
Interwoven
For the exhibition at V2_, we created Interwoven, an interactive installation about human connection. Visitors were invited to play a simple game to engage in conversation with another participant. Once a connection was made, both names were added to a growing digital artwork displayed on a large screen.
Digital Artwork
The artwork visualized participants and their connections, expanding day by day as more people joined. In this way, Interwoven turned fleeting social encounters into a visible web of relationships.
Multisensory research output: Ingesting smell into real and imagened smellscapes
Together with Iris Molenaar, I created a project inspired by the paper Real and Imagined Smellscapes (Lindborg & Liew, 2021). The research explored how people experience environments through scent—both in real life and when imagining smells from audio-visual cues.
We wanted to push academic output beyond text and images by adding an olfactory layer. Our creative work translated the study’s findings into an interactive map with real smell samples. Visitors could connect specific market locations,like the flower stalls, food court, or wet market, to scents such as floral, earthy, or fishy.
The result was a multisensory exhibition that turned abstract research data into something tangible and experiential, showing how smell shapes memory, perception, and well-being
Crazy Monkey Sex
This poster was created for the course Non-Human Cognition, which explores cognitive processes in non-human animals and computational models to better understand parallels with human cognition. The course combined literature study, poster design, and field trips to investigate topics such as culture, imitation, language, and consciousness across species like primates, birds, and dolphins.
Together with Esmeralda van Werkhoven and Alexander van Bakel, I designed a poster titled Crazy Monkey Sex: An Investigation into the Reaction of Bonobos to the Exposure of Species-Specific Sexual Imagery. The project reviewed literature on bonobo cognition, focusing on how they perceive and respond to visual stimuli. We highlighted their strong social and sexual behaviors, memory capabilities, and ability to interpret socially relevant content.
Our findings suggest that bonobos not only comprehend visual input but may also show sensitivity to sexually explicit material, offering insights into both animal and human cognition.
