A big thank you to everyone who joined us last week for the symposium ‘Tempers and Temperatures: The Rising Heat of Digital Ecologies’. It was an inspiring and thought-provoking day dedicated to exploring climate change disinformation and its impact on democracy and public trust.

We are especially grateful to our speakers Gabriele Colombo, Mijke van der Drift, Sophie Dyer, Joey Grostern, Jennie King, Sabine Niederer, and Sorab Roustayar for sharing their expertise, insights, and critical perspectives. Their contributions sparked meaningful discussions about how misinformation shapes public debate, influences policy, and affects the way societies respond to climate challenges. The first session explored how climate narratives are shaped by power, ethics, and disinformation, while the second session focused on how climate data enters the public domain through journalism, media, and artificial intelligence. The final session examined how to foster resilience and cultivate shared imaginaries for climate action.

We value the participation of everyone who joined the discussions, asked questions, and contributed throughout the day. Your engagement made the symposium a vibrant space for exchange and reflection. A heartfelt thank you also to the Erasmus+ partners from Barcelona, London, Reykjavík, Sarajevo, Tallinn and Vilnius, and to all our brilliant NLN students, whose dedication made this event possible.

Photos by Roel Backaert

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THREE WEEKS LEFT TO APPLY! 🧡

Are you interested in joining the MA Non Linear Narrative from September 2026? Make sure to submit your application by 2nd March to be reviewed as a priority!

Non Linear Narrative is a two-year master’s programme that merges investigative methods of journalism and forensics with processing technologies of computer science and visual arts into a contemporary progressive design approach: non-linear storytelling.

It takes the entanglement of relations in the global information society as a starting point, in order to identify and interrogate complex socio-political issues and communicate them to a broad audience. The programme repositions the graphic design discipline in the changing professional landscape and extends it with new responsibilities towards society.

You can find more info about what you need to do to apply via our website (link in bio). Please contact us by email if you have any questions!

Image: TogetherTogether Collective, Non Linear Narrative graduation show, 2025 by Eric de Vries

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PORTFOLIO REVIEWS!
Are you interested in applying to join the MA Non Linear Narrative in September 2026? We're offering the opportunity to have one-on-one talks to review and give advice on your portfolio before you submit your application.
On 27th January and 10th February, you can sign up for a 15 minute online slot to discuss your portfolio with two of our excellent NLN alums, who will guide you through some of the expectations and give advice on how you might want to adapt your portfolio for us. Sign up for a slot via the KABK website, but be quick - places are limited!
Register here: https://www.kabk.nl/en/events/1-on-1-portfolio-advice-master-non-linear-narrative
Interested candidates are also always welcome to reach out to us via email with any questions about application.

Pictured are our current students on a visit to the Snellius National Supercomputer in Amsterdam in September, as part of our introduction week!
Photo: Roel Backaert

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A walk with the new students of Non Linear Narrative #KABK led us to 1646, one of the most interesting cultural spaces in The Hague. Their exhibitions are always impressive, with attention to detail and total transformation of the space.
But I have to say the students here took it to the next level posing for these pictures!
#1646 #nonlinearnarrative #thehague

Many thanks to everyone who joined us at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague for the launch of Trans Femme Futures with Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift earlier this month.
We had some great readings of passages from the book, and a fantastic discussion around the subject of abolitionist ethics and transfeminism.
For those who were unable to make it, the book is still available from Pluto Press and many good bookshops.

#mijkevanderdrift #transfemmefutures #nonlinearnarrative #kabk

Soon we will be looking forward to the graduation projects of the current 2nd year students, but let's take a moment to look back on our class of 2024, who graduated last July, but are of course still with us in spirit and very much missed! We're happy to announce that their graduation interviews are now live on Vimeo - watch here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/11596578

2024 Graduates: Alessandro Caccuri, Kai Jiao, Lode Dijkers, Marta Cuccurullo, Michela Meliddo, and Nigel van der Pol.

The interviews were conducted by our wonderful previous alums Lisette Alberti and Alicja Konkol, with camera and editing by Dario Di Paolantonio

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Students from the Master Non Linear Narrative kicked off the new year with a Tech Week workshop in January, exploring Unreal Engine alongside 3D scanning, modelling and printing methods, VFX and CAD/CAM. The workshop was led by Laura O’Neill with Matthew Ferguson and introduced students to game design software and the principles of non-linear storytelling. The main challenge of the duo’s “Twisted Timeline” brief centered around resilience of non-human life forms and the question “What does life look like before humanity or after it has drastically scaled back its influence?”

Laura O'Neill is a Polyphonic Design Engineer currently specialising in XR, game design, animation, haptics, robotics, and additive manufacturing. Her work has been shown at the Liverpool Biennial, ICA London, CCD Mexico and Amsterdam Museum. She was commissioned to create a WWII memorial for Gemeente Almere and a public sculpture for Rechtbank Amsterdam.

Matthew Ferguson is an Architectural Engineer at Octatube and an instructor in robotic fabrication at TU Eindhoven. His work spans art making and professional projects, exploring the relationship between design and fabrication. Matthew is passionate about the interplay of tools and materials, working with both traditional craft and advanced digital processes.

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The master Non Linear Narrative is delighted to welcome philosopher Mijke van der Drift and poet Nat Raha for the book launch of ‘Trans Femme Futures’ on Thursday, 6 March 2025, at 16:00 in the auditorium of the KABK. In their book, the authors show how social change can be achieved through transformative practices that allow queer life to thrive in a time of climate, health, political and economic crises.

‘What we need at this moment is a powerful, steadfast commitment to liberation. And this book is it.’
—Marquis Bey, author of Black Trans Feminism

Mijke van der Drift works on transfeminist and anti-imperial ethics through philosophies of movement, collective action, and counter-cultural production. This work takes the form of writings, performances, and sound pieces, often by way of inter-disciplinary collaborations. Mijke is Tutor (Research) at the Royal College of Art, London and co-chair of its Union branch. Mijke is founding member of the arts collective Red Forest. Together with Nat Raha, Mijke co-authored Trans Femme Futures (Pluto 2024). They published in Social Text, with Cambridge University Press, and co-edit the Radical Transfeminism Zine.

Nat Raha is a poet, and Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies at the Glasgow School of Art. Her poetry is of an experimental queer lyric, attending to hirstories of struggle and resistance to racial capitalism, through de/re/materialising sound, form and syntax, on the page and in performance. Her books of poetry include apparitions (nines) and of sirens, body & faultlines. Her performance work, epistolary (on carceral islands) was co-commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival, Scotland and TULCA Festival, GA, Ireland, 2023. With Mijke van der Drift, Nat is also co-author of the article ‘“They would plant the rose garden themselves”: Femmeness, Complicity, Solidarity’, published in Social Text.

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Four Legs Good Two Legs Bad.

The 1st Year students of the MA Non Linear Narrative programme are inviting you to their exhibition “Four Legs Good Two Legs Bad” on Thursday the 13th of February in Gallery 3 in the KABK building. Drinks will be served from 19:00, followed by the “We Are Not Safe in Our Homeland Anymore” performance at 20:00 by Karol Filo.

In Four Legs Good Two Legs Bad, the students of Non Linear Narrative explore the relationship to their working spaces, searching for a way to recontextualize labour outside of the digital sphere. After searching through their archives, they were challenged to bring our digital desktops into the tangible world.

“These groups of “desks,” represent the “work” both tangible and imperceptible that occupies our time, our thoughts, and our memory.”

#nonlinearnarrative #twolegsgoodfourlegsbad #imagelanguage #royalacademyofart #kabk

It is our utmost pleasure to announce that for this year's assessments, the wonderful Victoria McKenzie will be joining us as our external examiner!

Victoria McKenzie is a Jamaican-Trinidadian Academic-Activist, Research Architect and Movement-Artist currently based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her work focuses on the interconnections between socio-politics, the built environment and ecological justice. She is the founder and director of an architectural research agency ‘RRA’ Radical Research & Re-storying Agency (2022) which is informed by the question: “how can the pre-colonial past inform a decolonial future?” and has worked on a variety of architectural projects in the Caribbean, Africa, Latin America and Europe. As a radical dreamer and believer that a new and just future can exist, Victoria has worked with a variety of architectural practices and arts institutions such as ICE Institute for Creative Exchange, Cittadellarte, Triennale di Milano, Amisacho Restoracíon, Somerset House, Forensic Architecture, Adjaye Associates and Het Nieuwe Instituut—to connect art, design, politics and ecology. She sits on the board of directors for ‘African Design Matters’ and her most recent joy has been hosting the podcast ‘Kitchen Flex’ which opens the space for a dialogue on decolonizing spaces, places and life on Earth.

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