StanCoendersMaaktRuimte

Initially a designer (graduated 1984), in 1993 I was asked to work as therapist. From 1994 till 2015 I worked partly as therapist, partly as a designer and with art, parallel to my work with therapeutic modalities. From 2023 on I included Philosophy to search for the fundamental thoughts behind therapeutical work and systemic work.

StanCoenders Maakt Ruimte StanCoenders Creates Space

1994 - 2007

Based in Rotterdam, Design - mostly Informationcenters for infrastructural projects in the Netherlands - stage design for theatre - exhibition design - interiors for companies

Studies Interior Desin in the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam,

CEO at StanCoendersMaaktRuimte in Rotterdam. I

The projects were attractive, challenging information centers: solved with a matrix method. 10000 yrs of history in 50 pages - readable in a random order always a different entrance to the narrative; Feyenoord museum; infrastructure; megaproject Betuweroute InfoCenter; Furniture ...

Complexity needs creative concepts and designs for mixed audiences.

MeetingInZdonov - informal creative lab in rural Bohemia

2005 - 2015

In 2005 I bought a ruined farm in CZ, near Adrspach climbing area; renovated it with people from the tiny village of Zdonov. In 2007 MeetingInZdonov hosted its first international art event, Challenge a Space and offered room to hundreds of artists and many workshops in many disciplines until 2015.

Foundation WaddenArt - Art in the rural Dutch, German, Danish Wadden

2006 - 2013

Foundation WaddenArt is an offspring from the revitalization of an old brickfactory in the North of the Netherlands. Foundation WaddenArt realized two events in Denmark and one in the Netherlands; we answered the question about "the place and importance of art and artists in a rural conservative area",

WaddenArt challenged both the artists and audiences.

2008 - Footprints along a Coastline (Denmark) gave the artists

a 10 kilometr long and 500 meter wide canvas (at low tide)

2010 - Any Questions? (Denmark) gave the artists the tiniest island of Denmark

2010 - 2013 - Hardtslag (Netherlands) brought artists and inventors together

in various events and created exchange between people who normally would never meet.