Hi everybody!

Clay week has started at CCU, and we heard lots of you wanted to join the Feminist Hardware workshop, but it’s sold out already 🥲

If you are still craving to learn more about clay and feminist hardware, we can highly recommend you join this meetup on Thursday. Stefanie Wuschitz and Patricia Reis will discuss the theoretical background behind the weekend workshop, and much more. Hope to see you there! 🍃

❗️An additional notice for those who purchased a Klankdiner ticket in February: please check your inbox, you received an email with instructions on how to rebook your slot!

👀 Curious about a unique experience, where fine dining, sound and technology come together? Keep an eye out: tickets for the Klankdiner go live today at 16:00!

❗️Last minute spot available for the Feminist Hardware workshop, happening today and on Sunday! Reply to this post to claim it and I will send you the instructions 🙂

Above the Ground exhibition, the CCU-studio will be turned into an alternative arcade with various installations and consoles to play with. The majority of the hardware is saved from the trash and tells a unique story. Dust off the old electronics in your attic, and get some inspiration on how to set up your own homemade gaming station! If you have any tech you’d like to repurpose, or perhaps your own e-waste arcade, feel free to bring them to the meetup. You don’t need any preexisting knowledge or tech/gaming skills to join this meetup.

Together we explore ways to develop a healthier relationship with our day-to-day devices, and learn about the principles of permacomputing. Discover how you can find value in abandoned electronics, and challenge your friends!

Where: CCU-studio, Vlampijpstraat 84, Utrecht
Date: 20 November, 20:00-22:00
Price: Regular €7,50/Student €5 https://ccu.stager.co/shop/default/events/111586549?utm_campaign=e-waste-arcade&utm_source=tg

🍁 Are you ready for U? this Saturday? We will be there with the opening of our GROUND exhibition! Come check it out below the CCU Studio at Vlampijpstraat 84 (Boomtoren).

Programme

14:00 Live Coding Performance by Younger Sibling

14:30 “Sound of Clay” by Gemma Luz Bosch followed by Opening words

15:15 “Multispecies karaoke” demo by Niek Hilkmann and Matthijs an Oosterhoudt (the karaoke is then available for visitors to try out)

15:20 - 20:00 - Rooted Frequencies: 030303 showcase with Roel Funcken, Kettel, Cosmies & Aux Ann, Rolanda Simmons;and Forma (live)

Hope to see you there!

The full workshop programme of 🌕 ITERATIONS 2025 🌕 is live!

Check out all session here: https://creativecodingutrecht.nl/en/calendar

📍The Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague
📅 26-29 November

We close the Ground season with an afternoon dedicated to attentive listening and multispecies connection. The day begins with a Sound Ecologies Walkshop hosted by Werner de Valk, featuring contributions from Matthias Hurtl with Listening to the Cracks and Nico García Peguinho with Sensing the Forest. Together they explore how sound can reveal the hidden life and shifting ecologies of our surroundings.

As daylight fades, Friso and Bart from Nightwalkers introduce a nocturnal perspective on urban sensing. Their long-running walking practice invites participants to experience the city after dark, where slower movement and shifting perception open up new ways of noticing urban atmospheres and multispecies encounters.

📍November 22 - 13:00 - 15:00
📅 CCU Studio, Vlampijpstraat 84
🎫Regular €7,50/Students €5, https://ccu.stager.co/shop/default/events/111593999

In the evening of the Ground Finissage, the multispecies concert carries the day’s themes into performance.

The concert begins with Niels Gräber and Isaac van den Aker, who create sound with and through the garden itself, followed by Sonified Garden by Sunjoo Lee and Korhan Erel. On a sunny August day, Korhan and Sunjoo took a deep listen to the Electric Garden’s vibrant soundscape. Inspired by its living energies, they created an audiovisual performance shaped by the garden’s fermenting ecosystem.

Nico García Peguinho presents Sensing the Alice Holt Forest, an audiovisual work based on the extensive aural dataset of the Sensing the Forest project.

The finissage offers a moment to reflect, listen and celebrate the closing of Ground, while carrying its questions and inspirations into what comes next.

📍November 22 - 20:00 - 22:00
📅 CCU Studio, Vlampijpstraat 84
🎫 Free! Sign up via https://ccu.stager.co/shop/default/events/111594076

To end the year in style, CCU and VOGELFREI invite you to take a seat at our table, where sound, food and technology intertwine in an immersive dining experience like no other!

The Klankdiner invites you to rediscover food not just as nourishment, but as a living presence that listens, responds and connects.

Rooted in Ground, our ongoing artistic research into touch, sound and shared rituals, this edition celebrates the earth as a vibrant partner rather than a passive source.

Artist duo Fedde & de Carvalho create a multispecies environment where guests eat, feel and listen together. A vegetarian five-course menu unfolds within a shifting soundscape, transforming dining into a ceremony of care, reciprocity and gratitude.

Join us for an unforgettable experience!

📍 VOGELFREI, Nijverheidsweg 6, 3531 AR Utrecht

📅 11 t/m 13 December, 17:00 - 19:00 / 20:00 - 22:00

🎫 €84 regular / €62 student https://ccu.stager.co/shop/default

Last night's show was incredible! Exceptionally, we have a few spots left tonight at 17:00 and tomorrow at 20:00 @ VOGELFREI due to last minute cancellations. If you'd like to join us for the last run ever of the Klankdiner, send us an email at info[at]creativecodingutrecht[dot]nl! Solidariety tickets available for community members

Join our team! We have the following positions available:

💫 Strategic Lead Marketing and Communications: https://creativecodingutrecht.nl/en/news/vacancy-strategic-lead-marcom

💫 Education Programme Assistant: https://creativecodingutrecht.nl/en/news/vacancy-education-assistant

⏰Apply before January 15

Photo courtesy of By-Pauluz

Happy New Year from the CCU Team! ✨🍾🎉

🚀Our partner Freedom City Utrecht is hiring! Check out the vacancy for Education Project Manager here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DSkuTkZDA_C/?img_index=1

Dear community,

💻Do you have any laptops lying around, catching dust? 💻

For our educational program LEARN we are currently on the lookout for laptop donations to use in the classroom. Children will be learning how to program the micro:bit with it.

Requirements:
-Basic web-browsing
-Windows 8/10/11, Mac or linux (no chromebook);
-Core i3/i5/i7
-Min. of 8gb ram

Thank you from the CCU Team!

🔮 Last year, Daniel Temkin joined us for a meetup about esolangs. He will be returning to Utrecht to present his new book: Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code

Register via this link: https://transmissioninmotion.sites.uu.nl/recommended-event-book-launch-forty-four-esolangs-the-art-of-esoteric-code-with-daniel-temkin/

Next month we celebrate the Week of Circular Economy 🔄 

Join our program at the Hof van Cartesius for a week full of workshops, lectures, (data)walks and more. Through hands-on experiments and thought-provoking conversations, we’ll explore how art and creativity can spark new ways of thinking—and doing—circularity.

From reimagining waste to designing regenerative energy systems, expect a programme that bridges imagination and action.

Find more information about these events on our website 🔗 in bio!

In this hands-on workshop, we’ll start by generating electricity from soil using microbial fuel cells ⚡️

With artist Sunjoo Lee and researcher Fieke Jansen (Critical Infrastructure Lab), you will use mud batteries to power small electronic devices, discovering how energy can emerge from regenerative biological processes rather than extractive systems. This practice reveals principles of distributed, resilient, and symbiotic infrastructure design.

Then we’ll shift from soil to servers with researcher Kars Alfrink from TU Delft. We’ll question centralised cloud systems and resource-intensive data centres, while envisioning collective alternatives that prioritise people and planet over capital and control. A graphic facilitator, Lena Trotereau, will capture the process in real-time, creating a visual map of our collective thinking.

🗓️ Fri 27 March, 14:30-16:30
💸 Regular €10/Student €5- Tickets here: https://ccu.stager.co/shop/default/events/111630927
📍CCU Studio
❕No technical experience required

Hoe kunnen we de Hof economie niet alleen circulair, maar zelfs regeneratief maken door samen te werken met niet-menselijk leven? Tijdens deze Lunch talk delen Fabian van Sluijs (CCU) en Theun Karelse (Spreker der Levenden) inzichten over het concept van een Zoöp—een organisatie die recht doet aan alle levende wezens in haar ecosysteem. Daarnaast vertellen ze over de stappen die CCU de afgelopen jaren heeft gezet om het *multi-species perspectief* te integreren in de organisatie.

Laat je inspireren en ontdek hoe jij als Hof lid kunt bijdragen aan een toekomst waarin mens en natuur elkaar versterken.

🌿 De Zoöp-beweging streeft naar organisaties die niet alleen gericht zijn op menselijk belang, maar ook op het welzijn van alle levende wezens in hun omgeving.

🗓️ Dinsdag 27 maart, 12:30-13:30
📍De Loods, Vlampijpstraat 94, Utrecht
💸 Lunch: €7,50-€15,00 - https://shop.ikbenaanwezig.nl/tickets/event/lunch-talk-zops-24-03-2026
🗣️ Nederlands (might be adapted to English based on participants)

How many examples of circularity can you spot around the Hof van Cartesius? 👀  In this session, you will explore the area with the Datawalk method. During this collective documentation experience, you will snap pictures, record audio, or write a poem about the spots that spark your curiosity. Just bring your phone with Telegram installed! Your entries will build up a digital map of circular economy in the Hof.

After the datawalk, Vincent Schoutsen will unveil his latest trash-artwork at UP, with an artist talk at 14:00.

📅 Saturday March 21, 12:30-13:45
📍 Start at the UP building, Vlampijpstraat 84, Utrecht
🎫 Free, no sign up needed
🗣️ Dutch (might be adapted to English based on participants)

Tijdens deze inloopworkshop verander je afgedankte elektronica in iets nieuws en waardevols: In jouw persoonlijke accessoire. Denk hierbij aan een fidget toy, een armband, of een ander uniek draagbaar kunstwerk.

Samen met makers uit de CCU-community duiken we in een stapel e-waste en ontdekken zo gaandeweg waaruit onze apparaten zijn opgebouwd en wat er nog mee mogelijk is.

Knutsel ervaring is niet nodig, we denken graag met je mee in het ontwerp proces! Heb je zelf nog een apparaat liggen dat rijp is voor de sloop? Neem het mee en geef het een nieuw leven!

Schuif aan of kom een kijkje nemen en laat je inspireren!

📅 Woensdag 25 maart, inloop van 14.30 - 17.00u
📍 Werkplaats UP, Vlampijpstraat 84
🎫  Gratis, aanmelden niet nodig
🗣️ Nederlands (might be adapted to English based on participants)