Saskia de Wildt
Fellow
Saskia de Wildt (she/they) was born and raised in Amsterdam, the Netherlands - where they are also currently based. They started their career in 2006 as an Art-director in the Dutch film and television industry, where they worked on multiple prize-winning productions.
In 2014, they shifted gears and sought to apply their creative skills within International Development- and Environmental Studies. Interested in the ethics of cross-cultural research and post-colonial practice, they have since been researching the knowledge politics surrounding hydropower development in the Eastern Himalayas, professional journalism, creative methods for social change and ethical knowledge conciliation around polar bears. They have also continued their artistic and creative journey, as a stage-performer and multimedia visual creator.
Central to their art and research lies the question what creative methods, and arts-based research have to offer to the (epistemic) challenges of conducting ethical and meaningful research, policy and practice. How can we conciliate different value systems, and how do we respectfully, ethically and willingly come together, while acknowledging our cultural differences?
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2023 feb-okt
Senior researcher/manager (0.4) School of Applied Sciences Amsterdam, lectorate Creative Media for Social Change -
2016 - current Conceptual designer / Impact producer / Visual storyteller (www.gingertheworld.com)
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2018 - 2019
Arts-based / Action Researcher School of Applied Sciences Utrecht - lectorate of quality journalism (https://www.journalismlab.nl/) -
2017 - 2018
Student services employee (0.4) University of Amsterdam, Institute for Dutch Language Education (INTT) -
2006 - 2014
Production-designer (www.artstikke.com) -
2002 - 2010 Manager Bookfund (0.2) Amsterdams Lyceum, Bookfund, Valeriusplein 15, 1075 BJ Amsterdam.
- Onto-Epistemology
- Environmental Studies
- Arts-based research
- Creative methods
- Trans disciplinarity
Publications prior to joining the RIFS
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De Wildt, S., Qitsualik, J., Aglukkaq, W., Whitelaw, G., McClintock, K., Arlidge, S., Lougheed, S. & van Coeverden-de Groot., P. (2025) Voices of Thunder: Polar Bear Quota Reduction Impacts in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut. From Purveying Voices to Accepting Testimony. Journal of Arctic Science (submitted)
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De Wildt, S. (2024). Wayfaring as an ethical research practice of knowledge relating in Nunavut polar bear monitoring in Tennberg, M., Schell, J., Bravo, M. and V. Väätänen, (eds.) More-than-human entanglements in the Arctic. Publisher (accepted - forthcoming).
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McMaster, K.E.B., de Wildt, S., Mishos, S., Shardlow, E. and H. Castleden (2024). Getting Punk and Personal: Creating and Evaluating Podcasts and Zines as Pedagogy for Teaching and Learning in Critical Geographical Methodologies. The Journal of Geography in Higher Education
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De Wildt, S. (2024). Mx. Science [performance] Data Ball Taka Taka (curator). Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
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Qitsualik, J., Aglukkaq, W. and S. De Wildt (2023). Voices of Thunder [film] co-produced
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De Wildt, S. (2022). Mx. Science [artistic intervention]. Artic Science meeting.
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De Wildt, S. (2021). (Review of the book Colonialism and Animality: Anti-colonial Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies by Montfort, K.S and Taylor, C.) Canadian Geographer
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Hölsgens, S., Wildt, S. D., & Witschge, T. (2020). Walking the newsroom: towards a sensory experience of journalism. The Journal for Artistic Research, 21.
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Hölsgens, S., de Wildt, S., & Witschge, T. (2020). Towards an experientialist understanding of journalism: Exploring arts-based research for journalism studies. Journalism Studies, 21(7), 928-946.
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2022
Art of Research: Winner Category Creative and Sustainable Communities 2022 Queen's University -
2021
People's choice award: Best presentation 2021 The Queen's Northern Research Symposium (QNRS) -
2021-2024 SSHRC VANIER CANADA GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP Government of Canada
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2021
NSTP Northern Scientific Training Program travelgrant Northern Scientific Training Program travelgrant -
2019
Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds studiebeurs Cultuurfonds