About us
Emergence Delft is a student team from TU Delft founded in 2023. Each year, a new team of 31 students voluntarily dedicate a full year to the mission of Emergence. Our strength lies in the different perspectives and disciplines we bring together, including engineering, design, art and social sciences.
Mission
Emergence brings together TU Delft and art schools to create interactive art installations that make emerging technologies tangible, inspire curiosity, and spark critical conversations about their impact on our digital society.
We dream of a space where art, science,
design, and technology come together to make innovation accessible. By including the whole of society in meaningful dialogue about innovation, we empower people to explore ideas, question assumptions, and imagine new futures together.
Vision
WHY?
As technology advances, its inner workings become increasingly difficult to comprehend. Our artworks do more than facilitate in the understanding of the technology; they are made to inspire and spark dialogue which enables reflection on potential opportunities and issues of technologies in our digital society.
We bring artists and engineers together in Emergence Delft, an interdisciplinary research and development team consisting of students from the TU Delft and nearby art schools like the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Through this structure, we explore the untapped potential in the intersection of their fields.
For a semester, we voluntarily commit part- or fulltime to our Dream Team. The New Media Project adopts a mission-driven focus, following the traditional Dream Team approach, while the Platform Project is taking a curiosity-driven focus. The Operations department forms the backbone of the Dream Team, while the Management department provides oversight and guidance to the rest of the team.
To test and expand our knowledge we are in close contact with established artists, institutes, and/or professionals.
HOW?
WHAT?
We are dedicated to create new media art.
We pursue this through two projects: the Platform Project and the New Media Project. Each project serves as a communication form for certain elements of a complex technology, This gives the people the opportunity to reflect on it. In addition to the two projects, we document findings, methods, and theories encountered during our research in our Public Knowledge Bank.
To expand our reach we showcase our projects at our own events and we participate in relevant competitions and exhibitions.