Synergy series arrives in Amsterdamse Bos focusing on art inspired by and connected to nature.
Through a series of workshops and activations, people of all ages - from children to senior citizens across the Amsterdam area - will come together to create: musical instruments, large-scale inflatable artwork from recycled materials, and handmade paper from natural fibres… and much more. Every sense will be engaged, forging a deeper connection between people and place, community and nature - true synergy in the heart of Amsterdamse Bos.
Museo Aero Solar
in collaboration with Aerocene Foundation
Created in collaboration with Aerocene Foundation, Museo Aero Solar is a collective artwork that transforms discarded plastic bags into a growing inflatable sculpture. Throughout the summer, people across Amsterdam are invited to collect bags, contribute materials, and take part in public workshops.
Rooted in collective responsibility and ecological imagination, the project explores how simple acts of making can bring people together. The process itself becomes the artwork, as participants reuse, assemble, and transform everyday waste into something shared.
As Museo Aero Solar moves through the city, it grows through each contribution, workshop, and encounter.
Lena Kuzmic
‘Photosynthesizer’ is a musical instrument that generates sound from the electrical output of cyanobacteria and microalgae during photosynthesis. The project explores how biological processes—specifically the photosynthetic activity of cyanobacteria—can be integrated into music-making, creating soundscapes that respond to environmental light. During photosynthesis, cyanobacteria produce electrons that can be measured and transformed into photo-reactive sound. By bringing non-human agencies into the creative process, ‘Photosynthesizer’ highlights the often intangible dynamics of biological life and light.
Parker Hertzberger
Is a Dutch designer and artist who creates multisensory sound installations that turn music into a physical, tactile experience. Feel the vibrations of music through your entire body with the Music Hammock that transforms its fabric into a speaker, allowing your body to resonate directly with the sound.
Lying in it is like being inside a living instrument, an experience where music is felt as much as it is heard. Beyond personal relaxation, the work creates new possibilities for guest musicians, adding a sensory dimension to live performances.
Myra-Ida van der Veen
During this cheerful workshop, you’ll discover how to make your own frog instrument and learn to speak in secret croak language. Frogs are nature’s ultimate sound designers: with their clever croak sacs, they make their voices loud and filter out noise… a kind of natural noise-cancelling headphones. Artist Myra-Ida van der Veen is inspired by these talents and takes you into the world of sound experiments. Together, you’ll work with different materials to try out the craziest sounds.At a large craft table in the grass, you’ll build your own kazoo—an instrument that can make your voice as loud as a frog’s. Once your masterpiece is finished, you’ll set off to send and receive Morse-like frog messages. Which vibrations make your kazoo the most fun?
Discover the magic of sound, become a master communicator, and transform into a super frog with your own secret frog code!
In partnership with iii
Akash Kumar
This is a hands-on workshop that explores the ecology of making through foraging, papermaking, and bookbinding. Together, we’ll gather materials from the landscape around iii, from algae to garden waste, and combine them with personal contributions brought by participants. Through experimental techniques, we’ll transform these found and foraged elements into handmade sheets of paper.
As the workshop unfolds, we will work with various raw materials of paper. In the final session, we will collectively stitch together a booklet, a tactile archive of place, process, and collaboration. Each page will carry a memory of material, site, and the hands that shaped it.
Participants will leave the workshop with a handmade booklet created from foraged and personal materials, stitched together as a collective record of place and process. Alongside their unique book, new skills in papermaking and bookbinding, and a deeper awareness of how the local environment can be transformed into meaningful artistic material. More than just objects, they’ll carry the shared experience of making, experimenting, and connecting with others through natural and found elements.
In partnership with iii