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Catinca Tilea is a Rotterdam-based artist and designer whose work navigates the intersections of creativity, social dilemmas, and participation. Since 2018, she has been experimenting with biotechnology as a way to redefine our relationship with nature. Her artistic research project HOW (short for household organic waste) asks: what if everyone could build something from their own organic waste?
Tilea’s practice often combines installation, artistic research, and design, with a strong emphasis on audience involvement. Earlier works explore active participation in the art-making process as a primal form of reflecting on the world. By openly sharing her methods, she encourages people to consider alternative perspectives on ecology, sustainability, and human autonomy.
Her projects highlight how sharing knowledge can foster cultural change. Much of her work is relational, forming the body of a social practice where collective creativity becomes both medium and message.