Kristin
Barendregt-Ludwig
Re-Imagine the Social
ABOUT
Kristin Barendregt-Ludwig invites collaborators into structures for inquiry and reflection to re-imagine social environments. Themes navigate the social tensions involved in co-creating the “good life” ranging from the community of life and differentiated consciousness to the aesthetics of progress and civic participation. Through social scores, participatory prompts, and collaborative inquiry intensives that move knowledge from the head to the body and into the social field, Kristin’s work invites people to encounter themselves, each other and the new - differently. Using methods that invite connection, curiosity, and inspiration, participants become co-creators and the outcomes of each project are a unique expression of their lived experiences and collective sense-making. While her work focuses attention on social elements aligned with distributed leadership, relational trust, and emergent creativity; they are non-proscriptive in practice, inviting collaborators to notice the cultures they are creating and generate meaning from their experiences as co-creators.
Barendregt-Ludwig is a New Haven, U.S. based, award winning social practice artist. Recently, she has partnered with Sue Murad and the Reciprocity Collaborative's Project SITE, an interdisciplinary project on Responsive Place-Making with the National Parks of the East. Kristin’s work has been performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and Museum of Fine Arts Boston as well as through Arts-Based Learning Labs at Harvard Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, the DePaul School of Continuing and Professional Education, and the Association for Moral Education Conference. Her piece “You are Invited: Big Prizes Inside" was selected for the 2026 Creative Climate Awards in NYC. Kristin is also the Associate Director of Innovation and Impact at the Yale Program for Social Enterprise, Innovation, and Impact and researches co-creative leadership with the Partnering Lab at Northeastern University's College of Arts, Media, and Design.
What's New?
My new piece "You are Invited: Big Prizes Inside" has been selected for the Human Impacts Institute's 2026 Creative Climate Awards in NYC!
From April 16th to May 14th, my artwork will be showcased alongside other international artists, all exploring (and inspiring!) collective climate action through art.
Join me at the opening and learn about the special events throughout the month including Earth Day!
Current Projects
The projects below are invitations to collaborate.
I invite you to read them and reach out with
IDEAS • SUGGESTIONS • RESPONSES
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Virtual Opening Earth Day 2026!
You are Invited: Big Prizes Inside
What is your eco-passion? What gets in the way of working collectively to make your eco-passion a reality?
Selected for the 2026 Creative Climate Award, You are Invited: Big Prizes Inside invites participants to reflect on their relationship to collective action with the people that know them best.
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Backyard BBQ
Build community - with your own backyard. Arrive, meet a new friend, spend some time getting to know each other, share a story.
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News of the Future
Future stories about how social change happens. Connect actions we are taking now in policy and practice to wellbeing for future generations. An invitation to explore theories of change and assemble theories of action.
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Microenvironment Études
Move information into the body and encounter ourselves, others, and the new differently through microenvironments for learning.
Aesthetics of Growth
How did values of progress become visions of progress? What is the role of the aesthetic?
Project Archive
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2025 Sue Murad: ASSEMBLE, Performance Action on the Boston Common
Sue Murad’s ASSEMBLE: Performance Instructions For Public Arrangement is a participatory performance that reflects on the ways we gather in public space—particularly the historic Boston Common—through the objects we bring with us or discover there.
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2019 Open Expedition
A collaboration of the National Parks of Boston and Reciprocity Collaborative artists inviting the public to encounter Spectacle Island through art-making, memory, and reflection including the opening of the "Imaginal Gates", and premier of "Harbor Chant" investigating the role of imagination in relationships with the environment.
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2018-2020 Boston National Park Residency
Site-specific investigation by Reciprocity Collaborative artists conducted from 2018-2020 at three urban National Park sites located in Boston, Massachusetts: Old South Meeting House, Historic Old North Church and Campus, and Boston Harbor Islands
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2015-2016 Arts-Based Learning Labs
Exploring how body literacy influences learning and meaning making.
Want to support socially engaged art?
Commission a piece or support an activation. Contact me at kdregt@gmail.com for more information.
Donate to Blade of Grass to support socially engaged artists working in the United States. (I have no direct affiliation or sponsorship with Blade of Grass)