Artist Bio

 

Kristin Barendregt-Ludwig invites collaborators into structures for inquiry and reflection to re-imagine social environments. Her work navigates the social tensions involved in co-creating the “good life” with themes 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 the flow of 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. 

 

Kristin currently manages programs and partnerships at the Program for Social Enterprise, Innovation, and Impact at the Yale School of Management and researches co-creative leadership with the Partnering Lab at Northeastern University's College of Arts, Media, and Design. Recently, she has partnered with Sue Murad, Infinity Village Lab, 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.

 

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