drs. I.M. (Imka) Buurke

Imka Buurke is a PhD candidate at the Department of Art History and Material Culture. Her research is part of the NWO project Curious Hands. Moving Making to the Core of Education and focuses on education at the intersection of art, science and technology in an Educational Laboratory (E-lab) in which embodiment and materiality play a role. Together with a research team consisting of teachers from four different secondary schools, they design education in which artistic learning and research processes underline the importance of materiality and embodiment.

Core lecturer (HSD) Academy Minerva Hanze University of Applied Sciences.
Trainer of the Basic Qualification for pedagogical Competence (BDB).
Teacher of 1st degree Drawing and Art History at the Praedinius Gymnasium, Groningen.