Innovate your research through digital technology

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We help researchers. educators, & local institutions explore, experiment, and innovate.

Together, we work to build confidence and technological competence so that you can create the forward-thinking projects of your dreams.

Dream big with a supportive team

Working together, The Plant offers the space and support to take risks, build skills, share knowledge & expertise, and dream big.

We offer consulting services on projects, collaborative design, and interdisciplinary expertise in digital humanities and social sciences.

Consulting

Come with an idea and we'll think together to discover different options and possibilities for the methodology, design, digital techniques, or technology that you're considering.

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Co-Design

Let's work in partnership to bring that ideas to fruition - we'll sit side-by-side as we think our way through the project, merging our expertise with yours.

Knowledge Transfer

Bring your curiosity and a goal - whether that's a video you want to edit, a digital map you dream of making, a technology you want to repurpose, something you want to digitize, or a dataset that you hope to analyze. With your specific project in mind, we'll share our expertise with you so that you can DIY your way to success.

Growing together

Work collaboratively or learn side-by-side in an interdisciplinary manner – at The Plant, we merge our humanities & social science backgrounds with our passion for all things tech-y. 

The Plant works within three main themes to ensure we can offer genuine expertise and the most relevant emerging techniques.

Digital Storytelling

Digital storytelling integrates technology with narrative techniques to create engaging and multimodal stories to offer new ways of developing, sharing, and experiencing knowledge.

Unboxing Digital Tech

By engaging directly with tools and devices, you develop not only practical skills but also a deeper comprehension of how technology operates and interacts with the world around us.

Quantitative Data

Using computational methods to explore complex phenomena, identify patterns, and visualize data while considering ethical and legal issues when working with data, including privacy, transparency, and bias.

Who's who?

At The Plant, we aim to offer the mental, emotional, and physical space necessary to take risks, embrace failure, and dream bigger.

We offer expert advice in a wide range of humanities and social science research areas in additional to our technical and creative expertise.

 

Did you know?

Costas is an amazing cook & baker – he’s featured in the FASoS cookbook!

Costas
Papadopoulos

An archaeologist by origin, Costas's research spans the development of 3D (re)constructions and virtual worlds to the application of computational imaging to analyse material culture.

Costas is the PI of PURE3D, the national infrastructure for the publication and preservation of 3D scholarship.

 

Did you know?

Claartje coaches a football team for women & girls in Belgium!

Claartje Rasterhoff

Always community-focused, Claartje's research focuses on collective action and regenerative practices in/with art and heritage - both historical and contemporary.

Claartje's also the Director of the Maastricht Centre for Arts & Culture, Conservation, and Heritage (MACCH)!

 

Did you know?

Thom loves improv and recently performed at Kumulus with his theatre troupe.

Thomas Frissen

A lover of all things quantitative, Thom is a Python maestro with a previous career in media production. Thom focuses on questions regarding the role of digital media and technology in society, culture, and behaviour.

He's also the Programme Director of B.A. Digital Society!

 

Did you know?

Arnoud organizes the annual Latin translation competition in Flanders.

Arnoud
Wils

A genuine AI expert, Arnoud merges his love of linguistics with technology through code. Cleaning, analyzing, and visualizing datasets are Arnoud's bread-and-butter, which he uses in his pursuit of harnessing large language models to explore and analyze unstructured data in a structured way.

Arnoud is the Research Software Engineer at The Plant and the genius behind a lot of our tools!

 

Did you know?

Jay loves basketball & runs a local queer sports group in Maastricht.

Jaime (Jay)
Simons

Madly creative, Jay loves nothing more than breaking disciplinary boundaries within a project. Jay has the audacity to think they can learn anything. Recently, they've fallen in love with the worlds of sound art, creative coding, design, & extended reality.

Jay is The Plant's Creative Lab Technologist and the designer of our website!

Highlighted Projects

We offer yearly grants to support FASoS researchers and educators in experimenting with new technology or innovating their practice via digital methods.

As a partner, we are supportive and reassuring. We’re always ready to dive into your curiosity with you! 

The Plant offers creative and imaginative opportunities, with advice that is still practical, actionable, and realistic.

What's available?

Besides our the time & energy of our team, we also have a wide range of cutting-edge equipment and software available as well as the use of The Plant’s collaboration spaces.

 

Spaces

The Greenhouse – our creative thinking corner turned podcasting booth, available for groups of 2-5 people.

The Stem – our high-powered desktop computers, available for 1-2 people at a time.

The Field – our education space & workshop area, available for 2-20 people.

 

Software & Equipment

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The Plant

Playground and Laboratory for New Technologies


Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences

Maastricht University


90-92 Grote Gracht

Maastricht, The Netherlands

6211 SZ

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