National XR Day 2025

Joris Weijdom

Joris Weijdom is a researcher and designer of extended-reality (XR) experiences focusing on interdisciplinary creative processes and performativity. He designs site-specific performative mixed-reality installations and functions as a technical dramaturge in other artistic and applied design projects. As an experienced speaker, he discusses embodiment, immersion, and presence in the design of performative mixed-reality experiences. As an associate professor of the Lectorate (Dis)Connected Technology and Creativity at the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, he focuses on developing methodologies for collaborative embodied XR design processes, leads the HKU Artistic Extended Reality Lab, and teaches several BA and MA courses. His PhD project develops the performative prototyping methodology, utilizing embodied design techniques in collaborative mixed reality environments, to create novel experiences for and through XR in professional and educational settings, in collaboration with the University of Twente.

Lectorate (Dis)Connected Technology & Creativity: https://tinyurl.com/2k6nzajx
PhD research Joris Weijdom: https://tinyurl.com/2nbnmsj3


Which which institute are you affiliated?

HKU University of the Arts Utrecht


Session

07-02
14:55
45min
Co-Located XR Design Education Laboratories (workshop)
Joris Weijdom, Professsor Dr. Ian Biscoe

We present and demonstrate the early phases of a virtually co-located collaboration between HKU Utrecht's Artistic XR Lab and Design Academy Eindhoven's Trans Realities Lab. We are exploring the potential for XR-mediated colocation to deliver new interdisciplinary models for educational art and design collaboration across geographic and institutional boundaries.

Collaboration
Theil C2-4 (22p)