Niels Schrader

Niels Schrader is an information designer and researcher. He founded the Amsterdam-based design studio Mind Design and is currently head of the Master Non Linear Narrative at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Together with Jorinde Seijdel he published ‘Acid Clouds: Mapping Data Centre Topologies’ (nai010 publishers, 2024).


Session

04-11
10:00
30min
Acid Clouds
Niels Schrader

Acid Clouds is a research project initiated by graphic designer Niels Schrader and photographer Roel Backaert. It explores the hidden infrastructures of digital life, exposing the political, ecological and social dynamics embodied by data centres. Moving beyond the sanitized image of the ‘cloud’, it unpacks the material and ethical complexities of these often overlooked data storage structures.

Climate and energy
Seminar room 1