Aveen Colgan
Director
Aveen is co-founder & director of the Green Living Lab. She loves to design interactive experiences in nature to encourage connection with the natural world and creates the GLL’s experiential learning programmes. She leads workshops on urban gardening, permaculture, and plant-based cooking.
Arthur de Smidt
Advisor
Arthur is co-founder of the Green Living Lab. He loves to bring people together to "leave a green trace" and his work with the Green Co-creations foundation includes mass tree plantings at festivals, an interactive sunflower maze and experiments in growing quinoa across the city of Amsterdam...
Roos van der Deijl
Educator & Advisor
Roos took part in our first Green Student Bootcamp Challenge in 2016 while she was studying Neuroscience at the VU, and this inspired her to refocus her career. She is now studying a MSc in Future Planet Ecosystem Sciences at the University of Amsterdam and works for Commonland, an organisation focused on building a restoration economy...
Hanna Gruteke
Assistant Project Co-ordinator
Hanna is a 2018 graduate of our Green Student Bootcamp Challenge programme, and now assists with the programme’s co-ordination. She is a student of Criminology at the VU University Amsterdam, where she specialises in environmental and international crime...
Hannah Wright
Educator: Urban Planning for the Healthy City
Hannah is an integrative urban planner who researches planning solutions for a healthy city. She led Arup’s ‘Cities Alive: Designing for Urban Childhoods’ project, and is an international advisor to the Urban95 initiative which invites designers to reimagine the city from a child’s perspective...
Gabi Figueiredo
Educator: Plant-based Cooking
Gabi loved to study in the dome on Green Living Library days and then ended up organising and planning diverse GLL events. She is also a proud graduate of the Green Student Bootcamp Challenge 2018...
Tess Holmgren
Creative Content & Research
Tess is a student at Amsterdam University College, studying Environmental Science, Environmental Economics & Policy. Travelling proved an especially transformative experience for Tess, when she learned about the positive impact and potential of permaculture and holistic farming methods...
Daniel Sagath
Creative Builder & Gardener
Daniel is a PhD researcher at the VU University Amsterdam, investigating innovation and entrepreneurship in outer space. He grew up close to nature in Slovakia where he learned the art of weaving willow and building structures with organic materials.
Sameena Safiruddin
Educator: Urban Gardening & Nature Crafts
Sameena leads workshops on themes including seedballs, growing plants at home, foraging, cooking with native herbs and crafting with natural materials...
Maggie Mulley
Educator: Nature Connection
Maggie first visited us when she came to study at the Green Living Library, and she then took part in the Green Student Bootcamp Challenge 2017. She leads sensory nature connection workshops and community crafting events.
Sheila de Leeuw
Educator: Nature & Crafts
Sheila came to the Green Living Lab to take part in the Green Student Bootcamp Challenge in 2017. Since then she has led crafting workshops and organised study days and events including the Green Fashion Fair.
Manon Danker
Educator: Nature Connection
Manon is a sociologist & ecologist who has worked in nature reserves in Indonesia & Peru. She now works to promote nature connection and education in The Netherlands.