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© 2026
Blise Orr
bliseorr@gmail.com

Rotterdam, NL
Scotland, UK

Blise Orr is a multidisciplinary practitioner interested in digital culture & the ethics of technology.

She graduated from the Glasgow School of Art Interior Design program in 2019. In 2023 she completed the master interior architecture at the Piet Zwart Institute. Her work considers how spatial design impacts ideologies of ecology in relation to our current, post-natural environment

Education

Piet Zwart Instituut - Willem De Kooning
Interior Architecture & Research MA (Cum Laude)

Independant School for the City
Dirty old town

Glasgow School of Art -
Interior Design BA (First Class Honors)

Exhibitions

Heterotopias -
Bureau Europa, Maastricht, NL
2026 (upcoming)

Heterotopias - SS Rotterdam -
Rotterdam, NL (Fleur groenendijk + CBK fund)
2025

Center for PostNatural History -
Solo show
Pittsburgh, USA
2024

Dutch Design Week -
Designing Cities for All
Eindhoven, NL
2024

Nieuwe Instituut -
Anything alive cannot be inside the gallery space
Rotterdam, NL
2023

Garage Cafe, Garage Rotterdam -
Rotterdam, NL
2023

Het Hem Adv. Research -Group show ‘The Countryside’ -
Zaandam, NL
2023

Teaching & Public Presentations

Digital Humanities Conference - Maastricht, NL (upcoming)

Spatial Imaging & Digital Imaginaries 2026 - Edinburgh, UK (upcoming)

Constantvzw Brussels Publication Launch - iMal - Brussels, BE 2026

Glasgow School of Art - Defining the Zoop - Online

Constantvzw Brussels - Walkshop Neder-Over-Heembek, BE

Glasgow School of Art - Workshop, ‘Digitalising material in interior architecture practice‘ - Scotland,UK

Varia - Workshop, ‘Impact of Digital conservation tech on the more than human’ - Rotterdam, NL

Glasgow School of Art - Future materials talk - Design Domain - Online

Youngstown University - Graphic Design BA Talk - ‘Materials in 3D’- Online

Carnegie Mellon Guest lecture - Fine Art MA - ‘Material transformation in the digital realm’ - Pittsburgh, USA

Glasgow Architecture Fringe festival - Online

Experience / Research

Island Ecologies Research Residency with Christie Swallow - Buitenplaats Brienenoord

Zone2Source | Amsterdam, NL | September 2023 - January 2024

Cove Park - Residency - Digital traces Scotland, UK

Pakhuis de Zwijger | Amsterdam, NL | May 2023 - November 2023

Researcher in Residence, Pakhuis de Zwijge

ArtEZ Advanced Research x Het Hem | Zaandam, NL | May - November 2022

Researcher in Residence, Advanced Research ArtEZ University

Awards

Amarte Funds Project grant - Interogating the database - Rotterdam, NL

Creative Scotland Open Fund
Personal Project support, Urbanism and Architecture Grant

Van Beek Donner Stichting Masters supported by scholarship

Donald Dewar Award Fully funded Masters supported by scholarship

SIET - Scottish International Education Trust MA Scholarship Grant

Award for Most Innovative Design Interior Educators- London

GSA Sustainability - Bursary Design Museum London, Data Ethics

Publications

Simulacrum - Lies / Leugens (2025)

Pakhuis de Zwijger - Cities for All (2025)

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