“The surroundings (ambio) are creating and fostering the experience of mindfulness (sati), which normally a person would need to practise from within, but with Ambiosati, the influence of the surroundings is stimulating mindfulness in itself.”
— Merel Fentener van Vlissingen, 2024
An ongoing research to finding the gap within the chaos.
Designing spaces where the surroundings create the space to breathe again in daily chaos. In a world where we are experiencing higher stress on well being, of the people, the planet, the living and the future, Ambiosati is creating a gap to breathe. Because when we are connected to our surroundings and our surroundings to us, everything else falls into place.
GOal & VIsion
Take a breath.
Ambiosati was born when Merel started to combine her interests of spatial design, researching and mindfulness together. As a person that has had her experience with different type of surroundings all over the world, she came to the understanding of the influence of our surroundings.
With increasing stresslevels of people of her generation, Merel saw an opportunity to work with the surroundings and be immersed into them. That is also when she found her passion as an artist: sensory immersive art experiences that create the gap to breathe with in the chaos.
Merel believes that when people are aware and in connection to their surroundings, the surroundings are taken care of as well. And with the climate crisis that we face it is an important quality to gain.
Next to that, it is from the practices of mindfulness that sharing and compasion towards each other can add to great well being. This is also crucial to some of the problems we face today. And Merel believes that combining space with mindfulness is the way to a happy and healthy world.
Work and skills
In the projects tab you can find the different type of projects done so far from Ambiosati. The goal and wish is to gain even more projects, espescially artistic research projects.
In the skills tab you can find the skills that Merel has acquired throughout the years. These will also be growing over the coming years and projects. Merel is always eager to learn new things and gain more knowledge.
