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What a colon actually looks like, versus the art

Tech From Here: NL · Dutch Design Week 2026

The work this post covers and every source it draws on, each linked to the original.

The workColonic Cleansing Clinic by Atelier Van Lieshout, part of Sanitas Futurum, on Ketelhuisplein (B5), Strijp-S. Dutch Design Week 2026 ddw.nl

Research cited

  1. Omole et al. StatPearls 2025. Anatomy, Abdomen and Pelvis: Large Intestine pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  2. S: Acosta and Cash 2009, Am J Gastroenterol, systematic review pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Other sources

  1. Atelier Van Lieshout, website ateliervanlieshout.com
  2. Atelier Van Lieshout on Instagram (@atelier_van_lieshout) instagram.com
  3. OpenStax, Anatomy and Physiology 2e, §23.5 The Small and Large Intestines openstax.org
  4. Dutch Design Week programme: Spreekkamer Van De Toekomst ddw.nl
  5. Atelier Van Lieshout, BarRectum ateliervanlieshout.com
  6. Meer, Bad ideas for good living meer.com
  7. Dezeen, Atelier Van Lieshout takes over Ruhrtriennale with The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (2015) dezeen.com
  8. VPRO at Dutch Design Week 2026 (in Dutch) vpro.nl
  9. VPRO kick-off at Dutch Design Week (in Dutch) vpro.nl
  10. Grote ontwerpen sieren eindhoven tijdens dutch design week 2026 (inzaken.eu) inzaken.eu

Images, slide by slide

Slide 1
A close pass of a pale green walk-in sculpture shaped like an intestine, with a porthole window and sculpted veins, on a city squarePhoto: RN Collins
Slide 2
A wide view of Ketelhuisplein in Eindhoven with a long pale green intestine sculpture lying across the square between towersPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 3
The tail end of a pale green walk-in gut sculpture on a city square, marked with a red cross and the words Colonic Cleansing Clinic, with sculpted tubes trailing onto the pavingPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 4
Code-drawn diagram: the small intestine (about 3.05 m) and the large intestine (about half the length of the small intestine) drawn as straight tubes on one meter scale, with the large intestine marked from the cecum through the colon and the 20.3 cm rectum to the anal canalImage: RN Collins studio, code-drawn. Checked against OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology 2e, section 23.5, The Small and Large IntestinesMuseum or journal record
Slide 5
Code-drawn diagram of the large intestine seen from the front, the patient's right on the viewer's left: cecum and appendix, ascending, transverse, descending and sigmoid colon, and rectum, with the colon wall drawn as a chain of pouches labeled haustraImage: RN Collins studio, code-drawn. Checked against OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology 2e, section 23.5, The Small and Large Intestines, ; Omole et al., StatPearls 2025, Anatomy, Abdomen and Pelvis: Large IntestineMuseum or journal record
Slide 6
Code-drawn diagram of a short, magnified piece of colon with its taeniae coli highlighted as orange bands running along it, a cross-section showing the three bands spaced around the wall, and a note that their pull bunches the wall into haustraImage: RN Collins studio, code-drawn. Checked against OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology 2e, section 23.5, The Small and Large Intestines, ; Omole et al., StatPearls 2025, Anatomy, Abdomen and Pelvis: Large IntestineMuseum or journal record
Slide 7
Code-drawn diagram of a short, magnified piece of colon with yellow fat tags, the appendices epiploicae, hanging from a taenia coli, and an inset of one tag labeled peritoneum outside, fat insideImage: RN Collins studio, code-drawn. Checked against OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology 2e, section 23.5, The Small and Large Intestines, ; Omole et al., StatPearls 2025, Anatomy, Abdomen and Pelvis: Large IntestineMuseum or journal record
Slide 8
The pale green gut sculpture with its large oval window, a domed porthole and an open side door, where a visitor with a backpack steps through; a tour member in a magenta coat stands in the foregroundPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 9
The presenter in a green jacket stands beside the sculpture's red cross and the lettering Colonic Cleansing ClinicPhoto: RN Collins
Ring frame
NS Kameel diesel-electric railcar (Allan & Co), Nederlands SpoorwegmuseumFrame: Alf van Beem, CC0, croppedMuseum or journal record
Second Threads, X and Bluesky post
De Spreekkamer van de Toekomst, Atelier Van Lieshout's golden bird on an egg, on the Markt in EindhovenPhoto: Nick Bookelaar/Dutch Design Week
Quotes and video
The guide's and the studio presenter's words quoted in this post, from RN's video at the sculptureRN's own footage, 18 Oct 2026, Ketelhuisplein, Strijp-S, Eindhoven

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