Encounter.bio Information

Encounter is a cross-domain research & design practice held together by one stance: continuously curious. We follow the same question wherever it shows up: cellular biology, evolutionary dynamics, female health, organisations, change programs, technology. The practice works within a newly developed field called Persistence Dynamics: the study of the structural conditions under which living systems persist. Two operations, four regimes, one closure condition. Encounter was built to test it: to see whether the same reading holds in a cancer cell, in an immune response, in a clinical trial, in an organisation going through change. So far, in different forms, it does. Founded in 2026 in Amsterdam, by Raimo van der Klein.