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Landmakerskabinet presented during the NOVI lancering 2020

Landmakerskabinet

2021 / 0 comments

The ‘Landmakerskabinet’ is an installation of (fictive) tools that support ways of working on a future, more sustainable, cooperative and holistic practice and environment. It makes complex challenges tangible and manageable in a visual and slightly humouristic way. As such, the ‘Landmakerskabinet’ provides language and images to address the thresholds and pitfalls in the practice…

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Expedition ‘Mind the Gap’

2016 / 0 comments

A fieldwork expedition in the framework of ‘Mind the Gap’ a study and exploration of future societal developments concerning growing inequality, segregation and polarisation within the province of Noord Brabant, the Netherlands. Mind the Gap is initiated and commissioned by Brabant Kennis. In collaboration with Anne van Strien, I developed a tandem bicycle equipped with…

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WijWillenWonen in WoenselWest

2014 / 0 comments

WijWillenWoneninWoenselWest is a series of informal gatherings for potential and future residents of the new housing in Volta Galvani, Woensel West. The aim is to bring together an active, involved and socially close group of future neighbours, consisting of buyers, tenants, original and new residents of Woensel West, who are to share responsibility for ‘their’…

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Heterochronia

2011 / 0 comments

In current society, time is regarded as being scarce. We prefer to use it as economically as possible. Thanks to all kinds of technologies, we combine as many possibly activities in as little possible time. Even our hard-earned spare time is meant to be enjoyed as intensely as possible, not five minutes are to be…

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Museumstraat

2009 / 0 comments

The Museumstraat (or Museum Street) was an open-air exhibition on the boarded facades of abandoned houses in Volta Galvani, Woensel West, awaiting demolition. In the manner of a public archive, the Museumstraat tells about the history and the personal stories that have taken place in this part of the district. Some of the empty homes…

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Tea

2008 / 0 comments

TEA – a social experiment as part of a design research on the use of public space in the Kanaalstraat, Utrecht. This street, with her many exotic shops, is becoming more and more popular amongst a young, highly educated and often creative group of people and is therefore the lively heart of the gentrifying district Lombok. Much…

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