INTRODUCTION: What is needed to have the museum practice more engaged in and with society? René Pingen, former director of Stedelijk Museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch wanted to make space for experimentation on several levels of the museum practice. He asked me…
Envisioning a post-throwaway society! The Waste Fair is the first big fair after the Great Exhibition in 1851 in London that will leave you with visions of fundamental change of future perspectives of consumer society and the meaning of progress.…
Culture makes you and you make culture (Cultuur maak(t) je) was a program of workshops and exercises developed for the cultural organisation De Domijnen. This organisation is responsible for most of the cultural activities in the municipality of Sittard /…
Continuously developing. For years I am an enthusiast researcher and promoter of the act of repair, starting in 2009 with initiating the project Platform21 = Repairing and co-writing the Repair Manifesto. The response to this manifesto was overwhelming. It received…
Say “Tag!” and any place on earth will transform into a playground. Objects swiftly loose their original function and meaning, and are altered either into obstacles or hiding components. A trivial object is pointed out to become the “Base”, and…
Intro: Most of us know by now that we will imperil the planet and our wellbeing if we continue along our current path of consumption, and that simply modifying our habits by repairing what we have would go a long…
Welkom bij Supermaker In het midden van de ruime hal werken mensen aan een waterzuiverende fontein. Daar omheen hangen schetsen en inspiratiebeelden, en er ligt gereedschap om deze constructie te bouwen. In vitrinekasten staan studies en testmodellen. De algen in…
Artikel gepubliceerd in tijdschrift De Nieuwe, nr. 2014, uitgave van Arti Amicitae INTRO: Reinventing Happiness is een driejarig kunstproject, waarin het Stedelijk Museum ’s-Hertogenbosch met verschillende kunstenaars, museumbezoekers en bewoners van ’s-Hertogenbosch onderzoek doet naar nieuwe, sociale en duurzame…
In the autumn of 2005, AMO, the research arm of Rem Koolhaas’s architectural practice, presented its research-based opinion of an initiative to build a new design museum in the Zuidas district of Amsterdam. The founding partners were the city of Amsterdam,…
Een reflectie op de bachelor of design in product design aan de HKU. “Ik dacht bij de afdeling product binnen kaders te leren werken. Prettig leek me dat. Maar het bleek het tegenovergestelde. Weinig kaders, veel mogelijkheden.” Met deze opmerking…