All the work I do is in a way social. My work is always made with others or for others. Sometimes this means working together in a creative process, sometimes it is the design that encourages dialogue or interaction. And sometimes it is both.
Workshop OpenEmbassy
Other Person in Your Body set-up
Workshop at The Beach
Social Design Cookbook - online workshop
Other Person in Your Body
Mapping the Neighbourhood at The Beach
WORKSHOPS (Process)
Over the years, I've worked together with people in different types of workshops. To name a few: designing and building playground games with children, baking bread and learning Dutch with immigrant women, using your body to make puppets, learning and using the social design cookbook with my master program, a glimpse into design-thinking and theater practices with OpenEmbassy.
I really love doing this type of co-creating. My role in this is mostly to facilitate and enable - to create a space in which each person can be equally valuable to the group process. I add a healthy dose of humor, my love for theater and any kind of skill that can be of use.
I really love doing this type of co-creating. My role in this is mostly to facilitate and enable - to create a space in which each person can be equally valuable to the group process. I add a healthy dose of humor, my love for theater and any kind of skill that can be of use.
Variety of patterns
Shapes inspired by facades in Veenhuizen
Posters and a skirt with VORMT patterns
Visitors of DDW with their own pattern design
Stamping of the patterns
Knitted scarf
VORMT veenhuizen (INTERACTION)
For my Bachelor graduation project VORMT, I designed a visual language consisting of shapes and grids with which you can make all kinds of patterns. The shapes are an abstraction of the facades in the village Veenhuizen. I wanted everyone in the village to be able to use this language to create their own unique pattern to identify with.
More about this project here (I recommend it!)
More about this project here (I recommend it!)
Together with a local yarn store, we developed a knitting pattern for a scarf. It has the instructions with a suggested pattern, but also encourages the knitter to make their own combinations and create a truly unique scarf.
During the graduation show at Dutch Design Week, I wanted to give visitors the chance to actively participate by creating their very own VORMT pattern. I had set up a stamp-station where you could create your design, scan it and have it emailed to you to use as a personal pattern (which so many people did!)