Social Design
As a volunteer working at the AZC in Gilze at The Vrolijkheid (an organization that organizes art workshops at AZC’s) and as someone who grew up in Gilze and is known with the prejudices about refugee seekers. I wanted to capture the humanness about the people in the AZC, specifically the children. I did this by photographing the childrens hands that were working on their ceramic pieces.
Four classmates of mine and I formed 'studio Prik' and were given the opportunity to design a project for UNICEF, based on a school assignment.
The question to this assignment was: 'how can we get children aged 13 to 18 to respond to various children's rights themes?' We have designed the 'Knikkerrecht' marble track for this purpose. Here students can answer questions about children's rights in a playful way. After this, they can tear off a ticket with more information to take with them. We tested the product at a secondary school and presented it to UNICEF later that week.
Manifesto for losing the meaning of words
For this project I asked the question: ‘if you say a word often enough does it lose its meaning?’ As Phil Kaye said in his poem '‘Repetition’’: ‘You watch the sun set too often, it just becomes 6 PM. You make the same mistake over and over; you’ll stop calling it a mistake’. I always get annoyed by the question: ‘how are you’ in the form of a greeting. It is like ‘hi’ nowadays and completely lost its meaning for people dont expect honest response anymore they expect you to say: ‘I’m fine’ My project is about this very sentence: ‘I’m fine’.
Een langdradig verhaal (a long winded story), translated litteraly from Dutch: A long Threaded story, is a spatial exposition about having to find a room in a big city as a student. It is about the endless messenger messages to people on facebook, the weird house visits, and the strange places you live as a student.