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Field Essays is an ongoing research into the tactile relation between thinking and making in the creation process. It can take on the form of a publication, workshop, lecture, exhibition and/or series of talks. It started out  in 2008 as a personal research into the nature of design processes in the context of the Professorship of Art and Public Space of the Rietveld Academy, where I was a fellow of the Research Grou

Uyt Eygen Ervarentheyd (Out of my own experience) Johannes Goedaert wondrous insect world On show November 19 2016  to October 29, 2017 at Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg. … for beautiful caterpillars produce rather ugly moths, and ugly caterpillars produce very beautiful butterflies. With this year-round exhibition the Zeeuws Museum is celebrating the 400th year of birth of fellow townsman Johannes Goedaert (1617–16

Last July, a group of artists and researchers walked, observed, discussed, cooked, drew, biked, and produced new work on the peninsula of Walcheren. Various fields of work were represented within the group: visual arts, photography, writing, urban geography, molecular medicine, industrial design, public space and urban planning. The challenge of the first two days was to explore the surroundings of Dishoek as tourist

La table imaginée pour l’exposition du pendule de Foucault au Mudam dans le cadre de l’exposition Eppur Si Muove a été pensée comme un rappel du lien particulier que cet instrument entretient avec la Terre : elle prend la forme d’un monticule de terre argileuse brute, surmonté d’un large disque en argile poli manuellement, à l’aide d’un galet – une technique ancienne permettant de faire ressortir les qual

What are the key ingredients of our desires for nature? To which form of nature do we want to contribute, now that cows and greenhouses are disappearing from the landscape? In the course of a year long field research, Hunnie (‘them’ in local slang) designed and tested new forms of recreation and maintenance in De Bovenlanden in the Dutch Province of Utrecht. The polder is destined to exchange its agricult

ICI Rotsoord, werklandschap kruist (HERE, Rotsoord, networked landscape) is a 9 month field research that took place within the context of Utrecht Manifest NO4, Biennale for Social Design. It builds on the way of working developed during ICI, Casa (2010). UM NO4 artistic director Jurgen Bey appointed four curators to develop the idea of The Working Landscape – a new geography that is emerging from shifts in the way w

Part field work and part introspection, Field Essays is in essence a practice, a mode of doing. The video captures this way of working. Field Essays, HDV, 5”, mute, 2012. Camera Roel van Tour  

What happens when a group of designers from The Netherlands arrive open-minded and empty-handed to Casablanca, and tries to put together an exhibition from scratch, using the city as an instant source of inspiration and production? Set up as a work period  in answer to the brief for a Dutch Design exhibition, ICI produced new work in the space of two months in collaboration with a Moroccan team of designers, students

me you and everyone we know is a curator – quality in the age of visual overload is the first of 3 end-of-year symposia held in Paradiso, Amsterdam, and commissioned by MOTI. The title is a tribute to Miranda July’s Learning To Love You More blog, and the way she bridges the online and offline worlds. The symposium questioned the quality gatekeeping and criteria of online artistic production. The line up included And

Film is a place where an idea can be articulated through a gesture. Searching for an image is searching for meaning. 27th of January 2006: salt fairy in the night waking and sprinkling white gold falling there where lines meet salt stars form dust bodies from heaven “At such minuscule distances everything falls under the charm of uncertainties, space and time begin to dance, to twirl around, particles stop to know wh

Lieve, (Dear,) is part of a Més-aventures video compilation including moving and narrative images. Attempts to appropriate, impersonate and understand phenomena that move me. Lieve, is an ode to the written word (the grown-up little scribble that simply is voice, vision and venture all at once) and to handwriting (the spirited and deeply personal deed that feeds the layered and founded dialogue I yearn for). Lieve, i

The work draws on the past of Luxembourg City as a fortress; elements of military scenario’s were identified and translated into constructive scenario’s of use. Coming across an engraving of a war game at the Musée de l’Histoire de la Ville was decisive in the making process. The drawing illustrates the cleverness of strategic military thinking: a largest possible number of complex situations (force

5050 is a project about trust and exchange. 5050 researches alternative ways to deal with design and the language of objects in general. 5050 is interested in the added value of collaboration: collaboration is reaction, reaction is energy, and energy is life… Hence 5050 can be a mind trampoline for designers who seek more than their own signature. 5050 uses the idea of exchange (of taste, ideas, traditions) as the st

Graduation project that questions the reliability of the world as it is presented to us. Giving shape to a personal fairy-tale around the idea of fake: “I take, I make, I fake”. Objects are approached as blanc props open to interpretation: the idea of a lamp (an aura), the idea of a staircase (a shift in perspective), the idea of a window (a framed view) and the idea of a bed (a hint of escapism). An attempt to re-in