(In the former coffee factory of the Van Nelle Ontwerpfabriek during 100% Design, June 2004.)
Nuits Blanches is a personal initiative with a special wish: bringing together friends and foes of the design field in order to create lasting networks between them.
Nuits Blanches manifests itself as an on-site temporary dormitory which adopts empty spaces near fairs and festivals, as an ad hoc breeding ground for ideas and contacts.
To this end Nuits Blanches offers an experience on human scale: sleeping, eating and bathing are 'designed' to let guests mix and meet. The choice of the location and the diversity of wakers c/o sleepers form Nuits Blanches' personality..
- Brief An ephemeral environment in which lasting networks can flourish
- Work Concept, performance, documentation on film
- Media Green black board, reading goods (hats, sweets, writing gear)
- Construction Onno Donkers
- Commissioner Personal initiative
- Co-initiator Sacha Winkel (Soap Ateliers)
- Collaborators Novak ontwerp, Vier, Onno Donkers, Proef and others
- Year 2004 - now