Project:
Table de Ville, Hans Meiboom (Studiomeiboom)
A table that’s more than two kilometres long ought to get people talking to each other again. Hans Meiboom wants to build just such a table in a multicultural park in Amsterdam, and he hopes people will use it for multiple functions – even as a catwalk, if it comes to that.
Interview:
Come Together
Hans Meiboom (Studiomeiboom), Table de Ville
In a multicultural society, how do you get everyone to gather around the same table? By making a really big one, Hans Meiboom decided. So far, ... person: Hans Meiboom
Designer Hans Meiboom of communication agency Studiomeiboom believes in fostering discussion. To get people in Amsterdam talking to each other ... Organisation: Studiomeiboom
At Studiomeiboom, an agency for communication concepts founded by designer Hans Meiboom, the motto is ‘Form Follows Idea’. The thought ... "I’d rather develop a work on location, with others, preferably so that the collaboration takes on meaning within the work itself."
Birthe Leemeijer
Interview:
The Smell of the Landscape
Birthe Leemeijer, L’Essence de Mastenbroek
Designing a perfume for Mastenbroek, a late-medieval Dutch polder in the province of Overijssel where many cattle farmers make their homes and ...
Project:
L’Essence de Mastenbroek, Birthe Leemeijer
Artist Birthe Leemeijer has created a perfume that expresses life on a Dutch polder through the medium of scent. Working closely with local ... "The fragrance not only calls forth associations you can immediately name, like hay, milk and cattle, it also tries to evoke an idea of space and the sensation of cold wind."
Birthe Leemeijer
Project:
Roots of the Rúntur, Rob Hornstra
The introduction of fishing quotas has greatly changed Iceland. The young people there no longer wish to work in the fishing industry and are ... "The clash between the innocence you’d expect and the harsh reality makes you look at objects in a different way."
Tina Roeder
Project:
Coat of Arms, Niels Shoe Meulman and Dennis Polak (Unruly)
Niels Shoe Meulman and Dennis Polak of Unruly helped four underprivileged teenagers to design a coat of arms for Amsterdam’s multicultural ... "It takes time to set up my cameras. That means more spontaneous pictures. When people pose for a long time, they eventually relax."
Rob Hornstra
Project:
Naked Couch, Tina Roeder
Artist Tina Roeder endeavours to make us look at objects with new and different eyes. Naked Couch, her version of a doctor’s examining table, ... “How often do we look at things properly? The relationship between reality and fiction is totally confused, and we've become lazy."
Tina Roeder
Project:
Herinneringsbank (Memory Bench), Ineke Hans
Ineke Hans built a bench with a hole cut into it for a new tree to grow through, replacing the one used to manufacture the bench. The concept of ... "Photography books are fantastic historic documents. But they're labour-intensive and you almost never recover expenses, so few get made."
Rob Hornstra "With this table I want to bring back the meeting function of the Bijlmerpark in particular and of public space in general."
Hans Meiboom, Studiomeiboom
Interview:
An Uncomfortable Examination
Tina Roeder, Naked Couch
What is the relationship between anonymous objects and intimacy? This question was the starting point for Naked Couch, a doctor’s examining ...