person:
Daniëlle Arets
Daniëlle Arets, 28, studied visual culture at the University of Maastricht and media studies at Aarhus University in Denmark. She worked as a journalist and cultural organiser for the University of Maastricht, the Dutch television company VARA, and Felix Meritis European Centre for Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam. For the last five years, she has worked at the Utrecht discussion and cultural centre TUMULT, where she organises and moderates lectures, events and discussions on politics, culture and science. She also works as a freelance journalist under the name capaDA.
Interview:
Looking on the Dark Side
Brigitte Hendrix (...and beyond), ‘Something Here Feels Horribly Wrong’
The colourful streets of Amsterdam are a laboratory for fashion designer Brigitte Hendrix, 27. Her collection ominously entitled ‘Something ...
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The Long Road from the Farm
Esther Polak & Ieva Auzina with RIXC, Riga Centre for New Media Culture, Milk
For two years, artist Esther Polak carried a compass to help her find her way around in Amsterdam. Since then, spatial awareness has been the ...
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Fast Forward
Ivan Kasner, Petrifying
Starting off your design career with objects that can last tens of thousands of years: that was Ivan Kasner's daring choice for his graduation ...
Interview:
A Bench with a Heart
Ineke Hans, Herinneringsbank (Memory Bench)
During her master’s course in furniture design at London’s Royal College of Art, she was discovered by the store chain Habitat. She worked ...
Deep Focus
Rob Hornstra, Roots of the Rúntur
In spite of the many excellent photography museums in the Netherlands, there are precious few places for young talent to exhibit. Photographer ...
Interview:
Making It as a Team
Jeroen Verhoeven/Demakersvan, Industrialized Wood
Imagine being fresh out of art school and selling your work to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, a firm of architects in Los Angeles, a ...
Interview:
Bringing the World Home
Max Kisman and 229 others, Fleurons of Hope
Even in a time when it seems as if everything has already been invented, innovation remains possible. After all, every new era calls for new ...
Interview:
Growth Rings
Friso Kramer, Boomstoel (Tree Chair)
Friso Kramer may be advancing in years, but when he talks about his work you quickly forget it. He speaks with great enthusiasm about the ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Interview:
Linking Arms
Niels Shoe Meulman and Dennis Polak (Unruly), Coat of Arms
T-shirts with slogans are out. And new media – that’s over by now too. In fact, according to Niels Meulman, alias Shoe, trends are a thing of ...
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, ...