Graduation Catalogue 2015 - Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK) by Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK)

GRADUATION CATALOGUE

2015

Royal Academy of Art

The Hague

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Sylvia Walter

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GRADUATION FESTIVAL 2015

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Royal Academy of Art, The Hague

July 3, 2015 Welcome to the final examination catalogue for the Class of 2015, featuring the work of nearly 200 artists and designers graduating from the academy this summer. This publication offers an overview of the latest generation of Bachelors in ArtScience, Fine Arts, Photography, Graphic Design, Interactive/Media/Design, Interior Architecture & Furniture Design and Textile & Fashion. In total 28 students will graduate from the Master's studies in Artistic Research, ArtScience, INSIDE (Interior Architec - ture) and TypeMedia, and one student will complete the Industrial Design postgraduate course.

The preceding period has seen this new generation of artists and designers delve into all aspects of the field. From detailed material research and formulating an autonomous substantive artistic vision to more practical concerns such as launching crowdfunding campaigns and successfully participating in competitions and festivals. The students now leaving the academy are certain to fluently traverse the ambitious and international art and design world. They have not only completed English-language schooling at the academy, they have also established an international frame of reference, with fellow students hailing from 56 countries, international study tours and exchange projects. The talent of Royal Academy of Art students and alumni did not go unnoticed in the past year, nor did their relationship with the public. Two alumni were awarded the Royal Award for Modern Painting. Honours including the BNI Award, the Steenbergen Stipendium, Lichting and various scholarships were also awarded to Royal Academy of Art alumni. They also enjoyed an impressive amount of national and international press coverage; new stories are added to our media archive every week, and we look forward to this trend continuing with the Class of 2015! It was a lively year at the academy, with projects and Labs, exhibitions and performances. No two days were the same. The energy and enthusiasm of the students and instructors reinforce each other and encourage the exploration of boundaries. The Fashion Show in the Electriciteitsfabriek at the end of June was truly spectacular and well-attended by the international press. In January the Gerrit Noordzijprijs was awarded to Cyrus Highsmith. Laureate Karel Martens was honoured with a great exhibition and a publication. During this week the world's top type designers gathered at the academy to share the latest developments in this highly specialised field with the students.

The confidence and recognition we enjoy from the field is vitally important to burgeoning artists and designers. Especially shortly following graduation, it is important for alumni to be able to continue substantive artistic discourse and have access to practical guidance. We are keen to express our thanks to the prize givers that have supported us for many years: the Jan RoĂŤde Foundation, Stroom, the Overduin Foundation and the Stichting tot Steun (Paul Schuitema Award). I would like to take the opportunity to express special thanks to Stroom Den Haag. For 25 years, this independent foundation based in The Hague has been supporting Royal Academy of Art students and alumni through initiatives such as Stroom Invest and the Stroom Encouragement Award. Starting this year, we are pleased to add another two names to the list. The Keep an Eye Foundation has pledged a generous donation to facilitate the further professionalisation of the annual Fashion Show. And also new this year, The Hague-based art institution Heden will support a young artist immediately after graduation by, for example, purchasing a work from the graduate exhibition and providing commercial coaching. We are confident that the Class of 2015 will establish an outstanding relationship with their public and society as a whole, contributing to the continued development of the broad, international sphere of action. We will follow all of our graduates with keen interest and wish them the best of luck for the future!

Marieke Schoenmakers Director

Welder

Leader

Journalist

Foreword

Collector

ArtScience

BA 14 15 BA

90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100

Yaprak Sayar Thijs van Teijlingen

Fine Arts 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38

Mira Aluç Marija Angelovska Els den Baars Alexander Baas Bjorn Barendse Zeno Beikircher Tjarda van den Berg Lisa Blaauwbroek Rebecca te Boekhorst Victor Breton van Groll Ciro Duclos Helena Frijns Martin Gabriel Laurine Houtman Louis van Iterson Katerina Konarovska José Krijnen DM Mak Abby Meier Romy Muijrers

39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58

Rosemary Niehaus Simon Oosterhuis Andrea Owe Liza Pace Jip Piet Najmeh Saghaei Sylvia Schotman

Nicoline van der Beek Esther van den Bos Menno de Bruijn Lukas van Buuren Melissa Chan Inês da Costa Nina Couvert Ditmar van Dam Bart van Dijk Julian Doove Rosa Douma Ayse Duran Marius Gottlieb

76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89

Wilco Monen Alice Mulder Sophie Neppelenbroek Sepus Noordmans Eline van der Ploeg Regina Pöll Sander Puhl Sara Risvåg

Jordie Rovers Tereza Rullerova Irene Salo Edgar Savisaar Marinus Schepen Machteld Stoop Janine Terlouw Sandra Timmerman Ieva Valule Fedor Velyaminov Donna van West

Interactive/Media/Design 114 115 116 117 118 119 120

Jeannette Slütter Elise Sothys Katarina Stankovic Sophie Steengracht Tholbjorn Lucie Tománková Charlotte Ursem

Rob van der Burg Lars Hulst Suzanne Knetsch Margreet Lont Eva van Loon Martin Risseeuw Lauren Spencer

Max de Waard Charlotte van Winden Abel Wolff

Interior Architecture & Furniture Design

BA 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135

Mickey Yang Inge-lize Zevenboom

Chloë Neeleman

Alyar Aynetchi

Ilse Modder

101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111

Reni van der Gragt Sanne Groenendaal Roos Groothuizen Lennart Hendriksma Hidde Hornman Tomas Komen

Oscar de Bakker Margot van Bekkum Gerdine van Bruggen Nancy Dantese Anouk van Deuzen Mark Flipse Michèle Groenewegen Marjolein de Groot Amal Habti Rense Jansen Róman Kienjet

136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146

Sophia Klinkenberg

155 156 157 158 159

Esther Hovers

Anne Kranenborg Frank Niessen Karen Nijdam Marlies van Putten Kaniz Rahman Roxan Reurslag Bert Spolders Kristel ter Steege Els Verdick Lisa Vugteveen

Hatice Kilinç

Malou Koopman Mirte van Kooten Tomas Laar Bram de Leeuw Danicha Leliveld Max Lennarts Viktorija Liaudanskaite Rene Louter

Photography 150 151 152 153 154

Gunhild Ang Wendy Bos Hans Bracke Lynne Brouwer Jacob Gesink

Anouk van Kalmthout Willemieke Kars Roos van de Kieft Anna Klevan

Content

62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75

Monika Mickute

Jonas Raps

Graphic Design

Tom Lugtmeijer

160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167

Gabrielle de Kok Sem Langendijk Imke Ligthart Daan Liu Mariska Pot Roderik Rotting Jasmijn Slegh Sofie van der Sman

Textile & Fashion

BA 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 PGC

Merel Bos Fabian Bredt Ruby de Bruijn Nikki Duijst Olivier Jehee Anne Oomen Nienke Smeulders Marlies van Stolk Bram Vervoort

168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175

Eline van Strien

Interior Architecture (INSIDE)

MA 210 211 212 213

Nick van Tiem Amber Toorop Yara van der Velden Elske Verdoorn

Zacharias Antoniades Junyuan Chen Emilija Juodyte Elide Mozzorecchi

Majda Vidakovic Cleo Wächter Hilde De Windt

TypeMedia 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228

Elliott Amblard

230 232 234 244

Awards Workshops Lectures Colophon

Benedikt Bramböck Bahman Eslami Minjoo Ham Tilmann Hielscher Marko Hrastovec Katerina Kochkina Philipp Victoria Neumeyer Loris Olivier Heidi Rand Sørensen Tezzo Suzuki Jasper Terra Cristian Vargas

Industrial Design 190

Daniela Buonvino

ArtScience

MA 194 195 196 197

Naja Ryde Ankarfeldt Natela Lemondzhava Marit Mihklepp Nicole Urban

Artistic Research

Pierfrancesco Gava Arefeh Riahi Ewoud van Rijn Grigoris Rizakis Sissel Marie Tonn Anne-Marie Twigge Marieke Zwart

Content

200 201 202 203 204 205 206

Bachelor

Art Science 14 15

Yaprak Sayar Thijs van Teijlingen

Thijs van Teijlingen

Yaprak Sayar

Project 950:20 950:20 is a sound installation and a string instrument which consists of two glowing wires that gradually expand and contract depending their temperature. This aspect determines the length of the strings, therefore the pitch they produce through time. The title corresponds to the temperature range of the wires and constitutes the score of the instrument.

+31 619704870 yaprak.sayar@interfaculty.nl

Thesis Periodic Strings

Project A CCD intervention

Strings vibrating in periodic motions are the resonating cores of string instruments. While we enjoy their nice tunes, we discover the proportional mathematical relations in their attributes; why they behave in such particular way still remains as mysterious as in the times of Pythagoras. A simple piece of string takes a million shapes, fits every sort of purpose, and justifies facts, acting like a representative that was born in the world of mathematics that travelled to our dimensions and yet it is very tangible. And again, they flash as candidates for theories of universe, time to time, in physicists' mind. Used in a million ways in musical purposes, a million ways remain to be explored.

We have a much clearer image of the world thanks to technology, but if the technology influences the way the world is presented to us, is this image as clear as we think it is? Thijs van Teijlingen has built a sculpture that transmits light frequencies that are only perceptible via the devices that inhabit our pockets. With the use of our own smartphones the audio visual installation 'A CCD Intervention' comes to be. By looking at the live camera feed on our phone we see a sequence of patterns which would normally be invisible to the naked eye, and the CCD chip in our phone becomes a medium for expressing hidden frequencies.

Thesis Perceptie | Lading | Gekoppeld | Apparaat

I wrote my thesis about the influence of the CCD chip on perception. Does the fact that we experience a big part of our life through the CCD chip, influences our way we perceive and understand the world?

+31 641654912 thijs.vanteijlingen@interfaculty.nl

ArtScience

Bachelor

Fine Arts

18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38

39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58

Rosemary Niehaus Simon Oosterhuis Andrea Owe Liza Pace Jip Piet Jonas Raps Najmeh Saghaei Sylvia Schotman Jeannette Slütter Elise Sothys Katarina Stankovic Sophie Steengracht Tholbjorn Lucie Tománková Charlotte Ursem Max de Waard Charlotte van Winden Abel Wolff Mickey Yang Inge-lize Zevenboom

Marija Angelovska

Mira AluĂ§

Project In aanloop naar

Thesis Desiderium

Project

Thesis A Possibility For Realization

For me, architectural elements are the anchors we submit ourselves to, in order to come to safety. This safety is meant quite literal; safe for influences from the outside world, as well mentally. The constant dealing with and viewing of those elements creates a familiarity. This gradually ascending familiarity is a beginning that proceeds in a apparent stillness.

A publication of a textual research about the mechanical working of the phenomena 'attachment', 'homesickness' and 'perceiving'. A poetic and existential work about longing and assumption. A theoretical guide to the visual work of Mira AluĂ§.

The focus of my practice revolves around the self-realization of being an autonomous human being; seeking inspiration within myself, and all the segments that make up my identity. In this sense, all of my work is a form of self-portraiture both in content and visual expression. My work is in constant progress, allowing every project to take new form when put in a different context. My longing towards creating an interactive piece of art allows me to use materials that trigger more than just the visual senses of the spectator; hence scents, sounds and textures that are often imperative to my work. The content of my work is based on personal ideologies concerning my role as an artist in the contemporary art scene.

In the course of the last three thousand years, humans have tackled the relations between their physical existence and the metaphysical concepts surrounding that existence. When looking at the development of the art of thinking and rational means of perceiving â&#x20AC;&#x201C; known as philosophy throughout history, it is significant to acknowledge the link between art and philosophy. Otto van Bismarck for one occasion claimed that politics is the art of the possible. This perhaps is a very valid statement; however in that sense I would claim that art is the politics of the impossible. A strongly opinionated belief of mine is that one could consider art to be the birthplace of the impossible realized in the tangible world.

+31 650252038 miraaluc@gmail.com www.miraaluc.com

+31 642276275 angelovska.maria@gmail.com www.marijaangelovska.format.com

Fine Arts

Archaeology and the treatment of artefacts are the main sources of inspiration. The research of these topics result in an open process of creating, re-creating and experimenting with various materials. There is a contrast between authentic conserved artefacts and these newly created sculptures. This is emphasized in the video recordings of the studio process. Presented together with the sculptures it shows their origin and their progress. The little presence of colour makes the viewer more aware of the shape and the appearance of the works. It contributes to the feeling of 'the old' or 'the antique.'

Alexander Baas

Els den Baars

Project

Thesis The Fear of Conclusions

Project Ik heb een fascinatie voor mensen die niet meer aan het maatschappelijk leven deelnemen. Het zijn vooral de ouderen aan wie de wereld voorbij gaat. Ik probeer ze fotografisch vast te leggen op het moment dat hun kwetsbaarheid naar voren komt. Deze foto's vormen het uitgangspunt voor het schilderen waarbij ik in een nieuwe interpretatie deze mensen uit hun schaduw wil halen.

Why are people afraid to conclude projects? And does their frame of reference even allow them to see things as finished? Relating this fear to the fear of failure, the fear of success, procrastination, and Freud's death drive gives an insight in the spectrum of trial and fulfilment.

+31 633703994 alexander.baba@hotmail.com www.alexander-baas.com

+31 634398105 elsdenbaars@gmail.com

Fine Arts

Zeno Beikircher

Bjorn Barendse

Project Het nut der dingen Het gladde ijs, een paradijs, voor de man die dansen kan.

Thesis Ik sprak Zarathoestra De grote verlossing van het lijden en het licht-worden van het leven.

+31 644488233 bjornbarendse@live.nl www.Bjorn.format.com

Thesis Blue: 450-495nm

In my practice as a sculptor, I attempt to explore positions of control, hierarchy, power and dependence. When placing objects with seemingly contrasting purposes amongst one another, characteristics such as functionality and self-sustainability become increasingly evident. These opposing characteristics form a niche, that is visible only, through the physical presence of said objects. It is a niche, that potentially highlights the insignificance of such objects' co-existence as a whole.

"Wie wir einen angenehmen Gegenstand, der vor uns flieht, gern verfolgen, so sehen wir das Blaue gern an, nicht weil es auf uns dringt, sondern weil es uns nach sich zieht" "As we readily follow an agreeable object that flies from us, so we love to contemplate blue, not because it advances us, but because it draws us after it" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

+31 624453515 zeno.beikircher@gmail.com www.zenobei.com

Fine Arts

Project

Het is een verhaal over een meisje dat constant haar verantwoordelijkheden en schoolwerk uitstelt. Haar luiheid overstijgt haar ambitie. Ze drinkt liever thee terwijl ze youtubefilmpjes kijkt. Totdat ze een theedoos vindt van het mysterieuze merk Reàli-Tea. De film gaat over het dagelijkse gevecht met onszelf. Hoe je je machteloos kunt voelen, terwijl je wel degelijk een keuze hebt. En hoe je ondanks goede bedoelingen soms nog steeds fout kiest. Misschien stel je jezelf niet de juiste vragen? Zorgen impulsen van buiten voor meer of minder controle over jouw keuzes? Hoeveel schuld/lof verdienen de impulsen voor hun aandeel in jouw beslissingen? Is het überhaupt mogelijk om jouw (creatieve)werk-proces kunstmatig te versnellen?

From my consciousness a feeling of alienation and being trapped in society is sometimes present and from this the desire to somehow escape or to go back in time is born. At the same time, I feel a strong urge to stay right where I am and deliver critique. This contradiction results in the creation of small drawings and paintings that I often combine with mural, through this process I create 'my own world'. Within this world I often wonder and romanticize, but I also find myself reflecting upon the contemporary world and I question life as it is nowadays.

Thesis Humor in Kunst Mijn scriptie gaat in op de vraag; kan humor een kunstwerk versterken? En zo ja, hoe? Ik ga dit onderzoeken met als doel om het taboe 'humor versimpelt kunst' te ontkrachten en een overzicht te maken over hoe het door verschillende kunstenaars wordt toegepast. In hoofdstuk 1 ga ik in op de drie belangrijkste humortheorieën. Hoofdstuk 2 gaat over wat diverse filosofen hebben geschreven over humor, en in hoofdstuk 4 vergelijken we zes verschillende humoristische kunstenaars met elkaar. Vervolgens zal dit allemaal worden samengevat in een eindconclusie, waarin er zal worden vastgesteld wat, waarom, voor wie werkt. Mijn scriptie zal naar verloop van tijd ook terug te vinden zijn op mijn website: www.tjardavdberg.nl

+31 641176416 tjardamarijn@gmail.com www.tjardavdberg.nl

Lisa Blaauwbroek

Tjarda van den Berg

Project Reàli-Tea (a shortfilm)

Thesis The first artist on Mars; the implications of an escapist artistry. "...When looking through the lone window in my room at night, I never seem to see a single star in the sky, it seems like there are no stars at all, just the earth's light and the dark melting into one. 'What will happen in that black mass, where our earthly lights cease to mingle?', I often dwell on this. Using my mind, I move the twinkling city to the sky, as if it were a vast animated universe and my imagination simply revels in the spectacle. Oh, how I would like to be there, to go on adventures, to explore; this city of the night, with its lights that spread beneath my feet, is no longer enough for me! The only window in my room, which connects me to the outside world, turns out to be a window in which to explore new windows..."

+31 655067619 lisaemmily@live.nl www.lisablaauwbroek.nl

Fine Arts

My work is based on my perception. These perceptions I manipulate into an inner world that I have to express through graphical drawings, mostly containing a form of absurdity and annoyance with what is happening around me. Through these drawings I create an undesirable world, a accumulation of all the negative social developments that aggravate me so much. This annoyance goes hand in hand with a form of humour that I implement in my work. It makes it easier for me to cope with what I see. Next to being really annoyed, I'm very curious about how things function, whether this is in a social or material context. I explore objects and see how I can fit them into my world of weird.

Thesis Why do we laugh?

The thesis ''Why do we laugh?' is a research into laughter and dark humor. It's investigating beyond what we already knew, looking at the less known facts of laughter. By researching literature on the historical, social, psychological and neurological aspects of laughter this thesis sheds a light on the question 'Why do we laugh?' and gives an idea of the several functions that laughter has.

Project In Dialogue with Material/ Materials in Dialogue Thesis Nu IntĂŠgral I am an abstract painter. No lengthy explanations are needed to present my work: It is what it is. That may be seen as a shortcoming in today's contemporary art scene, but it feels wrong to me to wrap up my work in too many words. The images speak for themselves. As a conclusion to my studies of Fine Art at the Royal Academy, this artist's book is comprised of a number of poetic and visual aspects that I believe represent me - in all their naked simplicity.

+31 614683530 v.bretonvangroll@gmail.com www.victorbretonvangroll.nl

Victor Breton van Groll

Rebecca te Boekhorst

Project Untitled

+31 634674503 rebeccateboekhorst@hotmail.com www.cargocollective.com/rebeccabarbara

Fine Arts

Ciro Duclos

Helena Frijns

Project

+31 610404111 ciro_64@hotmail.com www.ciroduclos.com

In my thesis I did research on the term 'escapism'. More and more people seem to escape reality in all kinds of ways. Due to the evolution of technology 'escapism' seems to become a bigger part in peoples lives. This growth of technology has negative aspects and people can't seem to handle it, but in visual art it makes an artist come up with new innovative art. I tried to ask questions like 'Why do we need this escaping from reality?' and 'Is it because we can't handle reality or does reality not give us satisfaction?'

Project immersion/submersion

Thesis Forever in the Now

"So how will we fight? All we have is logic and love on our side And when we fall we will fall together No one will catch us so we'll catch ourselves And where we roam we will roam forever No one will understand what we meant" - Streetlight Manifesto

'Forever in the Now' started out as an analysis of the similarities in the working methods of artists and scientists. The process of writing has led the initial concept, which was deterministic in nature, to a more open text that acknowledges the ambiguity of knowledge when it is formulated in language, revealing my own working method in the meantime.

+31 626441149 mail@helenafrijns.com www.helenafrijns.com

Fine Arts

In my work I ask visual questions about (self)reflection, transparency, time and space. The work needs to be experienced, the body of the viewer is crucial and without it the work is not. This work deals with orientation and disorientation and I want to give the viewer a new perspective on the space where the work is installed. All these elements come from a self reflection on myself and my generation (in which) where we are going through a lot of fast changes where a lot of times we seem to get lost.

Thesis Gaan we hiermee door, of er onderdoor

Fata Morgana is an illusionary world, which provides comfort and seems to be sweet. But is it? This mysterious universe is built on contradiction â&#x20AC;&#x201C; sweet and bitter, seduction and repulsion, pleasure and pain. It is up to the viewer when his sweet, reassuring illusion ends and the harsh, unpleasant reality begins.

Laurine Houtman

Martin Gabriel

Project Fata Morgana

Thesis Glazed Pleasure 'Glazed Pleasure' is about art as a mental stimulant in the view of modern hedonism (pain control and the pursuit of pleasure). Art can offer an escape from our harsh, unpleasant reality in the form of dissociation. However, the confrontation of this unpleasant reality could also provide enjoyment in the long-term.

Project Computer Generated World

Thesis Parallel space

'Computer Generated World' is an ongoing project based on my visual experience from video games. This project exists from several smaller works such as paintings, objects and videos. The work deals with the border between real and virtual. I assume that we will come to an era where the real and virtual will become equal, that is why I want to use the virtual as a source of inspiration. I depict life and landscape of the virtual world in seemingly classical way hence the form can look very familiar and is easy to connect with. Vice versa: content looks as coming from another world and therefore the connection is very difficult. In this way I want to reflect upon a disconnection from nature and tradition that is so significant for our society.

The thesis is about space in the computer generated world (CGW). It has an ambition to bring a new view on video games and other computer generated animation. The introduction explains why it is important to understand space in the CGW and why is this topic interesting for me as a visual artist. Throughout the following chapter I introduce important facts about computers, virtual reality, AI and space. Further on I state four different significant forms that in my opinion create the visual appearance of video games. The forms are comparable to the physical laws because they are as natural for CGW as physical laws are natural for reality. It means that they significantly influence the way space and matter behave in video games.

Fine Arts

+31 623269162 gab.face.riel@gmail.com www.martingabriel.info

+31 646035557 info@laurinehoutman.com www.laurinehoutman.com

Katerina Konarovska

Louis van Iterson

Project In my work I use a lot of different forms, such as sculptures, installations, animations and videos. The main focus of my work is to relate personal experience to ones surroundings, such as nature, architecture, time or events. In my current work I emphasize aspects of life to which probably everyone can relate, such as fear, excitement, disorientation, and social and societal issues. In some of my works there are also hints to the humoristic side of things. Not everyone will recognize the irony of certain situations of daily life and experiences, but that is something which I perceive personally a lot.

Thesis Dystopie: Heldendom, schrikbeeld of toekomstideaal? Een verkenning naar de werelden van utopie en dystopie My thesis focuses on the concepts of dystopia and utopia. I ask myself what these two concepts represent. The main research question is: what distinguishes dystopia from utopia and vice versa? In my view, the two overlap each other considerably. Therefore, the distinction might have been always exaggerated. To answer my research question I delve into the etymology of both dystopia and utopia. Next to that I discuss theoretical approaches to both phenomena, such as the work of Thomas More and John Stuart Mill. I also research art movements and individual artists. I conclude that a utopia carries the seeds of a dystopia and, likewise, that a dystopia may equally have a utopian potential.

I realised paintings used to be part of a surrounding as in a church or a castle. That kind of past surrounding reminds me time to spend and see. Therefore I'm making a space with painted wall, stucco or chair in front of paintings. I'm painting a glass/windows, as I saw it in old buildings. I'm exhibiting recent paintings, where everything is surrounded by forest. It comes naturally and I like to relate this process to a night dream, where we are not sure why we see that, but we can guess, why this wants to talk to us. I'm interested in Jungian psychoanalysis, I like to be as well on the other side, trying to understand. That's probably why I'm not only painting, but trying to find a position for the painting.

+31 613598230 katka.konarovska@atlas.cz www.katerina-konarovska.com

Thesis Fish Live in the Stone The essay is dealing with experiencing contemporary paintings, inspired by dreams or fairytale analysis, talking to them as to tarot cards or religious icons. It is based on believing that the time we spend with paintings, simply by looking and describing what we see, can open up unexpected experiences and imagery inside us. I described how people used to perceive dreams and fairy tales in the past and how it influenced the art. I was writing about the development of psychological theories of dreams and fairy tales, plus explaining my own dreams. I suggested to see even contemporaty paintings with the same belief and I spend a time by describing what I see that they are giving us.

Fine Arts

+31 652533767 louisvaniterson@gmail.com www.louisvaniterson.nl

33 Project There is a Forest Behind the Door

Bacon (1561 - 1626) calls 'gesture' a transient hieroglyph. Human gesture is an ambiguous phenomenon â&#x20AC;&#x201C; timeless but passing, cultural, yet universal. It is everpresent in art history, yet bound by context and time. It is beautiful and bizarre, full but also empty. I create my own language of gesture by painting cropped images of people with particular focus on the detail of the clothing they are wearing. The patterns and the figures compete for our focus. Through development, the work has become part of larger installations similar to collage.

Thesis The Archeology of human gesture. Criteria for recreation I compared the use of gesture in western and Chinese painting - gesture as an image, but also painting as a gesture itself. Various theoretical and philosophical sources provided many insights and allowed me to formulate new criteria for artistic quality.

+31 619081411 josekrijnen99@gmail.com www.josekrijnen.nl

Project But maybe I dreamt it

DM Mak

JosĂŠ Krijnen

Project Archeology of human gesture

Memory does not consist of static moments frozen in the past, but rather floating images we are continually editing. Remembering is the process of sifting through these images in search of a truth. It is the continuous construction and reconstruction of the self. It is the resurrection of details, feelings, but also sadness in the realization that it is all gone regardless. It is recalling the yellow warmth of a summer day, the void after leaving home or the color of the shoes you wore to your grandmother's funeral. While we can't force these fragments to be a single story, we should rather appreciate them for the individual insight they provide. My work is a collection of these ever-changing fragments.

Thesis A Collection of Fragments My thesis is a reflection on the process of remembering, presented in a structure that like life, is fragmented, ambiguous, and much of which is implied. Each fragment is like a diary entry â&#x20AC;&#x201C; incomplete, momentary, personal and reflective. Together, they suggest that any truth about memory and the past cannot be determined through an exercise of reason and logic, but only through intuition and perception.

+31 642515011 dawnmariemak@hotmail.com www.dawnmariemak.com

Fine Arts

Project Terug naar de verloren tijd

In the wild you can't survive without being somewhat creative. In art you can't survive without being adventurous. My installations and photographs are based on mystical, wonderful and idyllic experiences that I have had as a rock climber, adventurer and traveler.

In my work I'm trying to find a way between my Inner time en Real time. My drawings consists of different layers/ moments of time and space. The past and present come together. Everytime when I go back to a space, where I have left a certain memory, I'm experiencing what the time has done with the space itself, the space that keeps on changing. And while I'm standing there, I'm carrying a mirror behind me, the other part of me, the part that wants to go back in time and relive the Inner time, to keep my memories and my desires close. "In search of lost time."

Thesis There's more to explore in the middle of nowhere In mijn scriptie onderzoek ik de relatie tussen de bergsport en de kunst. Dit doe ik door te analyseren en reflecteren op persoonlijke (reis)verslagen, anekdotes en algemene beschrijvingen van beide werelden.

+31 651777928 abby.mails@gmail.com www.abbymeier.com

Romy Muijrers

Abby Meier

Project Lonely Planets

Thesis Terug naar de verloren tijd My thesis is a story related to the work of Marcel Proust: "In search of a lost time." It's about a person who is confronted by a memory she has repressed. She decides to isolate herself from time, "the real time", that she is afraid of, because time fades out her memories about her unreachable love. She wants to go back in time, back to her memories she has repressed, back to her unreachable love. To relive the Inner time and to fulfill her biggest desires. It's a story about time, space, lost, isolation and the unreachable love. The second part is "the Addendum" theoretical analysis of the story.

+31 628759744 rsmuijrers@hotmail.com www.romymuijrers.nl

Fine Arts

ChloĂŤ Neeleman

Rosemary Niehaus

Project Teambuilding Offering the academy a last evaluation in the form of a report on social interactions of the past academic year. Covering a vision on improving the quality of interacting with different individuals within a group. A supporting program with short lectures accompanies the report, touching upon a variety of aspects concerning present art education.

The coming of age of an artist. An existential quest enfolding a continuous debate between the artistic practice as a profession and the artistic practice as a way of life.

Project wende Growing up in-between the Alps and the Low-Countries I've always been fascinated by the big contrasts in the landscapes and cultures. Guided by my memories and strong connection with nature I capture atmospheres and feelings within my works. 'wende' is an ode to the essence of nature, its elements and seasons, in all its glory. From dreamy skies to rippling water and thunderstorms.

+31 628489475 rosemaryniehaus@gmail.com www.rosemaryniehaus.com

Thesis ROOTS - the contemporary allurement of our fading heritage Through a combination of essays and interviews with young contemporary artists I try to understand why we are still so attracted by our cultural legacy, origin and traditions in an age of technological advances.

Fine Arts

+31 646445293 tcmneel@hotmail.com www.chloemelisande.com

Thesis Het ontluiken van de kunstenaar

I am a hiking artist. Through hiking I find questions about our relation to nature and our reality of the concept 'nature', in the search towards more ecological development and understanding. I believe in the importance of our relation to and understanding of nature for our mental and physical health, as well as the health of our planet, and I believe that our concept of nature is a major factor in the global challenges we face today. My questions and suggested solutions can take the form of writings, installations, conversations, social events or the act of walking. I operate in the field and the result of my research is thus documentation.

Andrea Owe

Simon Oosterhuis

Project Nature - The In - Between

Thesis Nature - The In - Between

A one year expedition through art's relation to and reality of nature. From Walking Art, through Aesthetics, Ecocriticism, Dark Ecology and Zen Buddhism, to a non-dualistic reconstruction of the relation between art and nature.

Project Ecce homot In this series I explore the ways in which the human figure can be used to express emotions.

s.j.oosterhuis@gmail.com www.simonoosterhuis.nl

Thesis In discussion with Plato, Croce and Collingwood, Bell and Fry, and Langer

+47 98415831 mail@andreaowe.com www.andreaowe.com

In my thesis I discuss the theories of Plato, Croce and Collingwood, Bell and Fry, and Langer. The conclusion of my thesis is that an image says more than a thousand words and that philosophy will never fully capture the meaning of art.

Fine Arts

My graduation project is an auxiliary to life and its beauty. Playing, assembling and reinterpreting a romantic world of everydayness. Materials I use must come from as close as possible to their origins. The hands play a significant part, persisting in participation of different ways of being. The doing is an interaction to conceptual metaphors and dichotomies, becoming simple sculptural syntax about specific objects without specific forms. I hope to reignite the viewers own memories.

Thesis An auxiliary language cook book of mythopoetic recipes

In relation to my own artistic process and heideggerian phenomenology, I have decided to turn my thesis into a cook book of language. Poetic stanzas bring forth imagination arnd in turn allow the reader to cook up their own experiences. The book provides you with an insight to the origin of the recipes. Each recipe is a listed pile of ingredients, forming an irrational syntax. Methods and tools are also provided, as well as two short mythopoetic stories on fish. With the cook book I hope to engage the reader in metaphysical theory, art and life's philosophy.

Project They'll say I was a malanderer, a badlanderer and a thief

Jip Piet

Liza Pace

Project Going Solo

To step outside of an ideology hurts, you must force yourself to do it, for it is a painful experience to go through, it has the power to break down all your illusions and this is something we have to accept with that freedom. %#$@%^^%#%@ (****!!!!

Thesis Some of the good old ultraviolence Pulled together from the influence of many minds, this thesis can be described as sociological mayhem beyond limits and spiraling into chaotic conclusionsâ&#x20AC;Ś as one often does when there is more than one idea involved. Reflecting perhaps the holy mess of our minds or the delirium of the society we are a part of; which disguises itself so well through the mask of sanity with its many rules and regulations, but underneath it all, there is the bubbling activity of the underdog, the bursting inconsistencies, the inner, the outer, the upper and the downer fight of the individual's break for freedom.

+31 616616861 info@jippiet.com www.jippiet.com

+31 623948017 liza.michelle@ymail.com www.lizamichell5.wix.com/liza

Fine Arts

Najmeh Saghaei

Jonas Raps Thesis The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

Project My paintings are a result of an uncontrollable process that consists of layer upon layer experimentation as well as playing. As I'm working I'm constantly searching for clues as to where the painting can go. Working with egg tempera has the effect of challenging me to deal with the unexpected and by doing so I create work I cannot predict.

A study of how I move around in the studio and the states of mind the developing painting demands. A research on painting's correlation to Buddhist principles, elements in the process that seem insignificant but are surprisingly important and a listing of the many paradoxes found in a painter's process.

Giving my thesis the title,'The Dark at the Top of the Stair' I attempted to contribute to a better understanding of the human mind in relation to its surrounding factors and roots. The reason behind choosing this title was that most of our experiences are caused by the unconscious parts of our mind. I tend to refer to this as the "dark" side of the mind. I took the topic of this thesis as an opportunity to research the roots of humankind and different aspects that affect our personality and state of being.

+31 658958582 najmeh.saghaei@gmail.com www.cargocollective.com/najmehsaghaei

Fine Arts

+31 643740270 jonas_raps@hotmail.com www.jonasraps.com

Thesis Een blik in het proces (A glance into the process)

Jeannette SlĂźtter

Sylvia Schotman

Project Tactile Archetypes 'The lover of art moves from one spot to another, seeking rest but finding none. He shifts from point to point: his eyes become his hand and the ray of light his finger, or rather his soul has a finger that is yet finer than his hand or the ray of light. With his soul he seeks to grasp the image that arose from the arm and the soul of the artist. Now he has it! The illusion has worked; the sculpture lives and his soul feels that it lives. His soul speaks to it, not as if his soul sees, but as if it touches, as if it feels.' (Johan Gottfried Herder, 1744-1803) Sculptures with an outspoken tactile quality, coloured by mythology and experience from my medical practice. There is always wonder about the unexpected interior of Das Ding an sich.

Thesis Jaune, I never liked yellow anyway My hand glides along the surface, it caresses, with slight pressure. I feel a slight elevation in the surface, the elevation springs back as my hand progresses in it's movement. It is an even, rounded, soft mass that only needs slight force to shift location. It can be propelled by pinching it between thumb and forefinger, and it always springs back. No no no No nO no NO! Never touch the art object! Never ever touch the art! You may caress, undress, with your eyes ONLY! And remember, you are a 'talking doctor' now. Do NOT touch the patient, physical examination is not part of your job anymore. You may observe only. In an artist book and essays, fragments of a medical background merge with fragments of the art world.

A situation which sometimes only lasts for a brief moment, and sometimes for a while. A choreographed installation with various things and performative elements.

jeannetteslutter@gmail.com www.jeannetteslutter.nl

Thesis he Planned, the Unplanned and the Planned Unplanned Exploring the space of coincidence in terminology in art. Looking for a vocabulary to speak about the undefined space that is situated between site-specific installations, performative acts and choreography.

Fine Arts

+31 655325060 snschotman@kpnmail.nl www.sylviaschotman.nl

Project grijze vloer

Katarina Stankovic

Elise Sothys Project EUREKA! CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE BROUGHT ME TO REALIZING THE IMPORTANCE OF CIRCUMSTANCES/////////////// FOR MY FINAL TRANSACTION WITH THE KABK\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ I WILL DO A DISAPPEARING ACT. AN ACT; WHERE MY ROLE AS A STUDENT ENDS; A HUMAN POSITION IS WHAT REMAINS; A HUMAN BEYOND ART. ART BEYOND HUMANS///////////

Project number eight Light installation Absolution: formal release from guilt, obligation, or punishment. Ecclesiastical declaration that a person's sins have been forgiven. Save: keep safe or rescue (someone or something) from harm or danger. Preserve a person's soul from damnation.

+31 619682345 elisesothys@gmail.com www.elisesothys.com

Thesis Do we seek redemption in Art? Is an intellectual understanding of elevation a necessity when viewing and/or creating Art?

THE TEXT I PRODUCED IS ABOUT HOW IDEAS ARE TRUSTED, REPRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED. THE FOCUS IS ON THE INTENTIONS BEHIND STAGING EVENTS, THE MARGINALITY OF CERTAIN VIRTUAL THEATERS AND MY POSITION AT AN CULTURAL INSTITUTION.

+31 611113964 kk.stankovic@gmail.com www.cargocollective.com/kk-stanko

Fine Arts

Elevation: the action or fact of raising or being raised to a higher or more important level, state, or position. Redemption: the action of saving or being saved from sin, error or evil. The action of (re)gaining possession of something. Art: the expression or application of human creative skills and imagination, typically in a visual form such as a painting or a sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.

Thesis ANCHORS, ISLANDS, CANNONS and PALMTREES

Project Idealists

The seemingly logical patterns in our physical organic environment thrill me. The movement and textures of life around me, in the sky or on the forest floor are quick, soft, liquid, ethereal, solid, intertwining, falling, growing, creeping, scattering, evolving, and dying. All is rotting and disintegrating, to be born again in another form. I try to capture this fragile and constantly shifting instability. The way in which these natural elements come back in a magical or supernatural construction in ancient myths and magical realist literature are starting points for my drawings and prints.

"Keep the company of those who seek the truth and run away from those who have found it" â&#x20AC;&#x201C; VĂĄclav Havel 'Idealists' is a series of woodcuts representing historical figures who, through thought or action, have changed our perception of what is possible in a human society.

Thesis Ademende Ogen, de kracht van verandering in perceptie (Breathing Eyes, the power of change in perception)

Tholbjorn

Sophie Steengracht

Project Shifting instability

Thesis Utopian Paradox Contemplations on the search for a Utopia - the ideology, the ethics, the logic, the trap.

+31 621400838 tholbjorn@gmail.com www.tholbjorn.com

In a mix of fiction and theory I wrote about the power of change in perception. I addressed ways in which we can be aware of the constant transformation of our identity and the world around us. The stories and theories are guided by forms and processes in nature, old myths and short poems. They are illustrated by my own drawings.

+316 48144926 ssteengracht@hotmail.com www.sophiesteengracht.com

Fine Arts

Lucie Tomรกnkovรก

Charlotte Ursem

Project / In my work I explore the laws of nature that are contained in every element of our world. By using repetition and graduation of colors I express the principles of movement, rhythm and constant change. The choice of technique and material is based on ideas of inevitability. These techniques include painting, drawing, installation, 3D objects and animation.

In my thesis I deal with philosophical thinking about what might be behind the human urge for the production of ornament. I elaborate on difference between decoration and ornament. I have come to realize that ornament is based on certain principles; such as repetition, order, rhythm, movement, time aspect, cycle and so on. The origin of these principles is based on observation of nature. Once you understand that ornament is present in natural elements and in nature of the universe as a whole, you come to see that it is something already existing in the world. Therefore I argue that ornament is independent from human production.

Project NAT

Thesis A Comfortable Space

I'm interested in the controlled environment we create for ourselves. Our personal space seen as a mental construction. What are the essentials? Color? Form? Surface maybe? Installation wise I create a composition in space through colors on surfaces. This gives character to the individual forms. An experiment to how form and color influence our being and have lively elements that trigger our curiosity.

Why do we manipulate space? "A space can be like your own skin. It can be your interior and exterior, your mental space. Some people need a clean and organized environment to function. The interior of your mind can be so disorganized and unfocused that it cries out for a neat, clean and structured space in order to be focused. Why is it that space becomes so important? Is it an emotional, material or an aesthetic thing? A comfortable manipulated space. When we enter a space we look. And we think. Am I comfortable? How can I make myself feel comfortable? We adapt. We manipulate the space with our body."

+31 636133936 charlotteursem@gmail.com www.charlotteursem.nl

Fine Arts

+316 87013431 luciemag@seznam.cz www. cargocollective.com/ lucietomankova

Thesis The Position of Ornament in the World

In this graduation show I present a Gesamtkunstwerk in the form of a staged subway station. Influenced by Richard Wagners "Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft" (1849) I make use of the three elements; image, sound and movement, in a three-dimensional installation consisting of sculptures, sound and a staged video with hundreds of passengers. 'Underground fog and a panting dog' shows a glimpse of society where fiction presents itself as reality in an absurdist way.

Charlotte van Winden

Max de Waard

Project Underground fog and a panting dog

Thesis De geest uit de fles (Dutch expression)

Project No Rules In Space At this exact moment NASA's space probe New Horizons is tumbling through space, a tribe on North-Sentinel Island lives isolated for thousands of years and I am here, somewhere in the middle of space, trying to process this information without shedding crocodile tears.

Thesis I am lonely will anyone speak to me?

'De geest uit de fles' is a bundle of fictive reviews on my work to underline its subjectivity. Using this format I position my work in a contemporary context, whilst drawing an ideal picture of my future as an artist, describing it from different perspectives and explaining my vision. As a result, on the one hand, it is a continuation of my work using other means, while on the other hand it gives me the opportunity to act as the spectator rather than the creator and to view my own work from afar.

Over de vervlechting tussen humor, zingeving, eenzaamheid en internet. +31 646485106 ccjvanwinden@hotmail.com www.charlottevanwinden.com

+31 640159501 max_de_waard@hotmail.com www.maxdewaard.nl

Fine Arts

Mickey Yang

Abel Wolff Project Het Doel en de Middelen

In this installation the tools I use to create my work are elevated from their initial, solely practical, purpose and given the role of the subject, resulting in a seemingly closed circuit wherein the work appears to address only that what has made it to exist; the tools and the artist.

abel_wolff@hotmail.com www.cargocollective.com/atwolff

Thesis Fotografie in de Middeleeuwen An exciting research into 'Den Duyvelenbrugge', a medieval work shrouded in mystery.

57 Project Killamangiro

+31 619957433 everything@mickeyyang.nl www.mickeyyang.nl

The sleeping clowns of the artist Ugo Rondinone (1964. Brunnen, Zwitzerland) provoke certain expectations loaded with memory. The passive clown motif, with its consistency across several of his works, strengthens the tragic character. In this thesis I investigate how the impassive clowns underline the masquerade's artificiality.

Fine Arts

As an explorer of potential meaning I wander through a landscape of visual language. Exploring what catches my interest, I will investigate it as if the meaning had gone lost in time, to arrange the found related or unrelated matters into a gentle or somewhat even light eccentric compositions. By reinterpreting and arranging the coincidences, I undermine their existing meaning and relations in an often humorous way. Playing empathically with idle values and offering them resistance against the already existing determined norm. It appears as a light-hearted and a playful resistance. By going through my own encyclopedia, I slowly form the existence of alternative realities, offering enlightenment and anchors to my own cultural identity.

Thesis If there were anywhere but desert. Sunday

Inge-lize Zevenboom

Project Tree City My work is based on a world full of fantasy. My fantasy world that can only come into being by painting it. This fantasy world is filled with nature and magic. My series of paintings is called 'Tree City'. Do you remember the feeling you get when reading a good book, the feeling of getting drawn into the story? I believe that the same thing can happen with a good image. By making this series of paintings longer the story grows. I create miniature paintings that capture this world in a snapshot. Due to the small size of the paintings they demand extra detail. This will make you want to have a closer look and will pull you into the fantasy world of the painting.

Thesis Fantastisch beeldend. Welke elementen van fantasie verhalen vinden we terug in beeldende kunst? I investigated which elements of the traditional fairy tales you can find back in recent fine arts.

+31 642052938 ingelize@hotmail.com www.ingelizezevenboom.nl

Fine Arts

Bachelor

Graphic Design

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Alyar Aynetchi Nicoline van der Beek Esther van den Bos Menno de Bruijn Lukas van Buuren Melissa Chan Inês da Costa Nina Couvert Ditmar van Dam Bart van Dijk Julian Doove Rosa Douma Ayse Duran Marius Gottlieb Reni van der Gragt Sanne Groenendaal Roos Groothuizen Lennart Hendriksma Hidde Hornman Tomas Komen Malou Koopman Mirte van Kooten Tomas Laar Bram de Leeuw Danicha Leliveld

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Max Lennarts Viktorija Liaudanskaite Rene Louter Tom Lugtmeijer Monika Mickute Ilse Modder Wilco Monen Alice Mulder Sophie Neppelenbroek Sepus Noordmans Eline van der Ploeg Regina Pöll Sander Puhl Sara Risvåg Jordie Rovers Tereza Rullerova Irene Salo Edgar Savisaar Marinus Schepen Machteld Stoop Janine Terlouw Sandra Timmerman Ieva Valule Fedor Velyaminov Donna van West

Nicoline van der Beek

Alyar Aynetchi Project Lost and found again

Thesis The Value Of Form

'Native Language' is a project which explores the relationship between screen and print by measuring the capabilities of both mediums through temporal properties. Within this framework, the project uses the notion of time as a strategy, and as a way of measuring events. In this manner, both screen and print reconfigure their use in order to explore a different kind of behaviour. 'Native Language' stages this comparison while using time as the agent, and consists partly of a video sequence, and partly of a series of books. Altogether serving various entry points into the project.

Graphic design has emerged throughout history as an artistic and communicative discipline which has evolved through the practice and development of visual form. However, the current state of graphic design discourse reflects a profession which largely values the creation of content over shaping content. 'The Value Of Form' therefore focuses on stimulating a discussion on why both are equally important. Furthermore, 'The Value Of Form' focuses on several case studies between practice, production tools, and the greater social context.

+31 639494191 alyarr@gmail.com www.alyaraynetchi.com

+31 642158529 nicoline@nicelion.nl www.nicelion.nl

Onbewuste emoties, zintuiglijke prikkels en herinneringen. Hoe wordt er van deze onderwerpen gebruik gemaakt binnen ontwerp? Hoe versterken zij elkaar? Hoe neemt een geur je mee naar een vergeten jeugdherinnering en hoe kan je onderbewust beĂŻnvloed worden door geluid? In mijn scriptie kijk ik hoe in ontwerp gebruik gemaakt kan worden van onbewuste elementen en zintuiglijke prikkels en hoe dit werkt en toepasbaar is. Daarnaast kijk ik naar de rol van zintuigen binnen het opslaan en terughalen van herinneringen.

Graphic Design

Project Native Language

Al mijn leven lang verzamel ik allerlei mooie citaten die ik overal en nergens tegenkom. Deze teksten hebben uiteenlopende onderwerpen, maar gaan (letterlijk of meer cryptisch) altijd over het leven en de bijbehorende emoties en gemoedstoestanden. Mijn project bestaat uit 17 (bewegende) typografisch beelden. De beelden zijn gemaakt naar aanleiding van een aantal van de door mij verzamelde citaten, die op volgorde gezet zijn van negatieve emoties naar positieve emoties. Elk beeld toont een woord, zin of stuk tekst dat de essentie van het citaat weergeeft. Qua opmaak en kleur geven de beelden aan waar in het 'verloop' van negatief naar positief je je bevindt. Ik wilde deze citaten graag buiten hun context delen, omdat ze op zichzelf staand erg waardevol en leerzaam kunnen zijn. Om mijn project te delen heb ik een interactieve website gebouwd, waar deze beelden op te vinden zijn.

Thesis "Beleven", Beleven & Herbeleven

Menno de Bruijn

Esther van den Bos

Project Shaping everyday Through my images I want to create a point of view that there is no beauty without some strangeness. So celebrate and embrace it. These days women are trying to live up to unrealistic and unhealthy beauty standards. This has to do with the existence of female stereotypes and ideals that make it difficult to form a positive self-image. We are faking our own perfections for example by wearing shapewear. Although is this behavior necessary? Shaping our habits towards the ideal of womanhood is the topic I am focussing on. I will combine image with typical domestic objects. The objects we use everyday will give a great natural, welcoming and pleasant feeling but there is clearly something going on.

Thesis Thinking about womanhood

In this paper I examine the following questions: What does the male gaze with the self-image of a woman? Which stereotypes about womanhood play a role in contemporary thought about being a woman? Many woman have unpredictable views about their own insecurities. Some topics are not or very uncomfortable discussed. A woman's self-esteem is strongly influenced.

+31 611755020 esthervdbos@hotmail.com www.esthervandenbos.com

65 Project Money, Politics and Bananas

+31 636097129 www.mennodebruijn.com studio@lennartsendebruijn.com

What causes a sport where 22 grown men chasing a ball to become a massive collective spectacle, at a time where individualism leads the dance? On the basis of the functional approach of rituals of Durkheim, I answer the question: What makes the international football events occur as a ritual for the massively participating supporters and how does this manifests itself? It will become clear that the experience goes beyond the actual topic of football. It's a festive phenomenon that seems empty and without consequences and it will not change your life drastically, though it will blur boundaries, eliminate discrepancies, unite societies, often expressed through a uniform look. Behind that sameness is a need that society barely provide us.

Graphic Design

A world of money, glitz and glamour. It is a subject that many people see purely as entertainment. It is a mirror of society, it reflects its qualities but magnifies its flaws. It reflects society's dominant values, structures and its inherent conflicts and contradictions. It's about politics, race, globalization, power and religion. It's an arena for the affirmation of national, regional and local identities. It brings together billions of people. It can stimulate peace as well as bring war. It contains unconditional love but also causes rivalry, hate and violence. My project is about everything but football.

Thesis The most important side issue in the world Football as a ritual

This series of (word)plays are attempts at the following scenarios: How can type, objects and spaces become actors, stages and narrators? What happens when ordinary word meanings are deconstructed and recontextualised? Elementary everyday objects are cast as actors, paying homage to Ludwig Wittgenstein's thoughts on 'the multiplicity of language-games': Making up a story; and reading it, Play-acting and Making a joke; and telling it. These acts explore the translations of type, objects and spaces into new forms of meanings by disrupting the order of things, breaking the meaning, and turning things upside down.

Melissa Chan

Lukas van Buuren

Project Word Plays

Thesis Read between these lines

Thesis Van monoloog naar dialoog

DIT ZIJN DE MENSEN DIE MIJ EERST ALS DANSER EN NU ALS ONTWERPER HEBBEN GEÏNSPIREERD. HUN EIGENHEID EN DOORZETTINGSVERMOGEN ZORGT ERVOOR DAT ZE OPVALLEN BINNEN EEN BEPAALD VAKGEBIED. DIT RAAKT MIJ EN GEEFT MIJ KRACHT ALS ONTWERPER EN ALS MENS, AAN HEN WIJD IK DEZE HOMMAGE. MET DIT PROJECT VERBEELD IK MIJN RESPECT EN WAARDERING VOOR HEN.

Manifest VIND EEN PLEK WAAR JE JE VEILIG VOELT, BLIJF HIER EEN TIJDJE, VIND EEN VOORBEELD EN VOLG, VOER DIT GEDISCIPLINEERD UIT, VRAAG ALLES WAT JE WILT WETEN HARDOP, VOER JEZELF FYSIEK EN GEESTELIJK TOT JE GRENZEN, LEER EN CREËER NIET TEGELIJK, HET ZIJN VERSCHILLENDE DINGEN, DENK BUITEN BESTAANDE PADEN, JE EIGEN PAD BESTAAT NOG NIET, VECHT TEGEN ANGST, DOORSNEE EN GEMAKZUCHT, LEER LOSLATEN EN GENIET DAARVAN, LEES, KIJK AANDACHTIG NAAR FILMS, LUISTER GESPITST NAAR MUZIEK, BEWAAR, HET KAN VAN PAS KOMEN, WEES BEWUST VAN DE SNELHEID VAN DINGEN, VERTRAAG, SPEEL EN FANTASEER! Zo beloof ik TE VERANDEREN DOOR TE LEREN.

+31 627102735 loukabop@gmail.com www.type-lab.eu

+31 625161751 hello@loungehere.com www.loungehere.com

Graphic Design

Project Hommage

This thesis is conceptualised from the viewpoint of a graphic designer. It explores the specific method of text (typography) as image to the reader. The reader constitutes anyone in and (more importantly) outside the visual communication sphere and how these interpretations can possibly lead to the formation of new perspectives.

Project On narratives

Where do you come from? This is one of the most fundamental questions that a Third Culture Kid (TCK) must deal with in life. A TCK is a term used for someone who has lived for a significant amount of time in a culture different from their parents. Such a background â&#x20AC;&#x201D;though rich in culture and experienceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; can have a great impact on one's sense of identity. In order to describe the variety of dilemmas that surface as a result of being a TCK, five siblings were interviewed. Their results show remarkable similarities and differences that they have developed thanks to their mobile childhood. This project hopes to shed light on a group of people that are currently an exception but could very soon become the norm.

The western spoon-feeding mass culture keeps on harping the slightly same visuals and scenarios to a population hungry for entertainment without complexity. Those alienating narratives are shaping the way we experience the world by numbing our critical mind, consciously drawing a line between passive contemplation and active thinking. This project is an attempt to design an alternative narrative that triggers our reflection and interpretation by embracing incoherences and suggestions, while allowing the audience to become co-author of the narrative.

Thesis The Impossible Objective / The Unavoidable Subjective

By releasing several videos showing the savage execution of journalists, the Islamic State has been attracting really fastly the attention from the international community. Analysing more deeply the IS' way of communicating, it appears that those videos are actually just a small part of a much bigger communication strategy consisting in designing films, magazines and games who mimic western narratives. From the analysis of graphic tools and aesthetics that the Islamic State has been using for its propaganda, this investigation slowly moves to a reflection upon the western visual landscape and particularly upon the role and responsibility of the ones that design it.

To what extent can one argue that objectivity enhances how a message is received? In order to decipher the meaning of objectivity within the realm of Visual Communication, this thesis cross-examines a number of established methodologies, with the overall aim of exploring answers to the following question, what is the effect and meaning of objectivity (and subjectivity) within the realm of Visual Communication? Each subchapter presents one step in the evolution of arguments regarding objectivity and subjectivity, and reach their culmination in the conclusion that their relationship is interdependent and mutually necessary.

Thesis The Power of Fascination

+31 613083766 nina.couvert@gmail.com www.ninacouvert.com

Graphic Design

+31 648625923 inesthecoast@gmail.com www.inesthecoast.com

Nina Couvert

InĂŞs da Costa

Project In Between

Bart van Dijk

Ditmar van Dam

Project The Transhuman Wager

Thesis Digital Afterlife

I have become Transhuman. I have upgraded myself. I have implanted a technological device that surpasses the biological boundaries of my body. From now on, my heart will reboot whenever it crashes. Technological advancement has made that possible. It gave us cyberspace, and the internet. It gave us new forms of reality, and it improved our social network. It gave us new forms of control. One day, it will give us actual A.I., bionic superpower and eternal life. It might seem both scary and impossible, but if you look at society today, you are already a part of this development.

This thesis provides an examination of both ancient and current views on life and death, life after death, DNA as the code of life and finally our current understanding of consciousness. Furthermore, these chapters are then placed into a personal context. Altogether, they point the way to my personal answer to the research question: "To what extent can we continue to exist in a reality in which we are more than a memory?"

info@ditmarvandam.nl www.ditmarvandam.nl

71 Thesis RED

Some 10 years ago the term metrosexual started taking shape as a reaction to the ever increasing power of women in the western world. The metrosexual represented an ideal image of men who where more in touch with there feminine side. Last year a reaction took form with two new male identity changes, they are called spornosexual and lumbersexual. Both putting the emphasis on an extremely aggressive, dominant & masculine identity. These new ideal images both have major contradicting aspects such as high maintenance and vanity. Therefore the following question arises, what is masculinity? The project will come together as a video installation showing different sides of this question about masculinity.

My thesis is a research on how color and light have an effect on your health and mental state. Subjects like color preference, color phobias and use of color in graphic design are at the base of the thesis. The subject is a result of a personal color disaffection I discovered in my own projects. The thesis is helped by a wide range of psychological research and color experiments.

+316 23072947 bjvandijk@live.nl www.bjvandijk.com

Graphic Design

Project beer out of a teacup

Rosa Douma

Julian Doove

73 Project Death and all his friends

+31 651155371 scheepsrecht@me.com

Inspired by the occasional sadness I experience as a result of my belief that life is meaningless, I tried to find out whether changing my position towards this feeling could maybe make it a positive emotion rather than a negative one. We seem to live by the idea that an existence in which we don't feel meaningful is useless. Which is the reason why we try to make everything we do worthwhile. But this approach in life only makes it harder for us to deal with situations that seem unfair or random like the sudden death of a loved one or a major disaster. In my thesis I tried to question whether a meaningful life is actually better than my experience of the world. I went on a paradoxical journey to see if I could become happy from being sad.

Project Visual vocabulary, Decoding visual language Modern humans have the ability to interpret, evaluate, and infer meaning from information presented in the form of an image. How images are 'read' depends on the visual codes and conventions that exist in our society. In order to understand visual language, several persons from different backgrounds were asked to draw various concrete and abstract concepts, using their imagination. The outcomes of this project show the richness and variety of ideas in society's visual memory.

+31 624166351 rosa@doumarosa.nl www.doumarosa.nl

Thesis The fight for the public opinion, The persuasiveness of visual communication The intention of my thesis was to bring light to the phenomenon of visual literacy, so that designers, visual artists or anyone working with images may use a model of reference that differentiates laws where they exist, and identifies where there are no laws. In the end I tried to find out how designers could use this knowledge to improve the persuasiveness of their work.

Graphic Design

We are obsessed with being happy. Which is generally achieved by maintaining a life filled with positive experiences. Negative experiences make us feel unhappy so we try to avoid them. They seem to have no place in a happy life. But everyone has probably watched a scary movie or read a sad book where the main character constantly goes through negative experiences and you ended up liking it anyway. Such experiences seem to be ok as long as they don't happen to us personally. Books just contain stories, they can make us reflect on negative experiences without having to deal with the emotional aspect that usually comes with it. They help us recognise that a lot of things in life are simply ugly but that this can be a rather beautiful thing.

Thesis The happy miserable man who was a woman that found the meaning of life when they realised that it was impossible to find

Marius Gottlieb

Ayse Duran

Project Saligia Waar ligt de grens tussen 'leesbaarheid' en 'onleesbaarheid'? We lezen, schrijven en communiceren met woorden, maar wat gebeurt er als er een nieuwe dimensie toegevoegd wordt aan het woord dat je niet alleen kan lezen maar ook kan voelen? Hoe kan ik vormen voelbaar maken die leesbaar worden? Mijn afstudeerproject bestaat uit 7 films van 7 hoofdzonden, een onderzoek naar grenzen van typografie; van leesbaar [woorden] naar onleesbaar [vorm - structuur], van formeel naar emotioneel en van functioneel naar voelbaar. Door [leesbare] woorden naar een structuur te brengen is het woord niet meer leesbaar, maar je voelt en ervaart het woord door de emotionele betekenis. Hierdoor ontstaat er een vorm van voelbare en emotionele typografie.

Thesis Typografie als visuele taal +31 641767088 firuzeaksu@hotmail.com

Project A Look At The Sound Of The Feel Of The Smell Of The Art Of Food

+31 646618736 marius@gottlieb.nl

Graphic Design

Food is everywhere in our western world. We don't have to be afraid anymore to die of starvation and therefore food loses its necessity. It makes food hip; people no longer eat just for survival but for all kinds of reasons. Food is no longer valued for its intrinsic qualities but rather for its extrinsic qualities. And that's a pity, since food is so much more; its the only thing in the world that stimulates all senses at the same time. That is why this project is about food as a medium and its perception. By decontextualizing food it invites the viewer to re-evaluate it. It aspires everyone to look at food anew, free of its conventions and customs, and give it their own new interpretation. Even if the conclusion is that food is mere fuel.

Thesis Oh, the tiger will love you

Sanne Groenendaal

Reni van der Gragt

Project Let Me Feed You Instead of hunting for food, like we used to, it has now become difficult to avoid food. It's the fuel of the body, but due to the arrival of denatured products and our food ignorance it has become our drug. The growing scale of industrial food products have significantly aggravated our diet. As a result the number of people with western diseases like obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer has increased enormously. We're being misled to consume as much as possible. 'Let me feed you' creates food consciousness by feeding people both literally and figuratively. By creating awareness of the impact of our diets and consumerism people will hopefully make more conscious decisions, which will be conducive to our health and planet.

Thesis Bewust (W)eten Welke rol speelt de overheid in het voorlichten van de consument met betrekking tot wat er in de levensmiddelen producten zit die we in onze supermarkten vinden? Ligt het verbeteren van de voorlichting van de consument over een bewuste voeding eigenlijk wel bij de overheid, of hebben de marketeers hierin alle macht?

+31 633953971 renivandergragt@gmail.com www.renivandergragt.nl

77 Thesis Unconditional Design

Ever since I can remember I've been interested in conditioning; the way we learn how to behave, think and judge the world around us. But isn't this merely an illusion created by society? Over the years I've been researching if it's possible to break with our conditioning in order to find other truths and visions. I found that thinking outside the box isn't the way. Our conditioning makes it impossible to see or experience what we haven't seen or experienced before. So what about thinking inside the box in a different way? My project resembles an environment which disables us to apply our rules, ideals and visions in the same way and offers a way to break with habits and search for new possibilities that are to be found within the box.

We are born without any values or knowledge. We develop these through learning processes, which result in our conditionings. My thesis explores the phenomenon conditioning and how it relates to design. What does it mean to be conditioned? Where do the norms and values we learn come from? Is it possible to break with our conditionings? I searched for answers by using the Latin alphabet as an example and metaphor of a conditioning. This answered my research question: Is it possible to design without conditions? We can weaken our conditionings, but never break with them. Through examples of art and design I discovered that design and life are not so different. They both emerge from a set of rules. We need conditions as a basis to create.

+31 630847984 sannegroenendaal@live.nl www.cargocollective.com/ sannegroenendaal

Graphic Design

Project Inside the Box

Lennart Hendriksma

Roos Groothuizen

Project The Consulate of Google The filter bubble is a phenomenon where websites and companies customize your web content following your personal interests. They are able to calculate those by looking at your click behavior and search history. The result is that users unknowingly get trapped in a 'bubble', filled with only things they already know and like, preventing them from learning new things or finding new interests. This project demonstrates the process of the filter bubble. I realized that the companies' data profiles, in which these user-data are stored, work in the same way as a passport. Visitors are able to have a passport issued with their Google data profile, designed as an 'open secret', that is only readable with a magnifier.

Thesis De kunst van het weglaten (The art of leaving out) The thesis and my overall research shine a light on the filtering of visual information and how that alters and manipulates the world perspective of humans. I wrote about different filter techniques, like human perception, subjective writing, types of (self-)censorship and online information filters. The research includes writers like Michael McLuhan and Jean Beaudrillard and how they relate to this topic. Especially how the (digital) medium, instead of the information, is responsible for a change in perception and finally a change in perspective.

+31 618116669 hello@roos.gr www.roos.gr

79 Project Problems and possibilities of generative design

+31 681681746 lennart.hendriksma@gmail.com www.lennarthendriksma.nl

Graphic design is a field where expertise in vision, style and aesthetics are derived through many years of practise. However, even in this sector there is an uprise of digital media as well as digital tools. These new media and tools can create stunning results and thereby blow away any other means of creation and/or result. Because we live in a world where technology is evolving so rapidly, even the field of graphic design cannot help but embrace this evolution. Maybe a graphic designer does not design the visual, but makes the program that generates the visual.

Graphic Design

The project could be seen primarily as a program which can generate physical objects which can exist as printable or creatable objects for personalised use. Behind the tool, I would like to set up a website which can offer the general public with the possibilities of downloading and printing their own objects. With this, I create a program that can generate personalised objects for any individual. The program will be downloadable through the website, along with several manuals offered for printing. Completely free, open-source, and aiming to provide a sustainable option to mass production, product design, and generative design.

Thesis The Visual Progression

Tomas Komen

Hidde Hornman Project A Song I Saw

The relationship between Audio and Visual is like comparable to that of Coffee and Milk. They are two independent forms which can work perfectly well on their own, but when they are combined, magic is about to happen. At rock concerts and dj-sets, visuals or vj-ing is almost impossible to ignore. They're there to create a more intense experience for the listener. In this project I am searching to find a way to design with the use of musical instruments. With the setup of a typical three-piece rockband I want to create a new way of designing. By playing shapes not music.

+32 485707189 hiddehornman@gmail.com www.studiohornman.eu

81 Project Volatile

+31 646528637 tomaskomen@hotmail.com www.cargocollective.com/tomaskomen

The thesis researches different kinds of meaning given to food in the western culture, by reflecting on manifestations in its art and design. Food is a necessity of life. She moves with the developments that the humans pass. But behind the understanding of nutrition lies more than a way of survival. Nutrition has been significant in religion, politics and science. Its meaning has been depicted and represented in art and design. It is fascinating to see how food over time has changed its meaning in society. These changes intrigued me to form the subject of this thesis wherein I anwser the research question: How can de meaning of food in the western culture be seen in both art and design?

Graphic Design

The work becomes a modern day Vanitas were the symbolic transience of the earthly is translated through digital news images. This is a metaphor for how we daily deal with many digital news images through media. By the constant sharing and reposting, emotional value of the news image works for a short time. The receipt and approach is a volatile and explosive proces, wherein the renewal image is a temporary thing. By copying and reposting the image again and again it online perish away, visual and emotional. A digital shared image now shows transience of the earthly and becomes a mortal object, just like the displayed incident. The work highlights that digital media ensure, that we forget the important moments of life in a rapidity.

Thesis Kunstzinnige vertaling van de betekenis van voedsel

Mirte van Kooten

Malou Koopman

83 Project The newspaper is supposed to be objective and therefore it is considered as the truth. But whatever decision you make, the newspaper will never be objective. The chosen articles, the order of the newsitems, the images, the chosen advertisements, design decisions, everything makes it subjective. With this knowledge I made a subjective newspaper. Every part of my exhibition represents a part of the newspaper, together it forms the whole newspaper. I used data based on existing newspapers to make my own interpretation. The abstract forms and different media creates a visually attractive newspaper.

Thesis From House to Home

Our generation is one that is known for its flexibility within the perception of home. We are able to leave our houses behind and find our homes in a new place thanks to different factors. Being at home is a state of mind. When we fill our backpack to take with us, we try to pack the familiar feeling of home. What do we pick to bring with us on our travels? How do we decide upon where this feeling comes from? This backpackÂ-toÂ-carpet is a tool that challenges people to think about what they take when keeping the feeling of home in consideration. Choosing the right pockets to fit on the grid makes you consider what is important to you. At the moment of unpacking the bag into a carpet, the routine of feeling home in the temporary starts.

The term 'home' sounds so certain. We have on one hand this very solid idea of a home, or perhaps a house, but somehow the feeling of home is hard to grasp. So what is it in the end that might provoke the feeling of home when considering different forms of a home? The concept of home can no longer be reduced to geographical or physical environments. In some cases it might suffice, but for others it doesn't. Home refers to something with which the individual can identify Âeven abstractions can represent a spiritual home as much as a physical one. In my thesis I talk about all these different interpretations of home and connect them to artworks about the topic.

+31 625030974 info@mirtevankooten.com www.mirtevankooten.com

Graphic Design

+31 619997312 maloukoopman@gmail.com

Project The Temporary Home

Bram de Leeuw

Tomas Laar Project In every detail a universe is hidden

'In every detail a universe is hidden' is a design manifesto focussing on the cycle of creating (making, thinking, seeing) in an open way. Influenced by human productivity the manifesto refers to an active-approach process, enhancing the concept of design through various stages within the cycle of creating. Translated into a typeface and a variety of prints, the manifesto conveys a way of designing that is open for flexibility and spontaneous changes. Exploring the parallels and overlaps between the making and the things we have no influence on: time & detection, aiming to stimulate and maximise production, functioning as a dialogue for inspiration that encourages to look at things differently. Because in every detail a universe is hidden.

Type design as a form of visual expression. Type is something that we are confronted with every day. The written word is everywhere and opens the world for us. Typography is a servant to help us communicate content embracing a vast range of topics. However, the visual details of type have an impact far beyond the content of the text. The aesthetic qualities of a typeface can be achieved by a harmonious relationship between form, content and purpose. Type design is a very specialized discipline, that focuses on designing type. The design of a typeface could be defined as being a thorough search for the right form in order to transmit textual but also visual messages.

Project The Man in the Middle

Thesis Ambient Aware Design

'The Man in the Middle' plays with the trust we place in the devices that grant us acces to the internet. Are these devices to be trusted? And how easily can the data we perceive through these devices be altered? The project tries to explore the ways in which man-in-the-middle-attacks take place and how they work. As a result these processes are shown in an abstract but humanly understandable manner. The installation consists of wireless routers running self made software. Each of the routers has its own part to play, there is the Monitor, the Collector and the Alterer.

Can design be aware of its surroundings, its audience? While data storage is getting cheaper and cheaper, means of storing and retrieving data become more advanced. Because of this development, correlations between data-sets are more easily discovered thus giving companies who collect these vast quantities of data a peek into possible actions its users will take. For example Google connects the data-collections of its services (like Gmail, Chrome and Analytics) to create full psychological profiles of its users. Can a digital design use these profiles and the available data to alter its presentation to its audience?

+31 621449186 bram-de-leeuw@hotmail.com www.broarm.nl

Graphic Design

+31 644211990 tomas_laar@hotmail.com www.tomaslaar.com

Thesis Types with character

Project I HAVE A PURPOSE

#Girls Each of us has a story to share. #Bedroom A girls' bedroom is part of a girls' identity. The bedroom is a place where girls can experiment with alternative ideas about being a girl. This is why the girls' bedroom is the perfect setting for sharing stories about girls all around the world. #Fairy tales Through fairy tales girls are taught values and lessons about life. But most fairy tales show us girls who aren't independent. We need to break through this chain of conservatism. Girls should be taught to be independent and the most important lesson fairy tales should teach girls is to be confident. #Girlism 'Girl' is inclusive, we are all girls. We tell the stories, you learn the lessons. #GBFG #GIRLSBEFUCKINGGIRLS

We have fallen under the spell of the intensification of our daily lives and following your passion has become a moral imperative. Our tendency to show others that we have it as good as what they have, or even better, is increasing. We want to make sure that everyone recognizes us as special and unique. I believe that we are now living in a society where only excellence is measurable, altruism is left behind because it has no physical or measurable value. As a result we all become more narcissistic!

+31 618519085 danichaleliveld@hotmail.com www.danichaleliveld.com

Thesis zwemmen in de vijver van echo, spartelen op het droge.

Graphic Design

A space has been created that gives us stage, a stage where we can show our 'true' self and our pursuits and get appreciation for it. Unfortunately, we are not the only ones who use the space and we are faced with people who promote themselves better than us and we compare ourselves. Narcissistic tendencies are reinforced and we will make objects larger than they are. Over-promotion leading towards the creation of a version of yourself between who you are in reality and how you would like to be. A repeating process that is operated by the community with which we enter the room. The confrontation could lead towards a unsatisfactory life, the negative aspect of our personality will take control and revert it into a new way of living.

+31 642807966 maxlennarts@gmail.com www.maxlennarts.com www.lennartsendebruijn.com

Graphic Design

Thesis "Fuck you, I'm a girl!"

Max Lennarts

Danicha Leliveld

Project Fuck you, I'm a girl!

Een compleet bouwpakket voor het zelf in elkaar zetten van twee verschillende apparaten die ontworpen zijn voor het maken van eenvoudige camerabewegingen met smartphones. Een combinatie van hout, elektronica en tal van schroeven, boutjes en moeren. De presentatie is in de vorm van een installatie, waarin de apparaten elkaar in beeld brengen.

Rene Louter

Viktorija Liaudanskaite

Project 2 Arms, 6 legs & 248 teeth

Thesis Point of View

Project People of the world, let me explain why I am so strong Project explores the selection of interviews, statements and speeches delivered by Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin concerning the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Our senses and intuition can tell us a lot about the conflict, but we should not forget that we -humans- are biased, and we tend to hear what we expect to hear. The emotional state of the world leaders can tell us much more about the conflict than the political statement or the plan of actions. Therefore this project researches the words that encode emotions of Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin.

Kandinsky questioned presence of interaction between work of art and the viewer already in the beginning of the twentieth century. Therefore, he analyses the point and the line and their relation with the plane. The goal of Kandinsky's theory was "to find the living [and] to make its pulsation perceptible". He tries to engage the sight, emotion and mind of the public. Kandinsky explores possibilities of creating a dialog between the viewer and the artwork. Arjen Mulder states that Kandinsky provided us a model for media art. Therefore the question arises: how can today's media art be seen in the light of Kandinsky's theory of interactivity?

+31 641317251 renelouter@hotmail.com

Graphic Design

+31 647617829 l.viktorija@gmail.com www.cargocollective.com/ viktorija_liaudanskaite

Thesis Today's Media Art in the light of Kandinsky's theory of interactivity

Hoe kunnen filmtechnieken de kijkers' perceptie van de muziek in een videoclip versterken? De scriptie is een onderzoek naar het maken van opnames met verschillende camera's gelijktijdig. Het maken van opstellingen van deze camera's en het maken van camerabewegingen.

Ă&#x2030;ĂŠn van de reacties op het huidige overweldigende digitale landschap is het verlangen naar offline prikkels. Prikkels die onze zintuigen weer op scherp zetten. Deze ommekeer heeft er toe geleid dat ik de wereld van de bestaande bieren ben gaan heroverwegen. Omdat in de nabije toekomst een overweldigende toename zal plaatsvinden van meervoudige smaken in onze belevingswereld. Trawant is bier dat antwoord geeft op deze groeiende behoefte. Het sluit aan op de moderne tijdgeest die bewust op zoek is naar zintuigelijk avontuur en beleving.

+31 650579440 tomlugtmeijer@gmail.com www.tomlugtmeijer.nl

Thesis Perpetuum Mobile Prosperis Een instrument voor succesvol ontwerpen. Het eindresultaat is een model waarmee de startende ontwerper op speelse wijze met anderen aan de slag kan gaan. Een model dat geen mal is, maar uitnodigt om onderzoek te doen.

Project Tactile Language Present language is identified as a curse: grammatically abused, incorrect as well as inelegant worldwide. However, dead languages never change. We used to speak the way we write and now we speak the way we type. A new communication pattern and language is developing itself in an unconscious and natural action. The new communication pattern could be named as figurative/typed language. The appearing new language is based on technological advancements and human tactility. My typeface design reflects modern communication patterns in which the graphical form of the typeface is based on human movement. In this case, typefaces become a graphical dialect that show the personal touch we give to the way we use a keyboard or a pen.

Thesis Figurative Language A system of signs as a new alphabet for computer and smartphone users

+31 615838300 mickute.mon@gmail.com www.monikamickute.com

Graphic Design

We cannot deny that internet and new media have the biggest influence on our language and in communication behaviour. On the other hand, society is one of the biggest influences on the shape of our language. Nowadays, we are creating a new 'figurative language' as a system of symbols to communicate. With a new symbol language we are able to express emotions, tell a story and give navigation to users. This information confirms that semiotic science is important to the design process, because that is what creates the patterns of communication. They build a link between all disciplines and interests in the problem of meaning and communication.

Monika Mickute

Tom Lugtmeijer

Project Trawant Bier

'The theatre in our head' is a project that shows the relationship between giving and receiving signals. Within this framework, I want to reveal that we forget what is needed to carry out our actions. We don't think about how to move, how to write, how to read etcetera, it all happens automatically. But it is our brain that works in the background and gives us that comfortable feeling. With this interactive installation, it is my goal to make the audience experience a synapse of the writing on the wall. In this way they will literally and figuratively activate the project. It will remind you and let you experience that not everything is a matter of course.

Thesis Het theater in ons hoofd

Wilco Monen

Ilse Modder

Project The theatre in our head

It looks easy to move through the world and the things we want to accomplish. We use our body to learn something about the world, but in the background it is the brain that works hard to give us that comfortable feeling. Our brain is fascinating, it completely defines who we are, what we do, why we do something and how we interact with our environment. Kilometers of track systems connected by 100 billion nerve cells. A real complex beauty. But it is more than that. It creates the 'I' which will be released to the social world and it allows me to share my thoughts with my friends.

+31 623953241 ilsemodder@gmail.com www.ilsemodder.com

Project Based on a true story

Thesis The true barbarian

Every ten minutes we set our lives on hold. Why? To check the news. We receive images of important achievements, disasters, crimes and epidemics. Images of what we think the world looks like. We consume those images of news-media that we see as trustworthy and objective. But what if we play with those images? What kind of tools are used before an image says what it should or should not say. What kind of effect do the graphical elements, as logos or banners have on those images? In the project 'Based on a true story' the news imagery are deconstructed and reconstructed. By separating the graphics from the underlying images, it shows the power of graphical elements in the news.

Two persons can do the same act and one can be considered a hero, while the other can be seen as a barbarian. My interests lay in the topic of good and evil and when do you become which one? This is all depending on the position of the spectator and has a lot to do with the media. One of the means and channels of general communication, information, or entertainment in society, as newspapers, radio, television, contain bad guys or start with an evil scene. How is it possible that in the news we find more barbarians than heroes?

+31 652567847 wilcomonen@gmail.com www.wilcomonen.com

Graphic Design

Project Points of view

After graduating, we all start with a clean slate, an empty desk, ready for take off. But why is it, that even though 70% of graphic design students are women, we can only see 40% of them surface in the industry in the following years of their careers? 'Welcome to the Boys Club', a multi-layered installation, investigates this inequality. It gives graduating female students guidance how to deal with this and shows the viewer how much effort women need to invest in order to have an equal share in the boys club. Insight extracted from already-existing professional female designers, personal observations and results from surveys contribute to my illustrations about the difficulties of becoming a professional.

We form opinions on subjects. But most of the time we only see parts of the truth. We seldom know or understand everything. How do we perceive information? How do our expectations focus and limit our perception? Shifting scales can be confusing, different positions lead to other images, manipulations are disturbing our observations. The images our brain perceives are fragmented, selective and incomplete. Observing more aspects generates a more accurate picture. But you must make an effort! To process all available information you'll have to watch the installation from all points of view. Still, because everyone observes in his or her own particular way and with a specific framework of reference, different perceptions will be revealed.

Thesis You can't be what you can't see Women contribute to half of the world's population, yet they are still somehow invisible at some levels of society. In this thesis I research the feminine identity and the way it's been crafted by media and psychology. Where does the subordinate position of women as housewives or part-time employees come from, and are we used to the way women are being represented in the media? By representing subgroups, or rather, pigeonholing types of people on television and in magazines, large corporations can flourish, but what kind of world is created as a result? By changing our subconsciousness and way of portraying women in mass-media, it can be argued that a woman's role in society could drastically change/improve.

In the perception of the human figure various factors play a role: space, human figures and other objects. My thesis is about how they affect each other and how they are applied in visual arts.

+31 617147808 sophieneppelenbroek@gmail.com www.sophieneppelenbroek.nl

Graphic Design

+31 649618313 hallo@alicemulder.nl www.alicemulder.nl

Thesis Van top tot teen

Sophie Neppelenbroek

Alice Mulder

Project Welcome to the Boys Club

Project Living Systems

'The Archive of Us' is a speculative project about the future of the human body. Our current society is â&#x20AC;&#x201C; due to advanced technology â&#x20AC;&#x201C; rapidly approaching the next step in human evolution. Developments such as robotics and artificial intelligence could be the foundation for an autonomous replica of man, and both of these developments can already be found within many aspects of our daily lives. The progress of this development could mark the end of the human as a full biological organism. The human race, as we know it, will change. 'The Archive of Us' is a virtual museum in which the visitor can encounter events when equipping the Oculus Rift. Each event displays an element of the current human body that has become obsolete in the evolved future.

Can the shape and the skeleton of a letter evolve and come to life? Our alphabet is an ancient system we are conditioned with. We are used to it, aware of it, and it is a familiar set of symbols for communication. There are fixed rules that we follow even when designing new letters. However, nowadays, we try to gain control over systems in biological materials, yet we only succeed occasionally. By combining these with our alphabet systems, a balance between complete random and fully controlled, unexpected outcomes and assurance is formed. Living systems is a graphic letterlab, based on research. It is a project looking for ways to use unexpected material that shape the design and skeleton of typography.

Thesis The Rise of the Next Human

+31 624457916 sepus@me.com www.sepusnoordmans.com

My research is dedicated to the question: how valuable and influential can designers be in the complex area of biotechnology where they work with micro-organisms? To see how bio-design and bio-technology relate to each other, what the possibilities are and to determine their value, I evaluate the two different design processes. What is being designed in biodesign and bio art? What is the living material in the biotechnology and how can this be seen as design? The rapid development provides new possibilities that make it more accessible for scientists and designers to work together. Both disciplines relate to the complexity of nature which lets them explore new territories, new possibilities and future scenarios.

+31 629014217 elinevanderploeg@hotmail.com www.evdp.nl

Graphic Design

'The Rise of the Next Human' is an explorative thesis about the technological developments within the field of robotics and artificial intelligence. These developments are already amongst us, and are continuously progressing. A big part of the modern society has a collective dread for intelligent machines, drawn from what is seen in popular culture. Most novels, films or games envision a negative perspective upon this development. This thesis questions if design could help in reducing the fear for autonomous robotics, and how we should design these entities for us to accept it in our future society. It attempts to emphasize the importance of graphic design in the development of intelligent robots. A technology that is inevitable.

Thesis Designed Microbes

Eline van der Ploeg

Sepus Noordmans

Project The Archive of Us

Sander Puhl

Regina Pรถll

Project It's Not My Voice, It's The Absence of Yours At the academy there is this poster culture in the hallways, which is mainly based on providing information. I wonder if posters can also contribute to an atmosphere, without the applied content. In my graduation project I aim to explore visual language, which is really about conveying an energetic vibe. It can be a counter movement against content driven graphic design, it's a direct reflection of my expressionistic desire. Posters are a very conventional way of promoting a story. By trying to apply the visual language to other mediums I am questioning the way we perceive visual atmospheres.

Thesis Onder Het Oppervlak (Under the Surface) Thesis iMPERFECTION

With increasing technology in our lives and a world full of mass production, a little imperfection adds much needed character. With focus on the designing process, our results are based on programs and their algorithms. Nevertheless overloaded files cause errors which serve as great inspiration and build the base for my project. 'dESIGN+eRROR' is a research on algorithmic errors and their manifestation. Making them transparent, I am experimenting on how far we can deconstruct grid structure, composition and letters while keeping an overall legibility in order to create great tension and unique character. A translation of algorithmic defects. A dialogue between manual and technological approach. A manifest embracing digital imperfection.

mY tHESIS iS a rESEARCH oN IMPERFECTION, iTS nATURAL hABIT aND tHE aPPEARANCE tHROUGHOUT tHE fIELD oF gRAPHIC dESIGN. tHE tOPIC fOR mY tHESIS 'iMPERFECTION' wAS iNSPIRED bY mY oWN liFE jOURNEY. "aREN'T tHE mISTAKES aLWAYS mORE cHALLENGING, mORE iNTERESTING, mORE tOUCHING tHAN sICKENING sUCCESS sTORIES?" iT iS tHE mISTAKES aND dETOURS wHICH mAKE uS wHO wE aRE. aND tHE mISTAKES aND iMPERFECTIONS wHICH gIVE sHAPE tO oUR wORK aND dESIGNS. pERSONAL, pOLITICAL oR aRT, iMPERFECTION cAN bE fOUND aNYWHERE. iT iS tHE rESULT oF aN aRBITRARY hAPPENING. wHETHER cONTROLLED oR uNCONTROLLED. wHETHER wE fEAR iT oR cHERISH iT. iT iS sOMETHING cREATING tENSION aND cAN bE oF gREAT vALUE. "tHROUGH fAILURE oNE hAS tHE pOTENTIAL tO sTUMBLE oN tHE uNEXPECTED..."

+49 15735506444 regina.poell@yahoo.de

What can I do to get more grip on my own creative thinking? I've been told quite often that I'm a very intuitive person. That the best way for me to work is to just feel what's best. But how should I for example approach complex theory then? The first step is to be more conscious about the creative mind and the creative process. In my thesis I give examples of two leading theories about phases in creative thinking. A lot has been written about intuition and there seems to exist no true definition about it. I wrote about different perspectives and conceptions on intuition to create my own view and understanding on the topic.

+31 617775333 sanderpuhl@hotmail.com www.cargocollective.com/sanderpuhl

Graphic Design

Project dESIGN+eRROR

In my thesis research I encountered a situation similar to what is called a Wicked Problem. This term is used to describe complex, ever changing issues that never stand still. This makes them very difficult to solve. Wicked Problems are 'wicked' in that they take on different characteristics and meaning, depending on the viewpoint and the values of the people involved. It is widely believed that the application of design thinking can lead to solutions of Wicked Problems, therefore this project explores the term from the viewpoint of a graphic designer. Attempting to demystify the complex definition, and make sense of the variables within it.

Thesis (Graphic) design criticism: Norway, 2014

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Jordie Rovers

Sara RisvĂĽg

Project The Wicked and the Tame

Why is there an apparent lack of graphic design criticism in Norwegian media? Encouraged by the belief that criticism can be an important tool for understanding the graphic design discipline, I attempted to understand why there is almost no public debate on the subject. Interviews with Norwegian graphic design historians, journalists, architecture critics and graphic design organisations were used to set international references into the context of graphic design criticism in Norway. What happens to public debate, to published criticism, when we are all considered to be contributors?

Project Rovers de Schatgraver

Thesis Rovers de Schatgraver

This project contains a graphical translation of an archeological digging site by exploring the question: How can an archeological research be used as an artistic research?

How can an archeological research be used as an artistic research?

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+31 629393761 jordie_rovers@hotmail.com www.jordierovers.nl

+47 92249977 sara.risvaag@gmail.com www.sararisvaag.com

Graphic Design

Tereza Rullerova

Irene Salo

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Thesis Action to Surface

The borders between play and labour are disappearing. Work time and leisure have become unified in one never-ending shift. This is especially articulated through our networked presence in multi-internet reality. Every hour of our play, minute of entertainment and megabyte of shared data generates profit. This realm of the lost division between labour and play is called playbour. All of us have become players in this game. But who is the real winner? I celebrate post-fordist worker's attitude and stage my above mentioned message in performative music video. Song inspired by rough sound of the early Detroit techno is composed in collaboration with Ventolin.

We, designers, are used to presenting graphic design as a surfaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2018;centric practice, the way of surface production. In addition to this, Tereza tries to step out of separated media constraints and tend to establish a new field of potential through identifying performative components in graphic design processes and results. This research covers the investigation and establishment of links between action, body, designer and surface. It attempts to convince the reader, that surface production could be an action, happening, or chanceâ&#x20AC;&#x2018;driven act. Therefore the text introduces necessary theoretical, philosophical and historical backgrounds of performance art.

+31 646814126 tereza@therodina.com www.therodina.com

Project Concealed City

Thesis Beauty in unexpected forms

Inspired by the course on Japanese traditional aesthetic values together with the Situationist movement, dĂŠrive, I want to propose an alternative way of experiencing the touristic city of Amsterdam. During my thesis research I came across a notion that suggests that nothing is futile and everything possesses equal value. This thought can be applied to urban environments. The goal is to create an intervention that takes the tourists off their usual and predictable paths of landmarks and create a more authentic experience. By overlooking the famous sights and highlights of the city, the focus is shifted to the more hidden, unnoticed and subtle aspects. The city remains, but the eyes are redirected.

An investigation into Japanese traditional aesthetic concepts and their influence on contemporary Japanese design. These values are deeply integrated into every aspect of Japanese daily life and simplicity is seen as the ultimate sophistication. It can be argued that these values are the opposite of most Western aesthetic values, where empty space is being filled with material needs. 'Ma' proposes the positive qualities of a negative space and void. 'Wabi-sabi' is the art of finding beauty in imperfections and greatness in nature. Their true values lie in the mundane, inconspicuous and desolate matters.

+31 622555173 irene.salo@hotmail.com www.irenesalo.com

Graphic Design

Project Playbour

The world as we know is narrowing down. Due to the growing importance of the internet and modern technology we can quickly travel from one side of the globe to the other. Yet there is a paradox at hand: as technology enables us to access the far reaches of the planet, there is an increasing illusion that the rest of the world is only a click away. As we aspire to be everywhere simultaneously, we deceivingly evolve within domains that are different from our own territory. This pattern threatens the notion of a geographic place and opens the door to the reign of placelessness. In order to prevent that we are losing our cultural heritage to modern technology one needs to develop a way of creating a platform in the tradition of folklore.

Thesis ROK ON!

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+31 639106387 olenedgar@gmail.com www.edgar.ee

Science fiction has been the driving force of people's imaginations for centuries. All innovation starts with an idea, and describing ideas that have yet no form, function or meaning is one of the highest qualities of science fiction writing. My thesis looks at science fiction vocabulary and visuals to see where designers have stood in the spectrum of imagining the act of interfacing and how seemingly impossible interactions have been transformed to visual realities.

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'ROK ON!' is looking at the cultural development in South Korea and is based around the research question "What is typical about the Korean (visual) popular culture from 1960 and onwards?". South Korea was once one of the poorest and least fashionable countries in the world and has undergone a terrible war. But over the last couple of decades it changed itself into a high-tech nation and cultural superpower. South Korean pop culture is mentioned as one of the quickest flourishing pop cultures in the world. This thesis looks at the history of the country and the first attempts of a counter culture. Also it looks at the 'Hallyu' (Korean Wave) and current developments in its pop culture.

+31 644822206 mschepen@gmail.com www.marinusschepen.com

Graphic Design

Since the early days of browsing, speed has been the leading unit behind the development of the internet. The mentality of craving the fastest possible access to information has directed the look and functionality of browsing for the past 20 years. This has allowed for little definition or interest in the way users experience the context of space and time between the hyperlinks. 'Narrative browsing' is an experiment in diversifying the way we navigate online by going against the set standards. It consists of a virtual browsing environment that presents the Internet to the user in a contextual and atmospheric setting while giving time a visible element and making the actions of the user apparent.

Thesis Science Fiction's Influence on the Modern Interface

Marinus Schepen

Edgar Savisaar

Project Modular Folklore

Janine Terlouw

Machteld Stoop

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Project Personality RESET Booth

Thesis Dear Dataâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Diary,

Nowadays there is a lot of digital control, and we are no longer sure of our online identity. For this reason, the 'Personality RESET Booth' is created. This room is a metaphor for an escape room. Here you can liberate yourself from your existing controlled online personality and start over with your new personality. In the Personality RESET Booth you can create your new online personality based upon a questionnaire. It is up to you who you want to be: an alter ego or yourself? However, it feels like you are creating a new personality, it also gives the impression of a 'data loop'. Resetting creates a data loop where the user finds him or herself in a pattern of giving away personal data. Each reset is a drain of privacy.

Social media has changed the present format of gathering data, times have changed and with that, a lot of data are visible on the internet. Internet feels like a second life for a lot of people. This is because we put up an image that is different than what we are. But, the computer windows have no curtains that grant us the private space that we need.

+31 618252849 machteld_1990@hotmail.com www.cargocollective.com/mstoop

Project Stay Connected

Thesis The Digital Fireplace

Everyone has it, everyone wants it and everybody feels it. We always carry it around and we become anxious when we lose it. It is probably very close to you at this moment. You and your device have become inseparable. Our smartphone has become such an important part of our daily lives. We have everything we want and need to know in our pockets. With every new upgrade we become closer attached to our smart devices. I believe we've all become part of a worldwide sect. And to let people realise they are part of it, I went out on the streets and made people aware of their behaviour. Some people I have enlightened by prayer. I talked to people about the true meaning of their smartphone. I preached on central spots in different cities.

We keep staring into our digital fire. We visit it one or more times a day and often look at the same images. What is so exciting about the fire? Why do we continue to look at the fire? And why constantly triggered to look back at it? I'm curious about the world of smartphones, social media and manipulation.

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+31 652281537 mail@janineterlouw.nl www.janineterlouw.nl

Graphic Design

Project This is

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These days we are so fascinated by the technology that we allow it to make us forget what it is like to actually feel tactile objects. We forget how to really experience them. When a story is read on a computer screen something essential is lost. I am referring to the feeling of holding an object such as a book, an experience that for some time now has been fading away. An interaction that unintentionally is being removed from our conscience. 'This is' will remind you and let you experience what is it like to hold a book again. It does so without the actual physical book. The project emerged from a study of material, form and above all feeling. It was translated into physical elements.

+31 642934523 sandra.ontwerp@live.nl www.sandratimmerman.net

Thesis Experimenting with old habits The technology is so interwoven into our lives, we can't imagine a life without it. It is clear that artists and (graphic) designers are influenced by the technological progress of today. They get inspired by it and some try to combine this new adventures of technology with the old ones in a artisan way. A new meaning of craftsmanship is evolving. But this is today. What about the future? Are crafts changing so much because of the technological revolution or do they, in some way, remain the same? Is it possible that working with your hands like we know today is going extinct? Is the definition of craftsmanship changing into something that derives from machines? Is a machine the new handmade?

For some people sound is not just a vibration that travels through air. It also evokes absolutely involuntary experiences of colours, shapes and textures. In fact people who have the neurological condition of chromesthesia experience these impressions spontaneously and without any effort. As a result, these sensations often have very specific and complex appearance. For this reason I have done a extensive research on ways in which these people actually can 'see' sound. Chromesthesia is not just seeing with your eyes but also with your mind. Therefore, I even believe that this phenomenon can increase efficiency of audio transmission.

Ieva Valule

Sandra Timmerman

Project Look at the Sound

Thesis Look at the Sound How does image work as an agent of meaning in a performance of music? The purpose of this research is to analyze and explore meaningful ways of images depicting sound. This thesis can be used as a theoretical base to create consequential and purposeful audio visualizations in order to benefit to the satisfactory music listening. The anticipated outcome of this research is to explore ways of visualizing music in a graphical way that is based on scientific theories and yet remains to be emotional. Also during this research I search for a context of meaningful audio visualization by summarizing and investigating the practice of other artists that deal with this subject.

Graphic Design

+31 648023195 valule.ieva@gmail.com www.ievavalule.com

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Donna van West

Fedor Velyaminov

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Project MASS-PROD-USED

Thesis On aesthetics

I believe that we are now entering into a new era of post mass production. By taking existing objects and customising them you can add a new value to it, make it personal. It brings us to the value of craft in terms of resistance towards wild consumerism. My project appears to be a set of redesigned objects where every object works as a source for my inspiration. It allows me to point out certain issues about our society from which I intend to redefine the way we relate to design nowadays.

Thesis mainly researches a notion of objectivity of aesthetics in art of today and whether it is possible to define art and design to be objective at all.

velyaminov@mail.ru www.behance.net/FVel

111 Thesis The Child of Ignorance

We always feel the need to show other people how fun our lives are, but in reality we are all dealing with everyday issues. Either way we don't show this throughout social media or in real life. 'I Regret The Fake' is a film that is dealing with these issues. It plays with expectations from the daily life. The character wakes up in a dull room. She starts decorating the setting with garlands, fake plants, etc. She is slowly changing the atmosphere of the film. Everything looks festive at first sight, but when you look close you'll see the little differences that have been made. The activities and objects that are being used are metaphors for the fact that we act different towards the outside world in contrast to our real identity.

The guy right next to me was wearing a cap backwards. He had long greasy blond hair and a rather confused appearance. He looked quite annoyed by my whispering because he was studying. I was amazed by the fact that he, someone that looked like that, was so serious and bothered by me. The scary thing is that these thoughts are so deeply seated in our minds that it happens before we even notice it. It is very common to judge everybody. We have strong opinions and are not scared to say whatever we feel like. Either way it is impossible to be unprejudiced, but the trick is to be aware of it. The only thing we all know is that the sun comes up tomorrow morning and we are all going to die. Prejudice on the other hand will always be an assumption.

+31 627308216 donnavanwest@hotmail.com www.donnavanwest.nl

Graphic Design

Project I Regret The Fake

Bachelor

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Rob van der Burg Lars Hulst Suzanne Knetsch Margreet Lont Eva van Loon Martin Risseeuw Lauren Spencer

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Lars Hulst

Rob van der Burg

Project Open Laboratory for the Augmentation of Plants Inspired by the beauty and vulnerability of nature, I have developed a laboratory which focuses on using technology to augment the abilities of plants, enabling them to actively respond to changes in their environment.

Thesis Chimeras, Cyborgs & the Creation of the Post-Human

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Through the developments in technology and modern medicine, humankind has become able to change and shape their own bodies. In my thesis I explore the possibilities and effects of these developments and how it allows humankind to live longer and healthier lives.

+31 622706326 rvdburgwork@gmail.com www.robvanderburg.com

Project The Lonewolf We live in an extremely externalized culture in which constant socialisation and interaction has developed into an oppressive standard. Through this bias we became estranged to solitude and people fail to comprehend its rewards. In truth many shield from it out of fear of loneliness and grasp to relationships and needless chores, while condemning those who do find joy in solitude. The idealistic self is considered outgoing, alpha and comfortable in the spotlight, but how come that an admirable and desirable person avoids himself? 'The Lonewolf' is an installation that challenges the audience to disconnect and to be with themselves.

No longer is solitude considered a method to make a journey inwards or to regain consciousness, instead our perception of the word in our modern era seems to have changed radically. Those who desire solitude in our current cultural climate are considered lonely, anti-social, or mentally unbalanced. I believe the idea of isolation is misconceived and its strengths are undervalued because our current life of continuous interaction, stimulation and high productivity is considered an ideal.

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Interactive/Media/Design

+31 613384368 larshulst@hotmail.com www.larshulst.nl

Thesis Solitude - A Fault in the Collaborative Generation

My graduation project investigates how creatives are able to maintain a profession in today's Dutch cultural sector. It is a collection of stories from creatives of different disciplines who are talking about their personal thrive and passion next to their vision on this topic. These stories are combined in one installation using video and the spoken word.

Margreet Lont

Suzanne Knetsch

Project Creative Now

Thesis The transformative World of Colour Project De Kruidendoos

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'De Kruidendoos' is a natural lifestyle initiative supporting the replacement of overly chemical, animal tested, overly packaged and overpriced bathroom products with non-toxic, cruelty-free, sustainably packaged and low cost alternatives. Think olive oil soap, baking soda, or coconut oil. 'De Kruidendoos' offers a DIY kit with all the basic ingredients and a 1-2-3 minute recipe guidebook for those who seek to change their way of bathroom-life.

+31 643961330 kariknetsch@hotmail.com

Thesis MINDFUL: Re-establishing Art's Value

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+31 627457943 margreet89@hotmail.com

Interactive/Media/Design

In times of crisis and a heightened pace of life such as we live in the majority of people are kept from connecting to contemporary pieces. Worse even, due to the overload of information surrounding older pieces, some do not understand the need for art at all. The impact of disconnection, misunderstanding, and undervaluation through the misrepresentation of art goes deeper than the detachment of the audience and has even contributed to cuts in budgets reserved for art in the Western world. Institutions, galleries, academies, companies, all are receiving less financial support and are expected to survive upon the charity of the interested individuals who dwindle in numbers. But what if the personal value of art is measurable?

With this thesis I gave a platform to the healing powers of colour and how this is important for the development of 'conscious design'. I find that in art and design the focus on colour mostly lies on the effect on the brain and/or the symbolic meaning of the colour(s). But there is more: colours unconsciously have a huge effect on our physical and emotional wellbeing. Therefore it should be used in a more conscious way, so it could benefit people instead of manipulate them. "Although colour is used by designers for aesthetic and commercial reasons, colour has so much more potential, which is to fundamentally transform the lives of people, changing society for the better."

Martin Risseeuw

Eva van Loon

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Thesis Pretty Pink

Today, when a woman displays her sexuality, the general population continues to believe she is less intelligent, less faithful and is likely to take her less seriously than her conservatively dressed peers. A confirmed fact that women like Stella experience everyday. Eva Zohra designed 'Stella Blue', an installation space which confronts the visitor with this trend in society. Through spoken word and interior, it shows the many surprising similarities between Stella's respected job as a microbiologist and her nighttime career as a pole dancer. By presenting both worlds as one and equal, the visitor will be challenged to rethink their possible presumptions. Why is an educated woman in 2015 still being disrespected if she displays herself?

In 'Pretty Pink', Eva Zohra discusses the importance and lack of respect for women like Kim Kardashian, Miley Cyrus, and Zahra Stardust in the contemporary (art) world. Why are these women so looked down upon? Is it their way of dressing? Their character? How is it possible that surrounding yourself with the color pink (like some of these women do) makes you instantly assumed less intelligent? To explore these subjects, Eva Zohra digs into the foundation of societies ever changing mindset. She also introduces 'Smart Glitter', a new term to describe a glamorous lady who uses the prejudices which are put up against her to benefit her and gain her strength.

+31 611031548 eva@evazohra.com www.evazohra.com

'Openthings' is an internet platform passionate about collaborative development where sharing is the foundation. You are encouraged to get involved with your and others' designs, everything is open. 'Openthings' is a platform that facilitates anyone to share knowledge, ideas and skills. Together we can make anything for anyone. Join the global collaboration and start sharing.

+31 681485887 hello@martinr.nl www.martinr.nl

Thesis YOU ARE USEFUL: THE PROSUMING SOCIETY

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Although our society is still based on consumerism, there is a positive shift happening towards a society where people will experience more satisfaction through sharing. This shared based economy made possible by the internet will lead to more well-being and a happier society. 'YOU ARE USEFUL: THE PROSUMING SOCIETY' observes this shift towards a prosuming society. It describes how people can reach happiness through becoming prosumers. It explains why people have the urge to be useful.

Interactive/Media/Design

Project Stella Blue

Project Openthings

Lauren Spencer

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Project Breathing Anxiety

Interactive/Media/Design

As predicted years ago, the age of anxiety is upon us, we are living in a world where we are constantly overwhelmed by media and information. 'Breathing Anxiety' is a work by Lauren Spencer, in which the viewer is invited into a mirroring space where they can have a moment to reflect. The room exhibits a collection of films that portrays different people dealing with contemporary anxieties, creating relatable situations for the viewer and making it easier for them to accept it.

+31 621361359 laurenspencer_20@hotmail.com www.thelaurenspencer.com

Thesis The Second Self; where does the alter ego stand in art? Today I am she, tomorrow who will knowâ&#x20AC;Ś It isn't just a dress up, it isn't just a show. Today I wear my own skin, tomorrow maybe hers. I wear her like she's always there, until another occurs. A game of hide and seek is what it could be called. A second self-collection, I always keep them stored. My egos are my weapon, my egos are my sword. Lauren Spencer and her alter egos. Is the alter ego a portrait or a process? Or can the presence of the alter ego become a successful work on its own? 'The Second Self' addresses the importance and value of the alter ego by analyzing the works of Claude Cahun, Marcel Duchamp and Cindy Sherman.

Bachelor

Interior Architecture & Furniture Design 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135

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Oscar de Bakker Margot van Bekkum Gerdine van Bruggen Nancy Dantese Anouk van Deuzen Mark Flipse Michèle Groenewegen Marjolein de Groot Amal Habti Rense Jansen Róman Kienjet

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Sophia Klinkenberg Anne Kranenborg Frank Niessen Karen Nijdam Marlies van Putten Kaniz Rahman Roxan Reurslag Bert Spolders Kristel ter Steege Els Verdick Lisa Vugteveen

Hatice Kilinç

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Project The Mountain and the Cave

An undefined public space becomes a laboratory to examine the city dweller's behaviour and needs. Through interventions I manipulated this behaviour towards a dialogue by interacting with the surroundings.

The title refers to Sou Fujimoto's' primitive architecture', which he explains by using a metaphor showing the difference between a nest and a cave. A nest represents architecture that is specifically designed for human needs, while a cave is its opposite â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it is naturally formed space and beyond functional. Within the cave the body needs to adapt to the space. The mountain refers to the existing flat building while the cave refers to the new design. On the field and underneath the flat buildings, a multi-interpretable landscape will be placed where artist in residents will reside. Creating spaces where the temporary artist in residence and the permanent residents can meet and new interesting interactions and social relations can be formed.

Re-ecosystem Mallemolen To mix the now separate groups of permanent and temporary residents a new system for living is introduced in Mallemolen. Some of the historic workman's houses are transformed into collective spaces that provide room for working, cooking, agriculture, and other social activities.

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Thesis The Drawing Board and the Street How can those who develop the city (the drawing board) create direct influence on public space for city dwellers (the street)?

For the first time in history most people live in cities, but what is a city? The city is more than a combination of different buildings. They go well beyond a purely physical form; they are a changing habitat and have an energy of their own. Going from past, future and present I try to discover what the concept of architecture means in the 21st century. 'Anamnesis' means to recollect the old and to produce the new. People make cities, but cities also shape people. However our cities have become, 'locked in', depending on fossil fuels and other natural resources that we are running out of. We have to find new ways to unlock them. Like Einstein stated: "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them".

+31 634927515 MLvanbekkum@icloud.com

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Interior Architecture & Furniture Design

+31 624278764 oscar.de.bakker@gmail.com www.oscardebakker.com

Thesis Anamnesis -The city as manifestation of people

Margot van Bekkum

Oscar de Bakker

Project Anonymous-Urban-Lab

'The house of roleplay' intervenes in houses in The Hague by introducing three characters from the classical theatre: Shill(manipulates), Traceur(connects), Hacker(infiltrates). The characters influence the existing living environment and trespass boundaries between private and public space. This allows encounters to take place between the street, man and living. In addition, they turn into a changing residential theatre.

Nancy Dantese

Gerdine van Bruggen

Project The House of Roleplay

I Spy With My Little Eye Within a trail of persicopes different fragments of the urban environment are highlighted. By combining the fragments a new experience arises and changes the street's value. The public will review the city with a new and broader vision, perceiving the city as the subcultures skater or urban hacker.

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Allowing the space to be born into one clear perspective. Japanese artist Sachiko Abe has been a source of inspiration throughout this project of rebuilding the existing gallery. Although it looks like it's all about beauty and meditation, be warned, she is an object of the gaze that returns the subject to him/herself. It is this scenic space of perception and production that is the focus of my work. I'm the starting point in my IST. I organize my environment by cleaning. Through my daily housekeeping rules, I search to control my environment. The first part of the project features a film capturing the feel of this neurotic cleaning. In the second part I have turned my cleaning neurosis into a game wherein everyone learns to clean through playing.

+31 617920270 gerdine_5@hotmail.com

Thesis WHY ARE YOU YELLING, I'M STANDING RIGHT NEXT TO YOU! My controlled inner world is separated from the chaos outside. As a designer, is it possible to rid the urban area of its chaos? And to what extent? Read along about my quest for control in a chaotic urban environment.

Thesis Everyday a different script Approaching the existing urban environment from a different character's perspective. The subcultures such as Parkour, Bikemessengers or Urban Explorers configurate the urban environment by approaching the existing architecture from a diferent perspective. By observing our surroundings a variety of interpretations arise about what an environment means to us and how we define private and public space. These subcultures connect us both physically and mentally to our environment. This contributes to a new meaning of our everyday lives and individuality.

+31 613344695 nancydantese@hotmail.com

Interior Architecture & Furniture Design

Project THE ART GALLERY / CLEANING FOR CLUMSIES

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Project Body-building

I want to disturb the individual system of living that we are using since the emergence of our so called 'row houses' that were not meant to be a permanent solution. To reanimate our dead street, just built as a dĂŠcor to walk though, the principle of a window is explored. Mainly used to decorated with curtains or symmetric vases the window is now transformed into an actual space in order to exhibit life both outside and inside. Ă&#x2030;vasion. The city is growing inwards and getting more dense. Buildings are demolished in order to build bigger ones to the point that there is no more space left. New spaces will be created by adding a new layer which will block the growth of the city and preserve the current state.

A new design for a gallery, exhibition and living quarters for Belgian artist Berlinde de Bruyckere. The basic idea behind the transformation of the existing building is the concept of the building as a physical body. Different spaces symbolise different parts of the body. These references serve as the basis for spatial and functional interventions and the selection of applied materials.

Thesis Sharing | Reviewing Data (Delen | Herzien van gegevens)

+31 657553127 an0ukw_vd@hotmail.com ww.anouknadja.nl

Loosen Up 'Loosen Up' is a carpet I developed made out of different layers of paper waste. Daily use wears the carpet down layer by layer, exposing ever new patterns until it's completely worn out.

Thesis Decay, the art of letting go In my designs I like to make full use of the dynamics, spontaneity and beauty that can be found in the process of decay. In this thesis I shed light on the different aspects of decay by introducing the works of a number of artists and designers. I explore how we as a society handle things that are vulnerable or breaking down. From a philosophical point of view I'm interested in theories and thoughts on attachment and loss.

+31 629469527 kabk@markflipse.com www.markflipse.com

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Interior Architecture & Furniture Design

Nowadays technology develops faster and faster and we adjust faster to it. Unfortunately most members of the society are focused on negative aspects of technology. My thesis focusses on how the internet can be used as a digital platform to restructure the city. It also questions why developments in the architecture stay behind and by doing so it tries to answer the question why architecture doesn't translate the qualities of the digital world into an actual physical form of architecture?

Mark Flipse

Anouk van Deuzen

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Project Goodbye my 'dear' House

The history of landscape is hidden. There are features that we pass by without noticing. These historical markers define the character of a place. In this project 'Landmark' I will present the history of a place together with a contemporary view.

Marjolein de Groot

MichĂ¨le Groenewegen

Project Landmark

Sea as a masterpiece The sea is my masterpiece. I have researched processes of the sea; the way it transforms and modifies materials and its properties. By reproducing the techniques of the sea a collection of objects has been created out of materials like metal, glass, charcoal, stone and textile.

Thesis A personal research into the grey area between life and death

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Thesis Uitgesproken

In the 'Undetermined House' in which people live, one finds a form of permanent temporariness. The 'Geefhuizen' is a place where private space is sacrificed to provide collective space to the community. Together the residents are responsible for the collection and distribution of the space. Within this collective space, the minimum living functions are privatized in cells. During the separation of the collective space, the focus lies on the actions of the body, while using the livingcell. Reflex Natural reflexes make the body readable and they protect the body. By making these reflexes visible and touchable, the value of this mechanism is emphasized. The expressed automatisms are protectiveness, alertness and the physical reactions.

The body represents itself through the construction of its environment. These collections compose a portrait; they show our personalities. From the human body to the architecture these portraits conserve an identity. What is the role of the designer between the portrait and the architecture?

+31 624786555 www.michelegroenewegen.com mgroenewegen@live.nl

+31 618677087 info@marjoleinmaria.com www.marjoleinmaria.com

Interior Architecture & Furniture Design

Project Undetermined House

Nature creates and destroys life. In my thesis I ask myself: how is this world presented? What is the role of the artist in it? Why is it possible to enjoy our own mortality?

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'Stapelgoed'; is a set of dinnerware that originates in a strong dislike of doing the dishes. By adding an element of play the process becomes more enjoyable. Doing the dishes becomes a game while playfully building towers of your clean dishes.

Rense Jansen

Amal Habti

Project Stapelgoed (Stack well's)

Doelloos (Aimless) The project has no other goal than to give me freedom. I am going on a random adventure with the wool and broomstick. In the process I discover all sorts of things that can serve as the beginning of the game.

Thesis Foetele

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Home is where one retires before (re) revealing oneself again to 'the other' â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to the world. I intervene in living by introducing several collective and private '(Re action' spaces.'(Re)action space' challenges the inhabitants to relate to this new residential landscape. To question the conventions in living and enabling new encounters this action is a process in which you are constantly busy with relating to yourself, your surroundings and the other.

Building bridges Confusion, estrangement and seduction create a physical-spatial pretext to meet 'the other'.

+31 616157905 aaa_mel@hotmail.com

Thesis De moed van ontmoeten en de angst voor intimiteit Social media make us present in several places at once thus turning us into digital flaneurs. Our traditional public space is more and more dominated by commercial interaction. The physical city is loosing its importance as a set for our social interaction. A quest for new ways and means of encounter.

+31 649271606 rense_jansen@hotmail.com www.rensejansen.com

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Project (Re)action space

'Foetele' addresses the question whether you can use free play in the daily game that we call life: play vs. rules. The result is an illustrated book in which text, illustrations and layout invite you to join the game.

An expression of abundance, value and decoration by translating 'the' reliquary – as an icon representing these qualities – to our age of mass industry and commercialism. Therefore it no longer holds a religious relic but rather a personal belonging or reminder. Revamping the identity of a place by reintroducing references to industries, trades or crafts important to its historic and present development. This by use of the monumental needle that incorporates these references but also hints at the future. These commemorative needles uses reliefs and symbolism to stimulate and suggest this connection.

Thesis Zeitgeist

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+31 618853262 romankienjet@hotmail.com www.cargocollective.com/romankienjet

The 'Heilige Geest hofje' almshouses turned inwards and cut off from the city. Because of flood houses start to drift and open up in a new way. This provides city, almshouse, man and water a moment in which unexpected encounters occur. That moment allows body and mind to define a new perspective on coexistence.

Set them free! We are afraid to open up! Poor poor precious organs, hidden in our bodies; open up these gates and set them free! This is the moment, that our inner body will be released into the world, unprejudiced!

Thesis The anatomy of the city, architecture and space. "No, not your body… Operating on the bodies of city, architecture and space. What makes them tick and what brings them to life? We'll uncover this, assisted by architects and philosophers – with you as an observer.

+31 621706875 haticeklnc88@gmail.com

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What is preserved or conserved, what is forgotten? What moves society, and thus the designer, in relation to current trends of individual streetscape, globalized worldview and individualistic industry. A study exploring the (design)possibilities for reintroducing personal interpretation in connection to the past.

Project House on drift

Hatice Kilinç

Róman Kienjet

Project The presence of the past / Embedding industries

When the environment one lives in changes frequently, how does one connect to a new setting? Adaption and identity tend to intertwine, while anonymity and intimacy intersect. The interaction between man and place is what makes this residency a spatial scenario. 'Your State of Mind': When space reveals its inner forces; an undiluted concentration of matter and motion.

Thesis Being in Shape | Shaping Environment

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Anne Kranenborg

Sophia Klinkenberg

Project Stage of Living | Master The Structure

Comparing the scenography in film to the repetitive use of the domestic spatial environment, the characteristics of architectural qualities are explored; the characteristics with which we can interact while defining our own scenario.

Looking at furniture as if it is in a constant state of fluidity, awaiting the moment in which a person provide its context.

Thesis Metaforen tot in de 4e dimensie Using the metaphor is as being in outer space; parallel and redefining the known.

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annekranenborg@gmail.com www.annekranenborg.com

Interior Architecture & Furniture Design

+31 617730886 sophiaklinkenberg@hotmail.com

Project State of Transition

Project House as Tree

Cycling through the city, thrown out furniture can be found anywhere. Old or new, cheap or expensive, ugly or beautiful or simply out of style- it is all equal to me. Collected and assembled, dressed up in a purposely designed carpet they become one, transforming daily objects into sculptures. High-Tech Nomad: The city not only offers thrown out furniture but also a lot of unused spaces. I occupy these places just for a few nights using a personalized tent. It is not about the end product but the deed!

This project is about a new type of habitat with collective houses as an answer to our changing life, work and sleep rhythms. The houses distributed throughout The Hague, offer places to meet and stay for a short term. 'House as Tree' consists of layers, each with a different use and level of 'disconnection' with the environment. So people are no longer place-related to 'home' for sleep or work.

Thesis A vague concept 'design'

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Questioning myself what is the use of design in a world where there is already so much available?

+31 645141426 frank_niessen@hotmail.com www.frankniessen.nl

Karen Nijdam

Frank Niessen

Project Objects in disguise

Dancing with architecture Man and architecture are partners engaging in a dance. Man encounters and explores with architecture as the leading partner. A physical interaction recurring, consciously and unconsciously, time and time again at each location.

Thesis Bewegen tot je bewogen wordt

+31 634641261 karenleeuw20@hotmail.com www.nijdamdesign.nl

Interior Architecture & Furniture Design

Getting used to a situation, building up a connection and slowly relinquishing the control by surrendering to your partner. 'Bewegen tot je bewogen wordt' is a search for the influences that control the movements of the user of architecture.

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Project PARA SITE

Within set boundaries mutation is being facilitated, enabling the unexpected to take place. Neutral materials, which at first sight seem to be unchangeable are transformed in the process.

'Para Site' is a network of temporary living spaces, inspired by the nomadic ways of living, scattered throughout The Hague as a new form of housing. The parasites are sleeping units connected to a host and function by using their facilities. The residents of the host and the parasite create a new way of living together. Because of this a playful tension between the temporary and permanent housing arises.

Temporary self-portrait Capturing a physical moment guided by the extracted keywords. Gaining certainty by applying uncertainty.

Thesis Dit gaat over mij

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Intuitive study of personal motives: language as a tool to extract, identify and define keywords, in order to get to the essentials. Words that are implemented during the design process.

+31 617777434 marlies_333@hotmail.com www.HandMadeIndustrials.com

Kaniz Rahman

Marlies van Putten

Project Oxidation Aftermath

TANGIBLE MEMORIES Tangible Memories is a research project resulting in a series of objects that aim at finding a way to make a memory temporary tangible. The user leaves characteristic traces in the object which form a personal story. It's a communication bridge between the user and their memory.

Thesis IN GESPREK MET ONZE OBJECTEN

+31 617896226 kanizrahman@hotmail.com www.kanizrahman.com

Interior Architecture & Furniture Design

The essence of my thesis 'In gesprek met onze objecten' is to understand in which way objects and people communicate with each other. It's a search to discover the language of objects.

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Project Fusion

'Overgrown Residence' explores a renewed vision of nature and its relationship to the city and dwelling. In this project our traditional living environment is thought over again. In time, the residence is taken over by nature. The residents have to adapt to a new daily routine and experience the vulnerability of their own existence. Natural elements have a leading role and will change the encounter between the human body, nature and public spaces.

Fusion is a result of researching connections and engagements between different materials. The focus lies on the perception and properties of a material. Wood and silicone form the starting point for this collection in which these two tactile materials that express themselves differently are coming together.

Sense of time

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Due to our addiction to digital clock time the sense of time is slowly fading. The moment that we meet each other is determined by digital devices. This installation is creating another sense of time and demonstrates the movement towards the moment when persons are meeting.

Thesis Human or Machine?

+31 630091767 roxanreurslag@gmail.com www.roxanreurslag.com

Collective Blue Collective Blue is an initiative between the designer and a jeans brand. Worn jeans are collected and used as raw material for a stool. The main characteristics, values and personal associations of the (still) rich denim have been translated into this design. The stool will bring the 'lost' jeans back to the user.

Thesis The Perception and (Re Connection with Material What does the expression of material mean for a design? How can it be used? This is investigated through references and own research.

+31 630731787 bertspolders@hotmail.com www.bertspolders.nl

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Interior Architecture & Furniture Design

'Human or machine?' is inspired by the digitalization of our society. In this paper I researched what kind of influences the machine has on our human behavior. A journey through different subjects that are influenced by the machine brings up the most important question: how do we humans relate to machines in this moment of time?

Bert Spolders

Roxan Reurslag

Project Overgrown residence

Els Verdick

Kristel ter Steege

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Project Living Archeology | Into The Social Tissue

+31 653404068 kristeltersteege@gmail.com

Its temporary inhabitants. This emphasizes the variation of the environment and has created an added form of interaction between the temporary inhabitant and pedestrians whereas time of dwelling plays a fundamental role in their sensory experience of minimal living. The journey 'Into The Social Tissue' through the history of the Wall can be experienced by the human sense and environmental elements. The traveller uses a specific toolkit so that he/she becomes aware of the transformation throughout the years after the war. This is where the strength lies in the experience of independency of the human empathic ability; the more distance you cover, the more will be revealed of the past that is closely related to its location.

Surprised by the amount of empty buildings became inspired by the true quality of empty space. By doing so opens up the space, making it less undefined and less inhospitable. This is how an object can illustrate the quality of emptiness without losing her.

Transparent Dwelling 'Transparent Dwelling' is an open design strategy that will allow residents to temporarily occupy buildings that have been vacant for a long time. From vacancy, the temporary the resident will form a new relationship with themselves, the building and the city. Three strategies based on the concept of emptiness: the creation of voids in the floor; the implementation of different collective green spaces; the personal and transformable living units.

+31 645222140 els_verdick@hotmail.com www.cargocollective.com/elsverdick

Thesis The quality of emptiness Void is an ignored part in our environment. It is void which allows us to experience space itself. Society (people?) need(s) this empty and or open space to catch their breath. This has been a study on how we could use emptiness within a design.

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In The Hague the physical remains of the Atlantic Wall, the German system of coastal fortifications stretching along the coast of Norway to Spain, runs like a scar through urban tissue. It symbolized the mental â&#x20AC;&#x201C;and physical impact it had on the city and its inhabitants during World War 2 and its healing process over the years. This perspective I will use during my thesis, 'Transcendent usefulness' which points out the fluctuating stream of thought and her physical remains of architecture. 'Living Archaeology' explains the relationship between four scattered bunkers as remnants of the Wall. By cutting and re-arranging them in the diverse landscapes of the city it will expose new relationships.

Thesis Transcendent usefulness

Project Emptiness Without Losing Her

Lisa Vugteveen

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Project Reinigend Hof

Interior Architecture & Furniture Design

Traditionally water generates encounters. 'Reinigend Hof' is an existing 'court', lifted out of the urban fabric of The Hague, placed in open sea just before the shore of The Hague. The historical façade serves as a protective shell. Her temporary inhabitants can use the different collective and more private spaces to experience encounters on different scale levels between body and water: a steam bath; freezing spaces; natural rain showers; working in clouds and eating in an aquarium. This proposal for a new living environment purifies and connects people and their surroundings.

+31 644123250 lisa_vugteveen@hotmail.com www.cargocollective.com/lisavugteveen

Thesis De vrouw heeft maar één recht en dat is het aanrecht With some pity we look back on the previous generation of Dutch woman that where confined role of a housewife. However not every woman experienced this role as a 'torment'. The house was the domain of the woman, while the public space was the domain of the man. Despite being emancipated a woman could excel in her own traditional domain. This thesis described a way how women can claim back the dwelling domain, so they can be proud of this traditional role and van perform her task proudly.

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Gunhild Ang Wendy Bos Hans Bracke Lynne Brouwer Jacob Gesink Esther Hovers Anouk van Kalmthout Willemieke Kars Roos van de Kieft Anna Klevan Gabrielle de Kok Sem Langendijk Imke Ligthart

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Daan Liu Mariska Pot Roderik Rotting Jasmijn Slegh Sofie van der Sman Eline van Strien Nick van Tiem Amber Toorop Yara van der Velden Elske Verdoorn Majda Vidakovic Cleo WĂ¤chter Hilde De Windt

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More than half of the world's population lives in cities. This percentage is increasing daily. Through urbanization our cities are becoming more and more crowded. My own abhorrence of crowds and my need for oversight and control captured my fascination. In this project I want to make visible what often remains unnoticed: how we intervene in interior and exterior spaces with constructions and guidelines to avoid chaos and danger: to control the crowd. I have photographed places and events where many people gather and depicted the moment just before the crowd arrives. Focusing on the interference of the constructions, the recognizable spaces become a bit absurd.

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Wendy Bos

Gunhild Ang

Project Follow the Line controlling crowds

Thesis Peeking at humanity / the meaning of distance in documentary photography (in Dutch) In my thesis I research the meaning of distance for the observing conceptual documentary photographer. The main question is: What connotation does the taken distance to the subject give to the narrative in the conceptual documentary photography? Among others I research how the narrative and the physical distance cohere and the physical and psychological distance relate - for the photographer but also for the spectator. I discuss the work of different conceptual documentary photographers to answer this question.

I have always been amazed by how people distance themselves from nature. I wonder about the sense of superiority which makes us believe that nature is at our disposal. Wildlife trade is big business. The illegal trade is accounting for at least 19 billion dollars per year and is ranked the fourth most lucrative criminal activity in the world. The Netherlands is a huge transit hub and plays a major role in the legitimate and illegitimate trade of wildlife. The intertwinement of both worlds and inadequate legislation makes combatting this trade nearly impossible.

Thesis Het romantisch verlangen naar wildernis (The romantic desire to experience wilderness)

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I have been struck by the overwhelming representation of nature in contemporary arts and daily life. I kept wondering why we are so fascinated by wilderness lately? What are we longing for and where does this longing come from? I researched the relationship between people and nature and people and animals in light of Romanticism. Are we experiencing a return of Romanticism in daily life and arts?

+31 634188697 wendy.abos@gmail.com www.wendybos.net

Photography

+31 619618856 info@gunhildang.com www.gunhildang.com

Project Wildlife Trade

Where no one wants to be, few visit, and where many experience the most difficult moments of their life. ..How do you decorate that? With the project 'Designs for discomfort' I aim to illustrate a cross-section of a Dutch landscape consisting of surreal but realistic decors, focussing on their colourpalets. As a publication, it takes the form of a catalogue of control, researching the boundaries between form and content, fact and fiction and emotion and reason.

Lynne Brouwer

Hans Bracke

Project Designs for discomfort

Thesis Why art isn't snow, puppies or Britney Spears [..and why that's perfectly fine.]

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Thesis ...but the control is with me

'I don't pray at the University. There is no place to pray. I pray after school when I get home. But never at school. I know that there are some universities in the UK that have a mosque inside the campus, but for me even a small space would also be ok. I think it does add something extra for the university. We only need more or less 10 minutes to pray, but it takes time to go home and back to the campus when we still have things to do at school. I have never asked the school whether they can give us a small space to pray. But I think that will raise their good reputation for being tolerant.' Wulan Mahariani, student of the University of Amsterdam.

About the power of the maker, viewer and subject.

+31 640390088 contact@hansbracke.nl www.hansbracke.com

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+31 622006944 lynnebrouwer@gmail.com www.lynnebrouwer.com

Photography

Project Allah op het werk

'What was the last time you were truly happy?' After writing a sort of grocery-list consisting of moments of happiness, I came to the startling realization that nothing art-related had made it to my list. Even worse; thinking about it further, emotional evidence strongly suggested that my BA Photography often made me deeply unhappy contrary to my expectations when I first started. Where did my romantic -though fatalisticnotions about being an artist come from? Why do we associate, even romanticize, dysfunctional behavior within the arts? I started to worry. Does making art make me unhappy, or do I feel the need to create art because I'm genetically programmed to be miserable?

Esther Hovers

Jacob Gesink Project Disturbance

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Outside of living areas at the outskirts of Dutch cities, small buildings can be found. Three walls and a roof, not much more. Grey or sometimes dark green. These little houses are generally unoccupied in the daytime. In the evening though teenagers gather around them to chat and drink beers. The constructs are called JOP and are built after complaints of neighbours whom had negative experiences with noise-disturbance. They are placed far enough from living areas for the noise not to carry, but open enough for the neighbours to keep an eye on things. Two generations living together at the same public space, though with minimal interaction.

+31 641353686 info@jacobgesink.com www.jacobgesink.com

Thesis De verfoeilijke introversie van de fotografie 'The ill-fated introversion of photography' refers to a world hidden behind a wall. The wall of photography, where photographers make work for other photographers. It is in the nature of a socially-engaged photographer to find this introversion unbearable. Inveterately these 'social artists' try to influence the world around them, leading to a conflict of interest between art, society and the financial market. This renders the questions: For whom photography is intended? Can the photography exclude society, or is the museum a goal in itself? And can a socially engaged photographer build a living and publish without the organisations that are here to help non commercial projects?

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Normal and deviant behavior according to the intelligent surveillance camera. Prolonged pausing, groups of people suddenly splitting up, a woman stopping exactly at the corner of the street, a man running through a slow-moving crowd. All of these can be classified as deviant behavior within the context of public space. To find out what constitutes deviance we first need to ask ourselves the question: What is considered to be normal? Public security is a growing concern throughout Europe. To the eye of the camera every person is a possible suspect, every person a possible perpetrator. Will intelligent surveillance help us to safe guard our need for security?

My thesis 'Control and Play' consists out of two part. The first part can be considered an investigation into control and play within the creative process. Part two can be seen as a research of control and power and its relation to the camera.

+31 683703628 estherhovers@gmail.com www.estherhovers.nl

Photography

Project False Positives

Willemieke Kars

Anouk van Kalmthout

Project Cult of Creators Designing your own life is never easy. Following is often safer than taking the initiative. God has disappeared from our society but the need for a sense of purpose remains. Let's take matters into our own hands and become our own creators. Decide your own fate.

Thesis The Sleepwalkers +31 610778954 info@anoukvankalmthout.com www.anoukvankalmthout.com

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Project 'Love is blind and we can not see'

Thesis Why does this picture make me cry?

'Love is blind and we can not see' is inspired by my grandmother's story. She was 45 years old when she fell in love with a boy, who was 20 years old at the time. It turned into a relationship that lasted all the way until her recent passing. For 'Love is blind and we can not see' I portray straight couples with a large age gap between them. With this project I aim to question people's perspective on relationships and conventions of love. The portraits force the viewer to pay attention to small details: how can you tell people to love one another, how do their differences affect their interactions?

An intervention with reality.

Photography

+31 621801946 willemiekekars@gmail.com www.willemiekekars.nl

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Anna Klevan

Roos van de Kieft

Project EMBODY The experience of our physical selves and how human bodies create space fascinates me; it is through the body and movement that we have access to the world. I am fascinated by the way of how one can 'sculpture' real bodies into a white space within the medium of photography. With this project I am exploring the function and physicality of the human body by playing with different forms, movement and aesthetics and where I want to engage the physical elements of both the photo as well as the body forms.

Thesis Het anonieme lichaam als beeld

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What factors influence the interpretation of the maker or the viewer when it comes to visualizing the anonymous body in art and photography?

+31 634760543 roosvdkieft@live.nl www.roosvandekieft.nl

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+31 628164856 annaklevan@gmail.com www.annaklevan.nl

The medium of photography as a struggle for power; to take control and let it go. The game and interaction between the photographer and his or her subject is something I am interested in. Being able to place and translate this interest into my own work is what I aspire. To what extent is my work a portrait and a story of the person in question? To what extent are these images still images of the people I am photographing? I wonder how they relate to the images as 'a work', my work. Do they see themselves or do they see a construction of an artist? I write about the sources of the three external reflections of our 'self': the mirror, the other and the camera. And how these external reflections influence the ways we see ourselves.

Photography

Greg Packer, 51, from Huntington, NY. Packer looks like an Average Joe, just a regular 'man in the street'. And that is exactly what he is devoted to be: Greg Packer is also known as the most quoted man in news. He has been quoted on the newest iPhone, the war in Iraq, the death of Whitney Houston and the annual balloon parade. Packer is everywhere. "You can find me everywhere." is an attempt to scrutinise the man behind this phenomenon. A dialogue takes place between myself as a maker and Packer as a subject. To Packer I was with the media, maintaining the phenomenon he has become. Which makes you wonder; how many times does one need to be seen to exist? And until what extent does one need to say something to be heard?

Thesis Imago / Image

After my research on women, their representation and role in today's modern visual culture, I learned that nowadays, we still see very little diversity. High fashion model, plus size or special model. All categories where you can find a model and where you can search for. Each model must meet certain conditions. Restrictions for sizes in length and width to fall in a certain term. By creating my own agency/ casting tool '#Be Louder' for women, who have no restrictions in size, I want to put out and promote a more diverse image of women. Where the emphasis is on personality and selfcontrol. The models can easily subscribe by using '#BeLouder' in social media pictures. Next to this the categorize themselves based on their beliefs and the way they want.

Thesis I'm a Woman, Phenomenally

+31 613443094 gabrielle.edekok@gmail.com www.gabrielledekok.com

Places can keep invisible things like memories and by doing so imply cultural heritage. The environment along the shores of the IJ river in Amsterdam has drastically changed in the last few years. Since the 90's the city is continuously growing and urban planning has become more and more prominent. The newly built areas are replacing old parts of the city, which hold the history of Amsterdam as a great port. In 'Docklands' I look at how this area has developed through time when it was an undefined space on the borders of the city.

Thesis Stories from the Heart In my thesis I have researched my relationship as a photographer with my subjects, and how I want to relate to them. I've done this by analyzing different working methods within documentary photography and researched the photograph as an object.

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+31 611022900 semlangendijk@hotmail.com www.semlangendijk.com

Photography

In my thesis, I ask the question: How does the image that women have of themselves, relate with the role of women in contemporary visual culture. I focus on modern western visual culture, especially on the popular visual culture and pop industry. I discuss how imaging is achieved and what factors influence this. I will also discuss the role of women in image and in our culture. Additionally, I analyze different women in pop culture that deviate from the norm and show a more diverse image of women. The role of imaging and image on my own work as a photographer is important. I continue to discuss multidimensional images of women and with the help of contributions of other female makers I try to bring something new.

Project Docklands

Sem Langendijk

Gabrielle de Kok

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Project #Be Louder, Roar for model diversity

Project It once was

Sometimes a problem is too big to understand. Sometimes a problem goes beyond the imagination. Reality is a strange, complex thing. When I read an article about the possible drowning of the earth, I couldn't stop thinking about it. They wrote: 'Its too late.' It made me angry and sad about humanity and myself. Because, what do I do? Nothing. Nothing than complain and hope the problem will solve itself. The problem is too big, too far from the world we know and too absurd for reality to deal with.

My work consists out of photo object that is made up out of pieces of evidence. Unique documents of space, where the material itself is the image maker. I'm using photography as a medium to start a dialogue between the visible and the hidden dimension.

Thesis Een zoektocht naar het derde land

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'How do I find my place on this earth? And what kind of place is this?' Een gedicht van Gerrit Komrij is de start van mijn scriptie: Er is een land dat ik met pijn verliet Er is een land dat ik met pijn bewoon. Een derde land daartussen is er niet. Mijn leven volgt een zonderling patroon: Want waar ik heenga voel ik me niet thuis En waar ik thuis ben wil ik telkens weg. De grens wordt smal tussen geluk en kruis. Steeds minder denk ik wat ik hardop zeg. Ik heb, om aan dit noodlot te ontkomen, Een derde land verzonnen in mijn hoofd, Een land vertrouwd met leugens en fantomen. Aan diepgewortelde en zware bomen Hangen honkvast de loden trossen ooft Van al mijn vederlicht geworden dromen.

Daan Liu

Imke Ligthart

Project Dear future, gone fishing.

Thesis Aura of uniqueness In my thesis I discuss the death of the original. First after the rise of the camera and film and nowadays with applications on the internet. Has authenticity died?

+31 616441972 info@daanliu.nl www.daanliu.nl

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+31 611517562 imkeligthart@gmail.com www.imkeligthart.com

Photography

Mariska Pot

Roderik Rotting

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Project My home is my castle, borrowed authentics

+31 625111949 info@mariskapot.nl www.mariskapot.nl

For my thesis I investigated the use of fiction in documentary photography.

Thesis Zij/ik/wij/zij/ik/wij/ons

Mechelen is a village with 2000 inhabitants and 36 clubs. Practically everyone is a member of at least one of the 36, most people even join more than one. A small community where private and public are closely interwoven and social-status is measured upon communal involvement. From a metropolitan point of view it might lack dynamics and existential freedom. To the protagonists it represents identity, comfort and safety. This paradox is fascinating to me. Especially when you realize that cities are rapidly transforming into metropolitan areas where the biggest challenge for local governments is to establish solidarity and togetherness.

Saamhorigheid in beeld.

+31 681468668 roderikrotting@gmail.com www.roderikrotting.com

Photography

These modern castles are living areas that are made to resemble a castle. If we think of a castle we think of something authentic, something with history. These modern castles only refer to the history they don't have. 'Neotraditionalism' or 'retro-architecture' is the name for this genre of architecture that is all based on architecture of the past. They form a beautiful metaphor for the zeitgeist of nostalgia. As decors they form the backdrop in my pictures where the inhabitants walk around as extra's. My images pretend to be more authentic than they are, just like the castles do.

Thesis Artificial reality

Project O.C.G.N.V. Mechelen

Reality sucks. We work to live but work is actually our main goal in life. It seems that problems arise out of nowhere. War, hunger, climate change.. a plastic soup the size of Mexico. We are ambitious and try to solve these issues but with no success so far. Sometimes we just want to run away to a worry free place. What if we embrace the fact that heaps of plastic are floating around in our oceans? What happens if plastic is not regarded as waste? The island Fantastic shows you the amazing possibilities that are just within your reach. So gather plastic, let your fantasy go wild and you can create anything, or be anywhere you like. It's fantastic!

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All of the gestures that we make, our poses, the expressions on our faces and all of the non-verbal signals in our voice â&#x20AC;&#x201C; they all add up to the image others make of us. How do others around us effect the way we move? Our posture and our non-verbal signals give away the way we feel. And as soon as we are being watched, we are aware of the image being formed of us. For this project, 'Middelpunt', I focus on the moment we struggle with the way we feel and the way we would like to present ourselves.

Thesis Sprakeloos, a study on body language in photography. What ways do we have to look at signals somebody is giving us, and how do we interpret them? How do we deal with signs we give ourselves? And how can they be used by the photographer? How we deal with a photograph of ourselves doesn't necessarily have to differ too much from the way we deal with signals of our body. We are very aware of how others around us see us and how we want to be seen.

Sofie van der Sman

Jasmijn Slegh

Project The Fantastic Island

Thesis Een gecreĂŤerde werkelijkheid

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+31 612607320 jasmijnslegh@gmail.com www.jasmijnslegh.com

Photography

Fascinated by the many different ways things get interpreted, I started making images that trigger the imagination; wondering about the response of the viewer. The need to understand everything that is being perceived, seems to be in our nature. By showing several ways to deal with objects that don't seem to make any sense while being overwhelmed by many other thoughts, interpretations and opinions, I challenge the viewer to make up his own thoughts.

Thesis De zin van onzin (The sense of nonsense)

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Nick van Tiem

Eline van Strien

Project Purpose is in our imagination

'The sense of nonsense' is a research on absurdism and how it is manifested in visual art.

+31 642474983 hello@elinevanstrien.com www.elinevanstrien.com

Project The Star Disappeared

Thesis Orde in de Chaos

We live in the golden age of astronomical science. New technologies have made it possible to look hundreds of light years away, little by little the mysteries of the universe reveal themselves. For centuries, amateur astronomers have been doing scientific research on extraterrestrial objects. Some spend the night in a sleeping bag staring at the sky for a falling star, others estimate the brightness variation of an exploding nova. These observations are sent to scientific institutes, professional astronomers then use this information to get an overview of the dynamic universe. It is the start of professional research. 'The Star Disappeared' is a romantic view on the amateur astronomer in the Netherlands.

How do you make a subject that's too big to grasp comprehensive for the spectator?

Photography

+31 621694742 nick.vantiem@gmail.com www.nickvantiem.nl

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'G'lijk weleer, mijn lieve scha'' is an exploration of Indonesian descent. My ideas regarding the Dutch Indies are based on stories from family and other first generation Indo's. This generation becomes older and valuable information gets lost. My exploration characterizes the feeling of home. Feeling of home is represented powerfully in the minds and hearts of migrated Indo's. Next generations seem interested in the hearts and minds of the elderly. In an exploration of descent I try to catch these hearts and minds.

Thesis What is home?

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Yara van der Velden

Amber Toorop

Project G'lijk weleer, mijn lieve schat

Research on the visualization of 'home'. One another is not automatically feeling at home in a country of residence. My family is one of many that left their fatherland to build a new home in the Netherlands. To find 'home' is an individual matter influencing local/national networks. In current national politics the concept of 'home' evokes mixed emotions as well. This thesis provides the meaning of home. Anthropological theories clarify the concept and various photographers and artists visualizing this theme are explained. Finally, 'home' is visualized in my own artistic work.

+31 613971211 ambertoorop@gmail.com www.ambertoorop.nl

Project Projections

Thesis The man who saw too much

On the 9th of January 2014 the International Monetary Fund publishes the projections for the upcoming year. Mongolia comes out as a winner and is supposed to be the fastest growing economy in the world. This landlocked country with its extremely powerful neighbors is mainly known for its beautiful landscapes, nomadic population, wild horses and eternal blue skies. The fact that Mongolia has not even 3 million inhabitants that live on a hidden treasure of a tremendous amount of valuable resources keeps the country in a continuous transition. How does the value of the buried rare earths manifest itself in the Mongolian lives and landscapes, what are dreams and what is the reality and how does this all relate to us?

A shoe covers only one foot, he must have lost the other. The sneaker looks pristine in the monotonous landscape of rubble. The dust colours the boy's trousers red, as well as his bare feet. Only the lower body is centered in the picture, the upper part is buried under a large stone. The boy has been halved. Do provoking, shocking or graphic photographs in the media still communicate the intended story or are we numbed? What is the value and function of these photographs?

Photography

+31 616308944 info@yaravandervelden.com www.yaravandervelden.com

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Organizing the organized; giving a new form to the phenomenon of Google image results What do we see when looking at digital images of an object, instead of seeing it in real life? How can we experience or interact with it when searching for it on the internet? Within seconds, we are presented with an endless stream of superfluous data and imagery - our results. However, what we find is anything but what we originally intended to see, leaving us with only an impression of something existing in a space. All of these representations of one object in the same context shape another meaning; an all-in-one mutated representation of the original but one without context and analysis. This new meaning asks for a new medium and material.

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Thesis What Would McLuhan (Eat/ Think) Tweet? Project People of Domus

+31 650642643 verdoorn.elske@gmail.com www.elskeverdoorn.nl

In my thesis I examine my desire to collaborate with 'the Other'; people completely different from myself. The unpredictable results of these collaborations thrill me. But how much control should I give away in order to also inform about 'the Other'? I find answers by looking at the way cultural anthropologists portray 'the Other'; by being completely open about their own subjectivity. In fact, they consider the encounter itself as an important source of information. I then examine the work of Anouk Kruithof, Boris Mikhailov and Roy Villevoye. Obviously present as makers, they also manage to leave room for the unpredictable Other in their work. They make worlds meet and mix. Exactly how I'd like to approach 'the Other'.

Society (and the art that follows it) has seen a gradual shift from the physical (paper, discs) to the non-physical (data, the internet). As we evolve as a species, our art reflects this evolution â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it changes with us. However, how detached are we from the physical? To what extent do we use physical representations in art to summon imagery or ideas that are completely metaphysical â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not (only) historically but more importantly today. How do the digitalization of media and the plethora of increasingly less material methods we have of expressing ourselves reflect and get influenced by, the still very prevalent physical roots of our culture, psyche and even physiognomy?

+31 626744660 majdakovic7@gmail.com www.cargocollective.com/majdakovic

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In this project I collaborate with inhabitants of Domus, a refuge of the Salvation Army in the heart of the infamous 'Schilderswijk' area in The Hague. Most of these people are addicted, have committed crimes and suffer mental health problems. But in this project we work together to create a different image, one that speaks of optimism and opening up, showing their creative skills and colorful thoughts. As a visual artist I create the circumstances in which they can create and contribute. For every person this results in a unique work, using photography, video, painting and writing.

Thesis Where we meet one another

Majda Vidakovic

Elske Verdoorn

Project Did you mean: anything else

On the scale of the earth, a human is small. But our influence on our planet seems to grow every year we have spent on it. 'The Anthropocene' stands for ' the age of the human'. It's a geological term which acknowledges that people are earth's biggest geological factor. In 2016 it will be decided if we officially reject the 'holocene' and acknowledge our influence throughout our language. I looked for places in the Netherlands that are physically touched by mankind and adjusted in a recent time-frame. None of the processes that were photographed, took more than 80 years. Is it correct to say that humans have become a part of the process of nature? And most importantly, will we act more consciously after naming our actions?

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Hilde De Windt

Cleo WĂ¤chter

Project Anthropocene - Mapping the new geology of the Netherlands

Thesis Onderzoek - Over de wetenschappelijke waarde van de Kunstenaar

+31 641707503 mail@cleowaechter.com www.cleowaechter.com

Thesis Moments and Momentum

Project Statement: 'SANS PAPIERS' On their way to a 'better' life thousands of refugees are drowning while escaping the horror in their native countries. Their despair gobbled by the sea. Lampedusa revisited, time and again. The majority of illegal immigrants are economic migrants who have left poor developing countries in search of a better economic life. Another large part of them are refugees who have not been granted asylum. Amongst them the poorest, often unqualified members of society but also bright, strong and well educated people. Whoever sets foot on European ground is often not better off. Without documents, they find themselves in no-man's land, no-man's time. Often waiting for an official status, an appeal or just hanging around.

The tension between the photographic moment and the momentum in life you are photographing. What is it precisely, how did visual artists go about to communicate this 'invention of man'? The ancient Greek were smarter: they had two words for 'time': 'chronos', the clock time, and 'kairos', the mental time, time as we experience it. Time when we forget time. Kairos then was the god of the suitable moment, hence insights, inspiration, right moment to decide. As I am an experienced wanderer in my own head, I am fascinated by the way photographers visualize these kairos moments. I am convinced that our experiences -momenta- and how we process them into memory, make us who we are. Some moments are much more important and decisive than others.

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+32 471679458 hilde.dewindt@skynet.be www.hildedewindt.com

Photography

De kunstenaar van vandaag de dag is een expert in zijn onderwerp. Het onderzoeken van zijn of haar thema's speelt een grote rol in het proces van onder andere de fotograaf of beeldend kunstenaar. Van veld- tot literatuuronderzoek: de kunstenaar schrikt er niet voor terug. Tot op welke hoogte is zijn onderzoek 'gegrond' en wat zijn conclusies waard? Wanneer overstijgt een artistiek onderzoek zijn eigen discipline en wordt het waardevol op een wetenschappelijk niveau? Aan de hand van een aantal voorbeelden uit de kunstgeschiedenis, een onderzoek naar het huidige gedachtegoed rondom universitaire kunsteducatie, tracht deze scriptie, met behulp van een aantal casestudies een antwoord te geven op bovenstaande vragen.

Project Sans Papiers

Bachelor

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Merel Bos Fabian Bredt Ruby de Bruijn Nikki Duijst Olivier Jehee Anne Oomen Nienke Smeulders Marlies van Stolk Bram Vervoort

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Nowadays we can celebrate a more flexible understanding of what a visual identity might look like. We have to end our fixation to categorize others and ourselves. Our identities have become very adaptable, leading me to the conclusion that we are the most plural youth generation in history. Aiming towards a group image I've chosen to spread every silhouette of the collection across 3 models. Photography: Olya Oleinic MUA & Marije Koelewijn

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Today people seem less and less interested in joining a group. Everybody wants to be unique. Ironically, this causes isolation: the more people try to differentiate themselves, the more they blend together. I believe we shouldn't stop the formation of groups, instead we should create a new kind of group: one in which everyone can be unique, yet still share a collective ideal. My group does not scare off people, like most other groups, but instead it is inviting. Everyone can belong to this group, regardless of origin or ideals, because in the end we're all part of the same species.

Ever since I was young I've been fascinated by my own fantasy. It wasn't until I got older that I started realizing the connection between what was happening in my head and what I was creating with my hands. This made me wonder how this works for other designers. In this thesis I've tried to find an answer to the following question in this thesis: how do designers create their own fantasy worlds?

+31 613466748 info@merelbos.com www.merelbos.com

This generation is still figuring out their collective identity by taking on various identites. We have to form a new youth movement that is not only based purely on shallow aesthetics but instead questions where we are heading with our society. It should question the rapid changes of our times and use its opportunities in the best possible manner. The democratization of self expression and the quickness in which we can create artistic work should reflect and provide the tools to share the message and reach our audience. The core of the movement should be a profound belief in innovation in the widest possible way.

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+31 628779086 bredtfabian@gmail.com www.fabianbredt.com

Textile & Fashion

Thesis Kleine wereld, grote fantasie

Thesis Sharing Is Caring

Photography: Luka Karssenberg Model: Tycho Posthumus

Textile & Fashion

Project 'Jump into the Baakisiimba!'

Fabian Bredt

Merel Bos

Project Identity 3.0

Project As We Seek Our Face

My collection is about a new kind of beginning. This new beginning contains influences of modern minimalism and our own Dutch folklore. Inspired by the old fishermen and the little boys who act like grown-ups I made a collection that is clean and simple. But with handmade details such as weaving, knitting and embroidery.

We are constantly questioning and evolving our personal identity. The collection 'AS WE SEEK OUR FACE' is about this quest that involves personal fear for the spotlight versus portraying ourselves. With today's social-media we are automatically compelled to show our best sides and comply with different views on personal virtues that makes one outstanding. Even in the world of fashion I sometimes feel the need to believe in a mission to have an extraordinary personality. With this in my mind I was constantly thinking about a strong feeling towards anonymity. That's why the silhouettes show the influence of an interaction between femininity, seclusion and exposing yourself. What can we hide and what can we reveal to be our unique selves?

+31 621848192 debruijnruby@gmail.com

Thesis SELFIE

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Nikki Duijst

Ruby de Bruijn

Project Ik zie, ik zie wat jij niet ziet.

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To go to the heart of the matter, I made a questionnaire that I sent out to random people I found on social media that had a lot of selfies on their account. No intruisive questions, but more general things like 'Why do you make selfies?' or 'how do they make you feel?'.

+31 651788135 n.duijst@gmail.com

Textile & Fashion

Photographer: Sanja Marusic MUA: Christel Man (Angelique Hoorn Management) Model: Fabienne (ToucheModels)

Photographer: Roos van de Kieft Make up & hair: Melanie FoĂŤh Models: Job Claassen & Merel Visschedijk

Textile & Fashion

My collection is about the woman who has to stand firm in the contemporary society, one that is increasingly characterized by superficiality and an individualized way of life. I was inspired by the women in the works of the American painter Edward Hopper. A mystery evolves around these women, one that is caused by the fact that direct personal contact between people increasingly disappears. The strong frames and harsh light in his paintings are confronted with the mystical women. My collection is an encounter between coarse leather, fixed folds with architectural elements and hand dyed silks and shiny fabrics.

Photography: Ferry van der Nat

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The collection is about dominance and power, and the clashing worlds in which I can recognize these two elements. In the first place, my collection has been influenced by the decadent, luxurious side of power; with references like couture and kings. As a contrast to all this wealth and glamour, I can also see power and dominance within subcultures like the punks and skinheads. These influences come along with a more agressive, raw protest feeling.

+31 624224845 o.c.jehee@hotmail.com

Why do contemporary designers like myself find inspiration in the work of Edward Hopper? I tried to clarify that by reflecting my work and that of other designers to our current society.

+31 611081313 info@anneoomen.nl www.anneoomen.nl

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Thesis отвяжись

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Photography: Sanne Grasdijk Hair & make-up: Lisanne Peeters Model: Ingrid Segers

Textile & Fashion

Project отвяжись

Thesis Edward Hopper, in a contemporary frame

Anne Oomen

Olivier Jehee

Project Collection 2015

I want my collection to be experienced as a colourful and wild trip. It's meant for a party girl who wants to impress without worrying about making the right or wrong choices. I have defined this as 'Tacky Couture' - chic, sculptural silhouettes combined with corny and waxy elements. I have taken inspiration from optical illusion, distortion and psychedelic movement from the 70's party scene. I translate this by playing with depth perception in the fabrics and creating illusive shapes as a design principle. As one shape melts into the next, I mix abstract with familiar to create a fresh and lively mood in each piece.

Photography: Jop Smeulders Hair & make-up: Maxime Dijks Model: Laura Beuger

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Marlies van Stolk

Nienke Smeulders

Project ,

Thesis Visual Illusion Optical Psychedelic Perception Illusion of ones self.

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+31 681030525 vanstolked@gmail.com

Project

Textile & Fashion

+31 618369486 nienkesmeulders@hotmail.com

Photography: Imke Ligthart Hair & make-up: Cecile Holle Model: Mari Mar

Textile & Fashion

My collection is about forgotten traditional clothing. As a starting point I take the generation that was raised with Dutch folkloric costumes. Many of these people are old today, some of them are suffering from Alzheimer disease. The folkloric costumes were once a familiar sight to them but since these costumes are gone, they don't recognize the current fashion image that has much more multicultural influences. With my collection I want to restore those familiar elements within a contemporary look. I work with techniques such as crochet, knitting, weaving and embroidery.

Bram Vervoort

Project 0110100001100011 0110101101110010

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Thesis De relatie tussen mode en grafisch ontwerpen

My collection is about our way of communicating nowadays. In my thesis I looked at the relation between fashion design and graphic design. In my research I found out that graphic designers like to use numbers in their work because they are readable for an international audience. It is a language on its own. In this fast way of communication I saw something that I could compare to today's ways of communicating. We share our personal information through social-media in a very unpersonal way. This contrast started the concept of my collection. I have tried to catch this feeling through working with my own personal codes and passwords in cryptic prints and/or cutouts in my collection.

In my thesis I researched the relation between fashion design and graphic design.

+31 651777578 brammarb25@hotmail.nl

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Photographer: Davy de Lepper Model: Bas Peters

Textile & Fashion

Post Graduate Course

Industrial Design 190

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Daniela Buonvino

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Daniela Buonvino

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Project Sbrilluccichio del suono

Thesis DESIGN & ALL SENSES

Graduate Daniela Buonvino has created an intuitive lighting experience to make visitors aware of the beauty of the moment. Daniela Buonvino is a young Italian designer. Her graduation project is an installation, in which she creates an experience to make visitors aware about the beauty of the moment and the feeling of belonging. With a strong fascination for light design, she loves to research and explore lights. She explores the spontaneous reaction that people have in front of different light effects. To translate sounds into light is a way of declaring and highlighting how much our behaviour transforms the atmosphere. The installation is made to create harmonic and intuitive experiences.

In this semester you will investigate the senses of the eye and the ear. We have visual and sound experiences all day and night that have a huge impact on our emotional and spiritual wellbeing. Sometimes we just feel happy. Sometimes we feel overwhelmed by all impressions and we are looking for shelter. What lighting and sound circumstances do you like the best? At what time of the day or night you feel most happy? How could you visualize these moments? How could you translate these feelings into lighting and sound objects? The focus in this project will rather be on the impact that the objects generate themselves than on the visual impact of the objects.

Industrial Design

+31 621635330 luzzibuonvino@gmail.com www.bulbkeg.com

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Master

ArtScience 194 195 196 197

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Naja Ryde Ankarfeldt Natela Lemondzhava Marit Mihklepp Nicole Urban

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Natela Lemondzhava

Naja Ryde Ankarfeldt Project Reflective mechanism

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Project Tale of the non-human

Thesis Material Agency

This graduation project by Naja Ryde Ankarfeldt explores the artist's ongoing research into the correspondence between material and agency. Working between art and science Ankarfeldt investigates the ecology of repetitive and dynamic patterns with the purpose of creating aesthetic tactile experiences. 'Tale of the non-human' is a performative and interactive installation consisting of special designed wearable pieces made from lightweight wooden structures, which track the hidden movements of the body. The audience will furthermore get the opportunity to touch and examine an exhibited living microorganism grown from bacteria and yeast. This is a strong polymer material with a funny consistency and a potential alternative to plastic.

We would learn more by engaging directly with the materials themselves, following what happens to them as they circulate, mix with one another, solidify and dissolve in the formation of more or less enduring things. I am not here to finally judge whether material and agency are exactly the same, cooperating forces or something else. But I am very convinced that the autonomy of life manifests from matter and that matter manifests from the autonomy of life. I think the tangibility of this topic occurs naturally when coming from the tactile artistic field. It seems like the simplicity of those complex existential ideas becomes clearer when linking them directly to the materials that we are surrounded by and made from ourselves.

My work experiments with the audience's physical and mental reflection. In these experiments, the audience purely observes. I'm not interested in breaking the boundaries between the piece and the audience. I'm more interested in engaging them to concentrate and fully dedicate their time to themselves and to the piece. My aim is to have viewers in individual and collective experiences confront themselves with the image of their past and present at the same time. It's about reacting on thoughts and previous experiences through the reflection of audience's eyes, the eyes that experience a moment that is gone. I use narration, body movement or video projection and I investigate them in tandem with the concept of the mind as a space for art.

Thesis Audience as reflective mechanism Throughout my essay I analyse the many ways that audiences can be engaged. I am interested in works where artists create situations in which audiences are confronted with other audiences or with themselves or are manipulated within a safe framework. These investigations are not only ways to approach or engage the audience with their works but also implementations of the audience as the object or subject of the work. Additionally, the research unfurls situations where the necessity for a physical space is eliminated, so that the art work evolves only in the audience's mind, which becomes a space for art.

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+31 644152140 www.natela.tv natela@outlook.com

+31 649594942 najaankar@gmail.com www.breathingthing.com

ArtScience

Nicole Urban

Marit Mihklepp

Project Interviews with objects Lately, Marit Mihklepp has been experimenting with instructive language, everyday objects and bodily movement. She is interested in non-verbal languages coming through the dialogue between human interpretation and the possibilities in common objects. Inspired by Latourian assemblies of things and people, Mihklepp is composing a score for choreography performed by known objects and audience members.

Thesis Interview with a chair (and other forgotten dialects of ordinary things)

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This thesis is an attempt of extracting the forgotten dialects from ordinary objects. It is a collection of reflections on the object's right to be silent, (im)possibilities of human-object collaboration and how the objects measure the everyday, record the memories and transport humans in time.

+31 644829942 maritmihklepp@gmail.com

Project Reregarding the known knowns

Thesis Absurdity and creating a space for thought

Inspired by Western social norms and bureaucracies, the poetry of mundane misunderstandings and due to my own experiences of jobbing in factories, I aim at creating interruptions and 'space for thought'. During this graduation work I investigated the notions of an in/ effective factory: a machinery that has run defect and digests whatever hilarious junk comes its way. The result is an ongoing series of performances, installations and suspicious objects which speak their own uncanny language, and aim at making you question your own expectations.

Refining an artistic language and method. A discussion of my personal ventures into the realms of humour and absurdity in my work, along with cohesive observations from my own daily life. This includes finding a place within the current artistic field in relation to selected artists, writers and thinkers working in a similar context.

ArtScience

+31 616291104 nicole.urban@interfaculty.nl www.nicourban.com www.urnicorn.com

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Artistic Research 200 201 202 203 204 205 206

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Pierfrancesco Gava Arefeh Riahi Ewoud van Rijn Grigoris Rizakis Sissel Marie Tonn Anne-Marie Twigge Marieke Zwart

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Project Hiatus

Images of contemporary media, produced by political or religious institutions, are constructed to affirm their power. What happens when images contradict sound or voice? How is the impact of the political message affected when the one actually speaking is not the person mouthing the words on screen? Dismembering a speech from the applause, a voice from the speaker, a leader from his audience, I create an awareness towards the manipulative undertones of the original image. Manipulating footage posted on YouTube, I enact a strategy that disturbs the viewer's perception of the images and interrupts the consensus that it is otherwise granted.

My current practice is not concentrated but rather rhizomatic. Through the process of modifying the template of a cube to produce a multi-faceted, self-enclosing object, I am developing a body of thought that is concerned with malleable, unfixed parameters â&#x20AC;&#x201C; essentially, the status of that which is undecidable. The presented works seek to locate a middle ground between manipulation and articulation, within the context of physical form, conceptual property, syntax and narrative.

Thesis 'A glorious society'

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If power is essentially the ability to govern, why must it take the form of ceremonies, protocols, 'mediatization'? As the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben states, 'acclamation is a powerful tool that survives in modern society in the form of public opinion and [mediatization], from early Christianity and Roman Empire. If media is so important in modern democracy, this is not simply because it allows one to control and govern public opinion, but also because in this way it distributes glory and therefore power'. My project investigates the strategy with which power structures, such as politics and the Church, use their own image in the public media.

Thesis The Middle Ground By entering into a collaborative dialogue with the artist/writer Hannah Dawn Henderson, my text forms a narrative which is not bound to a restricted sequence and which equally dislocates itself from any adamant claim of singular authorship. Two voices merge into a single meditative reflection upon questions such as you and I, Here and There, imploding tori, and internal exteriority.

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+31 618840093 arefeh_coco@yahoo.com

Artistic Research

+31 641681139 pierf_gava@hotmail.com www.pierfrancescogava.com

Arefeh Riahi

Pierfrancesco Gava

Project [Media-tization]

Project A discourse on the method

Van Rijn has created a space for 'Research, Play and Ritual', in which yoga and participatory performance can be practiced. Throughout the year this space served in order to facilitate a program of experimental participatory performances integrating yoga, tarot reading, trataka meditation and shamanic travelling. A publication titled 'The White Dress' to be launched during the Graduation Festival 2015 - brings together the final scripts for these rituals, their outcome and their further elaboration for instance a set of cards that will be used in a game of storytelling.

[Rene Descartes in his last book 'The Passions of the Soul', states that he has found where the human soul is located in the brain; it is in the penal gland. Some decades later a criticism of that view comes from another philosopher, Baruch Spinoza. Criticism that can be found in the Part V of his magnum opus 'Ethics'. Statues of both philosophers can be found in The Hague, one of each philosopher....] How does an idea about a work begin and how might it end? What difficulties and demands do we encounter and how do we cope with them? The film undresses the process of the artistic act and thought around artworks that were actually never physically realized...

+31 638055711 ewoudvr@gmail.com ewoud-van-rijn.tumblr.com

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Grigoris Rizakis

Ewoud van Rijn

Project The White Dress

Thesis On the 'Spirit' Immanuel Kant in his third and last Critique, 'The Critique of Judgement', includes his systematic theory concerning Aesthetics. In the First Book, Second Division, p. 49 'The faculties of the mind that constitute genius", Kant talks about the "spirit" in an artwork and gives his definition of it. It is this paragraph that becomes the stepping point for Arthur Danto, which enables him to elaborate on the matter in his last book 'what is art', in which he sets the 'spirit' as one of the properties of an 'actual' artwork. My thesis incorporates the views of both philosophers and is trying to expand them by including neuroscience in a quasi-poetic, quasi-academic fashion.

Artistic Research

+31 618527507 grigorisrizakis@gmail.com www.rizakisgrigoris.com

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Anne-Marie Twigge

Sissel Marie Tonn

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Project The Open Whole A mushroom collector in MĂŠgantic navigates his surroundings 2 years after a catastrophic oil spill. A strange instrument is found in the fields of Groningen. This instrument measures and makes audible tremors of the earth evoked by gas drilling in the area. As scientific prediction of earthquakes seems increasingly unpredictable, the community in the fields struggles to cope with these man-made phenomena. 'The Open Whole' explores the perceptions of changing ecologies, existing in the periphery of politically charged spaces, where subtle human efforts make clear the interconnectedness of mental, social and environmental ecologies.

Thesis Figures of Corporeal Measurement 'Figures of Corporeal Measurement 'is a field book of somatic experiences and sonic associations of earthquakes, conducted among people living in the Groningen Gas Fields. Through illustrations and short texts it proposes for the body to become a seismic measurement system, archiving and analyzing the tremors of the gas drilling-induced tremors of the earth. As the scientific unpredictability of these man-made earthquakes become more pertinent one may turn to dreams, behavior of animals and the fine-tuning of the body as a sensitive tool for predicting, and preparing for the earthquakes of the future.

Thesis Self Work

The focal point of my practice deals with everyday representations and the valuations of the same. I relish in the complexities and the vast diversity of behavioural influencers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; emotionally, sexually, culturally, politically, spiritually, socially and economically â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that impact our daily routines and habits. Thus, by exploring the commercial and cultural spaces that are environments where the conception of 'the culture of the economy', or the cultural underpinning of economic behaviour came to life. Consumption is always a cultural as well as an economic process. Through installation, publication and performance I will explore our differing conceptions of ethics, aesthetics and values.

The explorative thesis unfolds through the properties of ethics and aesthetics. The foundation made evident by choice of format: the thesis is visually formatted outside the traditions of an academic paper and registers as a commercial magazine already implying an aesthetic molding of knowledge. The publications' essayistic style prompts one to ponder over questions like; who are we, you and I? Grappling with object and subject properties that help one to construct an identity; the workings of personal brand versus autobiography in relation to our socio-economic framing and labouring at the fulfillment of ones roles in life. Calling upon performance work that exposes thought processes that enable the construction of our values.

+31 614058955 annemarie@twigge.com www.annemarietwigge.com

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Artistic Research

+31 614309188 sisselmarietonn@gmail.com www.sisselmarietonn.com

Project Celebration

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Project For the Graduation Festival 2015 Marieke Zwart will set up three works that revolve around a space of contact: Hatterman's Hand, after Arbeider, Neger (1939); a drawing research - 45Â°; Video HD stereo sound - This is about a line that is not there, it has to do with the horizon; Video HD stereo sound. Her practise, based on video and drawing, reveals a specific interest in the making of drawings. Paper serves both as a connective surface, as well as a frame to question the possibility of proximity. Marieke Zwart (NL) holds a BA Fine Arts from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. She co-founded Artist Initiative BERM and she worked with psychiatric patients and art students during a residency at Instituto Buena Bista (CW)

+31 644604792 zwart.m@gmail.com www.mariekezwart.nl

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Zacharias Antoniades Junyuan Chen Emilija Juodyte Elide Mozzorecchi

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Project Culture Bridge in the Bufferzone

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+35 799125260 zacharias_antoniades@hotmail.com

An examination of borders at different scales and contexts through history and their transformations. A critical analysis of various peace-promoting projects in conflict zones. By comparing the conclusions of every case study with the situation in Cyprus I try to understand what is the most appropriate architectural strategy that deals with the division of the island.

Thesis Future Opportunities In Longshang Village This paper investigates the effects of a recent phenomenon in China. Groups of young independent architects have started to participate in the regeneration of rural areas through their design projects. I will start with an intensive research into the political, economic, ecological and social influences on villages in China in general. Following my field research in Longshang village in the southwest of China, I try to give answers to the following questions: What is the future of the rural villages in China? Who should decide on the future of the villages? Which role does design play in the development of rural areas? Which position or responsibility does the architect have when dealing with rural projects?

+31 649278219 jillianchen@foxmail.com www.junyuanchen.weebly.com

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Since 1974 Cyprus has been divided in two parts, separating the two major ethnicities of the island (Greeks and Turks). In between these north and south parts lies the well-known Cyprus Buffer zone that until this day expresses the realities of the armed conflict that took place there only four decades ago. As a Cypriot designer I felt the need to come up with an appropriate project that would improve the current situation and promote communication and deeper understanding between these two communities. My project is a renovation of a derelict building in the middle of the Cyprus buffer zone. The building will become the New Cyprus Library, with an emphasis on a cultural and social program that offers various opportunities for interactions.

Thesis The Cyprus green line Bridging the Gap. Challenges for a new future

A recent design phenomenon started in China: some Chinese architects have started to participate in the regeneration of rural areas throughout the country. Through an intensive field research in Longshang village in Southwest China, I found out that this revival of the rural has many side-effects for example concerning tourism. In the village a paper museum was designed by a young well-known architectural office to promote the traditional handicraft paper making of the villagers. Combining this forced top-down policy of the government and mental bottom-up needs of the villagers, I propose a multifunction public space facilities for the paper making site and a water cleaning system. In this way I hope to create a sustainable rural process.

Junyuan Chen

Zacharias Antoniades

Project Future Ruralization in Longshang Village, China

Project A Home 2.0

Education shapes society and society's social-political issues influence education. By taking an extreme case of a Post-Soviet neighbourhood in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, I analyse how the monotonous school buildings in these mono-functional parts of the city can be spatially freed from leftovers of the Soviet system. On the basis of my analysis I come up with some generic requirements of today's school buildings and made a toolbox; a set of interventions which I used in order to create flexible and open learning spaces. Finally my project leads to the renovation of one particular Soviet-style school building with the goal to transform it to an inspiring and varied learning environment.

'A Home 2.0' is a statement on the meaning and importance of the link between domestic activities and space. It starts from a personal assumption: the meaning given to daily actions of people being at home has almost disappeared. Through my research I try to understand how human existence and human actions are shaped to a large extent by the domestic space, and vice versa: how human rituals can shape the space we inhabit. This research resulted in a series of interior elements each dedicated to a single activity - sleeping, bathing, eating etc - characterized in a way that they could amplify the attention to these activities and ideally reach a bigger stimulus of senses.

Thesis Unbind the School: Renovation Goals for School Buildings built in 1970 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1990 in Soviet Districts of Vilnius

Thesis A Home 2.0 - From daily routine to daily rituals

+31 617863777 elide.mozzorecchi@gmail.com +31 645182719 emilija.juodyte@gmail.com

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In my thesis I analyse some renowned propitious learning environments, influential educational ideas and social-political issues which shaped society's attitude towards education. By relating these innovative educational theories and practices to the Sovietstyle schools, I demonstrate the clash of incorporated ideas. How can these school buildings become part of today's society? How can they spatially and architecturally correspond to the changing education system? How can they challenge existing learning methods and evoke new learning habits? The answers to these questions formed the basis of my design process.

My research for the thesis started by analyzing my own daily routine within my home environment. Through this routine analysis I noticed that every single activity provokes specific emotions and reflections which I translated in mini-poems and conceptual images, trying to evoke possible atmospheres. To further elaborate on the concept of 'home' I explored two inspirational sources: the exhibition 'Italy: The New Domestic Landscape' exposed at MOMA in New York in 1972 and all Domus Magazine issues of 2014. Together with a personal description of my own routine these sources became the theoretical background to design A Home 2.0, in which the daily routine becomes a ritual.

Elide Mozzorecchi

Emilija Juodyte

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Project Unbind the School

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Elliott Amblard Benedikt BrambĂśck Bahman Eslami Minjoo Ham Tilmann Hielscher Marko Hrastovec Katerina Kochkina Philipp Victoria Neumeyer Loris Olivier Heidi Rand SĂ¸rensen Tezzo Suzuki Jasper Terra Cristian Vargas

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Benedikt Brambรถck

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Project Shipsmith

This typeface started as a low contrast slab text with a typewriter-ish influence but with proportional spacing. The stems are concave, the serifs straight. It has for companions a bold and their matching italics and a hairline. It could be used for books, magazines, office or tax related documents, lawsuits, bailif files and classified stuff.

This typeface family is aimed to be used for longer texts and therefore consists of a regular weight with complementing italics as well as a bolder weight to be used for further highlighting. One of the most striking features of the text size are its angular serifs which turn into slab serifs in the heavier weights. There is also a micro size, which is tailored to work best in 5 to 6 points, but is also not shy to show its quirky details when used in display sizes.

elliott.amblard@wanadoo.fr www.elliottamblard.com

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info@arialcrime.com www.arialcrime.com

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Minjoo Ham

Bahman Eslami Project Laran (Latin/Arabic) typeface

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Project Type family for translation between Latin and Hangul.

Mixing Latin (Humanistic San Serif) and Arabic (low contrast Naskh) script in a typeface in the extreme weights is tricky. The most challenging part is that they are very different in terms of roots and how they got evolved through time. Applying the same principles while designing this kind of typefaces is not the best way to do it. So every script in this typeface is designed to give the same impression to the viewer but they are not necessarily same in terms of details.

'Koppla' is a type family for translation between Korean í&#x2022;&#x153;ę¸&#x20AC; and Latin with a minimal typographic editing. 'Koppla' is a Swedish word which means switch, link, connect. 'Koppla' family consists of three weight Title, Bold, Text and cursives for each weight and support Latin and Korean languages. I expect that 'Koppla' type family will be used for Korean-Latin multilingual typography.

+31 684507234 eslami.bahman@gmail.com

+31 626048804 minjoo85@gmail.com

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Marko Hrastovec

Tilmann Hielscher

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Project Ligan

Project Bolid

'Ligan' is a headstrong typeface family. It leans to the display side, but actually prefers the top over any side. It comes in two distinctive styles: a roman with accompanying italic that is more suited for texts and as well as a bubbly, brushy display style for whatever needs to be said big and loud. It may be too whimsical for newsprint and lacking in grace for wedding invitations, but could find a home on the windows of a corner store or the packages of sugary treats inside.

Slab serif type family whose sturdiness is derived from the influence of sport aesthetics represented by robust numerals and jersey lettering, usually constructed out of blocky serifs. This was just an initial sparkle that kicked off the project but it sticked through a number of details. It is an exploration on contrast between strokes, shapes and styles. Thin styles are precise, almost monolinear shapes but as weight grows contrast increases only when necessary to open up countershapes that make the Regular styles suitable for continuous text settings, and Black styles saturated and compact fonts. Display Dark weight reduces the white space to minimum which is sometimes resulting in unusual distribution of contrast.

+31 633481567 tilmann.hielscher@gmail.com www.tilmannhielscher.de

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hrastovec.marko@gmail.com www.markohrastovec.com

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Philipp Victoria Neumeyer

Katerina Kochkina Project Just another type on Earth

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'Just another type on Earth' has three weights. Regular, Bold and Stencil. Evolved from Type Cooker sketches, the type went through a lot of corrections and turned out to be something completely different from what was first intended. Best used as display in large and medium sizes. A lot of controversial details and playful spirit will help to make any boring text look better. Perfect for last-minute designs and no-time-to-think-about-layout cases. Just set everything with this beauty and get a great result.

+31 622310902 katerina.kochkina@gmail.com www.katerinakochkina.com

Project Things may appear bigger than they are while being deep in conversation. Who needs a content related title anyway? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Making of Frederick â&#x20AC;Ś or Gustav. I'm not that sure about the name yet.

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"Why do I need another typeface? I already have Times and Arial" the common graphic design students from the KABK or modern graphic designers might say. Even in the very rare case one of both might typefaces do not fit, you can always put very lovely outlines around it or just stretch it. Really, who reads that shit anyway? Well obviously there are not enough good looking / working / readable typefaces out there that these people could use. So I tried to make a subtle quirky and rough but yet serious family of typefaces with different styles for small texts and for big display sizes hoping to be able to satisfy someone's need who can appreciate serious design.

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philipp.neumeyer@gmail.com www.philippneumeyer.com

Heidi Rand SĂ¸rensen

Loris Olivier Project Lemanic

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Lemanic is a typeface family planned as a tool box. The different weights and styles are made for newspapers. The entire family is constructed in order to decrease the usage of images next to the text. The shapes and its inspiration are taken from the fluidity and the rhythm of the work of Fournier and certain shapes of the Romain du Roi. Those weren't drawn for newspapers, Lemanic is making a personal synthesis of those two sources.

+41 797552490 loris@olivierloris-nyc.com www.lorisolivier.com

Project Charma - a playful & functional typeface family The Charma Family is intended for product and store identities selling food and personal care products. Charma is based on my experimental calligraphy that has curly and flowing movements. In the design process I drew a lot of alternative styles on top of my calligraphic construction. This created room for booth refined text styles and display styles that give good options for the graphic designer.

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hej@hejheidi.dk www.hejheidi.dk

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Project G.O.Q.R.

Project The Final Thing (untitled)

Type family consisting of an experimental display font and several styles of companion text font. My intention with this project is to add ambiguity and uncontrollability which you can be found in Kanji and Japanese characters to Latin alphabet. In the display font every single glyphs has four alternates shaped by one stroke line in all different manner. Also they vary automatically and randomly when you type.

BERLINâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;22/5/2015â&#x20AC;&#x201D;01:00 Dear diary, at the time of this writing the Final Thing is not yet (never) finished. It doesn't even have a proper name yet. The Final Thing is a small family of type with broad nib (translation) contrast. It seeks to find a balance between voice, detail and function (pragmatism) without looking stuffy. Designed mainly for print, the text weights were given sturdy serifs. Its lighter weights could be used to set running texts between 8 and 14 points. The heavier weights are intended for headings and other big stuff from 14 points and up. Its display members are narrower in proportion with more refined details and intended to be used for bigger things like (book) covers, flyers, posters and other fancy titling stuff.

+81 9088502499 tezzo.suzuki@gmail.com www.tezzosuzuki.tumblr.com

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+31 630384684 info@jasperterra.nl www.jasperterra.nl

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Cristian Vargas Project

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My final project for TypeMedia consists of a family typeface with four styles, two of them display and two more for text use and it is mainly designed to be used in posters, books, brochures and magazines. The inspiration of this typeface came from the 'Birds of Paradise' which are birds who only live in one part of the world (New Guinea-Australia) they are very particular in their appearance because they evolved in a more visual way with big feathers, bright colors and extreme shapes. Next to this they are very different compared to any other type of bird in the world in terms of behavior.

+57 3132209568 cristian@typozon.com www.typozon.com

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Awards Royal Academy of Art Final Examination Awards 2015 – jury composition

Jan Roëde Award Jan Roëde (1914-2007) studied at the academy in the early 1930s and spent most of his life living and working in The Hague. The Jan Roëde Foundation, responsible for managing his legacy, instituted the Jan Roëde Award to commemorate the centenary of his birth. With this annual €2,500 award, the Foundation aims to encourage a Royal Academy of Art graduate to further develop their artistic talent. The jury comprises a delegation from the Foundation, Alexander Mayhew, from the Dürst Britt & Mayhew gallery and Johan Gustavsson, artist and tutor at the academy. The jury looks beyond the artistic quality of the work, also examining the extent to which the laureate works in the spirit of Jan Roëde, who believed art had the power to liberate.

Paul Schuitema Award

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The Paul Schuitema Award sees the Royal Academy of Art honour the photographer, graphic and industrial designer Paul Schuitema, who taught at the academy between 1930 and 1960. The Paul Schuitema Award (€1,000) recognises work reminiscent of Schuitema's spirit, vision and working method. The jury comprises Ernie Mellegers (tutor in the Interior Architecture and Furniture Design Department), Gert Dumbar (tutor in the Graphic Design Department), Guus Rijven (tutor in the Photography Department) and Wybe Schuitema. In their assessment, the jury focuses specifically on individuality, problem solving ability and social relevance.

Overduin Award Subsidised by the Stichting Henk en Ria Overduin Fonds, the Overduin Award (€3,000) is presented to a young designer or artist. Henk Overduin (1943-1988) was an artist and Assistant Director at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. This year, the award will be bestowed upon a graduating designer. The winner will be selected by Louise Schouwenberg, design theorist, mentor theory at INSIDE, Master Interior Architecture, and head of the Contextual Design Master Department at the Design Academy Eindhoven.

Stroom Encouragement Award Every year, the presentation of the Stroom Den Haag Encouragement Award for Royal Academy of Art graduates is eagerly awaited. Partly due to the substantial prize money involved (€2,500), but naturally also in light of the recognition and incentive this award offers in the further development of the graduate's artistry.

Stroom Invest Stroom Invest is a unique programme which admits four Royal Academy of Art graduates every year. Selected by Stroom in collaboration with Martijn Verhoeven (Fine Arts Coordinator), these burgeoning artists receive a year of intensive supervision and assistance in their artistic and/or commercial development, provided that their studio/workplace is located in The Hague.

Academy Award (Bachelor's & Master's) Each year, the heads of all courses jointly select the best graduation works. The winning works are selected from 21 nominations for the Bachelor's Academy Award and 12 nominations for the Master's Academy Award. In addition to the enormous honour, the winners also receive €1,500 each.

Goedman Award The Goedman Materials Award is presented by the Goedman Academie Shop. Located on academy grounds, this shop specialises in paper, drawing and painting supplies.

Heden Start Award A new addition to this year's array of honours is the Heden Start Award. The winner of this award will benefit from a year of (commercial) coaching from art library and gallery Heden. Work by the winner will be purchased directly following their graduation. Heden also facilitates a presentation at a Dutch art fair and an exhibition at their gallery on the Dennenweg in The Hague.

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Workshops 3D-LAB Hilario Nicolaas Yvo van Os Sculpture Arjen Bos KABK Rental Marijn Rietveld Chris Piepelenbosch Frans de Grood Kees Knijnenburg Computer Workshop Constant Meeuws George Vincentie Workshop Photographic Techniques Marijn Rietveld

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Photography Workshop Frans de Grood Andrew Valkenburg Printing Workshop Niek Satijn Thomas Ankum Gerard Schoneveld Widodo Poedjio Wood Workshop Mascha van de Kuinder Ronald Scholtens

Ceramics Workshop Arjen Bos Type Workshop Sanne Beeren Metal Workshop Eduard Sjoukes Huub Luik Multimedia Workshop Chris Piepelenbosch Kees Knijnenburg Textile and Fashion Workshop Beleke den Hartog Elsbeth van Heijningen Tardia Page

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Lecturers Bachelor ArtScience

Bachelor Fine Arts

Heads of Department Edwin van der Heide Taconis Stolk

Head of Department Full-time course Johan van Oord

Coordinator Leonie Zweekhorst

Head of Department Part-time course Ernst Bergmans

Lecturers Arthur Elsenaar Cocky Eek Edwin van der Heide Kasper van der Horst Michiel Pijpe Robert Pravda Taconis Stolk

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Guest Lecturers Pieter van Boheemen Lex van den Broek Evelina Domnitch Lucas Evers Bernard Foing Dmitri Gelfand Marcus Graf Roel Heremans Gideon Kiers Eric Kluitenberg Katinka Marac Ine Poppe Frank Theys Lucas van der Velden Caro Verbeek

Coordinator Full-time course Martijn Verhoeven Coordinators Part-time course Willem Goedegebuure Onno Schilstra Team of lecturers Marijke Appelman Rachel Bacon Channa Boon Maura Biava Engelien van den Dool Irene Droogleever-Fortuyn Marion Duursema Pieter van Evert Willem Goedegebuure Christie van der Haak Cecile van der Heiden Eric Hirdes Anja de Jong Winnie Koekelbergh Ton van Kints Klaas Kloosterboer André Kruysen Frans Lampe Alexandra Landre Jeroen de Leijer Frank Lisser Janice McNab Willem Moeselaar Alexandra Landré

Tatjana Macic Anna Moreno Johan van Oord Reinoud Oudshoorn Maria Pask Hans van der Pennen David Powell Ewoud van Rijn Hester Scheurwater Onno Schilstra Els Snijder Elly Strik Martijn Verhoeven Pim Voorneman

Bachelor Graphic Design Heads of Department full-time course Roosje Klap Niels Schrader Head of Department part-time course Ernst Bergmans Coordinators Full-time course Pauline Schep Reba Wesdorp Coordinator Part-time course Koen Geurts Lecturers Graphic Design Bart de Baets Susana Carvalho / Chantal Hendriksen Frits Deys Gert Dumbar (éminence gris) Koen Geurts Nina Søttrup Larssen Niels Schrader Esther de Vries Image Kévin Bray Willem Goedegebuure Michel Hoogervorst Merel van 't Hullenaar Katrin Korfmann Reinoud Oudshoorn Simon Wald-Lasowski Job Wouters Interactive Media Design Lauren Alexander

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Kees van Drongelen Dennis Flinterman Jan Robert Leegte Henrik van Leeuwen Lizzie Malcolm Olivier Otten Dirk Vis Typography & Letters Erik van Blokland Thomas BuxĂł Paul van der Laan Adriaan Mellegers Rob vd Nieuwenhuizen Donald Roos Just van Rossum Drawing Willem Moeselaar Jordy van den Nieuwendijk

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Letterstudio (elective) Frank Blokland Donald Roos Just van Rossum Diana Overzea Peter Verheul Design Office (elective) Gijsbert Dijker Pawel Pokutycki PlayLab (elective) KĂŠvin Bray Roosje Klap Matthias Kreutzer Job Wouters Simon Wald-Lasowski Coding Pascal de Man Eric Schrijver Jochem van der Spek

Theory Marjan Brandsma Maarten Cornel Els Kuijpers Alied Ottevanger Ellen Schindler Coordinator final exam exhibition Ewoud Traast Coordinator internships Gijsbert Dijker Coordinator IST/electives Ruurd van der Noord Guest Lecturers Ivar van Bekkum Hannes Bernard Silvio Iorusso Sandra Kassenaar Max Kazemzadeh Els Kuijpers Sjoerd van Oevelen Ruben Pater Theo-Bert Pot & Isabel van der Velden Lex Reitsma Sanne Rovers Ben Schot Richard Vijgen

Bachelor Interactive/Media/Design Head of Department Marc Boumeester Coordinator Dave Wille Lecturers Mendel Agterberg Anna Arov Coen Brasser Renske van Dam Wim van Eck Arthur Elsenaar Nick van 't End Maartje Fliervoet Johan Gustavsson Anja Hertenberger Jonathan Looman Remus Ockels Gitta Pardoel Pawel Pokutycki Shayna Schapp Lena Shafir Raymond Taudin Chabot Jan Treffers

Bachelor Interior Architecture & Furniture Design Head of Department full-time course Herman Verkerk Head of Department part-time course Ernst Bergmans Coordinators Mariska Beljon Roosmarijn Hompe Linda Van der Poel Coordinator Internship Willem Moeselaar Study advisor Ellen Vos Lecturers Design Gert Anninga Gijs Baks Amber Beernink Samira Boon Jan Harm ter Brugge Maarten Collignon Lars van Es Arne Hendriks Ingeborg Horst Barend Koolhaas Tessa Koot Wendy Legro Jeroen van Mechelen Aura Luz Melis Wim Ros Nienke Sybrandy Christoph Seyferth

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Ronald van Tienhoven Ramin Visch Wim De Vos Eric Vreedenburgh Morphology Krijn Christiaansen Cathelijne Montens Ellen Vos Media and Materials Marie Ilse Bourlanges Corine Datema Elena Khurtova Harold Linker Willem Moeselaar Jeroen Musch Jof Neuhaus Sanne Peper Michaël Snitker Frans Willigers

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Theory and Context Mariska Beljon Liesbeth Fit Inger Groeneveld Roosmarijn Hompe Ernie Mellegers Eric Vreedenburgh

Bachelor Photography Heads of department full-time course Corinne Noordenbos (until April 2015) Lotte Sprengers Rob Hornstra Head of department part-time course Ernst Bergmans Coordinator Full-time course Marlène Kromhout Coordinator Part-time course Leo Erken Coordinator Internship Lotte Sprengers Lecturers Anna Abrahams Vincent van Baar Ellen Dosse Theo van Dusseldorp Leo Erken Jan Frederik Groot Thijs grootWassink Johan Gustavsson Sebastiaan Hanekroot Judith van IJken Anja de Jong Ton van Kints Ben Krehwinkel Ola Lanko Ilse Leenders Anneleen Louwes Deen van Meer Hans van der Meer Krista van der Niet

Corinne Noordenbos Kim Nuijen Pawel Pokutycki Marga Rotteveel Lotte Sprengers Ewoud Traast Ari Versluis Loek van Vliet Simon Wald-Lasowski Rob Wetzer Raimond Wouda Lecturers in Theory Elke van Eeden Ingrid Grootes Ellie Smolenaars Martijn Verhoeven Henriëtte Waal Guest Lecturers Simon Bainbridge Kim Knoppers Paul Reas Gerrit Scheurs Wim van Sinderen Bart Sorgedrager Ruud Visschedijk Harvey Benge Lars Boering Koos Breukel Sarah Carlier Anton Corbijn Ad van Denderen Hans Eijkelboom Simone Engelen Miklos Gaal David Goldblatt Brian Griffin Vincent van Gurp Ken Grant Eddo Hartmann Jacqueline Hassink Rob Hornstra Pieter Hugo Hans Kemna

Erik Kessels Geert van Kesteren Sjoerd Knibbeler Annelies Kuiper Ruben Lundgren Susan Meiselas Monica Nouwen Erwin Olaf Martin Parr Andrew Phelps Louise te Poele Willem Popelier Leonie Hampton-Purchas Eddo Hartmann Paul Reas Elza-Jo van Reenen Roel Santvoort Scheltens/Abbenes Dayanita Singh Michl Sommer Bart Sorgedrager Sterre Sprengers SYB Frido Troost Marcel van der Vlugt Bas Vroege Hannes Wallrafen Wassink Lundgren Henk Wildschut Donovan Wylie Miao Xiaochung Louis Zaal Jasper Zwartjes

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Bachelor Textile & Fashion

PGC Industrial Design

Master ArtScience

Master Artistic Research

Head of Department Jurgi Persoons

Head of Department Ernst Bergmans

Head of Department Edwin van der Heide Taconis Stolk

Head of Department Ernst Bergmans

Coordinators Gerrit Uittenbogaard Sanne Jansen

Coordinator Jacob de Baan

Coordinator Internship Gerrit Uittenbogaard

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Lecturers Els de Baan Anoek van Beek Hil Driessen Jan Jan van Essche Chris Fransen Hilde Frunt Desiree Hammen Eric Hirdes Mirjam Ingram Elisa van Joolen Nico Laan Natasja Martens Jurgi Persoons Joost Post Peter de Potter Laut Rosenbaum Wim Ros Neeltje Schoenmaker Gerrit Uittenbogaard Bob Verhelst Roy Verschuren Robert Volmer Ellen Vos Marina Yee

Lecturers Jacob de Baan Erlynne Bakkers Alfred van Elk Jantje Fleischhut Maaike Roozenburg Roselien Steur Guest Lecturers Erik Tempelman - IO Mark de Weijer Bas Sanders Heather Leslie Nicole Uniquole Joris Castermans Theo van Dusseldorp Maartje de Haan Sam van Haaster Siem Haffmans Frans de La Haye Ineke Heerkens Milou Ket Josée Koene Wilfred Löwensteyn Hans Menkveld Bruno Ninaber Ingeborg de Roode Loes Wagemans Jólan van der Wiel Romy Kuhne

Coordinator Leonie Zweekhorst Lecturers Arthur Elsenaar Cocky Eek Edwin van der Heide Kasper van der Horst Michiel Pijpe Robert Pravda Taconis Stolk Guest lecturers Pieter van Boheemen Lex van den Broek Evelina Domnitch Lucas Evers Bernard Foing Dmitri Gelfand Marcus Graf Roel Heremans Gideon Kiers Eric Kluitenberg Katinka Marac Ine Poppe Frank Theys Lucas van der Velden Caro Verbeek

Coordinator Weronika Zielinska Deputy Coordinator Josje Hattink Lecturers Frank Mandersloot Sher Doruff Yael Davids Katarina Zdjelar Jasper Coppes Guest Lecturers Arnisa Zego Benjamin Seror Jack Segbars Maziar Afrassiabi Özlem Altin Maria Pask Babak Afrassiabi Vesna Madzoski Thijs Witty Steven ten Thije Raviv Ganchrow Aernout Mik Jasper Niens Kristina Benjocki Maja Bekan Bojana Panevska Mariëtte Dölle Luuk Wilmering

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Master Interior Architecture (INSIDE) Head of Department Hans Venhuizen Coordinator Marja van der Burgh Regular Teachers DOEPELSTRIJKERS - Eline Strijkers MVRDV - Fokke Moerel, Mick van Gameren, Aser Giménez, Gijs Rikken OMA - Chris van Duijn and Mark Veldman Superuse Studios - Jan Jongert and Lizanne Dirkx Anne Hoogewoning and Louise Schouwenberg Erik Jutten

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Guest Lecturers AMO Danielle Arets Cloud Collective Gert Dumbar Jeroen van Mastrigt Merel Segers Leeke Reijnders Vincent de Rijk Lucas Verweij Lecturers Bas van Beek Guus Beumer David Hamers Yolande van der Heide Ronald Hooft Hans van Houwelingen Chris Kabel Kamiel Klaasse Jan Knikker Tylda Krzykowski Arna Mackic

Fokke Moerel Suzanne Oxenaar Niels Peteri Tijmen Ploeg Rik Ruigrok Christophe Seyferth Malkit Shoshan Evelien van Veen Herman Verkerk Jacob Voorthuis Gilles van Wanrooij Exam 2014-2015 Frans Bevers

Master TypeMedia Heads of Department Erik van Blokland Paul van der Laan Peter Verheul Coordinator Marja van der Burgh Lecturers Paul Barnes David Bennewith Frederik Berlaen Thomas Castro Marina Chaccur Andy Clymer Liza Enebeis Tobias Frere-Jones Andreas Frohloff Frank Grießhammer Luc(as) de Groot Cyrus Highsmith Richard Hollis Jeremie Hornus Samuel Hornus Jack Jennings Robin Kinross Tal Leming Mathieu Lommen Roelof Mulder Alexander Roth Aleksandra Samulenkova Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer Nick Sherman Miguel Sousa Roger Willems Rickey Tax Guest Lecturers Françoise Berserik Peter Bil'ak Frank Blokland Petr van Blokland

Karel Martens Just van Rossum Fred Smeijers Jan Willem Stas Exam 2014-2015 Phil Baines

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Colophon A publication by the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, The Netherlands. Prinsessegracht 4, Den Haag +31 (0)70 315 4700 www.kabk.nl Concept and design Liz Klaver - www.lizklaver.nl Janneke Kors - www.jannekekors.nl Romana Siemons - www.romanasiemons.nl Edition Book: 1000 copies Website: www.kabk.nl/graduationfestival2015 ISBN 978-90-72600-38-7 Printed by Drukkerij Tielen

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Paper 90 g/m2 Mysol Mat (HH mat mc) 200 g/m2 Sulfaatkarton Fonts Belwe Univers Special thanks to Marieke Schoenmakers, Director Roosje Klap & Niels Schrader, Co-Heads Graphic Design Department Pawel Pokutycki, Lecturer Graphic Design Department Disclaimer All project descriptions are written by students, in English or in Dutch according to their personal preference. No part of this publication may be copied and/or distributed without the written permission of the students in question. The Hague, July 2015

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