Graduation Catalogue 2019 - Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK) by Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK)

FOREWORD In this catalogue you will find the work of the 219 graduates that have dedicated all their time, passion and energy in the past years in order to become a professional artist or designer. I am extremely proud of the Class of 2019, not only of their dedication and perseverance, but also of their continuous frankness and the willingness to share with us their findings, struggles and often enlightening views of reality. Each graduate has one page in this catalogue at their disposal to show a preview of their graduation work, their internship (if applicable) and the subject of their thesis. Seeing all their accomplishments in one overview is like reading a novel in which a multi-layered story unfolds. The graduates give us insight into both individual fascinations and themes that concern an entire group or even an entire society. Global issues in the Anthropocene* we live in, such as climate change, mass migration and geographical shifts have obviously influenced the work of these young artists and designers. Also, you will recognize that current developments in politics, technology and the ever rushing influence of social media has a strong impact on the discourse at the academy. In recent years, graduation projects often seemed to have been motivated by concern or even anxiety about these challenges. However, I notice a gradual trend in the work of this years’ graduates, which seems to indicate that this generation is capable of adapting, and can naturally cope with the challenges of today. To name a few examples: themes include the Queerness of industrial objects, authorship in times of community art, and how nature’s invasive ways can be an antidote to over-controlled society. KABK’s international student population includes over 60 nationalities, a seamless representation of the professional field which is, above all, international. Just like digitization, internationalization is not a future scenario but the reality in which we live. The composition of football teams as well as scientific research teams are an example of this, much as the art and design

world itself. This catalogue contains the stories of these global citizens and provides insight into their personal fascinations and concerns and the way in which they express this in their art and design. As Yulong Jin, one of the Fine Arts graduates states: “don’t be afraid my friends, our lives are one”. I hope that the educational approach at the KABK has played a role of importance in this attitude. It is KABK’s mission to educate independent and self-aware artists and designers with investigative mind sets and unique visual and conceptual abilities. Furthermore, we trust that they are able to make a meaningful contribution to their discipline and to society by means of their passion, their deep expertise and their experimental approach. In the past year students were able to manifest these abilities in the collaborations we had with various partners such as Greenpeace, the Ministry of Education, Culture & Science, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Bradford Space Agency and the Ministry of Finance. In Views from Above, Greenpeace included students of the Master Non Linear Narrative in their research project, using yet unpublished photo- and film material documenting the effects of deforestation on the Amazon rainforest. By doing so, Greenpeace, one of the biggest activist organisations in the world, has given the students the opportunity to collaborate on insights and develop global future scenarios from a design point of view. The project resulted in a beautiful exhibition in the galleries of the academy and a publication, but the effect will undoubtedly last much longer in the practice of these young designers. Another key subject in the education at KABK is research, which is embedded in all programmes in the form of labs, lectures, research groups and seminars. Most graduates have written a thesis and it is striking to see that the ideas of theoreticians, economists and philosophers seep into the work of the students.

Research also includes the immersion in art-historical material, such as in the 100 years Bauhaus project that Interior Architecture & Furniture Design students carried out in collaboration with museum Boijmans van Beuningen. Through parades, pop-up installations and an exhibition they explored the basic principles of Bauhaus, the early 20th century revolutionary art and design school that has had a significant influence on the history of the KABK. I would like to thank Greenpeace, Stroom Den Haag, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the City of The Hague, the Keep an Eye Foundation, the Jan Roëde Stichting, the Schuitemastichting, HEDEN, the Institute of Sonology and the Composition Department of the Royal Conservatoire, The Ministry of Finance, Bradford Space Agency, De Waag, and many many others for their trust and collaboration in the past year. A final word goes out to the graduates: it is only through the high expectations of our students that we can continuously improve the KABK. Therefore, I would like to thank you for your dedication and your trust. You have done a great job, good luck in your future career and please keep us posted! Marieke Schoenmakers Director KABK *The Anthropocene: The Time of Man, the current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment.

CONTENT Bachelors ArtScience Sophia Bulgakova Mabel Calvert Verbruggen Kay Churcher Jesus Canuto Iglesias Senida Kalender Anastasia Loginova Maria Oosterveen Catherine Ostraya Aisha Pagnes Sunna Svavarsdóttir Stefano Zucchini

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Fine Arts Jan Dirk Adams Nils Addink Rinella Alfonso Andrea Ball Sophie Beerens Zahar Bondar Sara Bouwens Jinbin Chen Linhuei Chen Michelle-Ann De Coeyere Leo Dillerop Simon Fitskie Daniele Formica Athina Giannoukaki Silvana Gordon Valenzuela Yulong Jin Nanhee Kim Adam McLean Peevers Yukari Nakamichi Alfons Nauw Søren Nellemann Natasha Papika Suzanne Plomp Aliaksandra Puhachova Eliza Reszka Natasha Rijkhoff Miriam Schreiner Sonja Steiner Caroline Straver Nadja Temper Kristīne Timma Alexander Webber Sophia Wester Boris Windmeijer Dimitri van den Wittenboer Boukje Ypma

24 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 59 60 61

Graphic Design Artúr Andrási Katsiaryna Banar Hilde Barwegen Leïth Benkhedda Kylièn Bergh Jonathan Cho Kin Mun Chong Louis Braddock Clarke Roderick Cornelissen Mariam Darchiashvili Linsey Dolleman Jan Egbers Manon Féval Dominika Fojtiková Armands Freibergs Kerrin Go Verena Hahn Céline Hurka Jan Husstedt Rully Irawan Bohwa Jang Rebecca Joly Sophia de Jong Pien Kars Christina Kordunian Risto Kujanpää Peter van Langen Auke Lansink Wietske Nutma Greta Radzevičiūtė Samantha van Roosenbeek Samuel Rynearson Evy van Schelt Theresa Scherrer Cato Stigter Yeon Sung Rhodé Tavenier Lou Top Nina van Tuikwerd Carolina Valente Pinto Esther Vane Natalia Vishnevskaia Wannes Vrijs Alfonso Yordi Martinez Roslana Yotova Interactive / Media / Design Ziko Assink Alina Boehm Proud Devakula Tim Enghardt

62 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108

110 112 113 114 115

Thea Frommenwiler Diego Grandry Łukasz Gula Jamie Hornis Latisha Horstink Jan Köhler Ligia Maasland Moze Mertens Anna Pelgrim Moritz Salla Malena Ugaz Micah Westera

116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127

Stella Loning Sonya Mantere Loretta Monique Viktor Naumovski Louisiana van Onna Jamy Osinga Nael Quraishi Mafalda Rakoš Daniela Roșca Emma Sarpaniemi Sofie Sihombing Josje van Stekelenburg Jill Louise Verweijen Elodie Vreeburg

168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181

Interior Architecture and Furniture Design Maria Beaumaster Iris Bossen Sarah Bovelett Joyce Edel Charlotte de Goey Xiaofeng (Maple) He Aaron Kopp Mabel Kraus Bart Krijnen Aliaksandra Pirazhenka Maja Pop Trajkova Pien Post Erik van Schaften Edward Slaviero Tijs Struijk Daphne van der Veer Xénia Weulersse Zhengda Ye

128 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149

Textile & Fashion Angelika Danaka Nina Dekker Kirstie Fulton Min Gweon Shijia Hao Louise Hoving Trumaine Huijts Nicolas Jimenez Poveda Hyo Young (Moe) Kim Stella Hyunji Kim Lina Lau Larissa Schepers Otilia Vieru Vincent Wong

182 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197

Photography Alex Avgud Suzette Bousema Hein Budding Anna Charalampidi Victoria Chaushyan Filippo Maria Ciriani Sophie Daalman Tibor Dieters Linnea Frandsen Linnéa Gerrits Diana Gheorghiu Indra Gleizde Trees Heil Katarina Juričić Ani Kehayova Co Knol

150 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167

Masters ArtScience Richard Forrest Zoë d’Hont Lauren Jetty Ana Oosting Heeyoun Park

200 202 203 204 205 206

Artistic Research Mel Oi Wun Chan Lucy Cordes Engelman Arthur Cordier Matthew Lanning Daisy Madden-Wells Katrina Niebergal Wilfredo Orellana-Pineda Helena Sanders

208 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217

Industrial Design Conrado Bergemann Alicja Czop Johanna Günzl Federica Marrella Cecilia Polonara Jan Sengers Daphne Story Leon Wezenberg Marsha Wichers

218 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228

Interior Architecture (INSIDE) Jack Bardwell Laura Frías Muñoz del Cerro Lotti Gostic Yunkyung Lee I-Chieh Liu Hande Öğün Adriel Quiroz Silva Daniele Valentino Huaxin Zhang

230 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240

Non Linear Narrative Corinna Canali Jean-Baptiste Castel Benjamin Earl Astrid Feringa Nuel van Gelder de Neufville Emma Verhoeven

242 244 245 246 247 248 249

TypeMedia Eva Abdulina Alexis Boscariol Ryan Bugden Luke Charsley Ethan Cohen Rutherford Craze Anya Danilova Ricard Garcia Joona Louhi Fabiola Mejía Michelangelo Nigra Céline Odermatt is Boscariol

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Awards

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Workshops

268

Teaching staff

269

Colophon

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ARTSCIENCE (BA)

GRADUATES

The ArtScience Interfaculty, a close collaboration between the Royal Academy of Art and the Royal Conservatoire since 1989, proudly presents sixteen new ArtScientists this year: eleven earn their Bachelor’s degree and five will get their Master’s. Sixteen bright, young, experimental makers, sixteen adventurous minds, with sixteen breath-taking projects. As always, the ArtScience works are as diverse as can be: things (or people) are sounding, flashing, moving, smelling, melting, shining, weighing, circulating, decaying, breathing, or sometimes they just are. Contemplating. Expect everything between tiny and big, light and dark, silent and loud, sweet and sour, subtlety and exaltation. Expect all of your senses to be aroused, including those of equilibrium and weight. Expect an active role for you, the audience, in your encounter with many of the works. Expect to act, to think, to feel, to react, to rethink and to remember. Expect the unexperienced, and experience the unexpected.

Sophia Bulgakova

Mabel Calvert Verbruggen

Kay Churcher

Jesus Canuto Iglesias

Senida Kalender

Anastasia Loginova

Maria Oosterveen

Catherine Ostraya

Aisha Pagnes

Sunna Svavarsdóttir

Stefano Zucchini

Taconis Stolk Head of department P.S. Oh, and might you get the impression that all the graduating ArtScientists you meet carry the same smell around them, you are right: this is a secret seventeenth work created by Master graduate Lauren Jetty. She created a unique ArtScience perfume on the basis of, among others, electrical cables!

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Sophia Bulgakova sophia.bulgakova@gmail.com Ukraine sophiabulgakova.com Internship: Studio Zoro Feigl

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Project INEVITABLY BLUE INEVITABLY BLUE is a participatory performance which deals with imaginary matters. The experience within it allows to transcend from the present environment, travel to where colour exists when movement cuts the air, and dreams are intertwining with reality in more than one dimension.

Thesis INEVITABLY BLUE a practical guide to liberating the imagination in a constrained universe This guide is an exploration of restrictions and limitations as tools to liberate the imagination, engage perception and stimulate the creative process. It follows stages of the making process according to the author and invites the reader to actively interact with them allowing to embody methodology of constraints in their own personal way. 12

Mabel Calvert Verbruggen mabel.cvb@gmail.com United Kingdom iamlostforwords.com Project Soporific A stationary position to let your mind wander. Prostrate yourself. Lose yourself. Disconnect yourself. Stare into this private affair.

Let ASMR provide a seductive, soporific expression of sleep talk to assist you into a slumber. Thesis The Mermaid Theory As a child it is easy to find false idols, something to look up to and connect with, seldom on anything more than a superficial level. Only with the loss of innocence is it possible to realise how misguided these obsessions really were. The real presence of our idol is of little concern in our infancy, yet

we grow to live in a world that is constantly trying to look for answers of existence of this creature, despite any proof. She is both gorgeous and deadly, yet we are still obsessed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She is a Mermaid, advance with care, like crossing a road you would look both ways; left and right, up and down. A Mermaid has no left or right. Instead, she has a face and fin. A face that can permutate. Accept yourself. You were designed. To disappear.â&#x20AC;?

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Jesus Canuto Iglesias Kay Churcher kay.churcher@gmail.com kaychurcher.com Internship: Instrument Inventors Initiative (iii) Project The Insubstantial City It moves without direction and transforms with your perspective. It glides and ripples around you, undulating over surfaces and melting into

itself. Always changing, fragmented in space and time, endlessly reflecting. Thesis Understanding your Perspective In this text I aim to become more aware of my own perception; of where my attention is drawn and why it is drawn there. Are there specific colours or shapes that attract us more than others? What is the first aspect of a space that we

notice? Can our senses be tricked into perceiving something a different way? Through research into the neurological processes behind human perception and interviews with artists I aim to better understand how we, as humans, fundamentally respond to new situations and how this knowledge can be used to more subtly influence the experience of the audience and produce more engaging artwork.

Jesuscanutoiglesias@gmail.com Spain jesuscanutoiglesias.com Project Nada Nuevo “An artist should never polish their work.” Dick Raaijmakers “Do you know how long it took me to polish this?//A musical album that can only be listened here. // A room full of polished steel mirrors with motors out of balance turned into musical instruments // The visitors can see themselves as they listen.// This project has many layered

meanings, smaller details mean bigger arguments// Trust me; there is a deep Metaphysical, Physical, and Pataphysical theory behind this. This is just the 750 character excerpt for the catalogue.//so much for a Youtube education.” Jesus Canuto Iglesias “What noise is this?” A visitor “This will look cool on my Instagram// It is allowed to smoke in this room” KABK Administration, a Visitor and Jesus Canuto Thesis Nada Nuevo After years of struggle with the boring questions of what Art is, why I make it, and how it is perceived, I finally have it! I finally know why I

make Art the way I make it! I reach my conclusions through the analysis of different examples in which our human biases show parts of our irrationality. Apophenia shows us that making up meaning is no hard task. The meaning of an artwork must be multilayered, and there is more than the personal reaction of an audience to it. As long as you tick the boxes of a multitude of meanings, and the superficial one is appealing enough for whichever senses you choose, its all done. “A truly pseudo-artistic and pseudoacademical piece of pseudoliterature. You should check it out.” The New York Times

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Senida Kalender senidakalender@hotmail.com The Netherlands Project ‘Something is going on and we can’t explain it’ An important paradigm shift is taking place by the year 2070. The last woman is standing, why? By looking at the last woman, we can predict social and political changes. The setup shows a post-ironic video, a state in

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which serious and ironic intentions become muddled. We look in the opposite direction to the various complicated forms in which the body can change anonymously. Some movements become purely essential, some are participatory, and some gestures have this small and correct dose of activism and idealism coming together.

rules be transformed? What will survive on the planet longer, a plastic bottle in the ocean or an Eastern tradition? Are there other stereotypes besides man and woman? In my thesis I investigate social transience and the boundless. Creating extreme social constructions shows us what the other end of the extreme can look like.

Thesis ‘My interest include music, science, justice, shapes, animals, feelings’ What method is used to compose a West-European woman? Can social 16

Anastasia Loginova Russia lloginova.com Project Flow An ongoing research into temporality. How to escape time, how to focus, how to get into the zone, enter that state of mind; just being, floating, on repeat suspended and mesmerised, a returning hypnotic

recurring. Listen to a cabbage, be like water. A willing suspension of disbelief, but these are just words. My project is about making time to tap into that inner flow. Photo from the performance The Cabbage is Present at Nest ruimte by Elodie Vreeburg. Thesis From Goddess to Grandfather In my thesis I wrote about my grandfather. My grandfather lived

a rich and fascinating life, of which I knew little about. Detailing his life via memories, feelings and associations, all guided primarily by my intuition, I was able to go within and tell a story. What started off as an attempt to tell his story became a method to tell mine. Introspection, Irrational means, Subconscious, Automatic writing, Dreams.

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Maria Oosterveen The Netherlands mariacatharinablog.wordpress.com Project (uk) UN/ (nl) ON Humans are being silenced and manipulated. We are tricked by (social) media and surveillance methods to do as powerful entities want us to do. Shaping our world to their liking. Sometimes it’s for the better. Sometimes for the worse. My installation shows that our speech, hearing and seeing is worth more than we are treated for. Beautiful in itself, but oh so fragile.

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Created manual craft work to give it the value it deserves. It will be repulsing, and beautiful. Just as our situation is right now. Hand spun wool+prework: 288 hours Coloring wool: 10 hours, 1 day of drying Growing Alum Crystals: 3x 1 hour preparation, 3 days waiting Crocheting: 180 hours Total: 481 hours of handwork Thesis The Art of Manipulation My thesis addresses how manipulation plays a role in power games,

and more specifically in powerlessness. What kind of effect do manipulations have on the feeling of being powerless? Where does this feeling originate from exactly? In art there are few examples that show the mechanisms of power. In most cases they stay at the level of spectating instead of creating true awareness. I feel that artists could do more to actually make people aware of this unpleasant feeling and how we deal with it. As an artist, I want to make audiences aware of the underlying manipulations. The main focus of this thesis is: Can we manipulate people to the point of feeling powerless?

Catherine Ostraya eostraya@gmail.com Russia catherineostraya.com Project With Every Exhale Lost This project started with a found VHS tape, which depicts a home film shot in the 90’s by an elderly Dutch couple going to Canada to visit their relatives. I was fascinated with the tape and viewed it many times over, growing close to the character’s ordinary yet endearing stories. For my graduation project I decided

to erase this tape. We tend to avoid thinking about time’s passage, turning to countless methods to preserve and control something that is inherently out of our hands. Thoughts of death are mirrors, reflecting our own humility. I believe that being aware of the end can compel us to truly come to grips with the presence of our lives. All moments that you breathe through, with every exhale lost.

Thesis DeepCore: Introspection with the Help of Deep Neural Network For my thesis, I tried to train a text generating Artificial Intelligence algorithm to write like me. I kept a large electronic diary over a couple of months accumulating the text database that the algorithm was eventually trained on. The results lead to unexpected conclusions and accidental dialogues. This thesis moves in multiple directions; painstaking and healing self-reflection, finding humanity in the immensity of content in the digital age and an attempt in preserving the self.

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Aisha Pagnes info@aishapagnes.nl Italy aishapagnes.nl Internships: Studio Tomás Saraceno, TeZ OPTOFONICA Project an exhale is the proof of an inhale breathe in our oxygen breathe out my carbon your carbon

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an exhale is the proof of an inhale continuously engaged in the struggle of dominance and least resistance of absorption of loss This work is made possible with the kind support of Cryo Store Thesis The Oblivious Eye To not to see… For a moment, for a little while, for a week, for a year. My point of departure was an appreciation for blindness.

Not as a disability but as tool to train sensory and environmental acuity. I found that through visual deprivation, I could quite immediately regress in the cognitive appraisal of my environ, having to constantly reconsider my notions of safety, threat and stability. […] The dominance of vision in the fabrication of our appraisal implicates the understanding of having a hegemonic bias in the way we construct and interact with structures around us. I regard the sensory bias as debilitating for a more flexible engagement with one’s surrounding.

Sunna Svavarsdóttir sunnasvavars@gmail.com Iceland sunnasvavars.com

Project To Weigh An act that has four important elements: balance, gravity, participation and trust. You may close your eyes. A sensorial installation, my study on kinesthetic experiences triggered by weight.

Thesis A Travel Guide “When finding one long nosehair, you must keep it in your pocket for good luck.” As travellers we are a part of a scenery: colorful little raincoat-dots next to a waterfall. This travel guide leads to nowhere. It asks the user to make decisions based on a ‘psychogeographic’ system by following a map that is provided. It discusses the clever guests eyes, the ‘Infra-Thin’ and the difference between a tourist and a traveller. 21

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Stefano Zucchini stefanozucchini@gmail.com Argentina / Italy Project Untitled Frequencies IV I work with site-specific sound compositions as an exercise to tune myself to the sensibility of navigating space. And in such process, I seek to make my audience resonate too. Sound, I believe, is the element that allows us to wire ourselves with the space around us. We need to integrate this aspect back into

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us. And this is a crucial moment in history to do so. New technology is bringing in more effective and silent machines into the world. Electric silent cars and motorbikes are bursting all around. More silent transport in cities in a near future will mean that we can reclaim back our sonic interaction with space, we can open our perception and connect socially and ecologically to the world around us again. Thesis Engaging Through Sound My thesis served me as a prelude to research the way we interact aurally with space. Through active sensorial

listening we open ourselves to our environment. And such simple, subtle act, I believe can have a huge impact on the way we relate to ourselves socially and ecologically. Our aural awareness helps us to associate with all the space around us, compared to our sight which is strictly focused on the front. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been our fundamental aspect for communication and evolution since ancient times, and not only for us, but for all the natural life too. You can hear my sound thesis at: www.soundcloud.com/stefano-zucchini/sets/engaging-through-sound 22

FINE ARTS (BA)

GRADUATES

Studying fo a BA Fine Art at the KABK is the launch pad for a professional practice as an artist. It is an important starting point. We try to provide our students with a driver’s license, but it takes much more practice and much further learning, to be able to drive safely and with full confidence.

young artists will meet. At the same time all of us have to deal with massive changes in our lives in work and leisure as a consequence of technological developments. We also need a complete new approach to safeguarding peace and democracy in the face of populism and fake news.

In our study guide we explain our goals through a manifesto - Art is intelligence, Art is stamina, Art is generosity, Art is knowledge, and Art is beauty - and say: The aim of the programme is to enable students to participate actively in the continuous renewal of art as an important contribution to the cultural, economical and social wellbeing of our societies.

Young artists will need confidence and a strong critical mind to navigate this rough sea. But if we are generous with our roles and our production, if we stick together, with respect and curiosity for each other and for the world in its full complexity and rich diversity, we should be able to make clear that art and culture are more relevant than ever before in all of our future lives.

In March 2019 Art|Basel published ‘The Art Market 2019’, an “independent and objective” study and analysis of the global art market. In the key findings we read a.o. that “sales in the global art market in 2018 reached $67.4 billion, up 6% year-on-year”, and that “dealer and gallery sales in 2018 reached an estimated $35.9 billion, up 7% year-on-year”.

Klaus Jung Head of department

In February 2019 it was announce that documenta 15, planned for 2022, as the next edition of the largest curated international art exhibition taking place in Kassel every 4 to 5 years, will be directed by Ruangrupa: “Ruangrupa is an artists’ initiative established in 2000 by a group of artists in Jakarta. It is a not-for-profit organisation that strives to support the progress of art ideas within the urban context and the larger scope of the culture, by means of exhibitions, festivals, art labs, workshops, research, and journal publication.” This is the first time that responsibility for a multimillion Euro exhibition like ‘documenta’ is given to a - non Western - artist’s initiative. Ruangrupa celebrates participatory approaches and inclusivity. These are only two poles, which mark the current external field in the arts and the reality

Jan Dirk Adams

Alexander Webber

Nils Addink

Sophia Wester

Rinella Alfonso

Boris Windmeijer

Andrea Ball

Dimitri van den Wittenboer

Sophie Beerens

Boukje Ypma

Zahar Bondar

Sara Bouwens

Jinbin Chen

Linhuei Chen

Michelle-Ann De Coeyere

Leo Dillerop

Simon Fitskie

Daniele Formica

Athina Giannoukaki

Silvana Gordon Valenzuela

Yulong Jin

Nanhee Kim

Adam McLean Peevers

Yukari Nakamichi

Alfons Nauw

Søren Nellemann

Natasha Papika

Suzanne Plomp

Aliaksandra Puhachova

Eliza Reszka

Natasha Rijkhoff

Miriam Schreiner

Sonja Steiner

Caroline Straver

Nadja Temper

Kristīne Timma

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Jan Dirk Adams jandirkadams@hotmail.com jandirkadams.eu

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Project Beautiful Room Do not aim for any thing in particular. If you stand very still, casually move or stroll around!, you will hear the echo still. Kid you better look around! How long did you stay in this beautiful room? Do you know how many words Silva’s thesis has? Pling. Whims of dust cover the floor like loads of canoes next to each other. Or like the tree trunks under water. Big grey blue clear windows. Sean Penn wears a grey suit, looking up the big windows and looking right at you.

Thesis From One Kid to Another You have been looking at all these things. A table is a thing, the grass is a thing or are things. The way you feel about what some one said when you arrived some where yesterday morning is a thing. Your eyes are things, they are full of things. Every thing changes all the time. Things ‘happen’ and ‘are’, they make you feel certain ways, or do not. People do things. Run that body down, way down into the ground.

Nils Addink info@nilsaddink.com The Netherlands nilsaddink.com Project or not to be ornottobe.org I am a digital romantic. I ponder the vast scape of modern life, characterized by disconnected purpose, procedural randomness

and endless repetition. How can anyone recognize themselves as a unique individual within groups that demand collective thought? What do we portray when we perform our roles? Who is I if not shaped by the world around me? Isn’t beauty the fact we actually just are? Available online, ornottobe.org is a site that shows a figure traversing a continuously generated world

consisting of an endless stream of deserted rooms. Always repeating but never the same. Thesis In between realities: Art as a video game An analysis of contemporary art using abstract game theory models, exploring and highlighting the subjective nature of contemporary art beyond the viewer’s preference, and with that, explaining the self-referential tendency within the arts.

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Rinella Alfonso rinella-alfonso@hotmail.com Project Generation of pink and blue Images and image manipulation are crucial aspects in our surroundings, in which there are many modes of consuming these images. The more absurd and more visually enhanced, the more impact they will have on people. Images transforms aspects of life into a new reconstructed version of reality. My work revolves around the reconstruction of the formal aspects of life along with

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different associations that occur through the images that I personally consume. The central focus of my work is my fascination with the image absurdity that we absorb. I try to portray forms that symbolize our current state of complete randomness, using them as a foundation and exploring their visual possibilities through the pleasure of painting. Thesis Simulated simulation: The constant reconstruction of reality The concept of our reality is constantly being challenged with the presence of visual culture.

Society will constantly have the urge to reconstruct reality to reach the heightened expectations created by the media. In recent times, people have been dedicated to creating a world that fulfills all of their desires and fantasies. Television, internet etc. present us with an illusion of a reality that is only based on fantasies and unrealistic desires. Now, more than ever, we live in a simulation (Baudrillard). In this state we are bombarded by images on a daily basis, which plays a crucial role in creating a non-existent image based society.

Andrea Ball andrea.basto.ball@gmail.com Hong Kong / United Kingdom andreabastoball.com Project Kindly Remove Your Shoes... ... Upon entering BD.101

Thesis A Walker’s Walks Hong Kong I don’t remember how it began or ended, but it was one of my earliest memories where I was aware that we were going on a walk for the sake of pleasure. I couldn’t have been more than three years old as my younger brother doesn’t seem to exist in the memory. My older

sister was walking on her own and I was enjoying the hike from the comfort of a child carrier on my father’s back… …Even though I hardly used my feet, a crucial component of walking, I understood the desire to introduce myself to our living environment, and the comfort that this ‘thing’ brought. This is the moment I learnt to walk.

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Zahar Bondar Sophie Beerens sophie.beerens@gmail.com Hong Kong / The Netherlands sophiebeerens.com Project A game of waiting, in (almost) three acts I know six languages: five of the tongue and one of the written word. I know no better honesty than fiction. A dream, recounted as reality: We were all born by rivers. Our mothers would lay us in

the reeds and venture to the riverbank. With a bucket, scooping water from the river of time. She would bathe us in this water, and it gave us years. We would return to the river, birthday after birthday, taking our sustenance. One day, we would return to the river, but the sun had done its duty of drying it up. So we would all stand there, dots along the riverbank, scratching our heads, holding our empty buckets.

Thesis En Route To Nowhere: musings on the labyrinth of language and the river of time Imperfect reflections on the considerable power of fiction, humanity’s habit of the metaphor and the linguistic encoding of time. “...It permeates until everything is saturated in it: the air is always wet with the humidity of time. The lamp posts and the rusty bike chains and the unripe papayas drip with it, with so many vestiges of time, until the visual expands to the auditory, and it becomes tinnitus in the white noise of the everyday...” 30

voobzem@gmail.com Latvia / Russia lostsculptures.com Internship: Skulptur und Raum, Vienna Project I would like to be a dancer to be able to dance with the circumstances. Zahar <voobzem@gmail.com> 15/4/2019 , 13:58 To: Sasha Zalivako <khachapyri@gmail.com> <<What I want now is to think through the whole installation, to know as much as possible in advance, so the production of

sculptures (by me, you or someone else) can be seen as a performance of an actor in a play. Yes, he can be influential on the piece, but significantly he’s not changing much - he’s not changing neither the script, neither the narrative, neither the message behind a play. In this scheme an actor is helping a director to achieve his goal. Decisions are made in favour of the main goal ( what you farther calls ‘the message’), rather then in favour of aesthetic choices or any other. The message I’m interested now is to visualise the relati...>> Thesis 00:00, 01:00, 02:00, 03:00, ...... , 23:00 This year I set myself a goal to start working with journeys that

I experience, that are, were, and will remain, an important part of my life. As most visual artists start from drawing, my very first step to transform these journeys into something tangible was to start writing - my thesis is a push towards my goal. The idea developed further and I started to use the photos from my iPhone library as a point of reflection. Photos are external visual hints to my memories of these journeys, with the exact indication of the time and place where they were shot. I went through the whole library and that is how the past tense began to appear in my notes.

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Jinbin Chen Sara Bouwens sarabouwens@hotmail.com The Netherlands sarabouwens.nl Project Alledaagse leegte van gemis I think we’re overloaded with information, things go too fast. We don’t give ourselves enough time to observe what is really around us and how aesthetics are able to create an awareness of the perfection of our everyday routine. In this project,

I desire to create an environment that allows itself to breathe by means of color, form, and matter of materiality. ‘Alledaagse leegte van gemis’ is a monument to what is no longer there. The moments where we can become aware of the void that may arise if something or someone falls off. By searching for the autonomous power of expression of form, color, texture, and energy I try to create a space where interpersonal communication is made possible.

Thesis Unsightly beauty My thesis deals with a question coming from my own perspective as an artist: how can “beauty” be found in commonplaces or even supposedly ugly things, arising from the banality of every day? What does it consists of and (what concerns me most), how do I relate this reality to my artistic practice? I talk about “my immediate environment”, spaces, objects and materials in which the beautiful and the ordinary can be seen at the same time.

jinbinchen818@hotmail.com China Project We Hold Something or Someone to Let Go There are a few terms I have often hear when people describe my work, such as: Gender, Homosexuality, Identity, Violation or Being oriental. They might be all included. For me it is important that my works remain in a ‘non-label-able stage’. I am not doing art because it can take care of other areas of my life, but because it is an aspect itself of life. It is simply

about the encounter of bodies. My works are post-personal to me and pre-personal to the viewers. I imagine the surface of my body is a layer of semi-permeable membrane, untying my feelings, filtering my biographies, personalities and retaining them inside me. Only affect goes through. What is expressive is not just the content, but more importantly, the becoming of new experiencing. Thesis The Duet of Affect in Painting In the Deleuzian theory of affect, art is all and only about sensation that is constructed by affect and percept functioning in a non-conscious

way. However, it is the theory itself that inspires me to question if the content on the level of qualification in painting is really not irrelevant. The truth that Deleuze discusses literature separately from other arts triggers me to probe the possibility, on the condition that affect on the level of intensity is already reached, if content on the level of qualification can dedicate to the goal of affect too. To reach affect on the level of qualification is to reach becoming, which eventually composes the double resonance of affect in painting.

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Linhuei Chen linhueichen@gmail.com Taiwan / The Netherlands linhueichen.eu Project The Third Space A rotating spinner, a map, oceans, and islands, hosted in diverse mediums. Several paintings and objects are placed segmentally in the space filled with sound. Where do the feelings of longingness, nostalgia, and unsettledness come from? They are my sorrow of leaving home and the shared regrets of the diaspora. Experience it and you will find out

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you are lured into a journey to search for the symbolic homeland in the ‘third space’. The third space is a term developed by Homi Bhabha to posit cultural hybridity as an inbetween space. To me, an islander from a fishing family and a mother, the womb becomes the metaphor for the third space and I navigate in it to find answers to questions such as “Who am I?” and “Where is the home to which I could return?”. Thesis The Third Space The goal of this thesis is to transform my personal diasporic experiences into writing and visual representation. I started with an extensive

research on diaspora theories in Sociology. These academic articles analyse the general collective phenomena but often the experiences of the individuals are lacking, which leads the studies to be just generalizing and categorizing the diasporas. It creates a huge gap between definitions and real stories. I used this chance to correlate my works and personal experience with the diaspora studies so this book also serves as a catalogue in which the inspirations behind the works can be found. By combining my writing and visual narratives, I hope to provide people with a more complete understanding of diaspora.

Michelle-Ann De Coeyere michelleanndec@gmail.com Belgium michelle-ann-de-coeyere.format.com Internship: Art Rotterdam Project Motion [...Painting shades of blue, tinted clouds over the rainbow back again

A sudden shake, wait A diving black swan has met its fate attack or be the bait...] Thesis Spatial Stories of Migration “Space” and “place” are the source of our daily experiences – we think about them, we talk about them, however, they often go by unnoticed in our daily routines and practices. A sense of place is a characteristic that is often used to describe

a place as unique or special, as well as a center for human attachment. What, therefore, happens to a sense of place in the case of a migrant, for whom a sense of home is often translocated, uncertain and impermanent? My paper explores the connections between people and places, and how these interactions contribute to an understanding of migratory experiences in place depicted in literature and painting.

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Simon Fitskie Leo Dillerop Leodillerop@hotmail.com The Netherlands / United Kingdom Leodillerop.com

Project Loop Once the lines become blurred, electrodes open up. Pathways comprised of squiggles wiggle through the illusionary. This constructed reality conveys a structural fluidity of strange reoccurrences. Get caught in a loop. Nature is captured and the circle is complete.

simonfitskie@live.com The Netherlands simonfitskie.art

Thesis Figure the Speech Figure the Speech is a research thesis, discovering how different modes of communication and technology affect our perception of the physical world.

Project Boombank en kozijn (tree bench and window frame) One day, I want to stand in my living room with the windows open watching the storm roll in. Just to see if my feet get wet.

Thesis Het fysieke concept als vorm van bestaan en overleving De kwestie van tijd en of hij bestaat is voor mij irrelevant, ik wil mij focussen op de manier om met tijd om te gaan als middel van bewustzijn. Oftewel: de tijd als kader- of contextmaker. Ik maak onderscheid tussen dingen die ik doe omdat ik van zijn geschiedenis of van zijn doel (toekomst) weet, en plaats ze tegenover de dingen die ik doe omdat ik niet van zijn geschiedenis of doel weet.

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Daniele Formica danieleformica96@gmail.com danieleformica.com Project The death of the death of the death of Bill Bill died 3 times, though he might still be alive. How is that possible? I am looking into it. All I have is his yellow suit and a handful of his particles.

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Thesis MATHEMAGICS While collecting thoughts, perplexities and provocations, I came to define Mathemagics as ‘a way of messing with things which is both rational and schizophrenic’. To call something “a way” is quite a subterfuge: “way” potentially touches upon all methodologies and behaviors, yet pragmatically stands as nothing more than a direction. Furthermore, “messing with things” spreads the “way” about everywhere: lovers messing with one another, protest-

ers messing with the government, jokers messing with the court. Thus, the truly defining terms are “rational” and “schizophrenic”. Unfortunately for the most, calling something “rational and schizophrenic” is an oxymoron, contradicting expression. Truth is, I do not know if Mathemagics should be defined at all.

Athina Giannoukaki athina@yannoukakis.name Greece Project Presence A series of actions is revealed. Submit to the physicality of the process, follow your intuition and a beautiful relationship will appear between the

material and its surroundings. Time takes its own presence observing this relationship. A form of reflection, new occurring presence of identities. Thesis Repetition and Identity, Identity and Repetition. My thesis focuses on the artistic practice of an artist and the hidden circles of repetition during the

process of the making. I examine the ‘Individuation Process’ of psychologists and philosophers such as Carl Jung, Gilbert Simondon, Freud and Aristotle. Researching how the individuation process and the continuous repetitive actions bring the artist closer to creativity but also develop his/her distinct identity. “We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act but a habit.” 39

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Silvana Gordon Valenzuela s.gordonvalenzuela@gmail.com Perú / United Kingdom silvanagordonvalenzuela.com Project iré contigo // i’ll go with you safety=home=acceptance=comfort=belonging. We’re in constant flux. There is change, you feel it inside. This constant movement is good. Keeps things fresh and new.

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It’s what makes things grow. Growth means development. Development from old ways and thoughts. We are the creators of our reality, the reality we need. Thesis To Move Like Water “ ‘Pachakutic refers to a radical turn of a historical age…’‘A past capable of renovating the future’ ” (Walsh, 2009, 18) (Vazquez, 2012, 8) We’re in a historical moment of change. I mean this in the broadest sense possible. I see that I am not

the only one in my generation to think so and begin to take action. We are so adaptable, like water, we can flow through anything. Aren’t humans like 70% water? Let’s use this time to rise above all we have known before, to form new patterns and pave new ways. To reconfigure what has always been. To really integrate inclusivity and diversity and not just use these terms as labels or fads for the institutions benefit, but instead to benefit the people.

Yulong Jin jinyulong2015@126.com China yulongjin.info

Project Grand revealing of the Chinese name of the Royal Academy of Art “we are living in a dangerous time left right front back don’t be afraid my friends our lives are one”

Thesis The waste of spaces what is space in art? How should artists understand the spaces related to their work? How should artists deal with the relationship between their works and exhibiting spaces? How should we transfer from physical spaces to mental spaces? will we have the future of art?

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Nanhee Kim nanhee1018@gmail.com South Korea Project Untitled Sexuality and sensuality, those are representations of the world as extensive, unpredictable, vague, enigmatic and abstract. Even though I explained that ‘my works

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are based on sexuality.’, people can’t see that, because people project their own concepts onto it. Therefore, I try to talk with my paintings rather than talking with the subject itself, in a surrealistic way. Maybe it is like a no man’s land, I don’t need to choose a specific place to land in. I would rather position myself in the middle of a tunnel than be placed at the entrance or exit.

Thesis I am sick of being a prude I use the format of a dialogue through the exchange of e-mails between two girls. One comes from the East and one from the West, to flash out the differences between cultures. Several conversations will relate to their own cultural background. The main topics they will discuss are virginity, sexuality and taboo.

Adam McLean Peevers peevers246@gmail.com Kenya

Project Panga soap Following the topics I discuss Usi jali na hio kitu ime kua Chini ya maji. Alafu Una enda qua kalulus na ununue maua. Thesis Panga soap In my thesis talk I discussed some major topics I feel to be of major

concern in the world we live in today. With all these labels being thrown around in a world where boundaries shouldn’t matter yet they are created by our very selves. Some of the questions I discuss are as follows: Does African art exist in the world we live in today? If so what is it? Can I attain such a title being a white African?

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Yukari Nakamichi mail@yukarinakamichi.com Japan yukarinakamichi.com Project meet tiger, and go on “There are all the Tigers coming back to eat me up! What shall I do?” * The starting point of this project is an old myth from Hindu. The myth shows every single occasion is connected with each other and there are settled in certain positions

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and balanced perfectly. In the middle of the project, the myth was coincidentally linked with my personal narrative. I decided to do a small revenge to the cause… the tiger, which ate the main character’s pinky. I found the way in an old child book “The little black Sambo” by Helen Bannerman.* Good occasion, bad occasion, turning like a wheel. How do they connect each other? What does “the tiger” affect our life? We don’t know yet, so just go on.

Thesis The World’s Fabulous Proverbs, Fables and Parables In this thesis, the starting point is understanding people’s preoccupation. Specifically, I am investigating the cultural and linguistic aspects by focusing on fables, parables, and especially proverbs. These can testify how cultural traditions historically came to view an object. Because culture outlasts people, cultural traditions that were born in the past extend their influence into the present and the future, affecting contemporary differences between people and nations.

Alfons Nauw agmnauw@planet.nl The Netherlands alfonsnauw.wordpress.com Project Relive the past A box with black and white photographs. The stories that are told. The objects that survived. The memories we have. These are the recollections of my childhood and the inspiration of my works. But memories are fading. Stories are twisted. Objects have aged. Photos have discoloured. People passed away. The subjects and objects of

my paintings are related to my childhood. But like memories they are transformed when painted: blurred, inverted or altered in colour. Some are based on enlarged details of the black and white snap shots taken by my father. Others are based on the objects that survived the time, or on the memories these objects evoke. In this way the works together become a kind of ‘reconstruction of my childhood’. Thesis Look carefully at portraits I am fascinated by painted portraits, in the most conventional sense of the word. Having been an art historian for more than twenty years

and as an artist who has only just begun his professional life, I acknowledge that the art historian’s gaze can hinder the view of the artist. My thesis is therefore conceived as an exercise in very careful viewing. I made a selection of portraits by Rembrandt, David Hockney, Vélàzquez, Lucian Freud, Marlene Dumas, Vincent van Gogh, Frans Hals, Philip Akkerman, Francis Bacon and others. Based on this selection of favourite works, all of wich I visited in real life in the past year, a series of meditations emerged that lead to deeper insights into the quality of the examples.

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Søren Nellemann sorenrokx@gmail.com Denmark sorenn.com Internship: Moon-base Alpha Project Eden Valley Orchard Co & Son (-Daughter): Triptych + Extra Ragnarok Researching and inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights” (year 1503) reflecting thematically Hell, Heaven,

Adam-Eve and current times, my artwork “Eden Valley Orchard Co & Son (minus Daughter): Triptych + Extra Ragnarok” is composed of ‘pink champagne’, ‘VGhina is God’, ‘zoo’ plus Extra Ragnarok, as a commentary and imagery of our world today. The work is taking its narrative from current social, economic, climate change and political issues working directly on the paintings over a 7 months period in a process of creation and destruction of both content and form, and working in the space itself.

natashapapika@gmail.com Greece Internship: Art Rotterdam 2017

Thesis The Incomplete Artworks of SorenN from 1998-2100 Ping-Pong, Txjing-Zjong. There once was an artist SorenN acting like a monkey, and he uncannily looked like a castrated donkey. His art was shit, and suddenly became a hit. Well, that is a such a lie, I hope he will die.

Project Memories in Line Everyone wants to find their own place in this world. And if you don’t move, you will never understand where is your place, where you fit or belong. A place is a land transformed either because of the physical effects of human activities or through the human perception.

From my perspective, every place can act as a mental place since the way it can be reconstructed in people’s mind is subjective. The way of understanding things around us can differ, since there is a personalised mentality around the way things can be interpreted. With the quest to explore and understand the difference between space and place, in my work I create a bridge between drawing and sculpture by using flat surfaces and linear constructions. Thesis The significance of materiality on division artifacts’ “personality”. A border can start out from the most simple form and gesture which is

a line. The moment a line is drawn, there is a clear division of the space or metaphorically speaking, there is a clear evidence on a specific moment in time that limits are set. In this essay I researched how the transformation of materiality affects the way structures and objects are perceived, by using division structures and the border of security as a case study. Influenced by the European migrant crisis, I got interested in researching the socio-political effects in the event of changing the materiality on specific structures, such as walls, fences and any kind of artificial space division element and how the contemporary art world reflects on this. 47

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Suzanne Plomp su.plomp@gmail.com The Netherlands suzanneplomp.com Project The Mother of Necessity The cocoons, eggs, navel cords, tentacles, vulvas and furry tubes represent an unknown form of life that attracts and repels. Modifying and manipulating my materials thoroughly turns the objects into vibrant organs. The works are extensions of my body as my energy and bodily residues are transferred during the labour-intensive process of knitting

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and weaving by hand. My energy contains the celebration of growth, love, metamorphoses, sexuality, the gained female freedom, a longing for freedom that has not been reached yet, and the remembrance of female oppression: a battle that has been lasting for thousands of years. Within their alien ambiance, the works are containers of something that has left or something that is yet to come - or nothing at all. Thesis The Blue of Mars The Blue of Mars contains two science fiction narratives based on research that explores ethical issues with regard to the development of

humanoid sex robots. My first narrative gives a retrospective on one of the oldest narratives of the concept of the manmade woman: Pygmalion by Ovid. Next to that, I take the reader on a trip to Mars in my second narrative, where my proposal unfolds for a different direction of technological development that broadens and enriches sexuality for any body, and which goes beyond the limitations of porn, that stimulates authentic sexual fantasies through a non-humanoid device, and most of all emphasises the importance of an open, honest and inclusive discourse about sexuality in connection with technology.

Aliaksandra Puhachova a@justalexart.com Belarus justalexart.com Project The Great Image Has No Form Paintings that do not seek to represent observable surroundings. I am negotiating the lyrical tensions that exist between the relentless urge to imbue meaning and the equally unyielding insistence of happenstance — the vibration, or perhaps better said: the dissonance, that is defining of mundane experience. When this paradox is

rendered as a material process — an image — and is thus confronted by the spectator’s gaze, an encounter with liminality takes place — namely, the moment in which the spectator, whilst studying an image that bears neither implied nor overt significance, formulates their interpretation. My graduation project is simply an answer to the key question of my thesis, namely “How does the Great Image look like”? Thesis How does the Great Image look like? “The Great Image Has No Form explores the “nonobject”—a notion exemplified by paintings that do

not seek to represent observable surroundings”, as stated by Jullien. A book “The Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject through Painting” focuses on what a non-object is, seeing it as something ‘hazy-indistinct-diffuse-confused’. Ultimately the aim of the author is to find a cause and a method or process to return to the unthought. By reading the book, I aim to see whether creating the book in a visual or painted form adds to my understanding of its content. In my thesis I simply raise the question as to what extent a practical interpretation in the form of painting of the art theoretical book adds to my understanding of the content of the text.

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Eliza Reszka elizareszka@windowslive.com elizareszka.com Project Przygody kiszonej kapusty. From what I can remember my last moments in Poland were very rushed and extremely stressful. I was 13 years old and together with my family we left Poland for a better life in the Netherlands. A small bus arrived in front of our flat. A few Polish men (I already find it strange that I must describe them as Polish,

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of course they were, perhaps this shows my current disassociation with my home land) were already sat inside of the bus, and they looked surprised to see us standing outside with our belongings, as well as a dog and two cats. After we had packed everything and picked up a few other strangers, the journey towards a new life started. Thesis I was a kiełbasa, now I’m frikandel speciaal. Thesis that is based upon my own experiences and discoveries. I would like to introduce to you the topic of

being an ‘alien’, the discussion of cultural identity and social migration, approached in a conceptual way. Step by step let’s try to understand (together) not only the academic way of looking at these topics, but also learn what is ones place as an alien/bilingual artist in the society within which we exist. The question posed in this thesis is, how does the study of alien identity promote self awareness?

Natasha Rijkhoff The Netherlands / United Kingdom natasharijkhoff.com Project An invitation 1. A long legged butterfly dandelion spearhead leftover from yesterday’s dinner still on the table. 2. A dreamworld as an antidote to

chaos, sculptures the size of poems. 3. Something falls into a pool of water. A ripple forms; a small circle, the size of a pip or seed. The size of an eye. A passionfruit, a peach, an onion. The size of an orange, a breakfast plate, a honey melon, a water melon. The size of a large head, a car tyre, of arms held out in a circle in front of the body. The size of the pool itself, expanding beyond it. The size of the room.

Encircling the building, the city, the country. Enveloping trees and people, seas and countries. The moon, the sun, the stars. 4. Something falls into a pool of water. A ripple forms. Thesis Salt for breakfast/ Zout als ontbijt A very short novel or quite a long poem.

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Sonja Steiner Miriam Schreiner

Project 190503 catching this fleeting idea or fascination that is always just out of reach.

Thesis Failure - Does it matter? Failure is a very subjective concept, one that comes in many forms, is very malleable, and very vague. Every process deals with failure, whether it be art, invention, or any other field. It has a lot of negative connotations, for humans have the tendency to lull in negativity before recognizing the potential and make use of it. ‘Failure – Does it matter?’ fights exactly this false approach and aims to help seeing this division in a more constructive way. 52

sonjasteinerart@gmail.com Austria Project Wearing Banners The instillation is a combination of banners, phrases and clothes. The clothes originate from previous banners that have been created through questioning certain gender stereotypes or attributes. The banners that are visible have the potential to turn into clothes. Clothes have been an interesting transformation since

they carry an element of expression and protection; protection from the outside world and expression of identity. I was inspired by Michel Foucault’s idea of breaking free from subject positions. Foucault mentions that we have agency within these subject positions through cultural codes such as clothes. This gives clothes, in my eyes, much power. Thesis The Battle to Break Gender Stereotypes in Art My thesis investigates gender stereotypes in the art world and discovering possible ways for

stereotypes to be transformed. The topic originated from wanting to prove that gender stereotypes exist in the art world, through a study. I soon realised that I, myself was being stereotypical and that my study was stereotypically constructed. This lead me to discover that by trying to break standardised images one is only reinforcing them. Therefore, my thesis is about ways to change the strict prejudices we have, rather than diminishing them.

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Nadja Temper Caroline Straver caroline_straver@outlook.com The Netherlands carolinestraver.nl

Project Een scene voor B, B in de gloria Zo zal het altijd doorgaan Honderdmiljoen jaren, duizendmiljoen jaren Altijd maar zo door Thesis We komen hier niet vandaan, we zijn er wel geweest (kreeften, makrelen, schelpen)

De mensen die in de koude zee zwemmen zijn niet goed bij hun hoofd. Ik wil ook niet goed bij mijn hoofd zijn, maar ik ben een handdoek vergeten. Mijn zwembroek ligt in de kast te bederven. In mijn tas geen droge kleren, wel een zoete appel. Ik heb meer trek in zout dus doop ‘m in het zeewater. (Waarover men niet kan spreken, daarover maakt men gebaren of barst men in waanzin uit.) 54

nadjanadja@live.nl The Netherlands / Austria Project A / VOID The gist of gesture As a catalyst for renewal, movement is a direct language. It is the one way to counteract what is expected of you whilst taking control of choice. It is a means to get to a destination or retreating from it for that matter. It’s the physical expression of subjective perception and gives every gesture value.

— Like the presence of specific objects alter our behaviour, so do the physicalities of our direct environment and sometimes these physicalities are our own bodies. Thesis A / VOID Silence & Technology Redefining silence through technology as the fundamental forces of our age. The understanding of these forces is what allows silence to exist where it should, enabling the autonomy essential for moving through life. Movement is the catalyst for renewal as this is the consequence of a rhythmic disturbance; rhythms

which our lives are composed of and disturbances created by our direct environment. — A closer look at what the relationship between technology and silence entails by asking us to reconsider our relationship to them separately.

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Alexander Webber alexwebber95@googlemail.com United Kingdom alexanderwebber.eu

Kristīne Timma kristine.timma@gmail.com Latvia kristinetimma.com Project Dandelion Puff I work with natural and rough materials such as linen, burlap, wall paint, and clay and apply them directly on to the wall. Do the murals come out of the wall, or are they instead sinking into it? The murals act as a medium for appearing and

vanishing memories. In the process of remembering and by recreating memories, they are continuously reshaped and influenced unconsciously.My works are like a whisper sensitive, fragile, quiet, and needing extra attention to hear and see the poetry of everyday life, which passes by every moment. All stories are triggered by experiences absorbed now. Many little moments come together. The invented memories intertwine with real ones. They all are connected.

hesis Whispers from the Egg I am exploring how we create, fabricate, change, correct, and fuse or divide our narrative identity. What are the sources and how reliable are they? People have always been constantly telling narratives, where some parts are real and some exaggerated fiction. There is a mix of reality and fantasy, objective and subjective. We enjoy telling stories. By retelling a story, we can improve, filter, and crystallize it. We try to tell our own truth.

Project Presentables (Aanwezige Tafels) Be prepared We will ask more questions and deliver more than you may want Smile We treat serious matters in a playful way Our experience Working with good clients brings the best results Know That we have a well of experience and know-how

Believe it or not We are not just a product design company In our work Process is key Explore Our Design Thinking We help Twist the existing, to reframe your question 1 Thesis The British Boy Who Did Not Want To Be The British Boy Who Wrote About Brexit, But Then Had To Be The British Boy Who Wrote About Brexit, To Avoid Being The British Boy Who Did Not Write About Brexit Everything here is an autobiographical rant, simultaneously being all

about, and not at all about; Brexit. It makes a big generalising downwards swing, in a fluctuating lexical field of certainty and uncertainty. Constructed from metanarratives and anecdotes, with a lot of assumptions about myself and others… …Maybe, a book is a knowledge sandwich. Some may be thin, concise and potent, like a Dutch belegde broodje. Others are overfilled, with conflicting flavours, where bits fall onto the floor as you take a bite. But the tangibility of writing this is important. Because my knowledge sandwich is a British one made from ingredients that I didn’t buy, and most importantly that I don’t even like the taste of, that would otherwise have gone stale. concept | Droog − a different perspective on design. (2019). Retrieved from https://www.droog.com/concept

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Sophia Wester sophia.c.wester@gmail.com Sweden Project e(past)x(present)i(future)s(sophiawester)t lostinparadise- essence is feelingsofcare / i don’t care exist!: a proof, a growing future of forms, I’ll go shopping for some sun and a thought of an extinct dino form awakens - why did the Nymphaea(ceae) persist a hundred million years? Just consume, just breathe, just feel the failed waterfall drip on you, just relax.

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# spara kvittot #accountant #dinokiddo # existence of forms # IexistbecauseIgoshopping # buy me a sun and a waterfall # breathe & consume & relax # extinct forms # fell into soil # WORM! # mistake of an ant makes a bluberryplant # Lost in Paradise # Paradise means Garden # Puke at the Amusementpark and up from the flowerborder comes a tomatoplant # Proof of my feelings # The only proof of my existance is this receipt # Grow forest babies # old seed still breathes # why do you draw? # hello graduation # hello fertility # hello extinction # sophia wester # 2019 and 1 million years ago and 1 million years ahead.

Thesis Catalogue of Inner Images Here you will find a collection of scenes that aim to catalogue the inner images of humans. > Do we think in images? Is spoken language a translation of visual information? What happens when we visualize the future or remember the past? Is there a cinema inside us all? How do we visualize dreams? Where does that visual material come from? Do we have images within our DNA? < Read this script and make a movie in your own head.

Boris Windmeijer boriswindmeijer@hotmail.com The Netherlands boriswindmeijer.nl

Project Gravity Reclining / Zwaartekracht Achteroverleunend I’m trying to paraphrase the sometimes clumsy attempts of humans to improve the quality of life through making sculptures and photo’s of people from my surrounding.

Thesis Peace In Observing / Rust In Het Observeren What is it that triggers me when I look at an image? A personal search where I, through looking at work of artists and theories of writers about art, try to get close to explain what touches me.

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Dimitri van den Wittenboer DimiWitt@gmail.com Germany Dimitrivandenwittenboer.com Project Holy Mass Part 1: The Prophets - 11 am Omar: I would like to invite you to an event at 4 pm in the backyard. The project is an adaptation of the Catholic Mass. The artist is interested in connecting contemporary performance practice with the tradition of the Christian liturgy.

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Part 2: Holy Mass - 4 pm Priest: Brothers and Sisters, let us pray ... The Lord be with you! Audience: And with your spirit! Priest: FOR THIS IS MY BODY … FOR THIS MY BLOOD Part 3: The Apostles - 7 pm Alex: The backyard was filled with people, holy icons on the walls. A choir was singing in Latin while the Priest was elevating a round bread. After the service, he covered himself in a shroud which was hanging on the wall. He came close to me and kissed me on my forehead. Thesis Thesis Performance In the immersive play, the role of the audience altered between

different conceptions of spectator and participant. The main idea was to generate information which can excite not only the mental state but also the physical and spiritual body. What is the position of art in society? What role can it serve? Which format should it have? A journey through the ideas of Antonin Artaud with his demand to find unity of life and culture, Jerzy Grotowski, who dedicated his life to research the function of art in the traditions of eastern countries, and Augusto Boal’s vision of art as a weapon against oppression. These standpoints were confronted with Guy Debord’s problematic of the spectacle and Jacques Rancière’s critique of participation.

Boukje Ypma yboukje@yahoo.com The Netherlands yboukje.com Project LIFE SUPPORT (a diptych) At the Best of Graduates award ceremony at Ron Mandos I asked myself, what is the greatest creation of all? And my instant answer was “a child”. Directly after, we were handed drinks in cans I have never ever seen before which read “mama” on each and every one. Was this

a sign from the universe?

own plan...

I had cherished the idea of having a baby for a long time but I never found the right moment or partner for it. While drinking the rose lemonade from oriental “mama”, I thought now the clock has almost reached 12 and there is no more time for waiting around. I just have to do it by myself.

Thesis Words of the Wise “The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails—given by one shepherd. Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them.

Wouldn’t it be perfect to deliver this ultimate creation and give birth during my graduation show? So I started to plan... and then nature started her

Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.” Ecclesiastes 12: 11,12

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GRADUATES

Identity→Body→Machine→Earth→System

Artúr Andrási

Samuel Rynearson

Katsiaryna Banar

Evy van Schelt

Hilde Barwegen

Theresa Scherrer

Leïth Benkhedda

Cato Stigter

Kylièn Bergh

Yeon Sung

Jonathan Cho

Rhodé Tavenier

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Kin Mun Chong

Lou Top

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Louis Braddock Clarke

Nina van Tuikwerd

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Roderick Cornelissen

Carolina Valente Pinto

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Mariam Darchiashvili

Esther Vane

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Linsey Dolleman

Natalia Vishnevskaia

105

Jan Egbers

Wannes Vrijs

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Manon Féval

Alfonso Yordi Martinez

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Dominika Fojtiková

Roslana Yotova

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Armands Freibergs

Kerrin Go

Verena Hahn

Céline Hurka

Jan Husstedt

Rully Irawan

Bohwa Jang

Rebecca Joly

Sophia de Jong

Pien Kars

Christina Kordunian

Risto Kujanpää

Peter van Langen

Auke Lansink

Wietske Nutma

Greta Radzevičiūtė

Samantha van Roosenbeek

The Graphic Design (BA) and Non Linear Narrative (MA) departments of the Royal Academy of Art educate their students to become critical thinkers and versatile practitioners, who develop outstanding concepts for visual communication. Using the investigative methods of journalism and forensics, the processing technologies of computer science, and the expressive qualities of the avant-garde, the students are equipped with the tools and tactics to interrogate complex socio-political issues in order to create meaningful narratives. Students are encouraged not only to find answers to the questions of tomorrow, but also bridge the past with the future by appropriating skills which we call ‘craft 2.0’. In bringing knowledge, people, and things together, as well as in making selections of who and what to include and exclude, our students propose a new way of looking and therefore put forth a different worldview.

We deliberately want to present both our departments as allies together: as friends and family, as neighbours and lovers, as lucid dreams with their moving shadows. We are immensely proud of all their accomplishments, and are confident for their future that started already yesterday. We want to thank our team of tutors and staff that stood behind all of our students all of the time. Roosje Klap & Niels Schrader Co-Heads of department

The title of this years’ show captures a window onto this worldview, which is characterized by the interrelations of four domains: identity, body, system, and planet. This framework encourages our students to think through the presented projects and discover the relations amongst the domains rather than labelling or classifying them in single categories. It asks how the act of bringing things together has an impact on these relations, and if the story being told can create new alliances. The projects deal with the interrelations between machine and body, or system and earth, or deal with human and the non-human body, with which they question their role and position in this world. Not as problem solvers, but as a form of self-reflexivity and an important value in education.

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Artúr Andrási info@arturandrasi.com Hungary arturandrasi.com Internship: Studio Lesley Moore Project I Could argue with that. Political polarisation creates divisions in society. Intense debates not only appear on news portals and in social media but also in personal relationships, affecting friendships and families. Growing

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tensions between opposing sides often lead to silence as a way of avoiding conflict. In order to provoke important conversations in a safe environment, Artúr Andrási designed a board game that creates opportunities to discuss political issues in humorous and ironic ways. In the game, players are forced to defend political views, which they do not necessarily agree with. Thesis Guide to Solitude In my thesis I research the theory of introversion via psychological

studies and tests, creating a definition that is applicable to art. I analyse artworks to understand the way they represent introversion and the tools they are using to create the work’s “identity”. With my research, I aim to provide an inside on how psychology can affect and influence art and provide consciousness about building a specific atmosphere/identity in order to communicate the message in the most precise way to the right audience.

Katsiaryna Banar katsiaryna.banar@gmail.com Belarus katsiarynabanar.com Internship: SulSolSal Project Continuum Elevation A balcony, unlike a terrace or loggia, is cellular and isolated. Standing on a balcony, one has the privilege of greater privacy, elevation, and breadth of view. Continuum Elevation explores power relations inherent to verticality—the shift in

perspective that divides the ones above from the ones below. The video installation traces the notion of verticality in today’s world—a time characterised by “seeing all”, with scant knowledge and interest in those on the ground. Thesis Between the Reality and the Invention A balcony, unlike other similar structures such as terrace or loggia, is cellular and isolated. It has a vivid hierarchy and vertical position, which states the elevation of one over another. Standing on a balcony

one has the privilege of a superior position, of privacy, significance, dominance, and broader view. In the thesis, the dominant power is analyzed through the perspective of the spatial the metaphor of verticality to understand how the constructed meaning can both shape and be shaped by perspective and social relations. The balcony is examined through the prism of the Balkans as they both share the common principles in their etymologies and the ways in which they are culturally constructed.

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Leïth Benkhedda

Hilde Barwegen hildebarwegen@gmail.com hildebarwegen.nl Internships: De Boer & Wang, Shanghai. Beeldenstorm/Daglicht, Eindhoven. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Project Update to Remain the Same We are walking through the basement — where information is altered as documents transfer from material to immaterial carriers. On my left,

there are drawers — data carriers are updated so that information can remain the same. Wait, let me put this here so we can find it back — the migration of documentation leaves its traces. The video series Update to Remain the Same directs its attention on what is disappearing in archive digitisation, highlighting human and mechanical traces of what is left. Thesis Afterlife in the Archive Sharing, keeping and storing are ways to prevent loss of information.

An archive is a place where documents are collected, from the past, the present and the future. We don’t create new in it, we store. It functions because it is heavily ordered. This thesis is looking into different approaches to collecting. A cabinet, the Internet, a graveyard, an institutional archive and a miniature club could all be seen as parallel worlds from the one we live in. We store something there as an attempt to extending our memory or as an attempt to extend our existence.

l.benkhedda@gmail.com France leithbenkhedda.com Internship: PWR Project Do You Believe in Magic? Andromeda formerly known as Cassiopeia’s daughter will become the next Google operating system. Cassandra, princess of Troy, has become a database management system. Palantir, the seeing stone from The Lord of the Rings, is powering US counter-terrorism and predictive policing. As if haunted, we tend to rely on occult narratives from a distant past in order to understand our technological present. New

worlds wear the costumes of the old, while the products of today’s technology companies are anything but fictional, and their mechanisms increasingly opaque. This project questions the effect of a rhetoric used by those who design the surface and the very core of contemporary technologies. What is the impact of mystification on our ability to understand? Do You Believe in Magic? draws the outlines of a corporate secrecy made of unicorn alchemists and wizards. Welcome home, where during a night, inanimate objects come to life and magic turns into horror. Thesis The Screen is Broken “You feel this very strange force that since the beginning CGI

are in competition with the cinematographic and cinematic images. Just like socialism wanted to defeat capitalism, they want to defeat these images and are probably on the verge to defeat them right now” stated the late filmmaker and author Harun Farocki. We are facing the rise of computer generated imagery, on it’s way to become the dominant image since current image production technologies allows us to simulate every single piece of our environment. Observing the pattern of a feed back loop between representations and their subject, we can wonder what realities these technologies will produce on their quest for more and more “realism”.

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KyliĂ¨n Bergh kbergh@live.nl The Netherlands kylienbergh.nl Internship: The Beautiful Meme Project Contemporary Ornaments: Understanding the Language of Objects Even the most ordinary object represents the cultural environment in which it is shaped. Its materials and

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form can be understood as signifiers that justify its potential, within the cultural framework of its production and use. This project aims to shed light on contemporary culture by understanding the language of objects. By re-contextualising the ornament of an ordinary object, the project provides a method for seeing the object as cultural phenomena. Thesis Corona Civica Corona Civica is an analysis of symbolic value through the case of the

laurel wreath, the symbol for victory. The amplification explores the mythological origin, historical value, transition, meaning and contemporary application. While a modern conception of victory seems to be peaceful and societal, the mythological narrative and the historical perception provide a rather violent definition of victory. It is the glory of the individual through domination and conquest. The symbol underwent a transition both from individual to collective and from physical object to visual representation. 68

Jonathan Cho jonathan.chosi@gmail.com South Korea jonathancho.nl Internship: Random Studio Project We Live in a World Summoned, Dreaming of Total Control It could be said that humancentered thinking is at the core of the capitalist demise of environmental disasters and damaged ecosystems. This anthropocentrism

is deeply established and permeates the way we treat the world. This animation suggests a departure from anthropocentric, secular and divisive way of thinking. Featuring beings that are in between species, that live between worlds that alert us of destructions and extinctions that are ongoing. The environment implies possible human extinction, where nature thrives on regardless. Thesis Spiritual Machine My thesis explores the possible scenarios that could take place

when machines become conscious. It is important to address that as the machine becomes conscious and grows closer to a being that is creative and flexible, our definition and understanding of life and ourselves as human beings will be challenged. This will be difficult and and may cause a lot of unease but it also has the potential to broaden our understanding of life and consciousness. I wanted to explore in depth what it means to be conscious and the fact that humans are very fluid and interdependent beings that consists of different species and entities. 69

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Kin Mun Chong kinmunchong@gmail.com @our.kinship Internship: büro unfun Project Four Walls and a Being When Kin Mun Chong left his country, he packed his memories, traditions, values, and sense of home into his suitcase. Currently he experiences an inability to assimilate entirely, here and back in Malaysia. Being in a constant state of transition, he no longer

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considers his culture to be rooted in a single place and feels the lack of a home to be homesick. In Four Walls and a Being, Chong renders his intangible heritage physically. These weighty manifestations do not have a singular origin of content and material, colliding historical artifacts with newfound habits. This project represents a gesture to “empty his suitcase” in order to keep on walking. Thesis Nuances of the Electronic Eye This thesis is written in the form of a dialogue: a nonhuman perspective

Louis Braddock Clarke

in understanding the anomalous encounters (blindspots) of the machinic lens and its resulting documentation of humanity. The insight of the discussion is the biological vision and its resulting cognitive processes are fundamentally exclusive to human. Machinic lenses is a mere utility to our eyes, albeit a rudimentary one. We have yet to understand the full extent of our own visual perception system, let alone have the ability to create and automate an artificial one.

louisbraddockclarke@hotmail.co.uk United Kingdom louisbraddockclarke.co.uk Internship: StudioRRR Project Untangling Noises of Matter This territory extends beyond its physical particles and molecular matter. With a self-made geo-tool, Louis Braddock Clarke captures the data stored and amplified by the magnetic properties of an iron ore storage site. Here, the land surveyor

becomes an active reader of deeptime, present-time, and new-time, while constantly encountering temporal morphology. Entering this iron-core of signals becomes fundamental to the inquisition of invisible space and technocentric positioning. Thesis Unfolding The Ether: A Language of Electromagnetic & Aesthetic Transductions This paper draws the reader to the non-material and the influences, sensitivities and aesthetic re-adjustments towards the electromagnetic field. Often a place of contempla-

tion, the known sky has never been a transparent landscape but a progressively stacking carrier of information and noise. Therefore, alluding to an ‘electronic sky’; a hybrid place holding interdimensional qualities is evidenced. This is a site of growing heritage, broadcasting the comprehensive data sets of the ancient world and the present world while presenting the co-ordinates of the next world. Through the act of extending the human senses and being open to a geo-psychic realm, a question arises of a new visual cartography of the world we navigate. 71

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Roderick Cornelissen Project Making is Thinking Roderick Cornelissen concerns himself with the decline of craftsmanship in the artworld, where ideas dominate and at times become more important than the artwork itself. Within the trade of hand bookbinding, Cornelissen found endless possibilities to create. Through making, he developed ideas about the book as a medium. In reinventing

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himself through making, he realised that making is not a contradiction to thinking. The project aims to highlight the value of making as a mode of thinking. Thesis Creative Craftsmanship: the need for time and energy in the making process In today’s fast phased society we are doing more and more knowledge based work where we have to think faster and faster and work less and less with our hands, which apparently became too slow. From a personal perspective I think the work

philosophy of the creative craftsman is still important in today’s society. And there are misplaced conceptions about creative craftsmanship in general and the time and energy put into it. In my thesis I try to reflect on the benefits of the work philosophy of the creative craftsman and what this means for the design process in general. I hope I can make the essence of these creative crafts visible. And create a better understanding for the need of these creative crafts in today’s fast phased society where thinking.

Mariam Darchiashvili komnen.info@gmail.com Georgia komnen.com Internship: S†ëfan Schäfer Design & Research Project The Gospel Truth To what extent is the trend of hyper-positivity and enthusiasm responsible for today’s prevalent misuse of anti-anxiety medications? Researching an almost paranoiac rejection of negative emotions in our visual language and everyday life,

Mariam Darchiashvili brings attention to a questionable industry that feeds off escapism and benzodiazepine abuse. This project talks about the tyranny of modern enthusiasm, aiming to show how an over-performative work culture, self-help market, hyper-positive ideology, and prescription drugs are all pieces of the same self-medicating puzzle. Thesis Sterile Dogma Today we have lived to see the world where fear and uncertainty are regarded as concepts of weakness. Opposed by the inflated concept of hyper-positivity and optimistically

productive “hustling”, fear and doubt are now more shameful to experience than they have ever been before. This is why I am interested in the topic of nocturnal culture and how dark aesthetics, and in general exposure to “fear” and dark concepts, can influence our cognition and evolution. I strongly believe that strategic implementation of those can evoke higher modes of both self and general analysis and bring out the natural curiosity in humans and ability of interpretation, that are now unfortunately put into lethargic sleep.

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Linsey Dolleman linsey.dolleman@gmail.com The Netherlands linseydolleman.com Internship: Studio Renate Boere Project With Perfection Only a Tap Away While face filters initially introduced by the messaging app Snapchat were playful and innocent, today the majority of them are intended to enhance beauty. Nearly all filters enlarge the eyes, plump the lips, and smoothen and brighten the skin. Although there is no harm in adding

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a layer of virtual makeup, such filters have detrimental effects in how they morph the user’s choices into a stereotypical notion of beauty. They reshape how we see ourselves, others, and our expectations of what the human body is supposed to look like. Fiction becomes reality, and reality becomes fiction. Thesis At Arm’s Length Selfies can been seen as our first global universal visual medium. With a thousand selfies posted to Instagram every 10 seconds! A short conversation with a friend about selfies a couple of years ago never

left my mind. What was it that made me feel so uncomfortable to take a selfie? As I was growing up my Instagram and Facebook feed started to consist of more and more selfies. As someone who does not like being photographed I never really understood the whole selfie-game. Why do people take selfies? What defines a selfie in the first place? Is this all just our, as often said, ‘narcissistic’ and ‘selfish’ generation or is there a deeper meaning to our need to capture the perfect angle of our faces and share them with the people around us?

Jan Egbers mail@janegbers.info The Netherlands janegbers.info Internship: Our Polite Society Project No Signs of Weakness Many of the signifiers that we associate with masculinity are in essence methods of keeping anxiety at bay. Clenched fists and clipped haircuts make us feel armoured against threats from the outside world.

Wearing black reflects our feelings of restraint and asceticism, curbing uncertainty about ourselves. These tendencies permeate visual culture and are part of an aesthetic vernacular with which we are confronted daily. They are not visual metaphors for anxiety; rather they alleviate it, producing a direct bodily sensation. What role can designers play in dealing with the signifiers of masculinity, at a time when reactionary ideas of manhood are on the rise?

Thesis Unclean Hands My thesis aims to explore possibilities for graphic designers to be critical that go beyond the autonomous ‘designer as author’ and argues that commissioned work can be an excellent basis for an engaged practice. It proposes the notion of ‘critical excess’, found in different forms of cultural expression like science-fiction, mainstream films and pop music as a way for designers to resist the cooption of critique into the existing exchange of argument and counter-argument. 75

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Manon Féval manon.feval@gmail.com Switzerland Project Accelerating Dark Adaptation Unpolluted dark skies are seen as something out there, beyond spaces of human activity which seem to be defined by artificial light. Why is it that darkness in the natural space is perceived as beautiful and mysterious, while darkness in the urban space as scary and dangerous? Accelerating Dark Adaptation

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is a website in which the viewer can experience the city of Amsterdam at night, navigating data points in which the light intensity and night quality have been measured. The viewer can visit these sites while listening to a collection of perspectives on darkness. The aim is to bring a more positive image of darkness into our urban space in order to preserve and protect our night skies not only out there, but also in here.

the way that we, as a western society, perceive darkness. Why is it that darkness in the natural space is perceived as beautiful and mysterious, while darkness in the urban space as scary and dangerous? This text argues that we should find a way to bring back the poetic side of darkness into our cities in order to preserve and protect our night skies not only “out there”, but also “in here”.

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Dominika Fojtiková dominika.fojtikova@gmail.com Slovakia Internship: Polimekanos Project Hyper Production Score By 2067, the consumption of dairy per capita is expected to increase from 87 kilograms per person to 119. The industry is under pressure to provide ever-increasing output for the minimum of means. In this project, Dominika Fojtikova examines hyper-surveillance in dairy farming. With the newest technologies,

cattle are constantly monitored and tracked in order to increase maximum production—from facial recognition, to the monitoring of their chewing, and the scoring of their bodies. As a result of the unsustainable agriculture policy of the EU that incentivises the overproduction of milk, we end up with “milk lakes” and increase demand from export countries. Thesis What are governments in the age of populism? In my thesis, I wish to investigate the notion of government, its function, power and the impact it has on civ-

ilization. This thesis starts with the concept of State of Nature, which is referring to society without any central authority, no government. In the second part of my thesis, I would like to analyze the government nowadays. In our present situation, the power of government moves to the internet, big companies and technology, and all these elements rule the world. I discuss when this shift of power happened what were the expectations and what are we facing in reality.

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Armands Freibergs

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Project Plasticity of Wonder

a fictional production of well-known 3D animated characters. With this work, Armands Freibergs argues that 3D artists conform to the Arts and Crafts’ definition of crafts people—they are dedicated individuals applying their skills by hand with the computer mouse and keyboard, rather than a chisel or potter’s wheel.

Animated 3D is not a shiny puff of figurative wonder–its form and language is deeply rooted in the physical world. The three-channel video installation Plasticity of Wonder employs artisanal and industrial metaphors to depict

Thesis POWER TO THE PRO. Pros used to love iMac. So I created a PC just for you. It’s packed with the one the most powerful graphics and processors and cost half of what a base iMac Pro 2018 version

armandsfreibergs@gmail.com Latvia @_manards_ Internship: Parallel Practice

would cost. For everyone from photographers to video editors to 3D animators to musicians to software developers to scientists, your personal computer is ready to turn your biggest ideas into your greatest work.

Kerrin Go

There is no doubt that designers most important tool of today is his computer. My thesis explores a personal dilemma that I was struck with while deciding on what is going to be my working tool as a contemporary designer of the future, that fits my needs and is sustainable in long term.

kerringo@gmail.com The Netherlands

Project The Small Space of a Pause Space is a container of past and future, memory and imagination, limitations and potential. Fluidity is the ability to sense the rhythm, in order to move within space. It’s the ability to (un)learn. It’s the awareness of a universal open space, instead of a space divided by perceived walls. It’s the awareness of self in context of, and the awareness of self in any context. In her project, Kerrin Go

attempts to place visitors in the present time and space. She uses the academy and its renovation to make them part of her installation and asks them to look beyond it. In the small space of a pause, there’s infinity. Thesis The Small Space of a Pause A memory theatre, seven acts and overwriting.

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Verena Hahn verenahannahahn@gmail.com Germany Internships: MacGuffin & Failed Architecture Project The Actions You Take How do we deal with chaos, violence and the threat to our existence and values, whether real or perceived? Verena Hahn met six individuals who found their own ways of building a body-world-relationship - with very different political conse-

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quences. From prepping, neighbourhood watch and conspiracy theory to wig making and dance, the film traces how self defence turns into attack and violence, and asks: how we can find less subjecting and more courageous strategies for creating safe spaces, without tapping into the spiral of violence and counterviolence? Thesis Do you like bees, braids, flea markets and the outdoors? #identitarian A semiotic analysis of „Identitarian Movement“ The extreme rightwing youth group „Identitarian Movement“ claims to be the

new counter culture. But with a look on their corporate identity, they seem to be everything but radical: bee-keeping, hair-braiding, template graphic design, conventional forms of protest. What exactly is their vision and why is it so vaguely expressed? How are mainstream-accepted codes used in order to smuggle a xenophobic and ethnocentrist message? This thesis works like an anti virus program: it investigates which symbols and codes are particulary vulnerable for semiotic hacking, how to read and understand them, and what they tell about the blurry idea of „Identitarian“ Leitkultur.

Céline Hurka celine.hurka@live.de Germany Internship: Bureau Borsche Project 500 Versions of Garamond Why do we still use and reproduce a typeface that originated 500 years ago while our living conditions have drastically changed? Type can serve as an archaeological object that tells us as much about its own past as about how we view history more

broadly: design, usage, technological developments, commercial market goals and socio-political circumstances are all reflected. 500 Versions of Garamond is an interactive installation that takes Garamond as a case study to reveal the factors that make a typeface survive. Thesis It is not set in stone Nothing we will ever make will last forever. We are constantly faced with the loss and decay of all objects and information. In a collection of

essays, interviews, personal reflections and image material I explore the impermanent nature of visual culture with a focus on type. “It is not set in stone” starts where I naturally stop: the end product. By researching conservation methods, archives, reproduction and restoration of information I hope to find answers to the questions “ Would I develop a different attitude towards my work if I was more aware of its short lifespan?” and “How should I treat existing material and deal with it in an artistic context?” 81

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Jan Husstedt janhusstedt@rocketmail.com Germany janhusstedt.cargocollective.com Internship: ROM Magazin Project The Eternal Pursuit of Togetherness The Eternal Pursuit of Togetherness imitates the architect’s eye through the lens of a drone. Hovering over the residential, business and shopping centre Ihme-zentrum in the

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German city of Hannover, the film spectates the current state of a former utopia. Retelling its history and questioning its status, the viewer visits a place synonymous for many more, all making the promise of a better future for everyone. Should we rely on such stories? What is a place that does not exist? What is utopia without humans? Thesis Drift Carefully And Come Back Soon D.C.A.C.B.S. uses Pangea as a metaphor to speculate about

society. The thesis is a collection of writings, providing thoughts and possible solutions on problems we find in opinionated times. Yet, Pangea stands for an island, that is not possible without a fierce geo-trauma. It is a place that does not exist, possibly in 250 million years. Thus Pangea is a fictional, imaginary world, docking with a political philosophy that makes a perfect world — more than human, nevertheless quite fuzzy.

Rully Irawan rullypulul@gmail.com Indonesia rullyirawan.com Internship: MEU CPH Copenhagen Project Migrare Filmed from God’s point of view, Migrare is a documentary featuring undocumented people from Indonesia living inside the social structures of The Netherlands.

This interview-based documentary is an attempt to reveal the humanistic side of these migrants, giving the audience insight into what it is like to live without legality—what this means to them and how they see themselves inside the “illegal immigrants” stigma. Thesis Hidden Curriculum : The Invisible Structures Inside Art School in Netherlands The subject of my research is the invisible sets of structure that are

overlooked inside the environment of art education in the Netherlands. How these hidden sets of rules are actually the major factor that is determining the development process inside the journey of finding “originality” for students as myself within the graphic design education. Through this project, I am investigating invisible or hidden sets of standards among students at art schools in the Netherlands and in graphic design education in general.

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Rebecca Joly

Bohwa Jang anothertreasure.j@gmail.com South Korea bohwajang.com Internship: Vlisco Project Patterns in Circulation Cultural misappropriation distinguishes itself from cultural exchange, appreciation and appropriation due to the adoption of elements of a minority culture

by members of a dominant culture. Employing the 2019 Spring/Summer fashion collection as a case study, Bohwa Jang studies the misappropriation of ornaments and patterns in Western fashion today. With Patterns in Circulation she develops a clothing collection for today’s European political elite. Thesis The Imitation Game Everyday, everywhere, the fashion landscape of West Africa is taken over by vivid coloured and bold

shaped patterned fabrics produced through wax-resist printing. The history of these clothes and their cultural value is diverse.The mechanised Wax Print cloth apparently signifies Africa however ironically it did not originate in Africa. This thesis will deal with the ‘Ironic Imitation Cycle’ between Asia Europe, tracing back to the origin of ‘Wax Print Fabric’. Additionally, how a continent could absorb so utterly something so foreign into its own tradition and what meaning are attached to the cloth its users? 84

rbk.joly@gmail.com France kabk.github.io/go-theses-19rebecca-joly Internship: Colombe d’Humières Project I’m not Quasimodo and I’m not Esmeralda but sometimes they make love and it’s a foxy kind of love I’m not Quasimodo and I’m not Esmeralda but sometimes they make love. It’s hard to bear either Quasimodo or Esmeralda… Maybe I wish to be both. Both of these characters carry distinguishable shells and both are imprisoned in their own identity. Sometimes your

skins are too heavy to wear, don’t you think? In our reality it feels like you can only be either crooked or sublime, S or XL. But sometimes the small and the large don’t fit. What people make, what people become within the uniform is what is at stake for this project. Rebecca Joly collects people—beautiful people with crooked stories; crooked people with beautiful stories… pick your order! When she meets them in the street, the first thing she says is: “Hey, I really like the way you look… Tell me more about what I see, I want you on my TV”. Later on, she wonders, “Where are you under these skins?”. Thesis In 4 years I will have the same age my mother had when I destroyed her uterus

In my life, I could have been like Britney, I could have fought like Dahomey warriors, I could have hunted like ‘Lucy’, I could have been a Venus, I could have looked at my “grandchildren opening up like flowers, never getting tired of watching them grow”, I could have been ‘Plastic’, I could have built myself a Kim Kardashian booty, I could have ‘hurtled down a perfect green valley of happiness’, I could have been a Baby Doll, a Lolita, an icone, a Marilyn, a Queen wrapped in a red-cupcake-carpet dress, I could have been a Sexy Secret Agent, I could have been a Super-model... I could have done what my mother and grandmothers did: I could have started a ‘New beginning’. And everything would have been ok. But I’m not. 85

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Pien Kars Sophia de Jong sophiamarinadejongy@gmail.com Argentina sophiadejong.com Internship: Nico Risso Estudio Project Reaching the Noumenon This project brings to the light the resulting conclusions from the relationship between Transhumanism and Luciferianism. After coming across the paper ‘In Praise of the Devil’ by Max More, one of the most relevant figures of Transhumanism, the investigation of this project went deeper trying to understand the dangers of transhumanist

ideals. Technology is offering the promise to remake all creation and makes science fiction dreams come true. Taking inspiration from the technocalypse (the convergence of technology and the apocalyptic imagination) with Dante Alighieri’s ‘Inferno’, the project envisions a personal reflection of a future fantasy world that looks more like Hell than the Paradise that transhumanists promote. Thesis Transhumanism and the Enhancement of Nature Exploring the meanings of the world, nature and what is means to be human in the present, the topics of research of this thesis were

focused on the principles of the philosophical movement Transhumanism. The followers of this set of beliefs promote a future where we will transcend to gods utilizing all sorts of technological advancements. Transhumanists dreams blur the line between medicine and miracles embracing the extinction of our species as we know it. My intention is to bring awareness of the biotechnologies that are advocating for a this future, expressing concern and arguing about the misuse of such making references from science fiction movies to biotechnological historical milestones.

pien.madelief@gmail.com pienkars.com Internships: Mascha Halberstad, superfelix Project Lucy Lucy is a sweet little thing, but, Ew! what ís all that stuff growing there on her body? Let’s get it away, get your razor and, quick, let nobody see, the long black hairs that grow effortlessly. Well what have we now? A surface so soft, she feels like a baby Up goes Lucy’s brow, ‘Does this make me a lady?’

With a whoosj and a bang, she arrives in a place and sees all that is there, seems perfect at ease with all of that hair. It makes Lucy wonder how everything there feels like there is something, that is here to take care Something big, something greater, something soft but strong too, It is the great mother, that is in all of you. - Lucy is a stop-motion animation video work. The video shows an alternative to our patriarchal society by presenting an invented world as truth.

Thesis Not just magic in the moonlight In my thesis I show my research into mythical thinking and how this thinking has been used to change the position of women in society. How did myth and tales empower women? Through researching different artists, writers and philosophers I tried to find out how women have been portrayed in history and how women themselves tried to make their mark on history through the use of telling tales and by using mythical themes & symbolism. What were the different ways of storytelling to make themselves the protagonist of the story? Image, language and the feminine consciousness, that seems to be rooted deep in all of us, are used as tools of expression and take us into realms where goddesses are worshipped and the moon holds special powers. 87

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Christina Kordunian contact@chriskore.com chriskore.com Internship: Random Studio Project AImnesia The extension of our memories, thoughts, and perceptions beyond biological bodies to algorithmically mediated networks triggers the emergence of a new space where AI and the human brain learn from one another. By training on huge datasets of images, sounds and texts, so-called GANs are able to create realistic non-human patterns

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and fill in missing data with plausible content. The project AImnesia juxtaposes an algorithmic fiction of procedurally recreated machine memories with a discussion with a machine learning inventor, a technophilosopher, neuroscientists, and computational artists around the relation between human memory and AI. Thesis Gods of Synthetic Illusion What if someone told you there was a world where you could easily teleport from Trafalgar Square to Alpha Centauri C, become a bird, and be poured through splashing purple lava into a glass on a table

in your home? We are at the dawn of breathtaking and dazzling times when more than everything is possible. This thesis is an experimental project combining theoretical research and artistic practice to understand the core philosophical concepts of Virtuality next to the fast development of VR technology. It raises questions regarding the possibilities, dangers, and influence of the virtual experiences on the human mind and society. What should the god of synthetic illusion know and understand to be responsible for the whole reality of his creation?

Risto Kujanpää risto@ristokujanpaa.com Finland Project Nordic Morphology The Sami people have been residing in the northernmost part of Europe for more than 10.000 years. But nowadays the newly established nordic nation states claim their land. However even now independent Samiland is alive in the minds of its people. Typography and language are integral tools in creating nation states. The same tools were used to

oppress the Sámi. Working together with Sámi language typographers, linguists and the Sámi parliament, Risto Kujanpää designed a typeface that aims to include, rather than oppress. 2019 is the International Year of Indigenous Languages. According to the initiators Unesco and UN, “most indigenous languages are in danger, even though they are the main conveyors of knowledge that provide original solutions to contemporary challenges”. Thesis Archives of the North During the International Year of Indigenous Languages 2019 and beyond, it is urgent to bring atten-

tion to languages able to convey ways of knowing we seem to have forgotten. In my thesis, I write about the Sámi to illustrate how state power has worked in and through language and typography to oppress indigenous people. The indigenous tend to be seen as detached from technological development, urbanism or capitalism. Yet, in reality, indigenous cultures draw from their past as well as present, and make use of both traditional techniques and novel technologies. Against this backdrop, typography can be reimagined as a means to include. It can facilitate the Sámi to write themselves back to Nordic history – this time, in their own words. 89

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Peter van Langen info@petervanlangen.com Internship: Studio Katja Gretzinger Project Midnight Frontier The documentary Midnight Frontier tells the story of activists that stand at the frontline of LGBTQ+ activism in Georgia. They recount their experience during the International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHOT), in which they were assaulted by people partaking in the Georgian Orthodox Church’s ‘Family Purity

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Day’, of the same day. The nightclub Club Bassiani forms their fort of resistance to homophobic violence. For them, nightlife in Georgia is not an escape, but a way to resist. A fight that is not contained within the walls of the club, uniting friends and enemies through dance. Thesis Last Dance Members of the queer community continue to face inequality and violence. From New York’s dance floors in the 70’s to Georgia’s club Bassiani today, dance floors form community centres in resistance

to oppression and violence. However, a large number of representations of underground club culture fail to show the meaningful aspect of hedonistic raves. Places that facilitate societal critique and promote alternative values and cultures, can be a political enemy. Therefore, the clubbing community needs to reclaim their spaces. (This) research argues that the purpose of dance floors transcend hedonistic playgrounds, they function as platforms of resistance against the oppression and violence that the queer community faces.

Auke Lansink aukelansink@hotmail.com The Netherlands aukelansink.nl Project Institute of Blind Spots The highly praised modernist Dutch architect J.J.P. Oud (1890 - 1963) knowingly worked for the occupiers of the Third Reich in WWII. This project takes the Poortgebouw (Gateway Building) of 1942 by J.J.P. Oud under the microscope. Asking why this part of the story is not represented in the ouvre of

the highly-acclaimed architect, the Institute of Blind Spots is intended as a critique of the museum world, which tends to leave behind politically incorrect and controversial background stories in their programming. What is the struggle of dealing with sensitive information? Thesis De rafelrandjes van het modernisme In mijn scriptie onderzoek ik de rafelrandjes van het modernisme en maak ik voor mijzelf de balans op over de consternatie rondom controversiële opdrachtgevers. Een van de definities van rafelrand

is: de rand van een stad waar alles gebeurt wat niet past binnen de normen en waarden van Balkenende. Iets dergelijks is ook te zien bij het modernisme. Zaken waar je het mee eens bent, of waar je wellicht zelfs van walgt. Zaken die aan de grens van het fatsoen gaan, of die er net (of zelfs ver) overheen gaan. Ontwerpers die de hemel in geprezen worden of verguisd worden voor hun werk of voor hun handelen, terecht of ten onrechte. Een oordeel hierover te vormen is soms lastig; het is maar hoe je er zelf tegenaan kijkt en welke normen en waarden je hebt.

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Wietske Nutma wietskenutma@hotmail.nl The Netherlands Internship: Thomas & Jurgen Project Do you read me?! Given the speed and ease of digital communication, we are presented merely with a facade. Not only does the facade hide a mountain of mediation, it makes communication seem simple and frictionless. We are surrounded by a network that

none of us notices but all of us use. Wietske Nutma traces the route of a single text message between sender and receiver. She gives an account of its intimacy, the time and distance of its travel, narrating us through the rules and infrastructures that govern our means of communication. Thesis (Dis)[em-bod-ee-muh nt] [uhv] [lang-gwij] This thesis is about reading and misreading, about the void between you and me, deprived of clear meaning, where we can only ever guess after each other’s true intention. It investi-

gates the role of the written word in the exchange between sender and receiver, writer and reader, maker and user. In contrast, it examines the manner in which the human body is captured and depicted through different (more artistic) writing methods, and explores how the body is and can be used as a ‘space’ for words to come to life, for a more expressive use of language to be found. One where meaning can transcend the use of words alone. It is the relation between body, art and language, their interaction, that is explored here.

Greta Radzevičiūtė ragreta@gmail.com Lithuania Internship: 75B Project My Name A name is something everyone has, but for queer people, a name can be a curse or a form of empowerment. Language is power and not everyone has the power to control language. My Name is a comic about finding a name. It is a journey about queer

people overcoming the obstacles constructed by society through language, on their own, but more importantly as a community. Greta Radzevičiūtė approaches this topic through the medium of comics, challenging the notion that comics are something that should be set aside with age. Thesis Don’t Call My Work the C Word One of the first definitions of fine arts omitted drawing as an appropriate medium because it was deemed to be merely a preparatory form of art. Jump forward a couple of

centuries to today and we are glad to see that his definition has not aged well. The bias against drawing (and as an extension most forms of art deriving from it such as illustration, comics or animation) is still strong. To this day they are mostly seen as something only children are allowed to show interest in and should be set aside with age. In my thesis I try to challenge this preconception. Why do we try to stay away from comics as adults? Why can it not be seen as art? And why do we fear even being associated with the word comic in the first place?

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Samantha van Roosenbeek svanroosenbeek@gmail.com Internship: Studio van Onna Project The Pursuit of Perfection Being a Pencak Silat athlete Samantha van Roosenbeek invests so much time and energy in learning this martial art while knowing she will never use these skills in her everyday life. The beauty of mastering a skill is that at one point its gesture vanishes, and all that is left is the story and feeling. In The Pursuit of

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Perfections, Van Roosenbeek invites people to use the philosophy of martial arts to train their body and mind by making “non-functional” objects, or practicing “useless” skills. The repetitive movements show that discipline, skill, and focus is evolving throughout the process. Turning the messy into something beautiful, the perceived boundaries of the body and mind blur and intertwine as one. Thesis The Strike of a Ferocious Tigress This thesis is a journey of an apprentice who is searching for answers. Answers on how to combine two different mindsets on the mind and

body into a unity. One says the mind and body are two separate parts that both life in different realms. The other mindset thinks the opposite. During my travels as a Pencak silat athlete I was able to experience both views on this matter. Within pencak silat it is about finding a balance between your mind and body. Can you benefit from the silat lessons about this balance in your work as a designer? With the use of interviewing my silat teachers, here in the Netherlands but also in Indonesia, and discussing the experiences/thoughts of a graphic designer, this journey took many turns. 94

Samuel Rynearson United States of America rectangle.design Project Handle with Care ssssssssssshhhhhhhh… tap tap tap… pat… *sniffle*…*silence*…patter patter patter. You listen carefully, as a hand gently interacts with a freshly unboxed MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar and Touch ID with 2.4GHz Quad-Core Processor and Turbo Boost up to 4.1GHz 256GB

Storage. Through a series of rendered ASMR videos, Samuel Raynearson brings together contemporary and ancient tools as subjects of fascination. Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is a calming, pleasurable feeling often accompanied by a tingling sensation. Thesis It Just Feels Right This thesis is an exploration which started me stumbling across the handaxe. The handaxe is a stone tool many believe it to be our species first designed object. Its most recog-

nized shape is a symmetrical bifacial teardrop, archeologists have theorized how exactly they came to be this shape; everything from genetics to and object which aids sexual selection. I am loosely looking into the phrase “it just feels right” uttered by Chan Karunamuni at Apple’s 2018 Designing Fluid Interfaces presentation while an iPhone X and a handaxe sat projected side by side behind him. What is it for something to just feel right to us and how does that play into our relationship with the things we create?

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Evy van Schelt evy.schelt@gmail.com Project Looking Seriously Alive Looking Seriously Alive explores the aesthetics of hyper-consumerism through the lens of sport fishing. Revolving around personal entertainment and achievement, sport fishing employs specific tools to help in the hunt. Evy van Schelt questions the

role of design in the beautification of weaponry. Her work interrogates the moral conflict in the application of design, the materialisation of violence, and the deadly effects of these weapons in practice. Thesis Looking Seriously Alive This paper researches the fine balance between power and overpower over nature which we accomplished trough our tools. Whether that tool is an ax, a shovel

or something as small as a fishhook, our tools embody a certain materialistic violence in their use and application, with entire industries revolving around the consumerism of these tools. As a case study to further explore this relation between the human, nature, and our tools, I take sport-fishing as example, in which the imbalance between power and overpower over nature can be observed.

scherrer.theresa@outlook.com Austria theresascherrer.eu Internships: Max Siedentopf, KesselsKramer, UK Project Ode to the SpieĂ&#x;ertum (Philister) If I remember well, this project started because you realised that working on prestigious cultural assignments lowers your chance of achieving the bourgeois well-off existence, which according to Western conventions comprises a house, backyard and the latest kitchen aid. The contradiction is that you never wanted this house;

as a child you drew houses sloppily, probably on purpose. Ode to the SpieĂ&#x;ertum grapples with existential remnants of the dream of having a house and a stable existence. 60 video clips of quarry explosions form the backdrop to dreams gone by. Thesis I Might Save This For Later Quotes are being misquoted and reborn as a wall tattoo, a seemingly same image of a mountain taken by a professional and dilettante just seconds apart. In the privileged moment of individualization, ideas are our commodity. Combined with this is another perversity: When we see resemblances between two

ideas, we are easy in putting one of them down. Somebody seems to always have done something first. Yet for every sculpture that becomes physical, there are many more variations that remain unrealized. In defense of the ones who perished and not published, this text is trying to understand the ambiguity of knowledge property and the lack of scientific approaches to creative production. It is narrated through various episodes and studies from a mentalist to a law-maker, artists and advertisers drawing relationships between them, when in fact they might not be related at all. Does the rise of the creative imply the fall of the creative by the age of 33 like Ikarus who flew too close to the sun?

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Yeon Sung Cato Stigter cato.stigter@outlook.com catostigter.nl Internship: Remco van Bladel Project Today I Am Not Going to Save the World A question that we inevitably pose to ourselves is how we can deal with stress, and the boredom of everyday life. Together with Herbo, the spirit animal and star of the show, Cato

Stigter developed five ways of finding ourselves and bringing our inner tranquillity back. Today I Am Not Going to Save the World shows you how you can free your mind from stress, and expand your consciousness, how you can share your grooviness and make spiritual connections, and how you can focus more on life and find your inner Original Gangster spirit. Thesis Seriously cute In my thesis I took a closer look at the word cute; I use this word a lot

and think this word is more meaningful than people think. Cute can be so many things, but what is does cute look like? I am interested in when cute can be unexpected, or used as a strategy to achieve something. I thought that cuteness did not have a hidden agenda, but while researching I found out that it has in a lot of cases. Which sometimes can be good but sometimes it can also be used as a dangerous weapon.

jungyeonsung21@gmail.com South Korea yeon-sung.com Internship: Catalogtree Project Rusty Odyssey Rusty Odyssey depicts the colonial faces of three copper coins (VOC Duit, Japanese Sen, and Euro coin) tracing their guilty chronicle from the 18th century till the present day in The Netherlands, Japan, and Korea. Transcending time and territories, the f i lm cuts the temporal dimension of the geographies where

the coins were born and follows the transformation of the monetary material as vitalized by capital. Rusty Odyssey reveals the colonial phantom behind the faces of the coins through three sites in which history is staged. The fluctuating heartbeat of copperâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;an inheritor of colonial capitalismâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;still lives on.

transversal human agency that has conveyed the propagation of colonial ideologies between two formal imperialists, the Netherlands and Japan. Former imperialists enriched their territories which led the rise of colonialism, exchanging commodities and progressive ideas through the trade of copper.

Thesis Rusty Odyssey: the colonial trajectory of copper across the Atlantic Copper, the first metal processed by Neolithic humans has accompanied the history of humankind for approximately 10,000 years. It has been an animate object for a

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Rhodé Tavenier rmsn@live.nl The Netherlands rhodetavenier.com Internship: Verbeke Foundation Project Polarity Of Possessions In a world in which consumption defines you possessions become a reflection of the self. From store shelves to billboards products promise to increase the quality of our lives. Advertisements create a deceptive truth in which decay is simply non-existent. In the video installation Polarity Of Possessions, Rhodé Tavenier creates a space

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for reflection on the complex relationship between human beings and their belongings. Aware of her own materialistic tendencies she investigates both the risks and values of material satisfaction. The project is inspired by 17th Century Vanitas still lifes, in how they remind us of our mortality and the risks of vanity, wealth, and excess. Tavenier creates assemblages with presentday objects and creates fluidity in composition as a metaphor for the fluidity of life. Thesis Fluisterend Plakwerk The collage, an assemblage of existing elements taken from different contexts, is a technique that’s

intuitively within my way of thinking and working. During my internship at the Verbeke Foundation I discovered how the word collage can for some mean a way of life instead of just a form of art. Later in my research I discovered how there’s a cliché image and idea we have which arises when hearing the word collage. Therefore I became interested in the idea of a more non-obvious, less logical and almost invisble form of collage. I want to shine a light on the meaning of collage in a broader, for me more essential sense. To read my thesis go to kabk.github.io/gotheses-19-rhode-tavenier.

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Lou Top Lou.top@Live.com The Netherlands Internship: M-L-XL Studio Venice Project 19.812 Seats When watching a game at a stadium, we tend to focus on what is happening on the field. In 19.812 Seats, Lou Top turns the attention onto the spectators, claiming the audience to be equally integral to

the game as the players themselves. A wall of people turning their backs to the city, the stadium is a closed ring of amplified emotions. Top traces the game from the moment the ticket is purchased, through the making of signs and banners, and the buying of crates of beer. The rising anticipation leads to an explosive release of emotions that takes place in the stadium, making it an experience like no other.

Thesis Stephen Steven In my thesis I investigate how American basketball has changed from a teamsport into a show where individual athletes can present their superpowers and come in contact with their fans. The fans play a big role in creating the platform on which the super humans can excel. By glorifying their every move a group of fanatics can uplift one person to a supernatural being and this did not only change the athlete, but also the game itself. 101

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Nina van Tuikwerd ninavantuikwerd@gmail.com The Netherlands ninavantuikwerd.com Internship: Irma Boom Office Project Life in the Phusicene What is our human impact on the world and what do we leave behind for future, non-human, generations? In the Anthropocene humankind has become a force of nature, leaving the Earth with deep marks. From the deep geological eras of Earth’s history we know Earth is capable of life without us. We know Earth always found solutions for the

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natural shifting climate. The end of the world does not have to lead to the apocalyptic human-centered scenes. It can also refer to the collapse of a complex system that is no longer capable of maintaining its precarious balance. We leave the earth with four souvenirs: CO2, methane, radioactive waste and plastic. Nina van Tuikwerd extrapolates upon a scenario for what could be the next period of Earth’s history: the Phusicene. Thesis De macht van de tegenkracht In een wereld vol protesten en demonstraties, ben ik op zoek naar de eigenzinnige eenling met een diepgewortelde moraal. De

eenling die iconische gebaren of symbolen gebruikt in de strijd tegen machtsstructuren. Ik voel vaak een diepgevoelde innerlijke moraal tegen onrecht, maar ik zet mijn woorden niet om in actie. Het eerste wat je moet doen is wat meer oproer maken, kies een regel en breek hem. Je moet wel bereid zijn deze regel te vervangen voor een beter alternatief. Iedereen kan actievoeren, alleen moet je de eerste stap durven nemen. Als je die eerste stap hebt gezet moet je alleen nog het juiste hulpmiddel vinden en je bent klaar voor actie. De eigenzinnige eenlingen waren geen superhelden of speciale personen, maar mensen zoals jij en ik.

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Carolina Valente Pinto mcarolinap16@gmail.com Portugal carolinavalentepinto.com Internship: Onomatopee Projects, Eindhoven Project the future is tentacular: making kin and other gestures This project begins with introducing tentacular thinking and making kin as feminist alternative practices to individualist, corporate feminism. These terms offer possibilities to think institutions and relations outside of their normative and

patriarchal formations. But what exactly is “tentacular thinking”? The journey to uncover this term is what this project is about. By setting up experiments, actions, and gestures, Carolina Valente Pinto is growing tentacles in a project space made of a web of collective knowledges — and making kin in between everyone in the process. Tentacular thinking shows how decentralising, expanding, unmaking and tying knots builds generative and generous worlds towards the future. Thesis Lean On “Lean on” investigates love in today’s career-driven culture, through a critique of corporate feminism.

This model complies with the patriarchal system it states to be against, not actively creating a change in society. It is time to make our own system. As we are driven by all types of love, it’s important to question how does the love for work affects intimacy in a neoliberal feminism. Set in a world where the merge of work and love has gone too far, this dystopian story merges present and future, real and fictional characters. I didn’t reach a conclusion: speculation only uncovered the complexities of ourselves and our ideologies, and made me more accepting of these incongruities as richness and dialogue.

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Esther Vane estherr.vane@gmail.com The Netherlands esthervane.com Internship: Studio VTH&V Project Home is Where the Art is To create a place to discuss the institutional framework of their education, Esther Vane set up Mushroom Radio, together with MA Interior Architecture student Jack Bardwell. In one of its broadcasts, they discuss Vane’s film Home is Where the Art is, in order to speak about a broader notion: the values of the art academy and our society.

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In the film, Vane revisits her home, far from the artworld, to see what she could learn from some of her relatives. She revisits her cousin the painter, her aunt the hairdresser, her mom the yoga teacher, her brother the carpenter and talks to other relatives about creativity. What is valuable from their point of view? How do their values relate to the values of the art school? While working and learning, unexpected narratives around craftsmanship and creativity arise. Thesis ⚧ and the enchantment of the tiny mirror. By writing a fictional story about a place called ⚧ I want to take the

opportunity to question the role of utopian thinking within selforganised, (non-)institutional art education. The suggestions on how art can be taught best easily blur the line between reality and fantasy and enables a different realm of understanding and existence. It enables us to enter a non-space, a space of emplacement, the utopian space. I will take the reader on a guided tour through the imagined structure of The Department Of A Playful Beginning, The Department Of Social Dreamers and The Department Of Conflict. These departments are explored throughout the stories of several students and their reflection on topics such as play, collectivity and plea for conflict. 104

Natalia Vishnevskaia echomaize@gmail.com Russia nataliavish.com Internship: W0W, Tokyo Project Nothing Exists When Nothing Happens Contemporary theories in physics are so fantastically mind-blowing and seemingly impossible that scientists themselves often propose that only by the will of divine power our universe could have come into existence as it is. Surprised by this contradiction and the fact that 60% of all Nobel laureates for the

past 100 years actually believed in God, Natalia Vishnevskaia decided to make a bridge between science and faith, and find out what kind of divine power they actually believed in. In her installation she explains and visualizes four cosmological and physical notions, combining them with scientists’ opinions on God, spirituality and ancient beliefs, which are surprisingly consistent with quantum physics.

He is one and he is everyone. His aim is to dive into humans’ experiences, feel as they feel, separate into fragments, and come back together. The Observer longs to find a key to the human consciousness and discover the binding element between mind and body. Maneuvering between materialism and spirituality, he seeks to investigate how technology affects this complex harmony within each and every person.

Thesis Omega Point This paper is a collection of stories in the form of a diary, written from the perspective of the Observer. His perception of time is not linear; he has always lived and forever will.

Prepare to embark upon an exploration of humanity, but be careful when you reach the last frontier— by reaching the end, you will close the circle.

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Wannes Vrijs wannes.vrijs@gmail.com Belgium Internship: Stockholm Design Lab Project Shadow Moves: a performance of cognitive labour Nonroutine cognitive work represents the biggest job group in Western countries, yet our frame of reference remains stuck in a manual era. Labour is defined by its easily discernible functional handlings, however mental processes are not per se linked to these handlings. In 1947, dance theorist Rudolf Laban published a Fordistic

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study on the human effort in labour. Here he introduced the term “shadow moves”, which he defined as the non-functional physical release of mental strain. To cognitive labour, however, they can signify the visible trace most true to its real effort. By isolating shadow moves through performance, Wannes Vrijs renders the cognitive visible. Thesis Extatisch Within my thesis, I investigate graphic design in relation to the human body, following the limited demand for physical interaction within increasing digital focused design.

The interest in this topic arose from the duality between my passion for spray painting, where the body is actively involved, and digital graphic design, where physical interaction is limited to the use of the upper limbs. This research builds on knowledge obtained from arbitrary chosen sources within Western science and philosophy. This in combination with references from art and culture, formed a base on which I could apply and test my conceptions. This research confirms a positive relation of physical involvement in design without denying the value of existing digital tools.

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Alfonso Yordi Martinez alfonso.yordi@hotmail.com Spain Internship: Our Polite Society Project Falling in Between I asked my brother what happened, he barely answered me. He was drunk and smashed the car in the middle of the night... he said he was with a friend, they both ran away leaving the car behind, smashed in

the middle of the road. My brother doesn’t have a driving license; it was not a nice story to tell the police. Running away seemed like the best option. When my mom woke up to go to work she realised that her car was no longer parked in her parking spot. She freaked out: “it had to be Nacho”. Apparently he had left €40 on the counter with a note, for her to take a taxi to work. The short docu-film Falling in Between features a series of exchanges between Alfonso Yordi and his brother Nacho based both on reality and fiction.

Thesis Stages of Becoming a Designer At times I loose focus and it does not become clear what am I truly desiring or working towards. Does this only happen to me? When did something I desire and admire become a source of exhaustion and fear? This thesis aims to understand my practice as a graphic designer and more specifically my relationship with it.

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Roslana Yotova roslanayotova@gmail.com Bulgaria roslanayotova.com Internship: Phormatik Visual Lab Project Ground Truth: PCTDDCUT We exist in a reality where developers define the human condition and train computational systems to understand and describe our personal experiences in abstract languages, with the intention of recognizing anomalous events and deviant behaviour. In this project,

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Roslana Yotova explores alternative modes of social presence and interactions, meant as performative tools for masking visibility in order to confront such predictive technologies. Rolling your body in a circular shape and performing rotational movements while supporting yourself with your hands, or forming joint compositions with partners are some of the methods she employs. Thesis Use a catchy title. To what extent can media shrink our perception? How do the communication tools we use form, and alter our thoughts? How much do we

actually exchange with the people around, and what does it say about our society? The ways in which we interact are a vehicle for defining our personal and cultural identity. The tools we use to communicate and to distribute information create a world where human interaction becomes dependent on and therefore limited to them. Talking is the distortion of air, but how would we communicate in a vacuum?

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We are living in the age of the Anthropocene, when human agency has a critical impact not merely on our social and economic wellbeing but on the very survival of mankind. Man-made problems, such as the abuse of natural resources, pollution, climate change or the threat of nuclear disaster threaten our existence. However, at the same time, human ingenuity, coupled with advanced technology, also have the potential to solve these problems to enable a brighter future.

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Alina Boehm

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Proud Devakula

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Tim Enghardt

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Thea Frommenwiler

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Diego Grandry

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Łukasz Gula

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Jamie Hornis

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It is within this complex context, that the young designers of tomorrow will play a critical role in working together with a myriad of specialists – from science, the public and private sector – in designing human-centered solutions, in which the human is not an isolated player, but rather an integral part of a much larger natural balance.

Latisha Horstink

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Jan Köhler

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Ligia Maasland

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Moze Mertens

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Anna Pelgrim

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Moritz Salla

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Malena Ugaz

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To achieve this goal, the designers of tomorrow will have to master their interactive skills with a high level of human empathy, and also develop a deep level of knowledge and understanding of complex systems in order to redefine, redesign and safeguard a new, natural balance within society and the environment. This world outlook is very much reflected in the work of this year’s I/M/D graduates. In addition to displaying deep sensitivity and empathy for the human element in their design narratives, their work bears witness to an inclusive approach, which also entails thorough research and a deep understanding of the complex social and cultural context of their chosen design focus. I wish them all an exciting and successful professional future! Janine Huizenga Head of department

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Alina Boehm Ziko Assink Ziko.assink@gmail.com The Netherlands ZikoAssink.nl Internship: Sumeria Productions Project Free Flow By building this installation I experiment with controlled and uncontrollable patterns in water and search for a way to show our interconnectedness with our reality as a larger organic whole. In an approach to put our relationship with technology in a different perspective, where

technology is no longer a noun but becomes some sort of spirit that moves through us. It teaches me to see the rapid developments of technology in todays world as a stream of information with an inevitable direction, a system that keeps deepening the structure of information. The information which plays a central role in understanding the world and our connection to it. Thesis Free Flowing Data and Hidden Patterns The significance of data visualisation could play an important role in shaping the future of the data

society that we live in. Datasets, when interpreted correctly, enable us to find hidden patterns and connections that can reveal information about the world. With the ability of changing our mindset and behavior for the benefit of the planet. The universe, nature and culture present us with enough data to discover. Inter sensorial artworks might enable us to promote an instinctive ethic of respect for human and animal rights and for lifestyles that sustain the environment.

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contactalinaboehm@gmail.com Spain / Germany alinaboehm.com Internships: Florian Dussopt Design Studio (UK), Guringo Design Studio (SE) Project COUCOU: Civic - Conscious - Cocreations COUCOU aims at unearthing a feeling of presence and sense of ownership in a community over their physical environment by using the element of inclusion, play and hands-on participation. COUCOU consists of shapes made out of recycled plastic that can be

assembled in different ways and become an object, furniture or sculpture for a place. People’s bubbles are poked to look differently at their environments, each other and at waste by collecting plastic for the production of the shapes and by reimagining what their surroundings can become. Empowering people to visualize their wishes creates moments that change their perceptions, spark interactions and add meaning to the otherwise dull architectural programme. Thesis COUCOU In metropolitan western cities, people have become increasingly disconnected from their physical surroundings and the people around

them. This study aims to determine new guidelines for urban designs in public squares that enhance the connectedness and encourage the coming together of people. Building on existing work related to the language of space, the philosophy of play and the architecture of the senses it asks: How can the design of a public square influence an individual to regain a sense of place and presence, and therefore grow a stronger empathy towards people and space? In order to construct places instead of non-places, it is important to shift priorities and mentalities. “Coucou!” Public squares need a new language of space.

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Proud Devakula rambhasiri.devakula@gmail.com Thailand Project “Little Brown Fucking Machines Powered By Rice” Describing the popular stereotype of Asian women as small, sexual, and servile, the title of this project is based on the wartime U.S. military adage that Asian women are “little brown fucking machines powered by rice”, an adage which resonates in Western society until today. Asian women, along with other racial and sexual minorities continue to

be insidiously subjected to sexualisation and fetishisation through history, culture, and representation. In an era where rape continues to be used as a weapon of war and objectification of women is prevalent, this interactive performance invites visitors to tap into the reality of a patriarchal society. In providing a window into individual witnessing, it explores listening as an act of political reform. Thesis Subverting Submission The practice of sexual slavery during the colonial period in Asia leaves traces in our society today. Countless young Asian women

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were enslaved to provide sex for military men, manifesting the hypersexual and submissive stereotypes Asian women harbor. Their bodies continue to be commodified in mainstream porn today, where they are solely represented as sexually servile. As nonconsensual sex is portrayed as the norm online, many women receive the consequence with sexual harassment. “Subverting Submission” aims to take part in dismantling white power structures, by bringing awareness to feminist pornography, where women are radically subverting the male gaze. Female filmmakers are using porn as a form of activism, all while producing power and pleasure. 114

Tim Enghardt timenghardt@googlemail.com Germany Internhip: Snow Donuts Project Noxious It seems that todays video game communication is defined by expressing frustration through the need to convey how the gamer had intercourse with the opponent’s parents or asking streamers to show their genitals. Genuine conversations and questions get

drowned in a sea of heartless and superficial chatter. The consequences of online harassment are often underestimated, especially in the video game world. This graduation project is tackling the toxic disinhibition effect of online platforms in the niche of video game streaming. Thesis Noxious Gaming With more and more people becoming part of video game culture, different people with different mindsets join in and define what the video game community is.

Unfortunately, the negative minded influences often scream the loudest and through that are the ones that are heard. The nature of most parts of the video game world happening online is a reason for the ongoing harassment and toxicity. What the repercussions of these developments are and how influenceable it is, is the central question to be explored. This work attempts to give an overview of the gaming community at large; cultural shifts and trends within it; and the general society surrounding it.

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Thea Frommenwiler theafrommenwiler@gmail.com Switzerland coralprotectionfactor.com Internship: Coral Triangle Center Project Coral Protection Factor Realising that there are too many threats to the ocean today, I decided to zoom in on one threat that directly affects each individual within it: Sunscreen. 14.000 tons of it find their way into the ocean each year through people practicing irresponsible sun exposure. To fight against this statistic, I chose to

make my own eco-friendly sunscreen and conduct sunscreen making workshops as a tool to help people better understand the damaging effects of conventional sunscreens on coral reefs, and its direct relation to humans. These workshops are a great platform to spread awareness on this incredibly overlooked issue, and most importantly realise the ‘response-ability’ that each of us carry. Thesis Sympoiesis: The Power of Making Together How artivists transform scientific data into works of art that are easier to relate to for their audience, is

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explored in this thesis. From materialising data into something more tangible, to speculatively designing a possible future where the extinction of species and the overpopulation of the human race could be solved, the importance of an artivist cannot be denied. Through studying the Gaia theory and the missing sunscreen gene, I found my own voice as an artivist. To reintroduce making and creating back into people’s lives and simultaneously spreading awareness on the ocean’s most overlooked threat. A new holiday ritual where the paradox of a tourist hotspot does not get damaged by conventional sunscreen and its coral killing contents. 116

Diego Grandry grandrydiego@gmail.com France instagram.com/diegograndry Internship: Golgotha Project Give Me Your Hand Movement in the sense of gesture is at the center of VR. The hardware is only a bridge between the tangible and the digital, transposing with precision the gestures of the user. Movement is also one of the attributes that makes my sister special. She does not move like me or like you. Each gesture she makes seems

absent of norm. Her movement is precious because it is her own. But is however something hidden and framed towards immobility by the mechanics of society. This movement is meaningful because of its communicative value. In line with ‘art brut’ and at the crossroads of Virtual Reality and psychiatry lies perhaps a communication channel that is essential and universal that artists and technology hand in hand can translate and revalue. Thesis Missing Channel The inability to verbally communicate with my younger sister, Naomi, started my interest in Virtual Reality

Therapy. Our story was the trigger for my research. Naomi’s condition made her unable to verbally connect with me and anyone else. Families with disabled children are advised to undergo therapy. I linked my interest in video games with therapy. Through this thesis I will explore ‘Virtual Reality Therapy’ and what combines these two worlds. I am aiming to investigate the process of designing ‘serious games’ and therefore the role of the designer in it. Through a series of interviews, a recollection of a dream, scientific findings and looking at an art movement I am trying to retrieve that missing communication channel.

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Jamie Hornis Łukasz Gula lukasz.marcin.gula@gmail.com Poland lukaszgula.com internship: RNDR Project Modal Variables The increasing intensification of computational technology as a stimulus has a significant impact on human experiential life. Raising number of stimuli influences

self-cognition as well as intersubjective relations. Therefore inconsiderate usage might, in the extreme, even determine our spectrum of experiences. Thesis The Phantom Appearances In the following work I evaluate the impact of digital memory on human consciousness by portraying their relation as a structured, dynamic system. Throughout, I analyse how the change of the physical appearance of computer

technology causes development of information accessibility. In doing so, I attempt to define the physicality of the remaining element of the system – the human consciousness. The direct relation, approached as a mathematical abstraction that refuses certain features of those entities, reveals its structural fabrication as a correlation of inclusive subfields in factorisation -equations of abstract, or ambiguous, phenomenological appearances.

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jamie.hornis@hotmail.com The Netherlands linkedin.com/in/jamiehornis Internship: Reagent Belgium, Blue city Rotterdam Project The Body The building What if synthetic biology makes it possible to grow a personal building on the body using the billions of bacteria living on the human skin? ‘The Body - The Building’ is a speculative, research-based project questioning the role of artificial buildings in over-

crowded and unsustainable cities. ‘The Body - The Building’ explores which fundamental architectural principles serve the human body. It aims to dismiss the influence of the built environment and to raise the power of the human body by speculating how one’s biological micro matters can be used as materials for a personal, protective, wearable architecture that works as a sustainable ecosystem. Thesis Soft & Hairy Cities are growing fast, and many problems come with the growth of our cities. Not only are cities

unable to take on the increased urban growth, but research has also shown that the mass production of the materials used to expand these cities harm the environment. Soft and Hairy investigates the future of collective architecture within the developments of sprawling cities. Asking: Why the present modernist buildings defeat the power of the human body and how the relationship between urban and natural evolution can be grown without any negative environmental impact to ensure that our actions and decisions today do not inhibit the opportunities for future generations.

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Latisha Horstink latishahorstink@hotmail.com Indonesia / The Netherlands latishahorst.ink Artist in Residence Yamanashi, Japan Project Kacang Lupa Kulit “Hi, I’m Latisha Horstink, I’m half Dutch half Indonesian, but I was born and raised in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. I moved to the Netherlands in 2015 to study. Sorry, I don’t speak Dutch, but I speak Indonesian… no, I don’t speak Arabic either.” The reason I mention this all is to remind

myself of their comfort, but sometimes I abbreviate my own identity for the comfort of others. ‘Kacang Lupa Kulit’ is an installation and performance exploring the relationship and desire for ‘home’, reflecting on places of nostalgia as a nomad. The Indonesian idiom is a reminder to recognise where one comes from, a peanut who forgot its skin. As a third culture kid, the journey of desire to assertively answer the question of home has yet to be fulfilled. Thesis UMUR MEMPROKLAMASI In a politically corrupt, postcolonial, and globalised society, how are Indonesia’s residents taking agency

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to overcome discrimination in times of political change? How and in which manner does the government and locals play a role in the construction of their identity? This thesis looks at the role of media in reaction to oppression, motivated through queer philosophies of agency, essentialism, representation, and questioning the conditions of speech. Analysing governmental bans or assistance, and social movements utilising media, such as language, music, dance, the internet, and zines. Through creative expressions, Indonesian locals have confronted the urgency for a consistent identity, but the government has yet to listen.

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Jan Köhler janankohler@gmail.com Germany koehlerjan.com Internship: Waag Amsterdam Project (UN)COMFORTABLY NUMB Honduras has a long history of violence spanning from colonial times up until today. The work is a recollection of my visual heritage, displaying some remains of that violent history which still surrounds us and is perpetuated today. This installation visualizes the frustrations of that inescapable violence. All details in

the living room ranging from sofas to paintings all have their own story to tell. (Un)comfortably Numb aims to create a renewed awareness that such violence exists in the world and our relationship to it could be different based on how we perceive it. I hope one day my country will be able to escape the violence that is keeping everybody (un)comfortably numb. Thesis (UN)COMFORTABLY NUMB Honduras, being among one of the most dangerous countries in the world, may be desensitized to violence. With yellow journalism, poverty and corruption, the country

has a hard time fighting against it because it has been accepted as something that is now normal or part of everyone’s lives. This thesis discusses how being desensitised to violence is a problem, how the local news and the general public speak about it and how this narrative around it erases the possibility to look at situations more critically. Through a series of interviewed artists and lived experiences this thesis also explores the perception of art in Honduras and how it could be beneficial for the county, leading Honduras to a more critical stance as a community.

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Ligia Maasland llmaasland@gmail.com The Netherlands ligiamaasland.com Internship: Steam Amsterdam Project Paradox - Medical Meal The western definition of medicine has changed; where its usage once meant getting over a disease, it now takes advantages of a loophole that requires taking drugs. As long as a medical container looks reliable, the medicalization of everyday life has the potential to assign a mental disorder to everybody, which puts

western society in the hands of pharmaceutical companies. Users of antidepressants for other ends than mental disorders are bound to become dependent on them. ‘Paradox - Medical Meal’ is raising awareness about the western stigma surrounding anxiety disorders by re-designing the attitude towards antidepressants, its containers and the medicine itself. Thesis Bitter Pill to Swallow: Stigma Surrouding Anxiety Disorders Citizens of western society have always chosen for what they know, what they are familiar with. This does not only apply for social human

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interactions in the past or the present, since it is closely linked to consumer behavior at the same time. The pharmaceutical industry has used this attitude to its advantage, shifting the consumer’s acquaintance from natural poisons towards pharmaceutical conditioned medicine. While hiding its true form and effects, making medicine available to everyone in the form of food, diminishes the idea that medication cures specific illnesses or disorders. Thus, the stigma surrounding those suffering from anxiety disorders will continue to grow, subsiding them to the same level of (mental) health as everybody else. 122

Moze Mertens mozemertens@gmail.com The Netherlands instagram.com/mozemertensdesign Internship: BKB | Het Campagnebureau Project We Are Here The animation ‘We Are Here’ is a visual representation of my experiences, feelings, and dreams on something that has never happened before; a woman leading the

Netherlands. In art everything is possible, where artists can challenge the rules, politicians reinforce them. An artist can influence the public and the politics, by showing the possibilities of change through daring to dream and show the ambitions for change, where others only see problems. We should dream instead of hope. Thesis Pussy Politics ‘Pussy Politics’ questions why there hasn’t been a female Prime Minister in The Netherlands yet. The thesis

tackles the female aspect within political leadership in combination with the empowerment of diversity. As an artist I try to tell stories; my goal is to empower people to stand up and tell theirs. By showing examples, evidence and telling other’s stories, the message is that one has the right to be heard. Role models are the ones speaking up. A role model shifts definitions of what is seen as possible. If they can do it, maybe I can too? Let’s fight against any form of ‘Pussy Politics’.

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Anna Pelgrim anna.pelgrim@gmail.com architectureofcure.com Internship: Waag Society and Healing Places Project Memorial of a Lost Landscape How do we remember landscapes when we leave them behind? We can take things with us or keep photographs. We can dream and reminisce. But what about our bodies? How do they remember? The sensory memories of the landscapes we leave behind when we migrate are highly valuable for our connection to them. Without

these reminders of how the body used to move and feel, we can often feel as if something is missing. This interactive sculpture takes the physical attributes from Anna Pelgrim’s past landscape of Lebanon – its topography, its height, its thrill and cautiousness, its sounds – and brings it to an approachable scale and an environment which it has never been before. Climb, sit, and explore this landscape of remembering. Thesis Lost Landscapes Landscapes can define us. They are able to shape they way we think, feel, and move and it is this power

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that gives them the ability to be longed for when lost. When a landscape is left behind, what remains after migration becomes highly valuable. These memories, both emotional and material, describe and now define the relationship to this past. How do we choose to remember our past landscape? What forms do these memories take? During this autoethnographic research, I build case studies of three specific landscapes - James Turrell’s Celestial Vault, my photographic archive of the Lebanese landscape, and a piece of bark to highlight the ways in which the memory of a landscape plays a major role in searching for belonging.

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Moritz Salla moritz.salla@hotmail.de Germany moritzsalla.de Internship: Studio Airport Project Hanging Construct “The members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion.” – Benedict Anderson “Hanging Construct” depicts a mob marching across an endlessly generated terrain. The artwork is

a real time computer simulation, hiding both the crowd’s agenda and destination to the viewer, as well as the artist. The territory only exists momentarily, hence the mob’s destination is not yet created. Developed using a game engine, this artwork fetches satellite imagery from public sources. The map is generated and discarded in real time and can travel across the globe. The mob uses AI to calculate its path and take autonomous decisions. Thesis Understanding Nationality Complexity has brought great unrest to the notion of national identity. The nation state, a young concept to humankind, is doomed to be

replaced by supranational power structures. Many protest the shifting sociopolitical structures, demanding a regression into our historical identities. What is this notion of the nation state? Is it a natural extension of the family, or does it merely live in the heads of its participants? Never have we had to question the necessity of national identity with more urgency. “Understanding Nationality” is a personal exploration that tries to find meaning and purpose in national identity. It seeks answers in the liberal arts, the online world of Second Life, philosophy, and psychoacoustics.

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Malena Ugaz malenaugaz@gmail.com Peru malenaugaz.com Internship: TECFA - Université de Genève Project Quipu.mp3 A quipu is a unique form of ancient communication and information storage used by the Inca Empire and their predecessors in the region of what today we call Peru. This hybrid and interactive quipu contains and

protects testimonies from Peruvian individuals who have something in common: they and/or their families left their hometowns to migrate to the country’s capital Lima. Today Lima confronts ancient hatreds towards the migrant. People are blinded by the traffic, pollution and insults that isolate them from their heritage, the contact with nature and most importantly, from listening. Thesis Inherited Identities The author criticizes the intolerance of the Peruvians who dare to judge their fellow Peruvians based on their

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appearance, before even looking at themselves in the mirror. The first half of the contents reflect on the current discrimination situation in Lima, Peru from a social, geographical and historical point of view. The second half explores the healing resources that storytelling has to offer in this neglected context. The author relies on the stories from the Peruvian educator Constantino Carvallo throughout the whole research process, which weave the rest of the stories included, as well as her own. The study answers to the question of how storytelling is influencing the process of decolonization in Peru. 126

Micah Westera contact@micahwestera.nl The Netherlands micahwestera.nl Internship: wedowe

Project Subject 7 Subject 7 is a short-form narrative experience that draws inspiration from film and theatre, to create a Virtual Reality experience, with analogue elements.

Thesis Space Macbeth Covering both the history (and function) of the stage from the early days of the Egyptian Passion Plays, to the modern situational theatre. The rise of Virtual Reality, why it took so long to catch on and how Hacker Culture brought about the consumer boom. Space Macbeth shows how theatrical performances can be brought to a new, more intimate, dimension through Virtual Reality. 127

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Daphne: Yes, that is the curiosity we are looking for. Keep playing; it will save you from depression. These objects are made for grown-ups. Lean on them, touch them, and engage with them.

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The objects and spaces are in anticipation. They made the settings. Now the ‘scripts’ can be played out, the ‘theatre’ of possibilities unfolded and the ‘backstage’ activated; generating new experiences and suggestions for ways of living and worlds to engage with.

(theatre) - material narratives & immaterial culture: explores the possibility of breathing new life into existing methods, the issues of passing immaterial cultures and ideas onwards and rituals through conscious reflection. The topics confront the existing definitions of nature, uses mythology as a means to comprehend the unknown, and proposes value through unexpected materials. It addresses the questions raised around the abundant mediated experiences that are happening visually and digitally in our society; the protection or dissemination of insubstantial concepts in the case of intellectual rights versus culture.

The graduate students of the Bachelor Interior Architecture & Furniture Design have been working on their interpretations of the disciplines art, design, and architecture. Within the proposals of their graduation projects, one could discover three distinct categories. They coincidentally (or not) match with the distinction within our sub-departments Interior Architecture and Furniture Design*: from Space to Object, from Object to Space, and the In-between Context of both. These categories have been translated into three settings for the exhibition show: Description of setting 1 (script) - spatial narratives: deals with the transient use of spaces in individual and collective settings – scaled from rooms to building to the public urban realm. The perspectives involved are not limited to architecture, but range from the digitalized society, art, law, design and the lawless side to sociology and observations from different cultures. Description of setting 2 (backstage) - system - observation & understanding: analyses morphologies and systems of different scales through the perspective of the observer. It deals with the potentials of architecture and design, explores the elasticity of its own limits and draws inspiration from theories on parallel worlds, aesthetic perception, mediation & translation and the overlap between project and context.

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Jackson: Sense nature too: rain, wind or sunlight. I have designed a kind of open shelter to involve you in new sports experiences. Charlotte: But be aware: your experiences as an adolescent might not be the same as those of the teens today! What’s their world? How do they balance their expectations and find happiness? Stranger: Alright. Point taken. There is not one perspective; there are many. A stranger, enters… Conversations on a script. Setting 2: Stranger: Well, so far, I am enjoying myself. But how can I interact with others?

Conversations on a script. Setting 1: Stranger: So, I enter. Can you give me some guidelines? Maja: Sorry, no. You will have to make your own decisions. We want you to engage, explore, and be open to potential possibilities. Ask yourself the question: Why? Why is this made in this way? Re-examine what is given. Stranger: That is too open. I might feel lost. Maja: No worries, we will give you suggestions. Sarah: Lose your fear. This is public space. You should feel comfortable being here. It is yours, as it is ours. Make use of the space in a way you have never done before. Aaron: Feel free, but don’t get distracted by the commercial potential. That’s a rule. Don’t act as a consumer. Just be polite, generous, and keep the space clean. Then you could even decide to build a pizza oven.

Tijs: Good question. Why do we go clubbing, enjoying ourselves without connecting to the strangers around us? I have designed a spatial structure. It will gently lure you in having eye contact with your fellow clubbers. Try it. Bart: How many people originating from other communities and backgrounds do you know in your neighbourhood? There are many reasons why you don’t know them. Circumstances can be rather complicated, but these architectural elements for public space could help you to start a dialogue with those others. Maple: On the other hand, I think it is also essential to accommodate loneliness. In pursuit of your individual personality, you need an intimate corner. It can function as a passage before connecting with the group. Stranger: Sounds good. These are all public situations. Do I also get to experience a private setting? Mabel: I can offer you a micro-apartment. It might be small, but it feels spacious. I have

Stranger: Nice, this reminds me of my youth.

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made use of your sight. I wish to open your senses and change your perception. Stranger: What’s the role of my creativity? Joyce: What do you associate with what? That is the question. You do not have to start from scratch. Morphology is a way to trigger the fantasy and fuel the creative mind. It works for me. Sasha: I will invite you to explore my imagination machine. It is full of wildlife associations. It might help you to envision new forms, more organic, more intriguing. A stranger, enters… Conversations on a script. Setting 3: Stranger: I am unbiased. What other experiences can I expect? Could you give me more details? Iris: I have taken down some walls for you. There is more spatial potential in a row house than is usually presumed. Adjust it to your needs, to your lifestyle. Pien: Look for familiar things. Do they act following to your expectations? How do they guide your behaviour? Why do these everyday objects make you feel uneasy? Maria: But be aware. As soon as you think you have found answers, you should question them again. What interrelates with what or with whom? What new associations are revealed? I will give you 3.5 objects. Stranger: I love to try another track. Maybe I have missed something, right? Edward: Sure, you did! We are always overlooking something. What appears negative could actually be positive. You could end up loving plastic, getting to know this material really well, and care for it. Erik: I agree. We should inform ourselves better. Take these seeds. They will germinate into giant Hogweeds and will become space-takers.

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We can learn from them and adjust them to our needs. Xenia: Walk outside and discover The Hague’s dunes from a local perspective. Join me for a site-specific picnic and experience, for a moment, this wilderness with all your senses. Mesmerizing, not? Maria: Welcome to our worlds of possibilities, where we are strangers too. ----------------------to be continued------------* Experiment and investigation form the foundation of the Bachelor Interior Architecture & Furniture Design (IA & FD). Our guiding educational philosophy is ‘learning by doing’. The four-year program covers the full width of the spatial domain by focusing on spatial conditions that determine how we experience our daily living environment. The systemic approach towards the disciplines of architecture and design within the program allows for a fundamental shift from adaptability and problem solving to explorations of new paradigms and foundations. During their studies, students combine spatial organisation skills and theoretical research with a keen ability to materialize with great tactility and sensibility. They become ‘critical’ thinkers and makers with an independent mentality, a reflective attitude and an emphatic capacity. They leave the bachelor IA & FD as versatile designers who can work in different contexts and with different dimensions.

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Maria Beaumaster mariabeaumaster@gmail.com Canada studiomariabeaumaster.com Internship: Studio Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters

material fetish. An environment to renegotiate incorporation of digital tech in our lives and house fetish objects that allow us to merge our private behaviour and the digital world.

Project Bather in a Coded Stream This collection is: suggestion, association, invitation, intention, acknowledgement.

This collection is: a suggestion of how objects change your behaviour, an association between the natural and digital world, an invitation to break the status quo, an intention of consciousness, an acknowledgement of our individual desires.

In all the rooms of our house, the bathroom remains the most private space and the least touched by digital presence. It is a raw canvas where we face ideas of time, identity, natural processes, and

Thesis The Cosmos, Echoed: tracing parallels in myth, the fetish, and intention in a digital cosmos Like our ancestors who faced the unexplained forces of nature in their

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daily lives, we are living in a world that is increasingly unexplainable. Faced with a non-concrete technological plane and an imminent reality of cyborg man, we now ask the same questions of our ancestors, but directed towards a different, digital cosmos. This essay traces parallels in myth, the fetish, and intention, questioning their task when forming a new digital world. Traditionally, fetishism and myth were subject to a renegotiation of their power or meaning. Why then, do we not subject the digital cosmos to this same renegotiation?

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Iris Bossen iris_bossen@hotmail.com The Netherlands irisbossen.com

Project Revamping the Row-house A re-interpretation of the typical Dutch row-houseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s standardized layout. Generated to counter the postwar shortage in generic family-dwellings, 6 out of 10 households still inhabit such a row-house. In spite of changing lifestyle and the demise of the traditional family as an absolute. Revamping the Row-house proposes

a principle, a tool for intervention, that enables residents individual, spatial exploration of the freedom and dynamics intrinsic to the rowhouse when considered as a empty hull open for re-interpretation. This inserted flexibility questions standardization and shows the potential as well as the lasting relevance of this omnipresent residential typology through redirecting focus on the individual and its personal needs. Thesis The Center of our Home This research explores the evolution of the domestic floor-plan focussing on use. Its incredible change throughout time results from events

caused by innovations as construction methods, art movements and social routines. The Center of our Home addresses how use of space is not necessarily connected to a function and how inhabitants create their own use and rituals. This leads a conclusion advocating unbound space, designed around the inhabitants that should be free to alter their interior according to their needs â&#x20AC;&#x201C; disputing our interior as an often standardized model.

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Sarah Bovelett sarah_bovelett@gmx.de Germany sarahbovelett.com Internship: raumlaborberlin Project Space of Potential A Space of Potential is an undefined fragment of the urban fabric without obvious permanent function. By defining these spaces, we want to activate and use public space on a human, tem-porary scale. We feel like trespassers in our own city. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what is allowed, so we stay safe.

In The Hague, the Algemene plaatselijke verordening regulates public order, nature and the ap-pearance of the municipality. We are exploring and exploiting the limits and possibilities of these regulations as starting point for interventions in public space. Thus we discover the un-used potential of our city for self-expression, community-building and ever changing situations. This project is a collaboration with Aaron Kopp. Thesis The City of _____, _____, and _____. A city is not an enclosed system but a stage, welcoming various characters and scenes and of-fering space

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for these to manifest. This glossary with articles from A to Z proposes a method of understanding the countless possibilities of interacting with the city. Revealed are various components necessary to create an urban intervention or activate urban areas. The proposed entries function as permanent variables, yet their application and correlation is flexible and to some extent, random. The many scenarios that can be composed by combining and mixing the different components are illustrated by the means of samples â&#x20AC;&#x201C; proving the method and applicability of the glossary.

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Joyce Edel joyce.edel@hotmail.com The Netherlands Internship: Motus Architects Project Extrusion Photography translates space into two-dimensional representations. Extrusion offers a reinter-pretation of these representations, back into three-dimensional forms and volumes. Decon-struction of the photographs and identification of the graphic elements, present possibilities for the transformation of the

two-dimensional into the threedimensional. This morphological research reduces forms and shapes into building blocks that, through association, are combined into new architectural masses. Further association provides these subsequent constructions with a possible function - Form dictates function. Thesis Is what you see what you see? The two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional space Photography influences spatial perception. Is what we see what we see? This paper analyses, decomposes

and compares various works of architectural photographers, who share a similar approach in their aesthetic expression. The paper is subdivided into several thematic chapters, which arose from the deconstruction of the photographs. Using carefully selected photographs, the paper explores the elements that reveal their graphic qualities, re-garding expression, perception and interpretation, and how this could benefit the architectural design process.

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Charlotte de Goey charlottedegoey@hotmail.com The Netherlands charlottedegoey.nl Internship: Observatorium Project For Joy & Glory Are we living in a society with growing hedonistic tendencies or are we a hedonistic society raising teens? Hedonism revolves around pleasure, joy, and pain. But, what is modern-day he-donism? A teen has first experiences, experiments and discovers boundaries. The pleasure-seeking part of their

brain has developed. Perspective and nuance are still under construction. This makes teens the most hedonistic of man. Defining its identity, the teen is trying to negotiate real-world norms and conform to their online society while rebelling at the same time. The teen girl’s room is a retreat, workspace and also is the backdrop for their online ventures on social media. Therefore, I chose to explain this subject and question at hand using this set-ting. Thesis What kind of utopia does the total festival of our generation reflect? This socio-cultural-historic paper

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reviews popular music and subcultures in relation to festivals. Since festivals are inherently political it also addresses the political state of mind within west-ern society and how these subjects interlock. It concludes that we crave experience, capture these and talk about them later. People sacrifice part of their time, money and social inhibitions to create the experience together. This crosses borders with religion and other beliefs. The total festival is not owned by one generation. It’s not a Utopia of one specific generation. It reflects utopian ideas of current society. Therefore, the growing hedonistic tendencies of society. 136

Xiaofeng (Maple) He xfmapleho@gmail.com China xfmapleho.com Internships: Superuse Studios, Hunk-design Project Space of Margin: The ‘Eddy’ Spaces at School ‘My corner’ and ‘my space’ are how we recall our spatial and bodily relationships with schools besides the timetables. School as a spatial system is consisting of shared, yet divided spaces. Often, having to leave the classroom during breaks, students claim their

corners at corridors and the main halls where the sense of intimacy and territory start to grow. The 15 illustrations present the morphological potentials of the margin of shared spaces, where ‘my corner’ is discovered and improvised along the flows like an eddy. The module prototype is a device to analyze the capacity of the ‘margin’ to influence the flows and the spatial frameworks of the architecture. Thesis Theatricality in Architecture The thirst for a temporary escape has given rise to the popularity of theme-parks and the increasing exploitation of theatricality in offices, schools and other insti-

tutional contexts. Architecture deployed by theatrical effects also reflects the constant switch between the perceived and conceived space in architecture. This instability and temporality of theatrical effects has actually sustained a kind of ‘viable dialectic between solitude and being-with-others’. In order to understand the parameters, the thesis explores the underlying spatial narratives of the parliamentary halls, ramps and spirals, and the amphitheatres from the perspective of a spectator as an active and indispensable participant in architectural performance.

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Mabel Kraus Aaron Kopp aaron_kopp_92@hotmail.com Austria Internship: KCCM and INSIDE OUTSIDE Project Space of Potential A Space of Potential is an undefined fragment of the urban fabric without obvious permanent function. By defining these spaces, we want to activate and use public space on a

human, tem-porary scale. We feel like trespassers in our own city. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what is allowed, so we stay safe. In The Hague, the Algemene plaatselijke verordening regulates public order, nature and the ap-pearance of the municipality. We are exploring and exploiting the limits and possibilities of these regulations as starting point for interventions in public space. Thus we discover the un-used potential of our city for self-expression, community-building and ever changing situations.

This project is a collaboration with Sarah Bovelett. Thesis Beyond Chora Everything exists in a space, a background against which it can be seen â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a thought as well as an object. Our shared thinking is based on origin and result, linear processes, order. This is a self-reinforcing system and denies fundamental change. By going beyond the structure, new space can be created for new thoughts. 138

mabel.kraus@gmail.com Argentina Internship: Krown Design Project Testing micro Micro-apartment represents an adaptation of architecture to scarcity. Designing a micro-apartment allows me to make connections between experience and function within the mini-mum of architectural surface required.

The use of virtual reality (VR) is a way to immerse into my own design. VR is a way to create a parallel environment, similar to the real in scale and materials, but fake and untouchable, questioning the proportions and the functions that operate within the limited space. It offers the possibility to create an accurate self-customization, based on reactions. Working with VR as a tool to create the small interior I obtained a sum up of adaptations that support the course of my design decisions.

Thesis Small Interior Small space can be difficult to define because depends on the cultural background, but it seems, most of the time, that the sense of space is simply unrealistic. Small Interior researches the historical events that initiated an architectural focus on the existence minimum. The elements and workings of the small space are then researched from the senses, considering architecture as a medium. The identification of this relationship between space and the experience that it accomplishes is what defined the foundations of Testing Micro. 139

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Bart Krijnen bkrijnend@gmail.com The Netherlands Internship: Peen & Ui Project Passage - Fragments for Entering Passage creates social evoking objects, that can be placed inside the landscape and that en-hance the identity and coherence of the Wheermolen neighborhood in Purmerend. Key to the project is reestablishing the deserted mall as centre of the surrounding communities. A rede-signed landscape forges new connections that were missing in the 1960s urban fabric.

Elements of the original polder, hidden underneath the new town, provide leads for an inter-vention that consists of gates, bridges and several paths, each with their own theme and func-tion. These made to measure additions and corrections improve social and functional use, but above all, provide this typical post-war neighborhood with character often lacking in these ge-neric environments. Thesis CLAIM When do you feel safe and comfortable in a public space? Do you have a purpose when you exit your door and enter the street? Does your objective play a role in your manner

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of transporta-tion? Where do you like to do your job? Is it at an office building or another place? Do you call another place your second home? C L A I M researches how flexible and subjective boundaries in public space can be. It focuses on the interaction of the user with spatial elements in specific public spaces that are, to a cer-tain degree, influenced by private functions. Like an office you go to every day of the week. Slowly, day by day, it becomes your office. Mentally and physically you privatize your space. In other words, claim the space.

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Aliaksandra Pirazhenka a.pirazhenka@gmail.com Belarus pirazhenka.wixsite.com/work Internship: EARTHbound coaching & architecture Project Mental Machine of analogy production The Mental Machine of analogy production is part of a spatial laboratory that plunges the ob-server into the fantasy of Aliaksandra Pirazhenka. The laboratory is an analogy of her

brain, in-creased and intensified. The machine proposes a mental mechanism as all processes occur in our subconscious. After using the machine, the observer comes out brainwashed and then magic appears! The laboratory demonstrates a method, creating architectural form through identifying analogies, using association, imagination, and skills, accumulated in the mind. Thesis See buildings where others see cracks. Using nature (biology) as a Design Tool In See buildings where others see cracks, Aliaksandra explores the importance of associative percep-

tion of architecture by drawing an analogy. She considers the biological and the organic analogies, the two main analogy methods for design with the help of nature. Studying various cases in design and architecture, she introduces a new concept - an intuitive analogy. Within this thesis, she checks the significance of diligence and serendipity in the course of design work. This study is divided into two parts: a catalogue of intuitive analogies and a theoretical study.

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Pien Post post.pien@gmail.com The Netherlands pienpost.com Internship: Studio RENS

Maja Pop Trajkova maja.pop.trajkova@gmail.com North Macedonia Internship: Studio Iwan Pol

Project Elements of Instability What does it take to create an experience of place? Taking away segments from an expected and reassuring structure and skewing it slightly in or-der to observe the changes that take place thereafter. The observed changes are changes in the behaviour of users. The goal of the project is the creation of territory of direct experience.

Thesis The Human, in Motion A research into the capacities of human desire, posed as main exploratory drive, treading across the unquestionable agency of standardisation of the built environment.

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Project OBJACT OBJACT consists of domestic objects, acting or objecting to the politics of normatively. The pro-ject investigates how ‘normal’ becomes a social and bodily orientation, given that some bodies will be more at home in a world that is formed around being Dutch.

This collection shows that ‘the normal’ is that which is not revealed: for the past four centuries, the ‘abnormal’ has always been present in the comfort of Dutch social life. It was just hidden away in a closet, swept underneath a carpet, or not being seated at the table. The objects start demonstrating ‘the normal’ back to ourselves. Not because it teaches you what it must be like to be ‘abnormal’, but because it might estrange you from the comfort of the familiar. Thesis The Semiotics of Personal Objects By collecting objects, we collect our thoughts: a lot of elements are simultaneously surveyed and

compared. It is a powerful way of ordering the world. In this paper I approach objects as signs that could form a story when arranged in a certain or-der and context. This approach reveals how we collectively assign meanings to objects, and how that, in turn, shapes our reality. As a result I propose that the role of the designer resides in storytelling rather than in creation. After all, the word design derives from Latin ‘designare’, meaning: point out, devise, choose, appoint. It is about rearranging structures of meaning that are already out there into new nar-ratives; a medium that can move values, meanings and intentions.

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Erik van Schaften evanschaften@hotmail.nl The Netherlands atelierschaft.nl Internship: Studio Thomas Vailly Project Heracleum Mantagazzium re-introduced Hercacleum Mantagazzium, better known as the Giant Hogweed or Reuzenberenklauw, is out-lawed since 2017. So, when is a plant a native? Does a native plant even exist? Or is the differ-ence cultural and non-cultural plants? ‘Heracleum Mantagazzium re-introduced’ aims at acceptance of this mysteri-

ous plant through its usability by providing insight into its characteristics. The dynamics of the plant are translated into a campaign object, inspired by the Royal tulip vase, a metaphor for cultural acceptance. The object consists of three stackable parts, each representing a chapter of the material narra-tive. Stacked, these parts form a tower of four meters high that communicates the symbolical and functional value of the plant.

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Thesis Botanical Anarchy This newspaper-paper logs the journey through the multi-layered world of the Hercacleum Mantagazzium. The surprising fact that one simple plant can contain so many layers is fasci-nating. The plant, now outlawed in the EU, was highly appreciated in the Victorian era, because of its architectural quality. After a period of worshipping it escaped into the wild, manifesting itself in the landscape. There are several interconnected topics that all relate to the plant, which functions as a meta-phor for a bigger theme: the friction between civilization and wilderness. This forms the con-text of Botanical anarchy. 144

Edward Slaviero clarissaslaviero@gmail.com Italy cargocollective.com/EDWARDSLAVIERO Internships: Krijn de Koning (2017), Precious Plastic Den Haag (2018 – 2019) Project PLASTIC’S MORPHOLOGY Plastic has been collectively re-called as symbol of disposability and availability, which has brought the material to a overuse and excessive production of it. I believe that by acknowledging/recognising that plastic is much more

than just a functional material with no accredited beauty, our immoderate use of it will change. ‘PLASTIC’S MORPHOLOGY’ showcases one property per each type of plastic, as to create a dia-logue of awareness about the beauty within the existing varieties of this material. 7 types of plastic, 7 sculptural objects of discussion, medias of experience and knowledge, a journey throughout the recognition of some of the plastic diversities. Thesis Plastic Waste Meets Location Through The Designer A thesis that leads you across the history of plastic, its big boom in and throughout design, its impact on our daily lives and eventually its effects

on society as general. “It for sure won’t be the odourless smell of plastic, its non-existent rust or its inanimateness to remind us that it is present in almost every object we own. Silently it blends into our daily rou-tines.” “We dispose unknowns, that is; we are unaware how to respect our waste, specifically plastic, a multifaceted material.” “Can the designer - collector of data, narrator and creative thinker- save this material from be-ing seen only of poor value? Therefore, can he/she have influence on a parsimonious discarding of plastic?.” (Quotes from the thesis) 145

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Tijs Struijk tijsstruijk@outlook.com The Netherlands Internship: Earthbound Architecture

Project Club Folk An investigation into the interactions of nightclub visitors. Club architecture focuses on the performance of the DJ. The DJ is the star and the visitors are the audience all concentrating on the booth and not so much on each other. Choosing a club is very specific so, by default, its audience has a lot in common, even strangers. Club Folk is an architectural intervention aimed at triggering random

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interaction between dancers excluding them from the bigger crowd and acknowledging each others existence. The intervention is made through a light-installation, contrasting with the clubs dark appearance. Club Folk addresses the way we think about clubbing, letting go of old structures and putting the focus back on the dancers.

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Daphne van der Veer daphnevanderveer@hotmail.com The Netherlands daphnevanderveer.wixsite.com/dvdv Internship: Observatorium Project Ludic-Scape In my creation of a play landscape with the focus on adults, I analyzed what the spatial neces-sities are for adults to go and play. As we grow up, we each develop our own play preferences. But we all

started similarly with non-directive exploratory play, experiencing an area or object through our senses. We can do this by manipulating movements such as positioning the body in relation to the area. To make it work for adults’ exploratory play needs another level. Therefore, three elements are used: Elevation (for overview), Cover (to retreat), Body relational objects (as references). Re-ferring to the context I also added a place for discussion, real adult play.

Thesis Let’s play pretend. messages to Johan Huizinga In my paper I research “play” for what it is and how it is used as a concept or practice by spa-tial designers and architects. What play is in general? What is adult play? What elements evoke play in a spatial context? These questions I raised in a faked correspondence with Johan Huizinga writer of the book Homo Ludens - A key study of play elements in culture (1938). This play provided a point of departure for the Ludic-Scape. 147

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Xénia Weulersse xeniaweulersse@gmail.com France Internship: Jonas Edvard Studio Project Ephemeral Im-print In an attempt to reduce the gap, I sense between me and the Westduinpark, I created a site-specific scenario, based on the cyclic rhythm of nature, with as a picnic set as main focus. I borrow plants, that need to be removed to maintain its biodiversity, and sand from this natural reserve. With my

transportable atelier I transform them into single-use, decomposable ware, on the spot. During the lunch event visitors crossing though the dunes on their way to the beach are invited to participate in the harvest. In return they get a furnished picnic set that allows them to enjoy the wilderness with all their senses. The design can be left behind there, where the site-specific ingredients will be part of the natural cycle of decomposition again.

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Thesis Exploration: Stepping In Nature Why don’t I feel part of nature? My graduation paper “Exploration: Stepping In Nature” ques-tions my relationship with nature as a human being living in the 21st century, in The Hague, the Netherlands. Investigating the Westduinpark – an area that I call my wilderness – made me aware of how controlled and nurtured this natural reserve is. Though this journey I realised the absurdity of the relationship. Designed by humans for humans the dune area only provides an idealised and framed wilderness – an intentional illusion. 148

Zhengda Ye yezhengda@me.com China Internship: Barend Koolhaas Architecture Project ‘In’ the Playground, by the spirit of Nature Man senses the environment through physical body and activities. By doing sports, the physical body of man and the spirit of nature can be fully integrated. I’m designing a playground space which is not only for sports gaming but also for experience and exploration.

Normally when people think about sports facilities, it’s either outdoor or a closed up generic looking box. It im-plies that people are either exposed under the threat of nature or completely isolated from the environment. My design will help people sense the environment again. The natural elements, wind, sunlight, rain, and sound are coming together as guidance when people move through space. The landscape will translate the environment by means of its own architectural lan-guage. Thesis House Being Nowadays people learn about and recognize nature by science, nature

in our eyes is phenome-non. It turns our urban environments into a machine-like space. I grew up in a Metropolitan city in South China. I saw that people found themselves being lost. But I also saw that people found their true belonging. I started to think about how nature influences humans in this modern so-ciety? In my thesis, I look into our modern living environments through the Chinese conception of nature and philosophy. I talked about how to find delightfulness to co-exist with; The atti-tude to pursue freedom in a machine-like society asks for re-balancing oneself and celebrate the dynamics of nature.

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A few decades ago, the making of a photograph was mainly reserved for professionals and a few wealthy amateurs. At that time, there was an immense need for the visual documentation of reality around us in photographs. Obviously the professional photographer focused on that task with a great deal of dedication.

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Suzette Bousema

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Hein Budding

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Anna Charalampidi

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Victoria Chaushyan

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Filippo Maria Ciriani

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Sophie Daalman

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Tibor Dieters

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Linnea Frandsen

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Linnéa Gerrits

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Diana Gheorghiu

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Indra Gleizde

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Trees Heil

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Katarina Juričić

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Ani Kehayova

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Co Knol

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Stella Loning

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Sonya Mantere

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Loretta Monique

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Viktor Naumovski

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Louisiana van Onna

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Jamy Osinga

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Nael Quraishi

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Mafalda Rakoš

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Daniela Roșca

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Emma Sarpaniemi

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Sofie Sihombing

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Josje van Stekelenburg

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Jill Louise Verweijen

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Elodie Vreeburg

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Today, more than 100 million new photos are being uploaded to the Internet every day. We don’t need professional photographers any longer to document the world around us. The question is justified whether we - professional photographers – still have anything to add to this visual information overload. This existential question for photographers has been discussed many times by our group of graduates. The medium of photography is undergoing rapid change. And wherever there is change, there is also opportunity. We, at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK), find it hugely exciting to see new ways to engage the medium. We teach our students to invent their own paths and be an author. What is the story you would like to tell? Apart from being creative in the field of making work, you also need to be creative in finding your audience and creating new business models. The opportunities for the new generation of photographers are boundless. However amazing that may sound, learning to deal with these infinite opportunities is one of the greatest challenges faced by this generation of photographers. In his essay Two Concepts of Liberty, British photographer Isaiah Berlin drew a distinction between negative and positive liberty. In this context, negative and positive should not be seen as value judgements.

Negative liberty focuses on external influence – in this case, the limitations of photography as a medium – which transforms into unlimited opportunities in an incredibly short space of time. Positive liberty, on the other hand, focuses on the freedom to act independently, on your own will or ambition. The stronger someone’s reason for doing something, the more autonomous and freer they are. Negative and positive liberty are interrelated. It is only possible to experience the new unlimited opportunities of the medium as positive if the user is capable of dealing with it, by the virtue of having strong motivations – or a strong will. Therefore, the challenge of photography education is to encouraging students to develop a strong ambition and a strong will. This enables them to take full advantage of the new, unlimited opportunities in technology and the other changes within our profession. The final-year cohort of the photography department reveals a superbly eclectic mix of photographic expression and a celebration of liberty and freedom. They nurture photographic thought, although it may not necessarily lead to a photograph. What they all have in common is their deep-rooted ambition to communicate and to share. They make their own decisions, have developed a strong will and, through this, prove that they are ready to take their place in the professional world. Rob Hornstra & Lotte Sprengers Co-Heads of department

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Alex Avgud alex.avgud@gmail.com Russia alex-avgud.com Internship: Dries Verhoeven Project White walls and exercises in freedom I never told my parents I am gay. I was born in Moscow a few years before the fall of USSR, and in the working-class outskirts of that city homosexuality is meant to be suppressed. After relocating to the Netherlands, I realized being gay in the East feels a lot like being a migrant artist in the West. Both worlds push you to comply to the

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‘norm’. I feel I’m losing my cultural identity and surrender to Calvinist sterility, to all the white of Dutch interiors. In my project I worked with people sharing experiences similar to mine gays and migrants - to find embodiments of emotions that are born out of resistance to expectation to ‘fit in’. Every culture demands a chunk of your freedom, and every society strives to grind down the misfits. Thesis Open the bruise up My thesis dissects possibilities and limitations of photography as a medium for critical art. Can photography, being a tool of

control, reinvent itself as the most democratic art form of civilian resistance to contemporary power structures? If it reaffirms the existing hegemonies, can it play a role in their subversion? I propose that photography as critical art is burdened by a few inherent paradoxes. Online paradox revolves around feeding data to bubble-generating algorithms by uploading art on social media. Spectatorial paradox questions conveying critical ideas through intramural artworks instead of advertising and fashion photography. And cultural paradox deals with the deceptive promise of photography to serve as a global metalanguage. 152

Suzette Bousema suzette@bousema.eu The Netherlands suzettebousema.nl Project Climate Archive What if ancient ice cores could be used to predict the future of our climate? Scientists drill up tubular samples of ice from Antarctica and Greenland containing air bubbles with the same composition as when they froze—including greenhouse gasses. By exploring how tangible objects

serve to improve our understanding of unobservable concepts such as global warming, these objects not only become tools for scientific research, they become tools of wonder and enlightenment. By creating an archive of today’s air—using glass structures—we may contemplate an uncertain future as a consequence of global warming. Thesis Understanding Hyperobjects: An archaeological Quest Into the Anthropocene In a time of man-made climate change and global pollution it is hard to feel a personal connection to and

understand our individual responsibility for phenomena that happen on a global scale. In this thesis the question is raised whether objects can help us to gain an improved understanding of man-made climate change and global pollution in the Anthropocene; the age in which humankind irreversibly changed the Earth’s biosphere. The way archaeologists give meaning to found objects is opposed to Timothy Morton’s philosophy of perceiving man-made climate change as a hyperobject; such a big object that we cannot see or touch it, but only experience the effects of it.

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Anna Charalampidi Hein Budding heinbudding@gmail.com The Netherlands heinbudding.com Project Breathing space Do we know how to use physical and temporal space to create room for mental space? The break in the Matthäus-Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach is a moment of relief and reflection. Like the eye of a storm, the empty stage is

surrounded by the audience. Here, the discharge becomes visible. This break offers the attentive listeners, who long for breath, the space to clear their mind for what is still to come. Does this equal the way the night creates space between days? Thesis “go to the sea in time and get some fresh air.” Landscapes are always there, we see them every day. We make landscapes, we change them. We live in them. But how consciously do we actually look at the landscapes we

are in, how often do we stand still andobserve where we are? What kind of impact can a landscape have on us, and how does an image maker select his representation of it? We need to learn to truly observe, to realise what it actually means to be somewhere. To understand it, and to adapt to it if necessary. In order to find that understanding, I hope that everyone who reads this text will at some point be notified by a loved one, with the advise to “go to the sea in time and get some fresh air.”

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charalampidianna@gmail.com Greece annaharalabidi.com Internship: Paul Bogaers Project Still lives Objects can be much more than the physical space they occupy. They can provide a timeless link to the past through the sensory exploration of them and retrieve memories treasured in our subconscious. Photography can help to capture and preserve these links in an eternal form. I use photography to transpose objects from their physical space

to my images in an effort to create a record of emotions and memories from personal experiences and of the immigrants I have met and interviewed. Academics are showing a growing interest in the emotional relationship of people to things, the way objects symbolize interactions and relationships, and the way they preserve our memories – past and present. Have you ever been attached to an object? I have. Thesis The latent image The act of exploring one’s subconscious is rather difficult, let alone if this particular individual is traumatized. The present paper lists some of the major trauma theories and

explains how this can affect one’s mind and ultimately control his / her life. Philosophical research will underline the connection between photography, trauma and memory. The work of Anish Kapoor, Doris Salcedo, Rachel Whiteread, Daisuke Yokota, Alma Hasers, Kensuke Koike, Ruth van Beek, John Stezaker, Weronica Gesicka, Katrien De Brauwer are analyzed through the prism of trauma, providing at the same time new ways of visualizing the hidden and unknown side of it.

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Filippo Maria Ciriani Victoria Chaushyan Project Only 1 room left! Imagine a hotel where you can book one of the rooms from your childhood. Recently, I found out that the house in which I grew up turned into a hotel where everyone can stay. Although itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been about 10 years since my parents sold the house, the wallpaper, ceiling, and even the furniture remained untouched. On the one hand, it is nice to be able to travel and experience the world with the help of an online platform

that offers the homes, houses, and everything in between. On the other - the technology offers us such pace of life that we can barely grasp the changes that accompany it. By booking the room from my childhood I want to share a feeling of how something that one has been so attached to can easily become impersonal. Thesis What Are You Laughing At? Why do people laugh when I am presenting something? If they laugh does it mean that I have a sense of humour? Since when do I have it?

When I am serious and people keep giggling, do they still take me seriously? So confusing. For three years my mind had been overwhelmed by these questions. In the thesis What Are You Laughing At? the question that I strived to answer most was: what makes people laugh? Do I want to prove that I am serious to my audience? Or, should I relax and allow people to laugh it up? Even after I researched the topic I am still puzzled why people laugh. However, I came to the conclusion that people simply like my way of looking at the world and they call it humour.

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filippomciriani@gmail.com Italy filippomciriani.com Internship: Donald Weber Project Silent Canary The town of Kelmis, from the day of its creation, has been always at the mercy of forces driven by profit. The community of the small Belgian town founded by a mining company has been living on top of a great treasure composed of valuable minerals. Minerals which, once manufactured, would compose the objects of our collective desire.

Today, due to the potential profit of these minerals, a mining company has come to reclaim its position among this community. While state and corporations are discussing procedures, the citizens are left in a stalemate. How do state and corporations shape the reality of common people? And what is our role in these dynamics? Thesis A Stunt of Mirrors - Pointing at the past to understand the present This paper investigates how history and photography can make use of each other to open a dialogue between our past and present. While introducing the notion of history, I focused on the profession

of the historian and on the different ways in which we can perceive history. I conducted a comparative research on the work of three different photographers, in order to understand how they approach and comment on history. After writing this thesis, I no longer see the world as a set of people, facts, places and stories, but as an expanse of unfixed mirrors that I can position at will. By positioning these mirrors according to my own structure, I can understand what is in front of me differently from the pre-existing arrangement I was usually looking at.

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Sophie Daalman swedaalman@hotmail.com The Netherlands sophiedaalman.com Internship: Laia Abril Project West Horizona Imagine yourself being in a farmland, sitting against a three, watching the cows with a blade of grass in the corner of your mouth. The sun is burning in your face, while you stare at the horizon you keep on

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questioning how your life would have been, if you would have moved to West Horizona. From the East to the West, from the North to the South: I have roamed throughout the Netherlands to find an answer on the returning questions. How can we decide on who we are and how we want to live, if there are endless possibilities? With more questions than answers, I conquered the roads, to expand my own borders of knowledge. Each person became a glimpse of a mirror that I held out to myself.

Thesis Ethics in Art In my thesis, Ethics in art, I write about the inevitability of prejudices and the influence in art. How do we deal with prejudices and biased thoughts in the creation and the perception of art? My thesis serves as a theoretical foundation for my vision and attitude as a portrait photographer, in which I strive to highlight the importance of integrity in portrait photography.

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Tibor Dieters tibor.dieters@gmail.com The Netherlands tibordieters.com Internship: Theis Wendt Project Exposure Postboxes transformed into pinhole cameras sent to various unsuspecting galleries, generate photograms

if returned to their sender â&#x20AC;&#x201D; charting the movement between, and the dependency on institutions, at the mercy of transportation otherwise unseen.

referential material or wider inspiration is of impact to what can be considered the final work â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but how we acknowledge and internalise its power and utility.

Thesis Exit Wounds In an increasingly interdependent art world that seems to necessitate a collaborative practice, the role and the myth of the singular author withers. The question is not whether

Exit Wounds attempts to examine authorship from the ground up, by carefully and critically dissecting terms and roles often taken for granted: art and artist, chance and autonomy.

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Linnea Frandsen frandsenlinnea@gmail.com Denmark linneafrandsen.com Internship: Nicolai Howalt Project Morphine for Summertime Salt protects. Salt preserves. Salt reflects the light. In 2018 a group of scientists proposed to cover the atmosphere with salt, to let it reflect the sunlight and thereby cool the earth. Will salt become the protective membrane of our future?

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I use photographic processes to imagine this grand intervention in the atmosphere; By covering a negative with salt and then exposing it to sunlight, the salt reflects the light. In the encounter between emulsion, salt and light, the photograph emerges.

In my thesis I merge pragmatic and aesthetic writing into 51 poems exploring ways of perceiving climate change. There are poems about disaster, the new geological era we reside in, ways of understanding climate change and why it is difficult to grasp the disastrous nature of it.

‘Morphine for summertime’ is a materialization of a speculative future.

In the spirit of metamodernism, this thesis oscillates between sincerity and sarcasm. No glacier will grace the halls of the MoMa anytime soon, nor will flooding be present at the Tate. I introduce a thought experiment to regard climate change as art, the art as sublime, and humankind as one big artist collective.

Thesis Disaster Poetry Is anthropogenic climate change the greatest artwork ever made?

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Linnéa Gerrits The Netherlands linneagerrits.com Project Lickin’ sticky walls Your dentist from ten years ago who randomly popped up in your head last night. That song you heard in the supermarket this morning and is still in your head six hours later, playing on repeat like an echo. Your head becomes a beautiful trash bag for everything you come across online and in the “real world”. A place where thoughts, sounds

and images merge together and create something new, like an internal chaotic and irrational monologue that starts to make its way through your structured day. I introduce to you my trolls: Britney, Steven, Bby, M.j., Marijke/Julia, Willy & his brother and all of their friends. A collection of different characters I picked up along the way and who started to live a life of their own inside of my head.

Thesis Escapism in film: Some describe it as a flight from reality, others as being at home Some people want to live in a better world, they fight for their ideas and believe it is possible to realize them step by step. Others want to escape from this so-called real world and find ways to do so, big or small; even watching a movie for two hours can be a way of forgetting everything and avoiding all your responsibilities. For some people though, this is not enough. They have created an imaginary bubble that they can go to whenever they want; sometimes permanently. 161

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Diana Gheorghiu diana.gheorghiu.123@gmail.com Romania dianagheorghiu.com Project H is for Healthy The not yet regulated wellness industry is built on extreme, unsustainable diets and detox advises, bee sting acupuncture or regular colonics. As the wellness myths are spreading, the trust in reliable

science decreases. In this age of misinformation, fake news and twisted science, I suggest we should all ask ourselves: where does the will to educate end and does the selling pitch start? Thesis Real Eyes, Realize The thesis aims to define the 21st century photography and to reveal the elements that describe the medium influenced by the age of the Internet.

Using relevant literature (Lev Manovich, Daniel Rubinstein, Vilém Flusser, Martin Heidegger, Susan Sontag, John Berger, Roland Barthes), Diana Gheorghiu argues that the computational photography should not be discussed using the same methodology as for analog photography. Structured in three chapters ‘Age of the Chair’, ‘Age of Confusion’ and ‘Age of Simulation”, the thesis’ role is to unpack the definitions of digital imagery in the present times. www.realeyesrealize.me 162

indragleizde@inbox.lv Latvia indragleizde.com Internship: Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs Project Analysis and Other Sorceries I am a bridge builder, a witch who (re)connects and intertwines. In the 19th century, a peculiar change in our perception of the world occurred. We discovered the trick of turning living beings into scientific objects - specimens. And oral traditions – like the Latvian folksongs called Dainas – into paper artefacts.

But ironically, these methods brought us the theory of evolution, which put humans back into the animal world. And the cabinet of Dainas also keeps in its drawers an animistic memory marked by deep respect for all living beings. Ruthless exploitation of the natural world will continue, unless we figure out how the work of those who fragment, analyse and divide, can be continued by those who put together, synthesize and connect. Thesis Art, Humility and the River (and maybe Hope as well) This thesis reclaims humility as a moral virtue and sees art as a crucial means of nourishing it.

Humility is a multi-faceted concept that can be defined as radical self-awareness through othercenteredness. Historically, humility has lost its perceived significance because of its connotation with oppressive systems. However, today’s society faces pressing issues, where reckless and overconfident individualism seems to constitute a political and personal obstacle. In this context, humility (re)gains new significance. Humility can be nurtured by art that meditates on gaining a larger perspective, reminding individuals of their embedding in everything that surrounds them. That, today, is a timely relationship between humility and art.

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Trees Heil trees_1993@hotmail.com The Netherlands treesheil.com Internship: Installation art, KASK Project Period Pride With this project I question the physical and emotional state of women during their menstrual cycle and the role it plays in their life. This starts with a conversation.

A group of young women shared their experiences with me and I responded with a visual interpretation of their stories. It is my intention to give the menstrual cycle attention and appreciation, show what is normally hidden and of such importance for the inner world and physical body. Thesis Short stops It was a personal necessity that made me question the relationship between freedom and direction.

I wondered how these themes can relate to each other, instead of only considering them as opposites. I constructed eleven group discussions. This is a subjective collection of sources from the visual arts, philosophy, and psychology. I let my favorite thinkers and visual artworks converse with each other. The conversations don’t provide fixed answers but point out ideas, questions, and possibilities. They show a diversity of visions and perspectives that come together and co-exist. 164

kate.juricic@gmail.com Croatia katarinajuricic.com Internship: Felicity Hammond & Black Tower Projects, London Project Orange & Blue Staring at the Sun and the Sea. The scenery is magical and I feel relieved. The light and the colors nurture my eyes, and the images remain in my mind. Sometimes, the Sun appears more red than orange, and the Sea more blue than cyan. Infinite combinations of Orange and Blue, compressed

in a memory where the reality merges with fantasy. The memory re-imagined, constructed, intensified and abstracted. Materialized in a photograph. A pleasure of looking at something so foreign yet familiar. The Sun interacting with the Sea. Thesis What Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? A pocket guidebook containing the collection of interconnected texts with non-linear storyline that expand upon each other by drawing further connections to other related subjects.

The content derives from the very fact that I exist right here and now, aware of being too dependent on technological devices which are putting into question the principles of being human. Developments in computation, machine vision and deep learning have set up new ways of communication, acquiring knowledge, behaviour, and understanding the world. I found myself in the discourse of speculative futures where, regardless of all the technological developments we find ourselves entangled in, there is a lack of understanding of our own creations.

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Co Knol Ani Kehayova ani.kehayova@gmail.com Bulgaria anikehayova.com Internship: Reynold Reynolds

behaviors are increasingly becoming a subject of informatization and pattern recognition. In a series of visualexperiments, I look at my body as an asset of biometrical data. Is this really me?

Project Verified Personal verification or identity verification is something I meet on a daily basis. In the name of higher security and easy access to personalized utilities, my own unique human features and

Thesis Living in the loop I live in an environment, which is saturated with visual information and I have become more conscious about it. In my paper, I elaborate on my personal experience of visual data overload. I define it as one big

loop, a finite infinity, an endless process of massive production and consumption of digital data, which makes me feel both overwhelmed and fascinated. What I am witnessing is actually a great consequence of digitalization and the internet. The roles of consumers and producers of visual content have merged and the actual exchange of cultural knowledge is under question. As a visual artist, I am evaluating my role in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;the loopâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and if there is any way out of it.

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coknol@hotmail.com The Netherlands coknol.nl Internship: Peter Puklus Project Construction Meeting The family is the most important foundation for our socialization. Our norms and values are mainly passed on within the context of family. But what if your ideas conflict with the ones your father or mother has? Avoiding confrontation is the

easiest, but searching for another way of communication is more valuable. I found another form of dialogue in the construction site of my parents house. The constructing of this house became a reason to have a dialogue with my father. The construction site became the place where we build upon our relationship. Not necessarily through words but through our deeds. Thesis Active Engagement In my thesis I want to find out if reaching our audience is truly happening or if the gap between

the maker and the viewer is still enormous. By creating more awareness of the power of visual communication and the importance of being a visually literate person in our current culture, we can help others to get a better understanding of what photography means and can do for society. How do we create a substantial base to help us with our interpretations? How can we guide the viewer to look similarly to how a maker looks? The role of the photographer evolved together with the development of our visual culture; therefore educating others in reading images is part of our job now. 167

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Sonya Mantere Stella Loning stellajevoor@hotmail.com The Netherlands stellaloning.nl Internships: Vibeke Mascini, Rectangle Project 12 Hertz Sometimes, I experience moments in my life where the feeling of living by the clock is completely overruled. It is as if time has become immaterial, it stops.

They are like a cat I used to see on the street: when I wasn’t looking for her, she might cross my path, but when I looked for the cat, I could never find her; she’d be hidden away. Thesis Festina Lente In Festina Lente, Stella Loning touches upon the fast-paced way of life that is dominant in our current society, and the negative effects it can have on our wellbeing. With the rise of technology and modernization our lives have become more hectic and complex.

Research has shown how quick-fixes might enable us to save time, but many of them do not serve as a solid long-term solution. Besides addressing reactions on this development within society, Festina Lente is an investigation into how art can play a role in creating awareness around this topic, by focussing on meditation and nearby surroundings in relation to the artworks.

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sonya.mantere@gmail.com Finland sonyamantere.com @sonyaromina Internships: Sabrina Bongiovanni, Cake Film & Photography Project Rebecca Having only my mother as a parent I have intentionally shifted from being a continuum of her to being my own person. We always hear how we will eventually grow up to be our parents.

Observing her has built a stronger view on who she is and how we differ as a mother and daughter. One of my names is Rebecca, because my mother once wanted to be called that. And she always asks me: “Why am I not more like her?” These images formed themselves after instead of giving her the space to be herself, I depicted her as someone I saw her being. Thesis You don’t look your age Being a woman I often questioned if what I was experiencing was considered valid. Because of cultural differences we women view our

own femininity and equality to men differently so it is never absolute. In my thesis I go through feminine characteristics and how youth is a measure of one’s beauty. The traits women and men have shape the way they are being viewed in our society, regardless of their gender. I look into how older women are being seen and how visible a woman is after she is no longer considered young.

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Viktor Naumovski Loretta Monique lorettamulders@gmail.com The Netherlands lorettamonique.com Internship: Het Parool Project Does a Lamb Stray Like a Lion? When I close my eyes and I think about my childhood, I see an army of females. There was no male influence in my upbringing and for the biggest part of my life I have been looking at men with great perplexity. ‘Does a Lamb Stray Like a Lion?’ shows an exploration of what masculinity is and could be

in the 21st century. It’s a dialogue between me and three brothers, who are all in very different stages of their life. Jan (21), Józef (12) and Jeremi (1) take me on board to discover this complex thing called manhood. Sinking and swimming between what is expected and what is desired, we meet. Thesis MASCULINISM - a quest to discover why men are left out of the feminist discours I have the feeling that we are standing on a crossroad. The feminists of the 21st century seem to be wondering why the hell alpha males are not moving along with

them. But how is a man (who has been put inside a stereotypical box his whole life) able to walk across that pedestrian crossing and join the feminists on the other side of the road if he doesn’t know how to get there? While women steadily made their way into traditionally male domains, a lot of men were left behind in the same spot. By looking at historic and current events I try to dissect how we came to a division between the sexes in the first place. What kind of stories made us believe that the sex we’re born into, comes with a certain hardwired behavior or set of roles?

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viktor.naumovski@hotmail.com North Macedonia viktornaumovski.com Project Standing in The Sun ‘Us boys of the suburbs are different. Baptized to wear foil around our necks. Walk with dog teeth under our armpits.’ Standing in the Sun is inspired by a time when the real and the imaginary folded neatly into one another; We spent days playing in the dirt midst my country’s passage from war to westernization.

Inspired by the emotional experience of growing up in a country in transition, Standing in the Sun is an alternative narrative— a coming of age story, focusing on a group of boys living in suburban Skopje, Macedonia. Through involving my childhood friends and family in all stages of production, we explore the dynamics between me as a director and them as the outsiders of the art world. Thesis Merging Art And Life; The Ride Never Ends Embarking on an honest quest of self discovery to better understand why I create, I stumbled upon quite a personal dilemma- have I become hooked and is creating a way to cope with my life and experiences?

To what extend are art and life related, and how they could come together, consequently became the main question. Starting with treating everyday life as art only by putting it in such context, through exploring dependency between art and life on a psychological level, and ending with an experiment where I ask my mother as a non-artist to write a reflective essay on the topic— my research had shifted from how I see this issue to how the viewer is affected when it comes to consuming and reflecting on bodies of work bringing art an life together.

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Louisiana van Onna louisvanonna@live.nl The Netherlands louisianavanonna.com Internship: Sjoerd Knibbeler Project Here we weigh more, there we jump higher We often tend to see science as the absolute truth. But it turns out science is fluid, and so is gravity. From the moment an apple fell on Isaac Newton’s head in 1684, we have wondered about the force that keeps our feet on the ground and causes objects to fall. What if

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a banal force like gravity can even shift and change? Miraculously, due to the Bouguer anomaly, high amounts of gravity are measured in Drenthe and very low amounts of gravity are measured in Noord Brabant due to the type of stones underneath the surface. In my project I show that, surprisingly, the force that we are most intimate with, is the one that is least understood. Even in a flat country like the Netherlands, there’s more beneath the surface. Thesis Global disenchantment In a world driven by technological and scientific innovation I wonder

if are we getting disenchanted. By researching what imagination can add to our disenchanted world, I look for connections and disconnections between the world of art and the world of science. How is it possible that we have an uncontrollable desire for knowledge and categorization, and at the same time are so amazed by the grandeur of nature? By investigating the image of Earth, through the years and through different perspectives, I look at the shapes given to the Earth and try to detect if our view on the globe has always been the same.

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Jamy Osinga jgosinga@gmail.com The Netherlands Internships: Anais Lopez, DockingStation Project The Moral Minds of Gods and Children It is about a year ago that I found myself trying to discover what happened to one of the children I was responsible for during a summer camp. I tried to talk with them about what their role was in the previous situation in which one of the children was hurt by the others.

In the grey area between these two extremes lies our moral consciousness, which we develop when we are around seven years old. It is at that age, that we start noticing the needs and longings of the ones around us. Who do I want to be and who is the other? I found that the sense of right and wrong isn’t as obvious as we think it is, and that children have a much better sense of it than most of us grownups. Thesis What you learn at art academy As an art student people often ask me: What do you learn at the art academy and what can you do with

an art academy degree? Not only did I wonder about what I’ve learned, I also wanted to know what else these years at the academy have brought me. I’ve dived into my personal reasons for going to study photography and learned what others think about the value of studying art. I found that the camera can be used as a tool to start conversations about certain matters and that photo’s can function as tools for the viewer to start a similar conversation. This conversation doesn’t need to take form in spoken words but can also be an internal dialogue with oneself while or after seeing a work of art.

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Mafalda Rakoš hello@mafaldarakos.com Austria mafaldarakos.com Internship: Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek

Nael Quraishi quraishi.nael@gmail.com United Kingdom naelquraishi.com Internship: Bani Abidi Project The Empty Bench “Dear all, I cannot even begin to explain how it felt to hear the news of our trip to Karachi being canceled,

It was important to me that both sides of my family would come together again… Does everyone remember what the grass in our old garden looked like?” ‘The Empty Bench’ is about the constant struggle of trying to be a part of a familial bond that is disjointed and spread around the globe. In a way to deal with this discomfort, I invited each family member to participate in my project. This resulted

in a weekly exchange of images of grass and even deeper conversations as an attempt to get closer to each other, to belong somewhere. Thesis Fast Love and the Palm Tree Beach Hut 5 non-linear stories about 5 different objects that reveal traces of displacement, nostalgia, migration, family history and (be)longing.

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Project A Story to Tell “You don’t really fit in..You don’t fit into the group of normal people, because you’re anorectic. And you don’t fit with those affected by anorexia, because you’re a man.” – Thomas, 21 Our process starts with a conversation. What does it look like, your mental cage? What do you feel, see,

think, hear, taste and smell? And where shall we go to take a picture of it? ‘A Story to Tell’ resulted from many encounters with ten men affected by anorexia, bulimia and binge eating. Very often, it was shocking to listen to their stories. Yet, we kept drilling towards the true conflicts in the intersection of social expectations and big emotions; conflicts that lie at the heart of the stories they wanted to tell. Thesis Searching German Angst This thesis is an attempt to get a deeper understanding of the shifting political landscape in Europe and the reflection on how to deal with

societal topics as a photographer. The initial research question aimed at dissecting how the rise of populism is connected to anxiety, and whether the existance of German Angst can be proven, or not. The text entails a combination of sociological research, personal observations and reflections, analysis of artistic positions and imagery. As a passionate hitchhiker and anthropologist, my encounters with different characters on highways throughout Europe often served as a starting point for reflection. Thus, they are organically interwoven into the text and guide the reader through the journey.

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Emma Sarpaniemi Daniela Roșca daniela.roshca@gmail.com danielarosca.com Internship: Prince Claus Fund Project Tu ești primăvara mea It is a long-term work about hometown and an attempt at undoing distance. This project is a story of home; left “empty” by migration; filled by nostalgia. Today, the Republic of Moldova is the fastest shrinking country in the world with more than 160 people leaving daily and never coming back. According to the UN, in 80 years,

the population will decrease by 54,4%. I am trying to speak to this moment of time in the history of disappearance of a country. How a new space has been created by the lack of humans. A space with an atmosphere full of heavy absence but still with a strange beauty. The beauty and the longing and the dreams that lie behind that region of Moldova. Thesis PREDICTION OR INFLUENCE? Why future science needs art in order to move forward All over the world biohackers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and corporations are eagerly pursuing

new and marketable applications for advanced technologies. Many of them are being actively designed to help humans fulfill our age-old transcendent longings—to be stronger, smarter, better-looking and more resilient, and to cultivate new abilities that seem like superpowers by the standards of the past. To communicate this longings and discoveries photography plays a huge role. I tried to analyze starting from the past till present how photography is engaged in shaping the future of our world. How even in a world dominated by science and technology the artists are diversifying wonderful new approaches.

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emma.sarpaniemi@gmail.com Finland Internship: Ville Varumo Project When the Sun goes down We see Lemons When the Sun goes down We see Lemons portrays the relationship between myself and my models. In Western society connecting with people has become either swiping or texting. By choosing to shoot analogue I stress to search for the lost intimacy and time with my models. We are grounding ourselves in the present rather than looking ahead in the future. It’s all about us together, in that moment.

Balancing between the role of a photographer and a friend, the intimacy in the photoshoot alters to a dialogue to create a new way of connecting with each other. I’m in control of the moment by pressing the release cable but as we are on the same side of the camera the self-determination is equal. Each one of us can determine oneself freely.

Thesis Dear Dad, reading this I hope you understand why I’m wearing a suit at the party. Yours, Emma My thesis is an investigation on femininity in self-portraiture. It consists of two essays and four letters written to my father. It all started with a photograph by a British artist Sarah Lucas, Selfportrait with Fried Eggs, 1996. Lucas is performing a masculine appearance rather than feminine. For me the self-portrait represented freedom and empowerment in performing femininity. I was fascinated by the photograph but I felt there was no right way to formulate what does femininity mean. It became a journey to find a clear answer of its meaning and how I interpret it. 177

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Sofie Sihombing sofiesihombing@gmail.com The Netherlands sofiesihombing.nl Internship: Oscar Santillan Project The man for whom time went faster When Albert Einstein published his theory of special relativity, he rearranged the universe, changing our understanding of time and space forever. But how can we make sense of such a complicated theory? In this project I look for ways in which special relativity shows itself in everyday life. What if I use the theory of relativity, not as a mathematical formula, but as a way to look at the world?

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The theory comes with strange consequences, such as time running slower when you move, but faster when you stand on top of a mountain. By looking for manifestations, I explore the differences between scientific time and the way we experience it. Although the differences cannot be seen with the naked eye, they are worth noticing to me. Thesis Castles made of sand A second must have meant quite a different thing to Aristotle in comparison to what it may mean to us now. And the way Isaac Newton looked at time, is unlike the way we experience it internally. Time is not only numbers and

duration measured on a clock. Once we speak to an astronomer, a psychologist, a biologist, a historian or to the person running to catch a train, the range of possibilities in perceiving time opens up. In this thesis I research the notion of time through a dialogue between a selection of scientists, philosophers and artists. I discover new ways of thinking about time and duration; From the theory of special relativity, to the beauty of experiencing inner time, to the paradox of trying to define the ‘now’.

Josje van Stekelenburg josjevanstekelenburg@gmail.com The Netherlands Internship: Scarlett Hooft Graafland Project Apotheosis / Apophenia The wind is calling my name. I feel the eyes of faces in the clouds staring back at me. When I look at the clock, I witness the same change of numbers; exactly 11:11, just like the days before this one. We are as gifted as we are flawed by the way we perceive and form ideas

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about the world. To remain sane we tend to push random information into chronological order. We are built to find meaning in everything. “Apotheosis / Apophenia” is a celebration of symbolism and visual expectation. An invitation to create new stories: I need you. Because, what is it that truly holds randomness together? Well, You, of course, you divine creature, you! Thesis Tall Tales About Flying Saucers & Moral Panic In 1947 a pilot named Kenneth Arnold spotted nine flying saucers up in the sky. Later on, these strange

spaceships would go by the name of ‘UFO’s’. After this phenomenon seeped into the media, many other sightings followed. It was only after the early 90’s that the number of sightings started to decrease again. We now know that these so called ‘UFO-waves’ are actually a case of moral panic (mass hysteria) neatly intertwined with the cold war. We communicate through stories and have done so since the beginning of human existence. But what happens when stories go bad? This thesis explores beautiful UFO-stories through the 5 stages of moral panic, as introduced to the world by sociologist Stanley Cohen.

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Elodie Vreeburg Jill Louise Verweijen jillverweijen@gmail.com The Netherlands jilllouiseverweijen.com Internship: Peggy Kuiper Project #R.I.P. Have you ever given thought to how you would design your own funeral? Would you go with cake? The only thing that is certain in life is that you die. People want funeral services to reflect their loved ones and let everyone experience what made their life special. Funerals should be

as a mirror of life. So why is it hardly discussed in Western society? With the use of a poster campaign, I want to challenge you to think about mortality and start a conversation about death. That may be uncomfortable, but it is important to perhaps answer the question: How would you do it? Thesis #R.I.P. Photographing deceased people is as old as photography itself. But why do people make photos of their deceased loved ones? What emotions do these photos evoke, and why do people want to have

such images? Then you realize the honor of being allowed to watch. The images are more intimate than photographs of nudity or births: they often do little more. That private area has been open to everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eyes for some time now. Through the eye of photography we get an insight into these moments. Since the arrival of social media, in addition to daily life, we also see more death and the ideas surrounding this are mixed. Images that some do rather not want to see at all, have emotional value to others and are of great importance for their grieving process.

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elodie_vreeburg@hotmail.com The Netherlands / France elodievreeburg.com Internship: Thomas Mailaender Project Altars of Daily Life I noticed missing a feeling of total meditation in my surroundings where stress or instant impulses control us. In this project I am exploring ways in how to deal with these patterns in the performance society by analysing the urban surroundings. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s human to act in a repetitive way, as in performing certain routines. Nature has the

same kind of repetition, which we often use as a calming aesthetic; the motion of the waves, the trees moving by the wind or the blooming of flowers. During my daily walks I started to create balancing piles of stones with construction materials. This refers to the technique used in ancient times where a landmark was left behind for the next person to pass by. These sculptures became monuments of a present moment. Thesis A Beach Full of Pavement We follow roads and routines and expect that this is helping us to stay away from the dangers around us.

They are the structures of the city and they are working as a transparent barricade that keeps us in one place. But there are no fences around a path and still we stay within the lines. How can we get people to think outside of those patterns and daily routines that we are unconsciously following? To get a better understanding of what I can add to the street landscapes I walk through, I have researched the work of several artists that are working on the subject of roads in a literal or metaphorical way. By studying the techniques used by these artists, who are intervening in public spaces, I tried to look for answers on my question. 181

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The Textile & Fashion program of the Royal Academy of Art The Hague sees a unique double profile combining two complementary design disciplines within one and the same department. This combination offers possibilities for in-depth artistic development of specific craftsmanship and simultaneously stimulates the exploration of trans disciplinary collaborations to discover the unknown. To me the curiosity to meet the other is one crucial human quality that gives me a genuine hope for the future of both our professional fields as for the world as a whole. By spending time together, collaborating, getting to know each other’s interests and values, stimulates a mutual understanding leading to a collective benefit that is much greater than the sum of its parts and that transcends framed disciplines. In a time where life in general has clearly gone out of balance, where we are constantly asking too much of our planet knowing that it is seriously running out of raw materials, where we have created a textiles and fashion industry of whose the production and consumption is extremely polluting and socially unjust, to me it is no less than a matter of course that we take up our responsibilities as designers of the future to use our creative talent and try to contribute to restore this balance in a meaningful and relevant way, bringing joy and beauty to our lives.

True innovative design is a naked and vulnerable process, we dig deep inside beyond existing concepts, we question, experiment, try, fail, improve, develop until we’re ready to reveal the potential answers of our findings. It is with great pride and joy that we expose to you our new generation of designers: inquisitive, clever, skillful, exceptional, fierce, social, engaged and fully equipped: this is The House of 2019! Good luck, make a change! Mark van Vorstenbos Head of department

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Angelika Danaka angelica.pk@windowslive.com Internship: DIGITARIA Project ARCTIC DREAM My collection is about daydreaming about the North Pole. There is a reality within every dream. And in this dream the reality is: Climate change. As a designer I always create a dreamy world with an activistic message hinting within. With my collection I am trying to capture this moment. The moment of a conscious dream, a cloud around us.

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An essence, that is there but also not. With the vivid colours of the auroras always in the back of my head, I use printing on fabric to colour my world. Transparent fabrics help bring depth and shape faded clouds around the body. This light layered feeling around the body is in contrast with the military elements, which have been applied in a new way, replacing the tough, stiff and heavy material. Thesis AN ARCTIC DREAM Daydreaming, a pleasant creation of the imagination. According to Freud daydreaming starts from

a very young age, a child playing with its toys is creating stories. Daydreaming is the evolution of it, what adults do to escape reality. Freud believes one drifts off to their thoughts when they aren’t satisfied enough with the real world. Plato called the poet a madman, but Freud says that artists are not mad, but unsatisfied. My thesis is about daydreaming, how it is connected with our inner child and it ultimately focuses on the connections between childhood, adulthood, dreams, ambition and life itself. Somehow it always comes back to that. Trying to find your reckless self back, the innocent imagination of a child. 184

Nina Dekker nina@ninadekker.com The Netherlands ninadekker.com Internship: Craig Green Project Brotherhood Through the years I have gathered a collection of historical military photographs from around the world, which became the starting point for my graduation collection. The photographs show men in their authentic uniforms. There is a tension between the practical and the decorative in

these uniforms, bringing a sense of surrealism and poetry to the pictures. Their backgrounds, personalities and values may differ, but within their group there’s a coherence that is more intensely felt and proves to be much stronger than any kind of civil friendship, though it might not last as long. It’s this idea of brotherhood that is central to my collection. In this modern world that is full of chaos, danger and uncertainties I want to create a brotherhood. Thesis The Poetics of the Uniform In the thesis I have explored how a uniform can be considered to be

an attachment piece. Attachment refers to the emotional relationship that can exist between a person and a garment. A garment can for example become a physical manifestation of a memory or it can anchor a sense of self. Another example is that garments can be imbued with symbolic resonance, for example it can symbolize the bond between the wearers of this uniform. Furthermore I have explored how the reinterpretation of these uniforms in fashion can be seen as a way to reconnect to history and how wearing these garments give us the opportunity to wear the stories of others, which makes them part of ourselves. 185

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Min Gweon Kirstie Fulton kirstieanne1991@msn.com United Kingdom Internship: Bas Kosters

Project The Universe and I My work is an invitation into my printed universe. Where the viewer can take time to explore my unique take on travelling through space whilst here on earth. It is a chance to experience another world whilst relaxing on the bed I have created, to dream and take a pause from your daily life.

Thesis Space in Humans We live in a world where science fiction fascinates and facilitates the human need for importance. It creates hope of a future where humans still dominate the universe and our home planet. My thesis explores the human psyche where the need for importance co exists with the conscious mind. I explore theories such as existential nihilism and delve into religious views, whilst making clear connections with our species and the universe on another level. 186

hmgweon@gmail.com South Korea minvanderplus.net Internship: Knitwearlab (Almere), Studio Petra Vonk (Amsterdam) Project Follies (and yet, we still go on) My graduation project, ‘Follies (and yet, we still go on)’ is inspired by the tiny cracks on street bricks, small ruined parts from the buildings, all those quiet and domestic ‘abnormal’ events happen in everyday life. I call them ‘Domestic Ruins’. I mixed

various techniques- tufting, screen printing, knitting, and resin casting to exaggerate contrasting materiality that I encounter in domestic ruins. Softness and hardness, roughness and tenderness, delicate and aggressiveness, and more. I made my own ‘Follie’-the fake ruin that you find in the 18c European landscape gardens- to celebrate the atonal harmony of domestic ruins. Thesis And Yet We Still Go On I practice real life by observing the ruins. The continuous build-up, imprint, accumulation of experiences and personal history that is evident as a living creature. Unlike

historical ruins, domestic ruins are more of a ‘temporary’ ruins, because it does not convince people in its value to be preserved. The physicality of domestic ruin is far from unity. It is a fragment of powerful incident imprinted on the surface of an object. When I face raw materials from the underneath of surface of walls, I truly start to recognize and observe the materiality. I find the similarity in domestic ruins and Follies because both of them are fragile euphemism on human existence by re-making the shadow of the past. I find a connection in my textile work as well.

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Louise Hoving Shijia Hao shijiahaofa@gmail.com China Internship: A.F. Vandevorst Project 1Q84-∞ Depression,isolation,intensity... Behind the civilization of the metropolis are the eroded spirits.In my collection, I want to show an imaginative working class in a futuristic dystopian society. As the character is an anonymous commuter, the main elements are business suits or workwear, but distorted or twisted in a specific way by duplicating, slicing up, deconstructing and also

distortion of proportion based on tailored pieces...Vintage blazers are cut into slices. With patches and prints, I have made a fabric collage to reproduce the fabric. Graphic prints looking like posters are also used to help build up the atmosphere of a future underground nostalgia. I want to show an uncanny 1984 in my version with aesthetics I appreciatepsychedelic and bizarre.

Thesis Man and Ever-expanding metropolis The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. —Albert Camus The ever-expanding metropolis exacerbates the gulf between individual and society, freedom and submission. Man become anonymized in the increasingly urbanized and industrialized world more as a gear for the big machine serving for the development, with their individuality sliced up. Living in a cement forest, being squeezed in a subway with sticky air...The bizarreness is behind the daily routine of city life. 188

louise_hoving@hotmail.com The Netherlands Internship: House of Holland Project Mind the Gap My way of working consists of an eclectic approach where I take elements, shapes and (traditional) ways of dressing from people with different cultural backgrounds and bring them together in my silhouettes. I use the elements within the way of dressing. From the pointy and sleek shoulders of a men’s business suit to a woman with her long skirt and high heels. I’m not literally taking over but I’m taking aspects and making them my own. I make use of bright colored fabrics with all different prints,

embroidery and textures, and create a vibrant but harmonic silhouette which represents the richness which comes with living in a multi-cultural environment. We live and we form culture and culture forms us. Thesis Mind the Gap As we go by in daily life, we observe each other and create preconceptions of our heritages. Culture is all around us and doesn’t revolve around one way of living because of its immensity. Different cultures have been able to place themselves within new environments. If not physical then there is the media whom makes it easier to get an insight into a different culture and the divers world in which we find ourselves nowadays. Moving to a different country and surrounding

yourself in a multi-cultural environment gives the possibility to learn and observe our differences and, if desired, to adapt characteristics of other cultures into our own identity. It is important to celebrate and embrace our diversity and that out of respect and interest for the others heritage we take over the aspect which we find interesting about each other’s identity. The way we dress takes an interesting part within expressing our cultural background. We get inspired by people all among us and meeting people with a different cultural background can have an influence on our identity, morals and values. It might be even a good idea to create the term cultural appreciation as we unconsciously take over aspect which we find interesting about the other person’s heritage. 189

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Trumaine Huijts t.huijts@hotmail.com The Netherlands Internship: Buro BELĂ&#x2030;N Project Boys of No Return For the past 3 years the level of annoyance towards bigger companies that are taking sub-cultural references and selling it to mainstream, started to grow. This graduation collection is an ode to the skateboarding community by creating a speculative image of what streetwear could be.

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The collection comes from a place of reverence and admiration for the skateboarding community. There is an aggressive elegance about their athletic movements that I find mesmerising. I specifically wanted to focus on the translation of a new image through slashed prints and exposed body parts. The ink drawings that I make are the base of my design process, which are developed eventually into bulky silhouettes with experimental textural knits. Thesis Blending Cultures Since the increase in social media ussage, there has been an extreme

shift in subcultures. Different elements of existing cultures are heavily mixed through store bought identities. With the massive exposure on social media this phenomenon has been generalised and more or less accepted. By buying these manufactured identities do we lose the sense of our own identity or do we form a completely new identity? With the number of pictures we see online every day it is hard to believe what is genuine and what is reproduced. The difference between what we portray online and who we turn out to be in real life can be the complete opposite. This thesis describes what is needed to create a new identity. 190

Nicolas Jimenez Poveda nicojfetiva@hotmail.com Colombia Internship: Peter Pilotto Project The Boy Who Cried Wolf How much can we lose of ourselves, that we forget, those things that were so important to us, those stories that we repeated, those characters that we thought we knew. And by releasing them, we also released

parts of ourselves, perhaps thinking that we could recover them, that we could find them later in the place we left them. This is all I lost while being here. Knitting, destroying, fixing, adding some glitter, two or three long dresses, a long sleeve, a skirt, maybe a coat, or just a top. Thesis A story, a border a lost Violence is part of the DNA of Colombian history, a violence that is very marked, a violence that has

paralyzed and strengthens a barrier, a border, the border that allows war. In 2016, a peace process threatened the end of violence, a process that as the main objective sought the end of a series of attacks against human rights. The war then becomes a story, personal but also collective, how does a border dissolve and what happens to those that where onces separated by that border, how they approach going back to the side that once belonged to them but no longer does.

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Hyo Young (Moe) Kim moekim93@gmail.com South Korea Internship: Helene Dashorst Textile Design

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Project 2xL Project 2xL presents five woven pieces; each piece represents Moe Kim’s interpretation version of her life phases. The research is based on psychologist Eric Erikson’s ‘life cycle that one’s life develope in 8 stages’. Electroluminescent wire is interwoven on each piece with different Arduino sensor by its character. Phase one is with the simple battery system. Phase two is with a proximity sensor that the brightness of EL wire changes by distance with a person around. The third phase is also with the proximity sensor, but by touch, the lights turn on and off. Then the Fourth phase with the Sound sensor and the last phase manifest different sequence of lights.

Thesis 2xL - LIFE CYCLE; Five stages of a textile The research leads from the “life cycle” by Eric Erikson (psychologist) who described the sequence of phases a person has to pass through as he matures and suggests that each of the 8 stages characterised by a specific developmental task. Bonding with the subject, the evolution of light from the history of its progress spans to the research of smart textiles in the modern era. Personal interpretation of life stage research stretches to both technical and designed segments with Electroluminescent wire and Arduino system which is combined with different types of sensors. The result is part of the ongoing process.

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Stella Hyunji Kim stelakimi124@gmail.com South Korea Internship: BuroBelén Project Artificial Calm Fire has continued to expand in its symbolic, emotional and material meaning. Therefore, with my project I shall explore the modern symbolic meaning of fire. What is burnt during fire and what is left after a fire. I aim to capture the leftovers deposited by the flames instead of letting them fly away. ‘Artificial Calm’ consists of beds and curtains.

The bed and curtain symbolise our daily life whilst consisting the most textile in our rooms. Research was based on the patterns of how fire can destruct, deconstruct and decay the structures of daily objects and how it creates layers containing a story. I am introducing a new way of preserving burnt objects by placing it in a room context just the way it is, telling its untold story and values. Thesis In what way does fire manifest in everyday life related to sensor, emotion and material? Why do we watch videos of a burning fire place on Youtube? This thesis employs societal and

meta-philosophical approach to understanding what symbolizes a fire. While fire is unabashed essential part of human life, it pertains various functional and symbolical references in art. Hence, this thesis shall explore the modern symbolic meaning of fire. Moreover, various examples that are employed explore different facets of attached meanings to fire. From case studies such as artists’ works, someone who is a pyromania, the Volendam fireworks accident to academic literature, YouTube videos and public surveys, I argue that artists use of fire primarily relates to emotional or symbolic expression that needs further exploration. 193

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Lina Lau linahendrikje@gmail.com Germany Internship: Daily Paper Clothing Project A Premium Mediocre Collection As a child on the verge between Millennial and Gen Z, I understand it as my task to define and redefine the values of my generation. I believe that my generation’s values have suffered by the means of fashion. Our values are victim of our own perception. What we worship is what is visible on our smart phone screen, which is a minimal depiction of what’s actually there. What

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is there to see is names, product descriptions and branding. These aspects have become key to creating desirability and luxury. From us derived Premium Mediocrity.The white Gucci T-Shirt our new Fur Coat. By comparing new with old luxury values, I am reviewing the term luxury. This collection is part of history and part of the present as it is also a prediction to what and who we value. Thesis A Premium Mediocre Thesis This paper is taking a closer look on a phenomenon called premium mediocre fashion. A phenomenon which describes mediocre prod-

ucts with just a hint of premium air around them. As to be found in overly branded or marketed fashion campaigns and of course the social media. Premium mediocre has changed the vision of the booming fashion consuming generation Z. One might say it has blinded them for reality, as in the reality of value. Luxury and the value of things have become ideational rather than to be measured by the quality of a product. I am trying to understand what luxury is and what it means to Generation Z. This thesis is trying to find the humour, tragedy and the beauty of modern day fashion consumerism.

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Larissa Schepers larissa.schepers@hotmail.com The Netherlands Project Stop Laughing, It’s Not Funny My little brother is upstairs, playing a game, for fun. He shoots, he screams and missed his target.

Only 4 bullets left, let’s go, LET’S GO!! He cheers, he laughs, he goes crazy. We are sitting downstairs, the ceiling shaking, like an upside-down earthquake. Shaking, screaming, loud, TOO LOUD!! How can a video game where you shoot other people be entertaining? What’s funny about someone falling

down the stairs and breaking his leg? How do jokes ever justify the deaths of a mass murder? Stop laughing, it’s not funny. Thesis The disappearance of suffering My thesis is about the disappearance of suffering, and how through nowadays media our perspective on suffering changed. 195

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Otilia Vieru otilia.info@gmail.com Romania / Moldavia @otiliavieruofficial Internship: Claes Iversen Project WELCOME TO THE BRAINDRAIN I sculpt structures in which I organically navigate between contrasting elements. My aim is to bring together the real world and the virtual domain. The Virtual Reality is translated in my collection through the means of Macramé and the materials used for it. I have a very intuitive approach when building these structures and

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sometimes I let the materials push the design into a certain direction. Cables, ropes, zippers and deconstructed glasses are only a few of the materials I have used for the Macrame Shells. Repurposing utensils has always been applied in my creative practice, in my graduation collection, for instance, the cable ties are used to secure, interconnect the macramé and to create a spiky texture resembling pseudopodia of an organism. Thesis Long Live The Immaterial One of the biggest passions during my teenage years has been watching anime and drawing manga. It shows through my work as for all

the years spent at KABK, the graphical, manga-like style has always been present. For my graduation project I have collected references from anime, manga,and animations like: ‘Ghost in the Shell”, “Neon Genesis Evangelion” and “Blame!”. I have always been fond of The Future and the possible unfold of events involving Technology. Since I strongly believe that the virtual domain is gradually taking over, I envision a future in which the immaterial has a greater preference than the material. I have created my own version of what the future could look like, which also serves as the concept for my graduation collection.

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Vincent Wong vincentwong0125@gmail.com Malaysia Internship: Haider Ackermann Project Juvenile Oddity The invention of the internet and advancement of technology has made people vulnerable and restricted in expressing their identities. We are monitored using data we provide to social media. The society is becoming more conservative, more nationalistic and intolerant

to difference. I want people to be able to express themselves again. My project gives a fresh and literal twist to classic tailored menswear and inspiration from the 70s and 80s where technology was still undeveloped and subcultures flourished. An encouragement to do whatever the heck you want and be whoever you want to be. Thesis Cyber Warfare Artificial Intelligence is pervasive to our lives and culture. Don’t know something? Whip out your phone and ask Siri. With artificial

intelligence, we have enabled machines to learn. To be able to read, handle and process huge amounts of data. This has resulted in the rapid advancement of science, medicine and quality of life. But it has also made us even more vulnerable to psychological warfare, especially when initiated by people in power. The biggest concern about the advancement of artificial intelligence is privacy. As Chris Wylie, former head researcher of Cambridge Analytica has mentioned, “computers are better at understanding who you are as a person than your co–workers and friends.” 197

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ZoĂŤ dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hont Richard Forrest dickforrest@gmail.com Ireland richardforrest.info Project A Negative Infinity Imagine capitalism as a living sculptural entity! Can it eat or sleep? Does it rest or ever fall over from fatigue?

Have you seen it eat other things or even parts of itself when it is hungry enough? Perhaps it has an immune system and skeleton? Can you see its ribs or does it have a belly? Does it run on all fours or upright? Which part of its body do you live in? Thesis Is capitalism a Living Thing? In this thesis I explore capitalism as an economic system and question

whether it is alive. I look at standard definitions of capitalism from political and economic theorists such as Keynes, Hayek and Marx, while also exploring it as a living thing as defined by biologist Richard Dawkins. While looking at this with a rational perspective I also attempt to take a radically subjective position. Comparing capitalism to living entities such as microbes and trees.

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zoedhont@gmail.com The Netherlands Project Even the moon borrows its light from the sun The work is a manifestation of an intensive research on Japanese gardening and the way people perceive timespace. When creating the work I defined 4 stages: 1 : Defining the space, determining inside and outside spaces and connect them.

2 : Building the skeleton, macro composing, creating layers, both vertically and horizontally. 3 : Planting, micro composing. 4 : Maintenance. Through directing aspects such as presence and absence, transition, movement, positioning, texture, light and color a new concentrated timespace will grow, emphasizing the nature and energies that are around us, always and everywhere.

Thesis Tuin No(ta)ties My thesis focuses on my research into Japanese gardens, which compositions reflect an investigation into the relationship between man and nature and the paradox that this subject entails. These gardens control the uncontrollable, they compose the random, create static forms of fluidity and dominate in giving support. Out of this research, the conditions arise to create new timespaces, where the material and the immaterial become balanced.

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Lauren Jetty lhowellsgreen@gmail.com laurenjetty.weebly.com Project 1 NOTES: 3-part storm accord and 3-part vocal accord cast into an ice record ‘Notes’ explores the potential cross-modalities of scent and sound. Combining these two physical and yet ephemeral sensory experiences into a physical and yet ephemeral object: a scented ice record. Interaction de+re composes the scents and the sounds. Connecting (to hyperobjects) through the intimacy of a disappearing action

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we are captured physically in a moment by the penetrating qualities of scent and sound: we feel time. I play the role of facilitator: the agency of the ice is apparent as it performs and interacts. Curiosity and conversation drive my practice; I want the audience to explore a scenario that brings the familiar into the realm of the magical. Yes, it actually plays music. Project 2 ArtScience Body: perfume worn by ArtScience graduates ‘ArtScience Body’ explores notions of grouping through scent; and how this is perceived consciously or unconsciously by both the wearer and the audience. Taking examples from nature, it considers pack men-

tality. It is also an investigation into spreading scent throughout space. Thesis [NA]SCENT LANGUAGE An exploration into scent and language: how can the layperson develop colloquial smell-orientated language? The beginnings of a journey in the reclamation of one of our base senses, how can we aid in giving scent a voice? This thesis shadows my tentative first steps into the cryptic arena of scent (in parallel with language). Taking inspiration from hunter-gatherer communities, synesthesia and game- based learning. (Nascent: Just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential)

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Ana Oosting ana.oosting@gmail.com The Netherlands anaoosting.nl Project Tomopteris Micans Material is not passive. It has its own will or volition, sometimes all you need to become aware of that is careful observation. For ‘Tomopteris Micans’ I have explored the material agency of paper. By folding paper again and again different patterns emerge that give paper the ability to move. Each pattern results in

a motion that has its own distinct character. Combining two patterns with a moving mechanism, ‘Tomopteris Micans’ was born. The viewer is invited to observe and explore ‘Tomopteris Micans’, using light to reveal hidden capacities. Thesis Hear The Clay Sing - Thinking Beyond Nature In ‘Hear The Clay Sing – Thinking Beyond Nature’ I explore how I relate to nature as a human being, as a former neuroscientist and as an artist. My research starts with the history and problems of the western nature-culture divide. By thinking

through brains, assemblages and clay, I try to find answers as to how I might possibly move or think beyond these problems. Interconnectedness of and transversal thinking through different domains are things I find back in art. Through interactivity we know and perceive the world, and ultimately ourselves. I am left with an even deeper sense of wonder at the complexity of this world that I am a part of. With Hear The Clay Sing I hope to contribute a little to the sense of wonder of others. Photo credits: Pieter Kers 205

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Project Self- Meditation Instrument. part 001 ‘Self-Meditation Instrument’ is a device that reproduces sounds through repetitive movements. The repetitive movements that occur in the device are overlapped and disaggregated with the visual patterns and sounds shown on

Thesis Immersive Repeatability – Self-Meditation Instrument As society becomes more complicated, people suffer with stress caused by various reasons. Social problems develop from individuals to social groups and expend. At the meantime, existing arts have provided a lot of positive support to resolve these issues. I intend

to make playful interactions with amusing artwork based on repetitive color, patterns, objects, sounds etc. Also, beyond the joy of feeling through visual, auditory, and various senses, to move to a meditative state which feels like a psychological peace. The introduction gives a motivation about this project. The background will explain about amusing artworks and visual play with repetitive patterns. The study part is about psychological effects through meditation. And the final chapter will introduce the objective artwork, called ‘Self-Meditation Instrument’.

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Our intensive two-year programme is designed to support artists with practices driven by curiosity and experimentation. We actively support the politics of inclusion, and the potential of art to register voices unheard elsewhere. We recognise that there are many ways to be an artist, and support investigative attitudes with opportunities to reflect on both the processes and outcomes of this work. Theoretical discussion, writing tasks, and collaborative projects, alongside work in the studio and archive, are interwoven in an intense study programme. Our graduating students have each pursued their personal creative trajectories, opened these up to analysis and debate, the input of our teaching team, visiting artists, writers, curators, and importantly, their peers, and they now share these rich and varied projects with the public, in the graduation exhibition. We would like to thank the curatorial support team of Shimmer, Rotterdam (Eloise Sweetman and Jason Hendrik Hansma), who have worked with us in the creation of this final moment, and the experimental publication that supports it.

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Alongside the individual presentations that make up the exhibition, the group publication reveals the collective spirit of our department, and we would especially like to thank the writers who supported each student with a contributing text: Mieke Bal, David Bruzina, Lieneke Hulshof, Raimundas Malausauskas, Lucia Monge, Kate Moss, Peter Paul Pothoven, and Lisa Robertson. Janice McNab Head of department

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Mel Oi Wun Chan indiemel@gmail.com The Netherlands melchan.com Project Since Eternity is Out of Stock Mel Chan’s research explores human existence in a post-apocalyptic world. Sounds paradoxical, yet it concerns one of the most traditional philosophical fields of debate — metaphysics. Such ancient debates are still relevant as they manifest in different forms — from new age narratives to ‘mind-uploading’ technology.

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Her projects are attempts to visit these accounts and reveal their intertwining nature, as well as the hidden economy, in the contemporary context. By using techniques from the well-being industry, such as guided meditation, sound bath and hypnotherapy, Mel’s performances let audiences immerse in an imaginary world where angst and guilt of dystopia could be redeemed by means of consumption. Thesis If a Tree Falls in a Forest This thesis is a journey in search of an answer to an impossible question: What is art? At first glance, art

is what it is perceived to be. One could say the intentionality of an artist, together with the viewer’s interpretation, is enough to define what is, and what is not art. Just like in modern aesthetics philosophy (Kant, Schiller and Hegel), the main analysis lays in the relationship between subject (artist/viewer) and object (artwork). However, in our society, the way art is perceived and defined is much more complicated than the artist-art-viewer triangle. A museum, for example, has the power to turn any object into art, and in turn shaping the practice of viewers and artists alike. Who, then, has the power to define what art is?

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Lucy Cordes Engelman lucy.engelman@gmail.com United States of America Project The Taste Undid My Eyes! You are dreaming of an ocean again… Waves overcome you, submerged in a space of polyvocal temporalities + subjectivities. You remember this now as your body begins to dissolve into -Engelman’s cinematic graduation work circles around feminist haptic desire and ‘solastalgia’ as ecological longing. It takes form via mother/

daughter skype conversations, attempts to unravel mythologies around water, alternative moon birth scenarios and dance conjuring. Authorial slippages and transference course through the multi perspective film. Super 8 footage appears as material, enmeshing itself in the space, potent not by symbolizing something beyond itself -- but by nature of its own presence. You awaken only to find you are in a deeper ocean. Euphoria! Thesis These Haunting Bodily Dreams Emerging out of writings between three fictional filmmakers, Engelman’s thesis takes the nebulous

form of an ongoing rumination -- and meandering -- through a personal genealogy of feminist, haptic, and avant-garde cinemas. Focusing on thresholds of movement across such multiplicities, this body of work questions how moving image might counter patriarchy as we reckon with climatic shifts. Drawing on the work of those before her (and around her), she proposes expanded ways of approaching film that can invite us to encounter the world anew. In a sensorial, ecologically committed, intersectional feminist filmic ‘elsewhere’ there might be a means of recalling our deep dependence on the wider-than-human world -- and more.

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Arthur Cordier Belgium arthurcordier.com thebalconythehague.com Project Art and ice cream, both enjoyable. I consider advertising an obsolete strategy - yet a strategy that keeps being used. Due to the omnipresence of commercial injunctions in our urban and digital spaces, the resulting saturation in fine makes advertising invisible - and consequently unecessary. Or is it on the contrary its appearant invisibilty that keeps advertising functioning?

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How, and in which forms do products and promotional goods contain their own desuetude? How infused, visible and imperceptible advertising and propaganda are in our societies is the question that stretches through my works. This is the ground I stand on, both fascinated and repulsed, disgusted and curious. Is capitalism in the end, a fiction – a narrated illusion? Thesis The Opening Super The Opening Super explores how museums and supermarkets feed off each other and investigates the cultural implication of Albert Heijn. At the ‘Zaanse Schans’ near Amster-

dam, the chain runs their own historical museum, a reconstruction of a 16-17th century Dutch village. The location overlaps with the industrial, colonial and cultural history of the Netherlands. The writing explores the relations and the intersections between authenticity, national identity, colonialism and marketing strategies in our daily life. While producing a cultural representation of a retail ecosystem, it translates Albert Heijn’s national and historical narratives into a potential ruin. How does a supermarket run a museum - and what does Vermeer have to do with this?

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Matthew Lanning mattlanning@xs4all.nl matthewjameslanning.com Project Into the midst of the armada Creating possibilities for the reimagination of representation. Through trying to understand how technology has the unique capacity to expand or contract

on the sensory thresholds of our bodies. Exposing that expanded threshold of bodily experience can not only change the body but also the mind. It can start to redetermine how intelligence is possible through that fact that it changes the thresholds through within which things are felt and become intelligible. This re-rendering of feeling and intellect is a process that is materialised and spatialise in the world itself. Yet how does this changed intelligibility materialise and become corporal?

Thesis Holographic Entry Points This thesis will be an academic and artistic inquiry into the existence of digital objects. At what points do digital objects enter into existence? Understanding these points of entrance allows us insight into how we deal with and understand digital objects and their political potential through a re-envisioning of future worlds.

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Daisy Madden-Wells United Kingdom cargocollective.com/daisymadden-wells Project Throng Shielded by shades lensed with slices of phony-pink agate crystal, sits a face, vacant of feature. Whether the neck, which zigs to the side, does so in inquiry or rejection of

its surroundings, is equally uninscribed. The neck, which zags to the side, is surrounded by a throng of characters, creatures, creeps. Marking time in ornate, DIY purgatory, heraldic forms glitching in the court of King Whats-his-name. Flattening of meaning, dissolution of hierarchy, a collection of sculptures, a song, a papered window.

Thesis Infinitely Diverse Gods My thesis is a meander through the vagaries of the UK class system, in relation to the objects and ornaments that have been elected, over millennia, as the representatives of hopes, dreams, wishes and status. While exploring the Paganistic worship of these idols, I take in, among other things: a trip to the casino, Agamben’s theory of the ‘Profane’, dinner parties, ‘kitsch’ as a site of class-warfare, and the genealogy of the lion as heraldic pin-up of choice. 214

Project Flowers A viewer—”you” let’s say—walk into a room—and you meet a kind of landscape of these ceramic wreaths couched in foam—all snug, packed to themselves—the materials, I mean. You meet this little slough of sculptures, and you can kind of make your way through it. They’re strewn and clustered and make a bit of a path for you to step around. And you have to get down to inspect them, if you want to, because they’re on the floor.

And beyond them, a little ways back, is a canvas tent—and inside it’s a bit dark, but the ceiling is all hung with chandelier crystals, and they’re chucking their little rainbows all around the room. And inside too is a lone telephone table, with a telephone, and an ashtray, you see? And you can, if you want, pick up the phone... Thesis Working in Obscurity: The Lost Poet If feminist practice is to be considered a project of social re-engineering, it is also one that must always begin with, emanate from, and determinately return to, the emancipation of the self from visible and invisible systems of oppression — since the self is the struggle’s constant battleground.

Just how this is to be done is, of course, the question. “How” as in, “in what ways?” and, “by what means?”. If hegemony is so seemingly total, where are we to look for the end of it? How can we overturn an order from within an order? free ourselves and imagine a beyond? — if we are, as we are, already many-generational colonial subjects of patriarchal rule. What would unobstructed femininity be? I wonder. I am thinking about these things.

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Wilfredo Orellana-Pineda aopwillis@gmail.com Guatemala Project these subtle variations Demonstration about the plasticity of nature in the industrial production of ornamental plants. Exploration

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of the deformations that occur during mericloved reproduction of Phalaenopsis. installation, video (1:10 minutes) trolleys, pots, orchids. Thesis de-monstrations Is an exploration of the monstrosity to remember the relationship that keeps whit the demonstration, in its Latin root as the message (monere), as well as monstrosity in the

demonstrations. From the analysis of several works of Guatemalan art, the term is intended to be ab-used in order to think about it in relation to the production of nature and its relationship with the law, and how some aesthetic practices escape from the colonial-capitalist definitions.

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Helena Sanders helenasusanna@gmail.com United States of America / The Netherlands helenasanders.com Project Ol’ Yellow Eyes Ol’ Yellow Eyes is an installation combining infrared light, ocher pigment, reactive dyes, sound

and performance. The character of Ol’ Yellow Eyes draws freely from Appalachian folkloric traditions as well as histories of color science-from Medieval women’s dyers guilds to early chemists who converted coal waste into color. Is color haunted? Thesis Committed to the Ghost ‘Committed to the Ghost’ is a preliminary investigation into

the extent to which the materialities and historical contexts of color and color usage may serve as a poetic tool for communicating affective and subjective experience. The essay is an exploration of possible relationships between the sites of production of color and pigments, and the metaphysical influence this might hold over us as humans.

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Re-designing industry

Conrado Bergemann

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Alicja Czop

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Johanna Günzl

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Federica Marrella

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Cecilia Polonara

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Jan Sengers

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Daphne Story

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‘At the Master Industrial Design we believe that industrial design shapes the world of tomorrow.’ Industry, a complex, manmade system of consumer wishes, product design and engineering, assembly lines, human and material resources, transportation, business models, advertising campaigns and waste. A system that expanded and intensified after spinning looms were placed together in the first cotton mill in Britain kicking off the Industrial Revolution. A system that we designed. By now this industry causes more problems than it solves. It drains the planet of its resources and chokes it with products and pollution instead of truly contributing to the well being of its inhabitants.

We are very proud to show you this year’s graduates’ research and projects during the Graduation Show and in the next pages. Each of these projects is based on meticulous and passionate design research, which resulted in distinct and outstanding designs. Courageous in subject, they deal with complex as well as urgent matters: from queerness of industrial products to microplastics and from the impact of the use of botox to patriarchy. Hope you enjoy it! Maaike Roozenburg Head of department

We believe that by questioning and redesigning the conventions in the industrial system, industrial designers can contribute to a sustainable, meaningful and inclusive world. Therefore design research plays a crucial role, dealing with material culture: it looks into the connection between humans and material objects and the social, cultural, economical and ecological role these objects and their production play. This research is then implemented and materialised in aesthetically distinctive and meaningful products and projects.

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Alicja Czop Conrado Bergemann conrado@bergemann.com.br Brazil Project Free to alter: Defining a modular motor. With a motor the only thing remaining is a component that allows the motor to alter its identity and capabilities. Therefore, having an interchangeable engine would dramatically reduce volume and add more access to options from a single unit. The simplicity of a packaged engine allows it to function like a building block for a new device, turning users into

makers by improvising new solutions or turning a toolbox into a digital library. The motor is simple in design so others can fill in the blanks, hopefully encouraging an open source community that will produce new alterations of the engine. This would result in a growing list of options that can be easily assembled when needed, and include new iterations for custom versions or making obscure equipment more attainable. Thesis Modularity: Formless Designs in a Formidable World Everyday products are built to solve a task, and those tasks serve a special need in its appropriate environment. A drill in one’s hand

is tasked to make holes and a fan on a desk is tasked to produce a cool breeze. They are animated by a motor which is in essence repeating the same cycle. If you need a hole or a breeze, you probably need something to go in circles. The very essence of a motorized product is in fact the cycle that gives it life, like a beating heart. This observation led to questions like: How could something so essential be limited to only one purpose? Or rather, what if it was free to become something else? How would it be best used in-between tasks? And more importantly: how would it impact the demand for a certain product?

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czop.alicja@gmail.com Poland instagram.com/alicja_czop Internships: The National Museum in Cracow, Floris Wubben studio, Annelies den Besten studio, TWO-O, Mobgen, ING Lab Project Dare to Feel: Use your Senses and Enter the World of Intimacy Intimacy is strongly based on touch and smell. ‘Dare to Feel’ is a series of products for the home environment which will create an intimate and safe place to release emotions, by using these key senses. The low seat sofa is a space for either spending time together or being alone with

one’s own emotions, when splitting it into two armchairs. The upholstery material used for this object is velvet, providing the emotional and tactile experience. Based on the feedback from Millennials, the sense of smell is an essential element of intimacy as well as varying temperatures of light. In line with this, a glass, light-based object was created. The increasing temperature of light releases an aroma which can bring intimate memories back or create completely new ones. Thesis Millennials vs Intimacy What intimate relationships between people look like has been changed by modern technology. Is this a change we just have to

accept, does it benefit us? Using a group of Millennials, Alicja Czop has had the opportunity to understand a wide variety of different views on the way in which technology has altered intimacy, as well as to get to know herself better. The investigation was a learning process about emotions and needs, based on real people’s stories. Intimacy is a journey of self-discovery, it is a process of letting others into this private zone and understanding other people’s emotions. The aim of this project is to connect people by creating a space which will give users increased possibilities to maintain their relations in real life.

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Johanna Günzl johannaguenzl@gmail.com Germany Project Micro Matters With Micro Matters, Johanna aims to create a safe learning environment in which we discover how we produce microplastics and cause their dispersion. This learning environment is the micro cosmos of a household where synthetic furniture and laundry contribute largely to the microplastic pollution on our planet. The product is an air purifier hanging from the ceiling, a balloon

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with the working mechanism of a lung. It expands and contracts responsively and thereby inhaling dusty air and exhaling clean air through its filter wall. As the product senses microplastics in the dust it starts to hyperventilate, showing the need to clean the air and indicating that microplastics are present in the room – a learning tool to show when they occur. Thesis Hidden Kingdom What is a designer’s action space when tackling globally dispersed and abstract problems like microplastic pollution? Microplastics are an immaterial and invisible matter to us

like fine dust or radio activity. These “hyperobjects”, a concept suggested by the philosopher T. Morton, are a creeping danger to our lungs and stomachs. Yet, misconceptions about when we produce them and how they travel through our world make it hard to understand how we could reduce them. In her research, Johanna investigates the many origins of microplastics and challenges us to reconsider the design of ever-day objects. At the heart of her thesis research are a new categorization system for microplastics and a framework for designers to tackle hyperobjects.

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Federica Marrella federicamarrella92@gmail.com Italy federicagilda.wixsite.com/website Project The Feminist Textile Glossary The intent of my design project is to take language as a vehicle for activist revolution and textile crafts as the tool of its physical and visual representation. The project aims to demonstrate that for textile crafts it’s possible to implement a turnaround from being oppressive and coercive -according to the current patriarchal standards - to being

cathartic and cohesive. This project will embody this empowering vision: it’s a product in the form of a physical dictionary which aims to capture the many shades of feelings, facts and conditions which have always existed into our patriarchal reality but that have always been neglected from a social and, consequently, from a linguistic perspective. Thesis Million Males Away My thesis started from questioning how design can transform, challenge and re-shape the patriarchal system. Patriarchy is one of the oldest oppressive system and it promotes violence, dominance and control.

During my research I discovered an intersection between the condition of oppression experienced by women in the public and social sphere -represented by the Bauhaus schooland in the private domain, embodied into the domestic environment. In both cases textile crafts -which have been historically considered ‘feminine’ activities and often devalued or ignored precisely because of their feminisation- represent a visible medium to understand the process of devaluation connected to the female labour.

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Cecilia Polonara cecilia.polonara@gmail.com Italy Project NEW HABITS OF USE_ Destroy the way we are using objects for human life. A visualization of a design manifesto that follows four features: shape, gesture, material, and length of use. Those features are visible in every object; we need to look at them in a different light to be compatible with modern society and the ecosystem. Using this Manifesto three objects of daily life are re-designed: chickpeas boxes, sugar sticks and

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spice pencils. The materials in these objects are replaced with the same material of the product inside, natural and simple materials. The gesture and shape of the objects are re-designed to get a look as close as possible to what we may find in nature. Length of use shrinks to promote a turnover, maintain the request and reduce waste so that it uses compostable materials. Thesis THE BONDING HABITS_ Change the Habits-Of-Use across food packaging How can industrial design contribute to creating a stronger connection between modern society and a natural way of living in order to

contribute to a more sustainable future? The project ‘New Habit Of Use’ is based on research called ‘The Bonding habits’. This research studies the waste problem in our society. Packaging makes up a majority of all our waste worldwide and is usually trashed within six months. The research examines how packaging is used and which are its characteristics in relation to the users. The aim of the project is creating collaboration between the contemporary way of living and the ecosystem by looking at objects in a different light.

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Jan Sengers sengersdesign@gmail.com The Netherlands Project olqua – an object language for queer artefacts olqua is an object language for queer artefacts that reflects the current position of queerness within our society through the creation of objects. The language serves as a new movement and aims to separate itself from the old system of binary thinking. It plays with three notions derived from their thesis: fluidity (queerness), tension

(pressure of having to conform or going against it) and performance (the constructs of society in which we operate). Through combining them the notions take shape, all three expressed differently in the creation of each object. The designed objects will purely be an object offering a gesture to the viewer and exposing their struggle. They will take up space and serve as a physical protest within the space! Thesis the death of john doe How can you create more visibility for gender identity and queerness through the creation of objects? Starting from a personal exploration

towards their gender identity Jan’s research turned into a battle cry. As designers we create objects that have a certain meaning and we enter them into the system, our society. In this way designers have helped construct meaning around gender binary and the accompanying roles that still govern the way we think about gender identity and expression by creating products. This binary thinking confines itself to generalities and labels, and it is time we make space for the fluid richness of queerness! Jan aims to go beyond the binary, reinvent gender roles and create visibility with new queer physical artefacts.

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Daphne Story Daphne@productionstory.nl The Netherlands designstory.nl Project Step in the mind of a perfectionist We live in a time when the pressure to perform is high. Good is often no longer good enough. Everything has to be perfect. But most people are unaware of possible negative effects of perfectionism. Designer Daphne Story developed a mind web together with a perfectionism coach, which structures the pattern of perfectionism and translated

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this into a VR visualisation. The VR experience is for non-perfectionists to submit themselves to strivings of perfection. By virtually stepping into the mind of a perfectionist they experience the emotional impact it can have. With her design Daphne wants to build a bridge between perfectionists and non-perfectionists to communicate openly about striving for perfection in our society. Thesis Pressure to be perfect Dealing with her own perfectionism Daphne felt trapped in a world where she felt she had to be perfect to meet the high expectations within society. In her design she investi-

gates the source of the pressure to be perfect. She notes that perfectionism is often seen as a positive quality: Perfectionists are described as perfect employees, because they work hard, never give up and are precise. But many people don’t realize perfectionism can lead to a burn-out. They also don’t know what triggers perfectionism and that society’s expectations play a role in this. By investing in the knowledge of perfectionism and teaching people to recognize the symptoms, we can protect perfectionists for it comes with a price for everyone involved.

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Leon Wezenberg leonwezenberg@hotmail.com The Netherlands leonwezenberg.nl Project One screw to rule them all Did you know that the design of the world’s most advanced transportation system, the rocket, is determined by the width of a horse ass? Rockets of the space shuttle are made in a factory in Utah and transported by train to the launch site. The US railroad is built with the same dimensions that were used for building horse wagons. These wag-

ons fit two back ends of horses. In situations like going to Mars it is good to question the standards that we take for granted. We need to decolonize from Earth, otherwise we will be stuck with all kinds of decisions and mistakes made in the past. The project title is about redesigning the standards, like the screw, and questioning everything around it. Behind a screw there is a lot more than you think. Thesis Sol 354: The diary of a Mars Maker Predicted is that the first manned mission to Mars will land on the surface around 2035. To start a colony on another planet, a lot has

to be produced on site because little can be taken from Earth. But how do we set up manufacturing on Mars? The thesis is about answering the question: “To what extent can the principles and characteristics of the Maker Movement be applied to manufacturing for a space colony on planet Mars?” Parts of the thesis are written in the form of a diary. Coen van der Linden is sent to Mars to set-up the Martian Maker Lab in the Exodus Habitat. The diary shows the differences between Earth and Mars and how the planet offers us the opportunity to start with a clean slate.

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Marsha Wichers marshawichers@hotmail.com The Netherlands marshawichers.com

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Project Project Face Design Cosmetic procedures to the face have become popular and accessible. But this trend of facial enhancement also leads to questions.

With a background as a cosmetic doctor and an artist-designer, Marsha combined her knowledge of medical technical possibilities with an ‘out of the box’ design approach. She took her own face as a starting point for visualizing different design possibilities, and to start a discussion about societal issues regarding facial enhancement.

When does one cross the border of what still looks natural? How much Botox can be used before you lose too much facial expression? And is it still okay to do nothing and let your face reflect your age? These are the

Thesis How Botox affects our facial communication The use of Botox is getting very popular, also for younger people. This could have its effect on society.

Botox works against wrinkles by relaxing facial muscles, but few people realize that it also profoundly affects our facial expressions. Facial expressions are important for interpersonal communication, but also for feeling emotions and expressing them. Will we still understand one another if we can no longer fully utilize our facial expressions in non-verbal communication? This question is explored by visualizing facial expressions before and after full facial Botox injections. Facial emotion reading software (FaceReader®) helps to objectify the facial expressions. See how difficult it is to show surprise when you can’t lift your brows. 228

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Situated knowledge was the theme that this year’s INSIDE programme evolved around. Situated knowledge is knowledge specific to a particular situation. This knowledge is never objective and never generates a universal truth. On the contrary, knowledge is by definition determined by the character of the observer and the context that he or she is situated in, or comes from. The insight that all knowledge can only be situated is clarifying, but at the same time confusing for spatial designers who are constantly looking for convincing information that allows them to design appealing spatial changes. One must be aware that every analysis, proposal and even the way in which their research is organized, is determined by the students’ own background. It requires a notion on their personal histories. This awareness has been a key issue in the graduation projects of our students.

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Laura Frías Muñoz del Cerro

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Lotti Gostic

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Yunkyung Lee

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I-Chieh Liu

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Hande Öğün

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Adriel Quiroz Silva

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Daniele Valentino

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Huaxin Zhang

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resulted in a catalogue for reactivating neglected areas in the city implementing the sentimental value of a generation that has left the city due to a lack of work. We are extremely pleased with the results of this year’s graduation projects, and hope that you will also enjoy this wealth of student proposals for spatial change. I am especially grateful to all our tutors, advisors, (guest)lecturers and facilitators who supported its creation. We wish all our students a bright future within the world of interior architecture. Hans Venhuizen Head of department

This year we proudly present 9 graduating students. They have researched a rich variety of social and cultural challenges in various contexts and developed them into proposals for spatial change. Surprising are the variation in positions and approaches that the graduating students developed during the year, next to their ability to mediate, moderate and even curate spatial change processes. The themes vary from improving the situation for homeless people in Taipei (I-Chieh Liu) to enhancing education at rural village schools in Mexico (Adriel Quiroz Silva). From the re-use of a half empty shopping mall in Slovenia (Lotti Gostič) to the re-activation of derelict passageways in Istanbul (Hande Öğün). From re-inventing an industrial area in The Hague (Daniele Valentino) to helping marginalized local people of Shaxi, China profit from tourism industry (Huaxin Zhang). From designing for humans who are excluded by standardized spatial conditions (Yunkyung Lee) to developing ‘The (art)School within The (art)School’ (Jack Bardwell). And finally a plea for ‘Millenial Heritage’ for the city Talavera de la Reina in Spain. This project by Laura Frías Muñoz del Cerro

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Jack Bardwell jack@jackbardwell.com United Kingdom jackbardwell.com Project The School within The School Art academies have ideally sought to offer a sanctuary for both artistic and social experimentation — but they are not immune to the pressures of capital and have too become subject to corporatisation. The School within The School asks what tools are required to imagine a future that diverges from this reality. Using a series of programmed interventions — such as: a student-run

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bar, radio station, performance platform, and alternative entrance — it hopes to install the everyday mechanisms of the school with a sense of possibility.

It outlines a context in which art schools are formalising to validate their existence and searches for an alternative education originating from this experience.

It is the intention that these socially focused interventions will set the foundations for an empowered community of students within the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, and be a starting point for its transformation.

Spatial interventions & actions become a powerful tool in the development of knowledge in the thesis. Referencing Ivan Illich’s ‘Deschooling Society’ it states that ‘School’ is not where true learning happens. Instead, more value is put on places where artists can educate themselves and stresses the importance of the community of students & teachers. It concludes with a set of principles, ‘spores’, which form a network for learning, connecting things, models, peers and elders.

Thesis The School within The School – Making Space for the everyday as a strategy for change The thesis is a personal exploration of the possibilities of art education within the existing school system.

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Laura Frías Muñoz del Cerro Spain Project MILLENNIAL HERITAGE: Reactivating the places of our memories Through collecting and analysing the memories of the millennials from Talavera de la Reina, and after extracting the spatial qualities of each valued place, I create the “millennial heritage” catalogue of the city. This catalogue is the basis of my project to reactivate relevant areas of the city that are neglected

or abandoned but that hide sentimental value for us as a generation, adding those qualities that made the place special for us and that created a deep-rooted attachment to the place. This means integrating in the new design the renewed concepts of sense of place and sense of belonging, bringing back the essence of the place and making it again relevant to the future. Thesis MILLENNIAL HERITAGE: Reactivating the places of our memories The millennial generation is experiencing the consequences of the financial crisis the most. In the last

decade many of them have left their hometown in order to find a better life. This situation is also affecting my home city, Talavera de la Reina (Spain), which has declined a lot since I moved away. The places where I grew up are abandoned, so I do not feel attached to them anymore. But I am not the only one feeling this way; other millennials also recognise their sense of place and sense of belonging are confused by social and cultural changes due to the city shrinkage. In this thesis, storytelling is used as a strategy to unveil those elements in the city that are very personal but that hide important significances for the millennial generation. 233

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Project Projekt DOM Domžale, a city in Central Slovenia used to be full of industries through which the city developed until its collapse in the mid-20th century. In the time of Yugoslavia, the city recreated a strong image with a brutalist architecture style. In the last decades, the city has not signif-

icantly changed and has fallen into a limbo of undesirability with the growing problem of the excessive number of retail spaces as a counterpart. Project DOM is a platform that aims to shift the perception of the city into a positive future. It exposes its hidden qualities, involves inhabitants in the decision-making process and informs the designer about the desired characteristics for the reuse of a shopping mall in order to create a vital core of the city. Thesis Replacing a failing model of empty retail spaces in Domžale city, Slovenia

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Yunkyung Lee kgush2@gmail.com South Korea Project A House Is a Machine for Playing; A Participatory Method for Decision Making When buying a new house, seldom can homeowners choose the size of the architectural elements, like the height of the ceiling, or select products of divergent sizes for their daily routine, not even in domestic space. Most elements and products are ready-made and regularised by

average statistical measurements of the human body. However, the standard norm is designed for part of the population that represents 84 % of today’s population. What about the remaining 16 %? To embrace them both, I will offer a wide range of choices to future residents by involving them early in the design process. What if experiences about sizes and scale determine the ideal spatial conditions? Thesis Breaking Down the Human Scale Is the human scale really in favour of humans? In the space we inhabit, the human body is normalised and

controlled along with the standard; 16% of the people who are not part of the average group are excluded by standardized spatial conditions. Being outside of the norm, is synonym for inferiority. My thesis tackles this notion of standardisation in architecture through investigating the genesis of the human scale, the transition and unification of the metric system, and uncomfortable situations in the city that can occur from the eye of an outsider who is beyond the average. It is a call for an inclusive space by breaking down the human scale to revive the real human-oriented design approach.

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I-Chieh Liu travisliu78@gmail.com Taiwan Project Homeless with More - Toward an Inclusive City In modern society with increasing privatization and commercialization, homelessness occurs among those who lack social, cultural and economic capital to support themselves in times of uncertainty. My project started with rethinking the spaces of the ‘homeless park’ in Wanhua District, Taipei. The park serves as a foundation for homeless people, but also as a platform where exchange

and positive encounters among different social groups are possible to occur. Prior to the aim of developing a supporting network centered in the park, which is socially supported and community-oriented, my proposal is a strategic planning method which could facilitate the stakeholders or municipality of the district to rethink the space for homeless in the park. Thesis Urban Nomad in Taipei People’s perceptions and understandings of homelessness are often based on single and static encounters. One time or another, we all have experienced passing by

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or being confronted with homeless people but the daily reality of living on the street is relatively an unknown field. My research started with questioning the concentration of the homeless in the Wanhua District, Taipei. By the empirical experience of entering this context, I explored the basic needs of the homeless community in this district, to learn how they manage to live their lives within the hostile environment, and to investigate how architecture participates in urban homelessness. These insights may inform the future design of the city and of the spaces for marginality.

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Hande Öğün ogunhande@gmail.com Turkey Project Open Door: Urban Factory Throughout history various cultural activities took place in the passages, usually in combination with commerce such as cinemas, crafts ateliers, workshops, dance studios, but most of these buildings could not keep up with changing paradigms of new consuming habits. My project Open Door: Urban Factory reinvents the passageway by translating its cultural and social qualities into

a design for an urban factory that align with the contemporary way of working, producing and hosting events. The intervention starts with the passageway that is conditioned by the surrounding activities, though it will gradually invade and transform the building following the societal reforms. So, the passage will not become obsolete again. Thesis A’s, B’s or In-betweens: Exploring further potentials of passageways in Istanbul Transition spaces have always held a fascination for me, especially in Istanbul, as they become backbone for various activities, preserve

the continuous public space and ensure surprising switches. In my thesis I focused on the passageways in Beyoğlu District; an area where cultural and social activities emerged and the passing activity became crucial due to the tight urban fabric. However, over time the socio-cultural structure of the area changed and most passageways do not function anymore the way they were intended and became abandoned. To explore the potential of the passageways I researched their transformation and wrote a scenario that benefit both the owners and users.

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Daniele Valentino Adriel Quiroz Silva arquitecto.adriel@gmail.com Mexico Project The School of the People In my graduation thesis, I addressed an issue identified in the primary education system of rural communities in Mexico. The research was divided into three parts: the history of education in Mexico, the project site’s rural community, and the current views of Latin American teachers and childhood experts.

After this analysis, I concluded that by following principles of sustainability, self-sufficiency, and respect for the culture and traditions in the community, redesigning of a primary school in the rural village Pamatacuaro in West Mexico, could provide a more efficient framework for the educational process and consequently improve the quality of life for the children and the community. Thesis Contextualizing Education As a response to the educational scarcity and poor-quality schools found in the rural community of

Pamatacuaro, Mexico, my project proposes to redesign the elementary school “Tata vasco” in that rural community. Developed in stages, the project intervenes the existing school building and its context, and improves and creates learning spaces that bridge the existing gap between the school and the community. In this paradigm, the learning process is not limited to the school and the kids, but takes an active part in the context and in collaboration with the community, thus creating a framework for the development of the area.

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danielevalentino1991@gmail.com Italy danielevalentino.com Project In-between Binckhorst Urban Regeneration My project positions itself between design and activism. In December, 2018, I established a studio at De Besturing — founding Laboratory 309, a space for the analysis of Binckhorst and its development: the last industrial area in the city of The Hague. Laboratory 309 wants to affect local’s behaviours and, in

doing so, affect their proprietary relationships and responsibilities to the area. From within this position, Laboratory 309 also provides a critique of the role that designers and architects often assume, one that can be unfortunately removed from whom they claim to serve. My project has established a method that instead hopes to realise these aims through site specific interaction and community cooperation. Thesis Fragments In Flux Fragments In Flux digs into Binckhorst’s public realm and its current situation. Binckhorst is a victim of globalisation and is now under

a magnifying lens that will overturn its physical and social atmosphere. Fragments In Flux is an alternative guide, a journey that, step-by-step, brings people beneath the surface of the current discourse and tries to reach a better understanding of the site’s anthropological context. The structure, its format similar to a diary, binds together little fragments that reflect the synapsis between the users of this area, its spaces, and their activities. Every single field of analysis is a different layer that captures knowledges and opinions reached through interviews and conversations conducted with locals.

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Huaxin Zhang zhx.lucinda@gmail.com China lululucinda.com

Project Rethinking Shaxi : Creating new authenticity for a locally dominated tourism Creating new authenticity for a locally dominated tourism in Shaxi To give rise to a locally dominated tourism in Shaxi town, I started to design like a “new local” with the

tools and techniques from the local Bai carpenters. My project consists of design for new housing with a fully furnished guest room and a textile factory which enable the locals to produce the soft furnishings using the tool ink marker of Bai carpenters. Thesis Learning from Lijiang and Rethinking Shaxi The tourism industry in rural areas in China has rapidly developed in the past decades. It has brought economic growth to rural ancient towns but also decreased their sense of

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“authenticity” through commercial exploitation. My research started with studying the evolution of Liang, a World Heritage town in the Northern province of Yunnan, followed by a comparative study on Shaxi, an adjacent village that is still considered ‘a real ancient town’. By doing field research in Shaxi, I analyzed underlying issues like the marginalized position of the local people, not profiting of the tourism industry. The study consolidates my position to explore new ideas that give rise to a locally dominated tourism in Shaxi.

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Corinna Canali corinna.canali@gmail.com Italy Project Inquisition of the Standard Human The way the AI “reads” an image must be understood as a prediction, which necessarily depends on classification. As Adrian Mackenzie states, “classification itself presumes the existence of classes, and attributes that define membership of classes”. Inquisition of the Standard Human presents a human reconstructed

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through algorithmic analyses of hundreds of naked body parts. It aims to unveil the exclusion “a priori” silently enacted through AI’s moderation employing Computer Vision software. Resulting from a series of experimentations, this work aims at understanding the endemic Western “ethics” infused in moderating systems that become tools to silence specific categories. Thesis Automated Inquisition and the Standard Human Publicly depicted as neutral hosts of third-parties content, Western social

media platforms hold great power over users. Such power is enacted through moderation, i.e. the forceful filtration of content implemented by tech companies through what is technically defined “Commercial Content Moderation”, an opaque and inaccessible system aiming at banning various categories of unwanted content. In attempts at moralising the Internet, moderation on Western platforms stresses the criminalisation of specific identity representations through sets of unappealable norms applied within blurred mechanisms by human and algorithmic workforces. 244

Jean-Baptiste Castel casteljb@gmail.com France @jean_baptiste_castel Project Camera.1 Software cameras are the new heroes of cinema. They are superhuman, capable of traveling through space and time. They utilise multiple temporalities to move through filmic space in one seamless movement without using cuts. Detached from the physical world, the virtual camera has the ability to reproduce

reality in vivid detail. This detail violates our senses of reality and perpetuates the illusion of the familiar. In an amalgamation of showreel video and a cinema movie, the protagonist, a software camera, explores a furnished rendered apartment, all the while discovering her superpower. Thesis Cinema of Disillusionment In the 21st century, digital technologies and economical globalisation radically changed modes of productions. Filmmaking has been transformed, over the past two decades, from an analog process to a heavily

digitised one. Most of hollywoods blockbusters today are hybrids between filmic and rendered image. To understand this change and what it means to cinema I looked to the studios in charge of the special effects. They usually release ‘CGI VFX breakdown’ videos where they reveal the trickery behind the cinematic image. Does the new possibility of digital media put the cinematic medium in crisis? Will cinema only become special effect, a cinema far beyond reality and natural perception?

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Astrid Feringa The Netherlands contact@astridferinga.com astridferinga.com

Benjamin Earl bnjmnearl@gmail.com United Kingdom bnjmnearl.eu Project The Quick Shall Inherit the Earth Advancements in technology are almost universally heralded as progress. Yet the engineers, designers, and entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley, who are supposedly tasked with this progress are often found frequenting offline resorts and embarking on digital detoxes. The rise of the Slow Movement and

a rejection of digital technologies demonstrates a desire to regain control of an accelerated pace of life and end what has come to be known as ‘time poverty’. A video installation and performance explores how the speed of digital technologies produce a desire to disconnect in order to reconnect with ourselves and the planet. Thesis How To Live Quick and Easy in an Age of Networked Technology: An Analysis of Time and Money The capitalist and the engineer dream of the same thing: the reduction of time it takes for a process to

complete to its smallest possible amount. This dream has often been achieved through technology. For this to occur at a global level, for example within infrastructures such as financial trading and the internet, time must be synchronised across space. The speed facilitated through this synchronisation is often reflected in the cultural values of productivity and connectivity. I offer a view of the past, present and possible future use of time through the exploration of navigation technologies, a material investigation into a government eavesdropping station and research into a business management technique. 246

Project “What they destroy, we will build again!” In May 2015, IS militants occupied the ancient Syrian excavation site of Palmyra and demolished most of its structures, including the triumphal arch. As “an act of defiance” against this cultural censorship, the British Institute for Digital Archaeology replicated the demolished arch. In April 2016, the life-size scale reconstruction was erected at Trafalgar Square, London, and has since travelled to several cities across the globe. In his speech during the unveiling ceremony, (then-) London mayor

Boris Johnson said: “What they destroy, we will build again”, with these words posing a powerful and binary narrative that presents construction as the opposite of deconstruction; inexhaustible, idealistic construction as the solution to inexhaustible, idealistic deconstruction. Does recreating, placing and unveiling a monument not create a landscape of power, just as much as iconoclastic destruction is creating a [non] landscape of power; both in physicality as in narrative? “What they destroy, we will build again” is a multimedia installation that uses the recreated Arch of Palmyra and as a case-study to excavate these landscapes of power, and to talk about neo-colonial appropriation of heritage in an age of digital reconstruction and contemporary iconoclasm.

Thesis Platform Warfare: Digital Architecture of Occupation Making the analogy with the terrestrial world, where architecture is known to be employed as tool for establishing power, Platform Warfare: Digital Architecture of Occupation poses the digital platform as the architecture of cyberspace: a new virtual landscape, that too is subject to and based on different power structures and concepts of territory. Using the issue of Airbnb operating in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank as case-study, the thesis makes a parallel between disruptive tactics that structurally underlay the functioning of digital platforms, modern day traveling and settler colonialism, by this pointing out the relation between colonialism and digital technology as a wider, emerging issue that needs to be discussed. 247

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Emma Verhoeven Nuel van Gelder de Neufville nuel@neufv.systems neufv.systems Project Very Online A theatrical internet show about communities, power dynamics and corporate hypocrisy in online spaces. Reporting from the hidden lands within Facebook, the steamy group chats of your favourite brands

and many more cursed places. Very Online deconstructs phenomena on the Internet and turns them into fast-paced critical content that can be fed back into the algorithmic YouTube machine. Using costumes, screenshots, game shows, commercials and fan fiction, it looks at the absurdity of digital culture in late stage capitalism. Like and subscribe. Thesis How To Do Things With Worlds We can change what anything is by talking about it differently. We do

this with language, which has the power to create worlds. When you bend the rules of language, it becomes poetry. By using poetry to bend the rules of your current world, you can start to make your own. Worlds that invite people and build communities. These new realities allow us to move from rigid definitions and the violence of standardization to worlds that embrace difference and fluidity.

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hoi@emmaverhoeven.nl The Netherlands emmaverhoeven.nl Project Look Inside: This Could Mean Something Whether we experience our lives as a narrative with ourselves playing the lead role or as a journey towards self-actualisation striving to realise our full potential, the idea of a true optimal self is central in consumer culture today. The market adapts to this by offering experiences rather than products, and transformations

rather than services. Do these countless ways to become, improve, accept, and express ourselves actually bring us any closer to our One True Authentic Self? This project gives an absurd overview of the confusing economy of the self, in the form of an escape room. Look inside and immerse yourself in the ultimate quest for meaning and self-discovery! Thesis ESCAPE HERE NOW (and unlock the secret door to authenticity) The thesis presents a question about the possibility of the lived experience of authenticity, through the means available in contemporary

leisure culture, yet proposes that this question might be based on false premises. Within the rising experience economy, we seem to distinguish between authentic, meaningful experiences and merely escapist, fictional ones. By using the escape room (an immersive entertainment format) as a blueprint for other more â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;purposefulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; experiences, like traveling and mindful retreats, a parallel is made between the goal of selfdiscovery and the fictional storyline that motivates escape room players. This frames the pursuit of the authentic as an effect of consumer culture rather than an attempt to escape it. 249

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TYPEMEDIA (MA) It takes far less time to read a text than it takes to write and edit it. This asymmetry of effort also exists in the basis of those texts: we can decode the symbols on the page in a fraction of the time it took to draw those symbols. As readers we need only a basic understanding of letterforms. Most of the reading happens as a reflex, only noticed it when it is hindered. In order to design letterforms we must learn o look at the shapes, as well as the patterns and textures they create. Students at TypeMedia study contrast, weight, rhythm, proportion, spacing: in short, every aspect of the process of making type. They examine primary sources and original material at museums (Meermanno, Plantijn-Moretus) and archives (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, UvA Bijzondere Collecties).

Between the assignments, research, trips and workshops the students endured relentless feedback (spacing!) from lecturers Erik van Blokland, Paul van der Laan, Peter Verheul, Petr van Blokland, Frank Grießhammer, Just van Rossum, Peter Biľak, Françoise Berserik, Bas Smidt and Fred Smeijers. With Jan Willem Stas they visited culturally important sites and exhibitions. Henrik Birkvig (The Danish School of Media and Journalism) was our external examiner. Coordinator Marja van der Burgh made sure it all happened. Erik van Blokland Head of department

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Just as importantly, they learn to tinker with the tools: physical writing implements as well as digital and algorithmic ones in Python. The teaching at TypeMedia follows a practical approach: in studio-based making and learning. The students reflect on how their tools influence their creative process and the possible outcomes. “When in doubt, draw”. Our students come from Costa Rica, Catalonia, Finland, France, Italy, Latvia, Russia, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States. A shared curiosity about type brought them to The Hague where they encountered the reality of a demanding year-long program. There were workshops in Arabic letterforms by Kristyan Sarkis, Cyrillic letterforms by Ilya Ruderman, and deep font technology by Frank Grießhammer, all TypeMedia alumni. We went to the FontStand typedesign conference in Porto where typographers, typedesigners from around the world present. Paul Barnes (Commercial Type) came for a lecture. Tim Donaldson (Falmouth University) painted huge letters on the floor.

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Alexis Boscariol Eva Abdulina eva.abd@gmail.com Latvia

Project Teika Teika — Latvian for a tale is a type family that explores a fictitious mixture of characters in a typographic form. References from early Latvian editorial designs, bind with shapes

of a calligraphic root flavoured by odd and alien to the first sight constructed geometric details to form a lively texture of bigger texts. Teika comes in three styles — Regular, Bold and Italic.

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Project Picardy Picardy is a variable font family made for the web. It uses variable technology to improve reading experiences on screen : whether it is by improving typesetting and justification or by building ways to work with interactivity and animations. The widths are specifically design to adapt the text to any screen but also to improve justification by slightly

adjusting each line of text. The weights of the text styles have been made using duplexing, meaning the bold takes as much space as the regular. In that way, weight can be used for emphasis or to signal hyperlinks —when the cursor passes over the text— without changing the layout. The display version is made for big sizes and has a variable outline axis, allowing for interactivity and animations. 253

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Luke Charsley Ryan Bugden hi@ryanbugden.com United States of America ryanbugden.com

Project Spec Thought the alphabet was already abstract enough? Think again. What began as an iterative exploration of Gestalt principles of grouping has evolved into Spec, a type family with two extremes designed to be read from different distances. The Near styles leverage simple shapes

to create a graphically stimulating disposition while the Far styles approach the reduction of form slightly differently, offering an oddly efficient reading experience. Near is to Far as form is to function. With implied gestures and counterforms, Spec demands a bit more from its reader.

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Project Adorno Adorno is text typeface which looks most at home in traditional book typography. Inspired by an amalgamation of historical references, Adorno attempts to capture some of the antiquity of the Renaissance types, whilst remaining contemporary in and of itself. Swash alternates, discretionary ligatures and ornaments allow for an extensive

typographic palette. Meanwhile, the lettershapes acquire a different quality at larger sizes with the heavier weights, in particular, looking adept for use in headlines or posters. The typeface family works for an array of typographic scenarios offering solutions for long texts at small sizes through to large-scale designs.

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Ethan Cohen ethan@ethancohenstudio.com United States of America ethancohenstudio.com

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Project Decibel Decibel is a typeface family that embodies the ethos of 1960s and 1970s American funk music: it is quirky, flavorful and syncopated, yet its execution is regular and refined. Decibel Text was inspired by the charming but naĂŻve 19th century

British slab serif designs of Caslon, Figgins, and Thorowgood, but is optimized for extended reading at small sizes. Decibel Display dips its toes into the realm of psychedelia and endeavors to cover the page with as much black as possible.

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Project Greymarch Greymarch is a text typeface which combines the historical flavour of Humanist calligraphy with more contemporary proportions and details. Intended for the more esoteric regions of editorial design, its shapes aim to be robust without becoming mechanical.

The typeface has a distinct personality, though it does not limit itself to being entirely serious or entirely playful: instead, its rationalised take on the calligraphic model places Greymarch in a pragmatic middle ground between liveliness and neutrality. This makes it a versatile choice for a wide range of editorial contexts and applications. 257

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Project Rezak typeface Rezak is a typeface based on the idea of cutting letters out from a material. To explore the shapes I made linocuts in three stages and looked at the evolution of the shapes. The lesser cuts — the blacker the shape. Throughout the cutting process the shapes get lighter and more defined. Although the typeface is not imitating the

linocut, the logic of cutting is preserved in the digital version. The first stage of the cutting has evolved into the Black style, the second stage is the Middle style, and the third one is Regular. Rezak has a very loud voice so it’s mainly designed for usage in branding, children books or covers. But the Regular style can also be used in small texts, being legible up until 10 points. 258

Ricard Garcia imricardgarcia@gmail.com Spain

Project Prelude Conceived as a family for display sizes, “Prelude” is inspired by the calligraphic trace having its main goal in reviewing this heritage and bring it to nowadays. Far from being oldfashioned, the project relies on two main features. Firstly, its deliberated modulation makes it a low contrast design with certain points of speed brought by the

manipulation of the broad edge pen. Secondly, the proportions looking at humanistic and roman capitals are also playing their role connecting the design to this heritage. Designed to be working as a wide typographical palette, the main part of the project is the roman design (thin, regular and black) complemented by their italics and condensed styles along with a text version adjusted for small sizes. 259

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Project Maneuver Maneuver is a contemporary typograchic palette meant for cultural magazines. The idea behind this serif typeface was to explore unconventional ways to solve traditional roles of different styles. Does italic need a slant, where does the weight go in bold, what is the relation of text and display styles within the same family?

Maneuver has eighteen predefined instances along three different axes; weight, optical and style (roman to italic). It works as a variable font, meaning all eight masters forming the design space are compatible with each other. Maneuver also offers a number of stylistic alternatives for different styles to accommodate specific typographic needs. 260

Fabiola Mejía info@fabiola-mejia.com Costa Rica fabiola-mejia.com

Project Nemoralia Nemoralia is the result of a semester dedicated to closely studying the work of calligraphy masters, old manuscripts and stone carving, looking meticulously at rhythm, layout and evolution of capitals. After months of exploration, I came to realize my aim was to create my

own interpretation of ‘classical’ through calligraphic letterforms with a definitely sharp aesthetic. With its Display and Text styles, Nemoralia is well-suited for editorial design that calls for a vibrating texture in headline settings and crisp details and rhythm for immersive reading.

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Project Rapida Rapida is a serif typeface family distinguished by a mixture of historical conventions and abrupt details that bring energy and sturdiness to the printed sheet. The family started initially as an investigation of how Italic, in relation to the Roman, could have been described and shaped across different parameters. The resulting family is a system where

the Italic itself becomes not just the counterpart of the Roman, but a real entity, with its tone of voice, claiming its space. Rapida is characterized by two main sets: the Text group, which consists of a Roman plus the corresponding Italic; the Display group, that presents an extreme visual exploration of the idea of speed, in this case from a slow Display Italic cut to a super Fast one. 262

Céline Odermatt info@celineodermatt.ch Switzerland celineodermatt.ch

Project Coat The typeface family “Coat” is an exploration of different ways contrast can be added to the skeletons of letters. Informed by calligraphy models, different contrast angles were applied to a sans-serif letter construction. The family spans three axes (weight, contrast and flavor), which offer a range of styles from

elegant to loud, static to dynamic, and expressive to reserved. The high contrast styles move from extreme to delicate, whereas the low contrast styles exhibit a much more nuanced effect. The family is packaged as a variable font, which equips the user with a versatile design tool for both print and web. This also allows the opportunity for animation within the design space. 263

AWARDS Royal Academy Thesis Award – Bachelor and Master Each department nominates their best thesis. Under supervision of Lector Janneke Wesseling a committee decides which bachelor and master graduate has written the best thesis of 2018/2019. The winner receives € 500,-. Thanks to: Stichting tot Steun.

Academy Shop Award The Academy Materials Award is presented by the Academy Shop. Located on academy grounds, this shop specialises in paper, drawing and art supplies. The winner of the Academy Shop Award receives a gift voucher of € 500,to spend on art supplies.

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 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

Heden Start Award

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 recogniseswork reminiscent of Schuitema’s spirit, vision and working method. In their assessment, the jury focuses specifically on individuality, problem solving ability and social relevance. The winner receives € 1.000,-.

The winner of this award will benefit from a year of business coaching from gallery Heden. Work by the winner will be purchased for the Heden collection directly following their graduation. Heden also facilitates a presentation at a Dutch art fair and an exhibition at their gallery on the Denneweg in The Hague.

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, but naturally also in light of the recognition and incentive this award offers in the further development of the graduate’s artistic practice. The winner receives € 2.500,-.

Stroom KABK Invest Stroom KABK Invest is a unique tailor made programme which admits four Royal Academy of Art graduates every year. Selected by Stroom and KABK, these burgeoning artists receive a year of intensive coaching and dialogue in their artistic practice and development, provided that their studio/workplace is located in The Hague.

Keep an Eye Textile & Fashion Award The Keep an Eye Textile & Fashion Award is awarded to a Textile and Fashion graduate. The award is worth €10.000,- and is meant to help the winning graduate in realising their ambition to improve their skills after graduation. The prize can be used as an investment for a Master degree, a summer course, or another textile/fashion training at an international institution.

Department Award – Bachelor and Master Each department nominates their best students. The winner receives € 500,-.

Academy Award – Bachelor and Master 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 18 nominations for the Master’s Academy Award. In addition to the enormous honour, the winners also receive € 1.500,- each. Thanks to: Stichting tot Steun.

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Metal workshop

Elise van Beurden Marcel van Nispen Yvo van Os Adriel Quiroz Silva Ronald Scholtens

Richard van den Berg Luis Maly Eduard Sjoukes

Central lending desk

Robin Butter Frans de Grood Andrew Valkenburg

Chris Borman Abel Wolff

Ceramics workshop Arjen Bos Tjalling Mulder

Computer workshop Gideon Oosten Chris Pieplenbosch Michel van Soest George Vincentie Ferri Wouters

Fine Art Printing Thomas Ankum Widodo Poedijo

Hacklab Jaap Meijers

Library Annemarie van den Berg Marcel van Bommel Jolanda van Os

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Printmaking workshop Thomas Ankum Astrid Florentinus Widodo Poedijo Gerard Schoneveld

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TEACHING STAFF 2018/2019 ArtScience Interfaculty (BA/MMus)

Willem van Weelden Julia Willms

Head of ArtScience Interfaculty Taconis Stolk

Fine Arts (BA)

Coordinator Marisa Manck

Head of department Klaus Jung

Teachers Renske Maria van Dam Cocky Eek Arthur Elsenaar Kasper van der Horst Eric Kluitenberg Marisa Manck Michiel Pijpe Robert Pravda Taconis Stolk Marion Tränkle

Coordinators Martijn Verhoeven Cecilia Bengtsson

Guest teachers Merel Boers Matthijs van Boxsel Channa Boon Andrea Božić Lex van den Broek Hilt De Vos Martijn Engelbregt Rob van Gerwen Milica Ilić Márton Kabai Bas van Koolwijk Johan van Kreij Katinka Marač Jeroen Meijer Geert Mul Benny Nilsen Leandros Ntolas Dani Ploeger Esther Polak Nenad Popov Ine Poppe Maya Rasker Klara Ravat Caro Verbeek

Gino Anthonisse Dewi Bekker Leslie Eisinger Beleke den Hartog Anouk van Klaveren Rixt Mekenkamp Tardia Page Rianne Zijderveld

Typesetting workshop Sanne Beeren

Wood workshop Sabin Garea Werner Konings Mascha van de Kuinder Ronald Scholtens Tom Vollaart

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Teachers Sculpture Maura Biava Irene Droogleever Fortuyn Bram de Jonghe Klaas Kloosterboer Andre Kruysen Reinoud Oudshoorn Hans van der Pennen Teachers Painting and Printing Rachel Bacon Andrea Freckmann Willem Goedegebuure Eric Hirdes Ton van Kints Aukje Koks Jeroen de Leijer Frank Lisser Annemieke Louwerens Willem Moeselaar Femmy Otten Ewoud van Rijn Elly Strik Teachers ‘autonoom’ Cecilia Bengtsson Channa Boon Dina Danish Engelien van den Dool Marion Duursema Anja de Jong Jonas Ohlsson Maria Pask

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David Powell Hester Scheurwater Pim Voorneman Teachers Critical Inquiry Winnie Koekelbergh Alexandra Landré Tatjana Macic Onno Schilstra Martijn Verhoeven Thijs Witty Guest teachers Isabelle Andriesse Haseeb Ahmed Maja Bekan Morgan Betz Clare Butcher Jaring Duerst Britt Yair Callender Heske ten Cate Luca Conte Pauline Curnier Jardin Samira Damato Helen Dowling Hamid El Kanbouhi Esiri Eisi Essi Maurice van Es Alex Farrar Toon Fibbe Yamuna Forzani Voebe de Gruyter Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy Fons Hof Yasmijn Jarram Tina Jeranko Lilian Kreutzberger Charl Landvreugd Pia Louwerens Sanne Luteijn Quistrebert Marius Lut Sekai Makoni Tirzo Martha Xue Mu Remco Osorio Lobato Mattia Papp Antonis Pittas

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Sara Rajaei Marie Jeanne de Rooij Domeniek Ruyters Janwillem Schrofer Lieven Segers Nora Turato Evelyn Taocheng Wang Suzanne van de Ven Puck Verkade Hanae Wilke Mattijs de Wit Italo Zuffi

Tutors Drawing Willem Moeselaar Jordy van den Nieuwendijk Tutors Letterstudio (elective) Frank Blokland Just van Rossum Peter Verheul Tutors Design Office (elective) Gijsbert Dijker Chantal Hendriksen

Graphic Design (BA) Co-Heads of department Roosje Klap & Niels Schrader

Tutors PlayLab (elective) Bart de Baets Roosje Klap Job Wouters

Coordinators Ingrid Grünwald Pauline Schep

Tutors Coding Bente van Bourgondiën Silvio Lorusso Lizzie Malcolm Vit Ruller

Tutors Graphic Design Susana Carvalho Bart de Baets Gert Dumbar Ruben Pater Niels Schrader Esther de Vries

Tutors Theory Merel Boers Marjan Brandsma Maarten Cornel Els Kuijpers Fusün Türetken Dirk Vis

Tutors Image Kevin Bray Michel Hoogervorst Katrin Korfmann Reinoud Oudshoorn

Tutors Professional Practice Skills Vanessa Lambrecht Frits Deys

Tutors Interactive Media Lauren Alexander Kees van Drongelen Agata Jaworska Jan Robert Leegte

External examiner Ramon Amaro Deep Team Ina Hollmann Agata Jaworska

Tutors Typography & Letters Thomas Buxó Matthias Kreutzer Adriaan Mellegers

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Interactive / Media / Design (BA) Head of department Janine Huizenga Coordinator Dave Willé Teachers Anna Arov Bente van Bourgondiën Aref Dashti Gert Dumbar Arthur Elsenaar Nick van ’t End Johan Gustavsson Anja Hertenberger Lyndsey Housden Janine Huizenga Eric Kluitenberg Sarah Kolster Jonah Lamers Jonathan Looman Dennis Luijer Emma Pareschi Pawel Pokutycki Raymond Taudin Chabot Dave Willé Adriaan Wormgoor

Interior Architecture and Furniture Design (BA) Head of department Herman Verkerk Coordinators Mariska Beljon Roosmarijn Hompe Internship coordinator Willem Moeselaar Study advisor Ellen Vos

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IST coaches Bianca Meilof Ronald van Tienhoven Studio Carly Rose Bedford Amber Beernink Erik Blits Samira Boon Krijn Christiaansen Lars van Es Ingeborg Horst Lada Hršak Maarten Kolk Tessa Koot Maartje Lammers Gabriel A. Maher Giulio Margheri Cathelijne Montens Laura van Santen Christoph Seyferth Nienke Sybrandy Thomas Vailly Ramin Visch Ellen Vos Teachers Media and Materials Marie Ilse Bourlanges Jan Harm ter Brugge Frank Bruggeman Corine Datema Floris Douma Roel van Herpt Maarten Kanters Elena Khurtova Jelle Koper Harold Linker Bert Lonsain Victoria Meniakina Willem Moeselaar Jeroen Musch Jof Neuhaus Sanne Peper Tatjana Quax Michaël Snitker Ronald van Tienhoven

Teachers Anna Abrahams Daniëlle van Ark Vincent van Baar Arno Bosma Adam Broomberg Oliver Chanarin Jan Frederik Groot Johan Gustavsson Eddo Hartmann Juul Hondius Rob Hornstra Judith van IJken Cuny Janssen Anja de Jong Ton van Kints Iztok Klančar Sara Kolster Jeroen Kummer Ola Lanko Annaleen Louwes Femke Lutgerink Hans van der Meer Krista van der Niet Kim Nuijen Pawel Pokutycki Jan Rosseel Jaap Scheeren Jenny Smets Lotte Sprengers Björn Staps Andrew Valkenburg Ari Versluis Dirk-Jan Visser Loek van Vliet Thijs groot Wassink Donald Weber Mattijs de Wit Raimond Wouda Ernst Yperlaan

Teachers Knowledge Mariska Beljon Inger Groeneveld Roosmarijn Hompe Ernie Mellegers Ronald van Tienhoven Rosa te Velde Guest Teachers Francesco Apostoli Rachel Borovska Alessandra Covini Femke Dekker Chiara Dorbolò Fran Edgerley Jan van Grunsven Marjanne van Helvert Henk-Jan Imhoff Laura Lynn Jansen Zsofia Kollar Jan Körbes Rick Mouwen Jasmijn Muskens Bastiaan de Nennie Sara Pereira Renzo Sgolacchia Stephen Shropshire Anna Sitnikova Eva Verberne Luuk Wezenberg Arjen Witteveen

Photography (BA) Co-Heads of department Lotte Sprengers Rob Hornstra Coordinators Linda van der Poel (full-time course) Lotte van den Berg (full-time course) Raimond Wouda (part-time course)

Teachers in Theory Saskia Boer Thomas Bragdon Lonneke de Groot Ingrid Grootes

Coordinator Internship Femke Lutgerink (full-time course) Raimond Wouda (part-time course)

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External Examinors Kim Knoppers Guest Teachers Liesbeth Abbenes Jasper Abels Laïa Abril Carlos Alba Mariama Attah Theo Audenaerd Roger Ballen Delphine Bedel Jonas Bendiksen Arjan Benning Reinout van den Bergh Verena Blok Karianne Bueno Roger Cremers Heidi de Gier Sophie Groot Hinde Haest Sebastiaan Hanekroot Koen Hauser Teun van der Heijden Kummer & Herman Pauke van den Heuvel Barrie Hullegie Rein Janssen Anouk van Kalmthout Witman Kleipool Fleurie Kloostra Sjoerd Knibbeler Sybren Kuiper Kadir van Lohuizen Anaïs Lopez Diane van der Marel Guy Martin Joachim Naudts NOOR Corinne Noordenbos Coen van den Oever Daan Paans Lonneke van der Palen Martin Parr Nicolas Polli Sarker Protick Marc Prust

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Marga Rotteveel Viviane Sassen Maurice Scheltens Bertan Selim Iris Sikking Rebecca Simons Marleen Sleewits Carolien Smit Petra Stavast Anoek Steketee Lise Straatsma Elly Uyttenbroek Isabella van Marle Nick van Tiem Sander Veeneman Narda van ’t Veer Yara van der Velden Ymke Verbeek Robert Jan Verhagen Henri Verhoef Hripsimé Visser Lua Vollaard Bas Vroege Erik Vroons Rob Wetzer Jeanette Zuurbier

Textile and Fashion (BA) Head of department Mark van Vorstenbos Coordinators Gerrit Uittenbogaard Sanne Jansen Coordinator Internship Gerrit Uittenbogaard Teachers Anoek van Beek Hil Driessen Steef Eman Jan Jan van Essche Chris Fransen Hilde Frunt

Desiree Hammen Eric Hirdes Pieter ’t Hoen Mirjam Ingram Anna Kruyswijk Kim Lew Natasja Martens Lotte Mostert Josine Nell Joost Post Peter De Potter Laure Severac Tanja Smeets Nienke Sybrandi Annika Syrjamaki Gerrit Uittenbogaard Roy Verschuren Ellen Vos

Kate Cooper Camilla Crosta Sara Giannini Jessica Gysel & Marnie Slater (GIRLS LIKE US) Jonatan Habib Engqvist Rahila Haque Hyun Tae Lee Myriam Lefkowitz Bram Leven Marysia Lewandowska Raimundas Malasauskas Rob van den Nieuwenhuizen Mamoru Okuno Wendelien van Oldenborgh Laure Prouvost Tânia Raposo Mary Redmond Lisa Robertson Masha Ru Dr. Mans Schepers Benjamin Seror Shimmer - Eloise Sweetman & Jason Hendrik Hansma Sissel Marie Tonn Mounira al Solh Laura Stamps Stichting Project Space 1646 - Nico Feragnoli, Johan Gustavsson, Floris Kruidenberg & Clara Pallí Lily van der Stokker Jay Wendy Tan Stijn Verhoeff Puck Verkade

Artistic Research (MA) Head of department Janice McNab Coordinator Stéphane Blokhuis Teachers Babak Afrassiabi Jasper Coppes Yael Davids Thijs Witty Katarina Zdjelar

Past Guest Teachers Patricia Bardi Justin Bennett Cunera Buijs Koenraad Dedobbeleer Peter Fengler Roos Gortzak Hamza Halloubi Nicoline van Harskamp Annick Kleizen Wayne Modest Antonis Pittas Robert Pravda Lisa Robertson

Current guest teachers Haseeb Ahmed Andrius Arutiunian Rachel Bacon Delphine Bedel Frédérique Bergholtz Francesco Bernardelli Dr. Bea Blokhuis Manon Bovenkerk Clare Butcher Nora Chipaumire Henry Coombes

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Alex Martinis Roe Ben Schot Vincent van Velsen Danielle van Vree Vincent Vulsma Collaborations 1646 Billytown Dokumenta 14, Athens 2017 – educational team Glasgow International Hospitalfield Scotland Kunstenfestivaldesarts Brussels 2019 Page not Found Quartair Contemporary Art Initiatives RCMC, Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden STROOM Den Haag WIELS

Industrial Design (MA) Head of department Maaike Roozenburg Coordinator Zara Roelse Teachers Erlynne Bakkers Bas van Beek David Derksen Eddo Hartmann Cynthia Hathaway Joris Hofstede Merel Kamp Jeroen Kummer Lenneke Langenhuijsen Yassine Salihine Joris van Tubergen Thomas Vailly Dries Verbruggen Martijn van de Wiel External examinators Job Meihuizen Sophie Krier

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Guest teachers Ista Boszhard Bas Froon Heleen Klopper Aliki van der Kruijs Cecilia Raspanti Jantien Roozenburg Martijn van Strien

Interior Architecture (INSIDE) (MA) Head of department Hans Venhuizen Coordinator Lotte van den Berg Teachers BRIGHT / The Cloud Collective - Gerjan Streng Endeavour - Tim deVos MVRDV - Aser Giménez-Ortega, Fokke Moerel Raumlaborberlin - Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius REFUNC - Jan Körbes Studio Makkink & Bey - Jurgen Bey, Michou-Nanon de Bruijn Superuse Studios - Junyuan Chen Anne Hoogewoning Erik Jutten Hans Venhuizen Guest teachers Frans Bevers Gert Dumbar Mauricio Freyre Leeke Reinders Vincent de Rijk Lucas Verweij Guests Samira Boon Collective Disaster Pepijn Kennis Asli Kiyak Ingin Woodstone Kugelblitz Alexandra Landré

Klodiana Millona David Mulder (XML) Rikkert Paauw Marcel Smink Anastassia Smirnova STEALTH Studio Frank Havermans Su Tomesen Donald Weber Peter Zuiderwijk

Senior Teachers Erik van Blokland (Professor of type design) Paul van der Laan (Professor of type design) Peter Verheul (Professor of type design) Teachers Françoise Berserik Peter Bil’ak Petr van Blokland Just van Rossum Kristyan Sarkis Fred Smeijers Jan Willem Stas

Non Linear Narrative (MA) Co-Heads of department Roosje Klap & Niels Schrader

Guest Teachers Paul Barnes Timothy Donaldson Frank Grießhammer Ilya Ruderman Bas Smidt

Coordinators Macha Rousakov élène Webers Teachers Lauren Alexander Nick Axel Linda van Deursen Mijke van der Drift Roosje Klap Lizzie Malcolm Ruben Pater Daniel Powers Niels Schrader Saskia van Stein

External Critic Henrik Birkvig

External examiner Ramon Amaro Deep Team Ina Hollmann Agata Jaworska

TypeMedia (MA) Head of department Erik van Blokland Coordinator Marja van der Burgh

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Credits All project descriptions are written by students, in English or in Dutch according to their personal preference. Edits were only made upon specific request. Country of origin and email address are omitted at studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s request. Photography I/M/D graduates Jan KĂśhler, Moritz Salla, Micah Westera Disclaimer No part of this publication may be copied and/or distributed without the written permission of the students in question, or the Royal Academy of Art. The Hague, July 2019

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