Communion
When human beings connect with each other or with other natural and intelligent life forms like animals or trees for example, there is the possibility of a shared meaning. When being in a relation in which a shared meaning is emerging, this fundamentally qualifies the relation. Being in communion with another being affects the performance of presence and the negotiation of trust fundamentally.
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Controlling chaos
While trying to control the factors that influence the outcome I also define where I want the piece…
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Osdorp land of milk and honey
On the western edge of Amsterdam is a living example of rural fantasy, a stone’s throw from densely…
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Permaculture relationships
Permaculture is a design discipline for emphasizing the relationship between natural processes. The…
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Seeing how others are looking
The viewers often don’t want to interrupt each other’s view. Which creates a funny situation when…
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Stowaway's
The container functions as a symbol for globalization and freedom of transport, while the people…
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Paintings
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The Game
Compare it to the games children play. They play war games, play death, they long for a game full…
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Thoughts
In what situation do we conjure up fictitious images. When does our visual phantasy starts to work.
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Why do we give fictitious testimony?
The testimonies may be fictitious but the sentiments we have experienced are not. As a means to…
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Testimonies
In 1992 a transport plane crashed into two blocks of flats in the district Bijlmermeer in Amsterdam.
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The fabulous illiterate cooks from the PTA
The lesson is to create a platform for mutual expertise.
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Not so idle youth
Is it possible to correct the notion that occupation and use of the public space is not an act of…
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Informing the form
With the new technologies there are new possibilities for service design and these can bring some…
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Cycle of quality & wits to survive
In traditional artisan’s context, where the user and the maker shared time and place, there was an…
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Reference to profound experience
The way references and values will be understood in a technology context is highly dependent on how…
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Centredness as social structure
Learning the skills to work with the material is a process of inducing in traditional artisan…