Testing the waters
A series of guided tours that collectively reflect on climate emergency through the lens of Rotterdam’s water infrastructure.
This project experiments with methods to read the city anew, seeking to encourage residents (and visitors) to recover their will to act in the face of the socio-environmental crisis.
Book a spot here. (Coming soon)
Rotterdam, Netherlands
2023—ongoing
A series of guided tours that collectively reflect on climate emergency through the lens of Rotterdam’s water infrastructure.
This project experiments with methods to read the city anew, seeking to encourage residents (and visitors) to recover their will to act in the face of the socio-environmental crisis.
Book a spot here. (Coming soon)
Rotterdam, Netherlands
2023—ongoing
Not every spring springs in spring
In partnership with the Belgian institution Z33, this projects is part of ‘FORMAT 2003: Water Expeditions’, a show that focuses on the narratives used to talk water and the socio-environmental crisis. This research project unfolds its findings in front of a live audience through a guided tour that exposes the legal loopholes that are used to privatise the use and management of a natural resource as elementary as water.
Book a spot here.
All pictures © Kobe Vanderzande
Z33 House of Contemporary Art
Hasselt, Belgium
2022—ongoing
In partnership with the Belgian institution Z33, this projects is part of ‘FORMAT 2003: Water Expeditions’, a show that focuses on the narratives used to talk water and the socio-environmental crisis. This research project unfolds its findings in front of a live audience through a guided tour that exposes the legal loopholes that are used to privatise the use and management of a natural resource as elementary as water.
Book a spot here.
All pictures © Kobe Vanderzande
Z33 House of Contemporary Art
Hasselt, Belgium
2022—ongoing
Hoy no se fía
Marta y Miguel se mudaron a Centroeuropa seducidas por el brillo del diseño contemporáneo bienpensante. Apenas han sobrevivido, y están aquí para contarlo. Sé su confidente mientras se desahogan en la intimidad de la lengua materna. Ah, y no se lo cuentes a nadie.
Podcast
2022—ongoing
Marta y Miguel se mudaron a Centroeuropa seducidas por el brillo del diseño contemporáneo bienpensante. Apenas han sobrevivido, y están aquí para contarlo. Sé su confidente mientras se desahogan en la intimidad de la lengua materna. Ah, y no se lo cuentes a nadie.
Podcast
2022—ongoing
Writing a cover (up) letter
Borrowing from our experience in improv, scriptwriting and, of course, application-sending, we have developed a workshop in which participants experience the mock version of an application process. Through this one-day journey, participants practice their writing as much as their career-realisation skills, while also letting go of the so-called impostor syndrome that is often experienced in the creative field.
WORM, other locations
Rotterdam, Netherlands
2023—ongoing
Borrowing from our experience in improv, scriptwriting and, of course, application-sending, we have developed a workshop in which participants experience the mock version of an application process. Through this one-day journey, participants practice their writing as much as their career-realisation skills, while also letting go of the so-called impostor syndrome that is often experienced in the creative field.
WORM, other locations
Rotterdam, Netherlands
2023—ongoing
For FAQ’s sake
As part of the research exhibition ‘GEO—DESIGN: Budget Airlines’, this projects emerges from an investigation into the digitalisation of the travel agency through the lens of Ryanair’s customer service, a friendly front that hides an intricate system design to minimise, and eventually frustrate, human interaction.
All pictures © Boudewijn Bollmann
Van Abbemuseum,
Eindhoven, Netherlands
2021
As part of the research exhibition ‘GEO—DESIGN: Budget Airlines’, this projects emerges from an investigation into the digitalisation of the travel agency through the lens of Ryanair’s customer service, a friendly front that hides an intricate system design to minimise, and eventually frustrate, human interaction.
All pictures © Boudewijn Bollmann
Van Abbemuseum,
Eindhoven, Netherlands
2021