{"id":73417,"date":"2016-10-23T06:57:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T04:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e52.nl\/?p=73417"},"modified":"2016-10-23T06:57:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T04:57:45","slug":"ddw-special-blanccollective-and-the-value-of-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/ddw-special-blanccollective-and-the-value-of-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"[DDW Special] BLANCCOLLECTIVE and the value of numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

During Dutch Design Week, e52<\/b> will be introducing you to the festival’s Hidden Gems. Nine special designers who we feel are the stand-outs of this edition. A different Hidden Gem will enjoy the limelight each day of DDW. Today: BLANCCOLLECTIVE.<\/b><\/p>\n

The rate and frequency at which you click with your mouse has a rhythm, and so does the way you type. How does this digital rhythm compare with a rhythm like the number of steps you take or your heart rate? And what do these rhythms say about your perception of time? That\u2019s what Laura Koenen and Malou van Dijck, one of the design teams behind\u00a0BLANCCOLLECTIVE, will show during DDW. \u201cAll of the designers in this collective want to create a kind of awareness among visitors in their own way,\u201d explains Koenen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Born around a year ago from the need to do autonomous work as well as assignments, ten different designers joined forces, came up with a theme together, and exhibited their work at DDW. The theme was \u2018Concepts of Beauty\u2019. After DDW they went their separate ways so that each of them could further develop their project. But it\u2019s different this time. \u201cWe\u2019re showing our \u2018beta products\u2019 at this year\u2019s DDW; we\u2019re learning from the design week and continuing to work on our products for another exhibition.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The designer collective for this year comprises: Studio Op Poten<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 (Laura Koenen and Malou van Dijck), <\/span>Atelier Mats<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Studio Anne Ligtenberg<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Studio Goof<\/span><\/a> and Renske Verbeek, and <\/span>Studio Desir\u00e9e Wevers<\/span><\/a>. Wevers and Studio Op Poten also took part last year. All of the designers do this in addition to their bread-winning work. They toil over their projects until the early hours to be able to give a status update at their weekly meetings together. The seven of them then reflect on each other\u2019s work and spar over the feasibility of ideas. Koenen: \u201cIt\u2019s a bit of fun, just like during your studies, so that you can get the ball rolling on the development of your own concept.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The goal of the collective is to spend a year working as a group on a particular theme. This year that theme is the value of numbers, the etymological translation of \u2018digital\u2019. How do the analogue and digital worlds relate to one another, how do they mix? \u201cWe found out in the meetings that we\u2019re all pretty physical creators. For example, Laura often works with ceramic, I work with steel,\u201d says Goof van Beek. \u201cWe do work digitally \u2013 behind our computers \u2013 but how these worlds fit together, we have no idea. We\u2019re all ignorant when it comes to this theme.\u201d And that\u2019s where the name \u2018BLANCCOLLECTIVE\u2019 comes in; it\u2019s a clean slate.<\/p>\n

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For their project, Van Beek and his girlfriend, Renske Verbeek, are collecting all kinds of data from their cats. \u201cHow loudly they purr, when they fart and how moist their noses are. People are also monitored a lot. Why is this, and what are we doing with this information? I\u2019m surprised by how much data is collected and the various conclusions that we automatically draw from it. \u00a0I also want to collect various\u00a0kinds of data from the people who visit DDW. How often someone looks at your work, for example. In truth it\u2019s useless data, but I want to know what visitors do\u00a0with it. For instance, if there\u2019s a piece of work that isn\u2019t being looked at much, will people feel bad and then go over to it? That sort of thing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A wide array of \u201cweird terminology\u201d has also been introduced by\u00a0the digital world. Koenen: \u201cMats and Anne are making visualisations of these terms, such as \u2018robot\u2019, which stands for servitude, or how 8-bits actually look. They\u2019re creating a human digital encyclopaedia.\u201d Last year Desir\u00e9e Wevers made perceptions of objects. \u201cShe\u2019s taken that even further. She\u2019s looking at the dimensions and examining how these relationships fit together and how she applies them herself. She found out that she kept subconsciously using the same dimensions, that she\u2019d been programmed herself.\u201d<\/p>\n

What the next exhibition will be, no one knows. \u201cIt really depends on the next step we take.\u201d Koenen believes that Eindhoven is the ideal place for the first exhibition. \u201cYou can do a lot of autonomous work and there\u2019s a huge range of things for visitors to see, from Strijp-S and the Design Academy to here at the NRE premises. You have free rein and it\u2019s a bit of a surprise terrain \u2013 you never know ahead of time what you’re going to get\u00a0to see.”<\/p>\n

The Nine Hidden Gems of DDW was made possible through the collaboration with Dutch Design Daily and DDW curator, Katja Lucas. Want to check out the Hidden Gems for yourself? Urban Exploring Tours and Koga will be organising a special bike tour every morning and afternoon where you will see the selected designers. For more information, click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Text: Corine Spaans | Photo: Renske Verbeek<\/p>\n

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