PUBLIC PLAN — graphic design boardgame & city maps — 2023-24
What if a city plan grows out of our personal experience of public space?
The PUBLIC PLAN board game was developed at CAMPUSatelier with contributions from various people who passed by and thought, played, cut and pasted along. The board game initiates a conversation about the city we live in. It makes us think out loud about the streets, squares, parks we move through every day. Through which we trigger each other’s thoughts about our public space: where we meet and experience: today, as we remember it and as we would like it to be in the future.
The board game was sent to partner organisations in Antwerp, Groningen and Ostend where the game was played with residents and urban professionals. We incorporated the registrations of these personal urban experiences from different city contexts into three unfinished city maps.
In co-creation with CAMPUSatelier
The PUBLIC PLAN board game was developed at CAMPUSatelier with contributions from various people who passed by and thought, played, cut and pasted along. The board game initiates a conversation about the city we live in. It makes us think out loud about the streets, squares, parks we move through every day. Through which we trigger each other’s thoughts about our public space: where we meet and experience: today, as we remember it and as we would like it to be in the future.
The board game was sent to partner organisations in Antwerp, Groningen and Ostend where the game was played with residents and urban professionals. We incorporated the registrations of these personal urban experiences from different city contexts into three unfinished city maps.
In co-creation with CAMPUSatelier
With the support of the City of Ghent, the Flemish Community & Arts Center VierNulVier
Illustations in collaboration with Elly Van Eeghem
Dauphine font designed by Charles Mazé & Coline Sunier
Picture on boat by Sarah Vanheuverzwijn
Gent Bad — research & installation — 2023-25
While public open-air bathing places in Flanders are drastically shrinking and increasingly shifting to the private and holiday sphere, bathing culture had a strong presence in the urban landscape over the past century and was part of the daily living environment of the people of Ghent. Within a rapidly changing and diversifying urban context, this ongoing artistic research explores the current potential of these former public open-air bathing places.
The installation exhibited at ‘FORMAT 2023: Water Expeditions’ brought together a collection of diverse visual sources (photographs from city, museum and private archives, old architectural plans, satellite images, self-taken photographs, etc.). By cutting up these images and combining them in a spatial composition, the former public open-air bathing places of Ghent entered into dialogue with the current shortage of swimming water. Different layers of time came together and invited to reflect on future possibilities.
The installation exhibited at ‘FORMAT 2023: Water Expeditions’ brought together a collection of diverse visual sources (photographs from city, museum and private archives, old architectural plans, satellite images, self-taken photographs, etc.). By cutting up these images and combining them in a spatial composition, the former public open-air bathing places of Ghent entered into dialogue with the current shortage of swimming water. Different layers of time came together and invited to reflect on future possibilities.
With the support of the Flemish Community and FORMAT 2023, the coaching programme of Z33: House for Contemporary Art, Design & Architecture in Hasselt
Stories of Product Innovation — exhibition design — 2022
Exhibition design for ‘Stories of Product Innovation’ at WONDER Kortrijk.
An overwhelming setting celebrates innovation and encourages wonderment. An impressive structure of ventilation ducts guides the visitors through the space and serves as a support system for the various exhibited projects. The structure is visually complemented with classy velvet curtains, a powerful typography in bright red and shinny mirrors.
The exhibition design overwhelms without wasting. Once the exhibition was finished, the borrowed ventilation ducts could return to the manufacturer.
Commisioned by Designregio Kortrijk
Sponsored by Airkan NV
An overwhelming setting celebrates innovation and encourages wonderment. An impressive structure of ventilation ducts guides the visitors through the space and serves as a support system for the various exhibited projects. The structure is visually complemented with classy velvet curtains, a powerful typography in bright red and shinny mirrors.
The exhibition design overwhelms without wasting. Once the exhibition was finished, the borrowed ventilation ducts could return to the manufacturer.
Commisioned by Designregio Kortrijk
In collaboration with Manon De Cuyper
Sponsored by Airkan NV
Last picture by Jonas Verbeke
Exercises in Accessibility — publication — 2022
Publication design for a text by Anaïs Van Ertvelde who wrote a collection of thoughts, feelings, provocations and exhortations centred around two of the themes raised during the course of the festival ‘Woman and Children First’: the theme of – her own – access needs; and the theme of looking at difference.
By risoprinting the main text in fluo pink, and the elaborate text in purple notes, the two storylines smoothly alternate and interact. A hybrid and fluid typeface is used to highlight titles and phrases. Vibrant gradients over the pages and a purple binding make the publication into a visual whole.
Risoprinted by Topo Copy
By risoprinting the main text in fluo pink, and the elaborate text in purple notes, the two storylines smoothly alternate and interact. A hybrid and fluid typeface is used to highlight titles and phrases. Vibrant gradients over the pages and a purple binding make the publication into a visual whole.