2007  Interior  City  Demos  project  *   

Until now, action to improve the lives of children and young people has tended to focus on the institutional spheres of home and school. Yet quality of life also depends on the access to and quality of shared resources such as streets, parks, town centres and playgrounds. And here, in the everyday spaces of our towns and cities, we increasingly exclude and marginalise the young. In the pursuit of sustainable communities and urban renaissance, children and young people are too often left out of the script.

This is the point thinktank Demos makes in their latest report 'Seen and Heard: Reclaiming the public realm with children and young people'. To launch this report, Demos organised an event with Lord Richard Rogers and the Rt Hon Beverly Hughes MP, Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families.

I was asked to make the content of this report more tangible. Working in collaboration with Revital Cohen, we made a subtle intervention in the street in front of the event. Based on the way the lines drawn on the street tell us how to behave in a public space, we created an abstract pattern of more playful lines. By mixing different game-structures, words and objects, the installation still prompts playful behaviour but doesn't impose a closed set of rules.

2006  Fabrique  Concept  Interior  project   

building of the barKPN, the former Dutch national phone company, has recently started operating in new domains; now covering telephone, internet and television. Through these three media, they wanted to launch a music-service called MusicStream. To embody and communicate, MusicStream had his physical home base in the Heineken Music Hall, a big concert hall in Amsterdam. At Fabrique, we developed the whole concept of interaction between visitors and the music service: from the way they can buy, the way they take it home to how they experience the space. After that, we designed the interior consisting of a bar, stairs, a stage and several other objects in the 100m long space. Currently, the bar and stage are being build and later this year the stairs will follow.

2006  Fabrique  Interior  project   

UGS makes software. Software that transforms the process of innovation. From process management software to 3D modelling and manufacturing software. Despite the widespread use of their products amongst design en production companies, the brand-name has yet to become a household name. To improve the reputation of the brand, design office Fabrique in Delft was asked to design a innovative exhibition-stand on a major industry-fair in the Netherlands.

2003  TU Delft  Product  Interior  project   

edit suiteCluster Lef is a new-media-art-collective. They’re building their home-base in an industrial barrack on the old “NDSM- wharf” in Amsterdam-Nord. The building consists of 10 “sea-containers” and will be a pilot for “Mobile Playgrounds”, a project for mobile living/working spaces in those containers.

Design team KL NK designed two of those spaces for Cluster Lef:
_edit-suite: space for video-editing
_presentation-room for all this multimedia-violence
Both spaces fitting each in one container (2.6x2.6x12m)