By connecting design and care, this project focuses on social and local production. At Dutch Design Week, we create an interactive artwork together with visitors that emphasizes the impact of local and inclusive production.
Take Part!
During the Dutch Design Week, Atelier Iris Nijenhuis presents a project about social support for local and social production.
Visitors at the Kazerne can actively participate in an interactive artwork, consisting of 2500 modular parts, where each colour represents a statement. This visual statistic emphasizes the impact of meaningful work, local production and stimulates discussion about the value of socially produced products.
The project unites design and social engagement through collaboration with care institutions for people with intellectual disabilities. Iris Nijenhuis' craft technique plays a central role in this. By giving workshops and sharing her technique, she investigated how her collection can be produced locally and socially with day care. This is also where the desire to design a new product grew, fully aligned with the available 'tools and talents'. The first step for this was to develop a new modular puzzle piece, which she will present at KEVN during DDW.
About Atelier Iris Nijenhuis
a passion for experimental shapes and structures. Artisanal craftsmanship
and innovative techniques go hand in hand in her work, which includes
eye catching textile wearables and various interior objects such as wall
panels, dressed lampshades, vases and flowers.
She examines the potential of textiles and tries to give it constructive
value, without the use of a sewing machine, stitches or glue.
