The objects and installations presented in the Schnellens Fabriek position themselves in various relationships to the human experience. Experience a wide range of sensorial interactions via the handmade phyiscal to the virtually augmented, and explore the span of possible definitions of tactility.
BA + MA Jewellery
We understand jewellery and it‘s counterpart everyday objects as the dynamic relationship between material, form, body and space. We explore the intersections of material development, evolving definitions of craftsmanship, old and new traditions and disrupt presumptive rules, resulting in works that engage and push the boundaries of preconceived notions. In Vibrant Matter, Franziska Lyon explores agency and relationships beyond the human, with a multiplicity of animisms. Seeking an approximation between play and work, Vladimir König proposes a critique of the capitalist in Play Work Jewellery. Mira Kim presents two works – Dimensions, in which she combines traditional jewellery making techniques and 3D printing directly in fine metals, and Traces, that explores jewellery forms in gelatine and agar agar based bio plastics. Yasutaka Okamura finds a new approach to broken things with Kintsugi-Kai while Olga Struck works with the fragile material glass in jewellery – In Pursuit of Clarity. With Twist, Johanna Galefske plumbs the possibilites of winding wire to new forms and effects.
MADFM Design & Future Making
The critical context of culture, society, industry and environmen systems is our playing field in this multidisciplinary masters program. Investigating meaningfulness and exploring questions, perceptions and ideas in a practical design environment, we experiment at the intersections of analog and digital making, virtuality and materiality and artistic and practice-based research processes. We question existing techniques, processes and methods and explore what „making“ means in the context of possible „futures“. With Sollbruchstellen, Michaela Kraft investigates predetermined breaking points and to what extent attitudes of individuals and generations materialize in the permanence and fragility of things. Emma Popp interacts directly with the 3D clay printing process to find new design possibilities in collaboration with the printer, what she calls Crafted Printing. Mohsen Darvish has coined the term Intermomental, and invites us to experience the potential of the heartbeat for our own individualized perception of time. Felina Russ and Dorina Digan invites visitors to The Essence of Dots to walk through the unknown paths of a stranger.
