<𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬> is a social design project that explores the relation between memory and colors. It’s a collaboration between Sanne van de Goor and YP Yuanpu Wang, part of @stimuleringsfonds Bouwenaantalent platform.
Sanne and YP conducted research in color theories and psychology, academic papers, public archives and personal accounts / oral history. They hosted a series of workshops with the residents at Het Schouw in Amsterdam Noord.
Based on the findings from the workshops, Sanne and YP designed an interactive wall installation that documents and honors the memories of the residents. It consists of hand-colored ceramic tiles divided across categories of word prompts. The viewer can answer the prompts such as “mother” “my childhood home” by selecting a tile and placing it next to the prompt. The installation becomes a sharing wall where memories are collected, displayed and constantly changing.
🌹Thank you @stimuleringsfonds for this opportunity to collaborate and to work on a project that uses design to bring positive impact to the residents of Het Schouw. A big thank you to @rotweer for language assistance.
#socialdesign#installation#memory#color#stimuleringsfond
Last summer right after graduation I jumped in an intensive summer residency hosted by @tspaceandsmhf@stevenhollarchitects . Looking back, I cherish the time making architectural models in my parents’ house, reading poetry, being engaged in Zoom lectures until 3 in the morning and flying 30 hours to get to NY. Everyone was very kind to me even though I was an architectural newbie. I’m super thankful to have met the fellow residents and have the amazing @hannahnhill coordinate the whole program. It was an unforgettable summer thanks to all of you.
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𝐋𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬 is a project that allowed me reimagine and reinterpret light pollution in a spatial form. The lasercut mirrors, attached together with nuts and bolts, form the dynamic sculptures that rotate till infinitude, scattering light in every direction. I’m very thankful to have shared this project with you during Dutch Design Week 2023.
𝐋𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬: In a world saturated with artificial light, where the beauty of illumination has become mundane, how can the wonder of beholding light be revived? YP Wang found inspiration during a visit to the Lauwersoog Dark Sky Park, a rare place in The Netherlands untouched by light pollution. Coupled with his childhood memories of the mesmerizing Pyreflies from Final Fantasy X, Wang embarked on a journey to explore light pollution from an aesthetic perspective. The outcome is a mesmerising installation that uses projection, reflection and movement to toy with expectations of ‘light trespass’ — the term used to describe unwanted artificial light seeping unintentionally into neighbouring spaces.
Come see the installation in Space 4.5 at the @designacademyeindhoven graduation show during @dutchdesignweek
Curated by @martina.muzi@nadineb0tha
Photo by @carlfriedverwaayenphotography
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#DDW23#GS23#DesignAcademyEindhoven#Heuvel#HeuvelEindhoven#Eindhoven#LightArt#InstallationArt#Installation#lightpollution
The hand-drawn mirrors through their facets and angles choreograph the path of light.
Part of my installation ‘Light Trespass’ which will be on view at DAE Grad Show during Dutch Design Week
Sneak preview to my installation ‘Light Trespass’ which will be exhibited at Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation Show during Dutch Design Week, Oct 21-29. Come check it out ✨
𝚁𝙴𝚂𝙾𝙽𝙰𝙽𝙲𝙴: A very early draft of my graduation project. I created an interactive experience where viewers hold a light bulb in their hand and “find” light in a dark space. A Tesla coil in the center electrifies the air around it and lights the light bulb when it’s close. I drew the mirror shapes which reflect and cast shadow of the light. I want to question the system of artificial light and lamp design. Can light be freed from the bulb-fixture design formula? Can it expose the consumptive relationship we have with light? Can we hold light in our hand?
ɪ sᴇᴇ ʙᴇᴛᴛᴇʀ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴀʀᴋ 🕯I’ve been researching and experimenting with artificial light, the entanglements of light pollution and optical aesthetics. How can we see in a world of maximum brightness? What stories of cosmology can artificial light tell us?
Tʀᴀɴsᴘᴀʀᴇɴ’sᴇᴇ 👀
The inventor of X-Ray Willem Röntgen said "all bodies possess the same transparency, but in varying degrees." X-ray helped us see through things we thought were once solid and blurred the lines between solidity and transparency. Inspired by Röntgen, my project uses cross-polarizers as a speculative medical vision tool to see the transparent. The transparent plastic sulptures are made with an assemblage of body parts I've cast from friends. I combined them and with vacuum-forming, I made 3 collective, amorphous bodies that show a state of flux and transformation. As the viewer puts on polarized sunglasses, they can see the colors move and dance as they walk around the sculptures.
Thank you @serr.o@juyunlii@rossy.liu for the screens 📺
Fʟᴜᴏʀ ʟᴀᴍᴘ
Acrylic tube, Jesmonite, wire, light fixture, paint
Fʟᴜᴏʀ ʟᴀᴍᴘ was my first foray into “product“ design and an exercise in learning from making.
Fluorescent colors fascinate me because they use a larger amount of both the visible spectrum and the lower wavelengths compared to conventional colors. They not only absorb and convert light energy of the dominant wavelength but also the wavelengths of ultraviolet rays and other colors lower in the visible spectrum. As a result, the eye perceives a far more intense color.
The lamp as a source of illumination can be also thought of as a body that emits photons and seduces our vision. Thus I thought of making a lamp that is equally if not more intense and colorful to look at while not turned on. Stay tuned for more Fluor lamps in the making.
