researching + sampling from philosophy/politics/ art/contemporary design/ architecture/gigs/ demonstrations/discussions
I am lotte van hulst, a 22 y/o aspiring designer with an interest in social-political interactions and influence in design.
oorverdovend is dutch for earsplitting noise. this play is called oogverdovend which translates into eye deafening. the blind can’t look but that doesn’t mean they cannot see,
2018 //oogverdovend
graphic + set design
theatre performance on the perception of the blind. seeing through sound
I find it interesting to explore how you can design spaces for multiple uses and make them into spaces for people to meet, inspire, re-energise and increase social awareness in an increasingly individualist society. Skateboarding is particularly interesting here because skaters have a completely different way of perceiving space. Designing a skateboard-friendly sculpture creates a dynamic and new perspective on possible movement through a portal or an installation. The entire sculpture is made of reflective stainless steel, which echoes its surroundings, as it were. The geometric lighting is in unison with this concept.
2022
//skateboard obstacle x walk-through sensory installation design
“portal” for the entry on the square of the faculty of industrial using light + sound + haptics to stimulate creativity, collaboration,
industrial design engineering, TU Delft collaboration, to inspire design students.
2020
//lamp for seeing //stool for sitting showing two designs for products that one uses everyday. but these designs challenge the conventional perception and experience of these two household products.
2020 //stills from video: lampshade for seeing
in the same way hiphop artists from the postmodernist era started sampling and mixing various music, art, and politics, I get inspiration from my surroundings and remix collected and recorded material into film or exciting designs for contemporary products.
this film is as well a style exploration of myself as it is a visual collection that complements the designs for the stool and lampshade. in the video I elaborate on different influences like for instance: Nam June Paik, Russian constructivism, brutalist architecture, De La Soul, Basquiat, “Do The Right Thing” by film director Spike Lee and the Fluxus movement.
2022 //essay: the gender-biased lens and its redesign proposal (on the gender data gap and its impact on industrial design)
2022 //portfolio of short essays: can design be devious?
(on the israeli expression of power over palestinian citizens)
a good designer is an inquisitive one (a pledge for designers)
2023 //literature review: Architecture of Separation (on the role of spatial design as a political instrument in the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.
wuwei, (Chinese: “nonaction”; literally, “no action”) Wade-Giles romanization wu-wei, in Chinese philosophy, and particularly among the 4th- and 3rd-century-BCE philosophers of early Daoism (daojia), the practice of taking no action that is not in accord with the natural course of the universe.
A neighbourhood in Rotterdam, Oud-Mathenesse was assigned to our team on which we as a studio would perform an extensive research project which eventually lead to strategic and design recommendations for the neighbourhood's council to improve the inclusiveness amongst the neighbourhood's many communities in their participation with the built environment. We conducted interviews and data analysis on the socio-spatial behaviour of different actors in the area.
2023
a design for a wooden structure, bridging the embankment that otherwise functions as a big green wall isolating the neighbourhood from the rest of the city. It serves as a multifunctional space, accommodating pedestrians and cyclists on their way to cross the dyke, as well as residents simply wanting to meet each other and sit down for a chat.
//general axonometry of the embankment bridge
this is a video I made on an afternoon stroll as an experiment: the route I took through the garden determines the order of shots. after the walk I sat down with my guitar and directly recorded the musical improvisation that followed from the feeling and experience of walking through the garden. after that I put it together and that was it. a visual and audio representation of the garden and my interaction with it.
2019// short film shot on a summer afternoon in my great grandmother’s garden in tuscany
lvhulst@xs4all.nl
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