researching + sampling from philosophy/politics/ art/contemporary design/ architecture/gigs/ demonstrations/discussions
I am lotte van hulst, a 24 y/o designer interested in socio-political interactions and influence in spaces through design/ architecture/film.
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 visually echoes its surroundings. 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 design engineering, TU Delft using light + sound + haptics to stimulate creativity, collaboration, to inspire design students.
As the sun sets, the design takes on a new life. A cool blue light emanates from the center of the double bank, casting a blue light across its surfaces, accentuating the architectural contours and transforming the structures into a night sculpture, while still remaining functional as skate object, of course.
How can design influence the behaviour of its user? Or serve as a tool to expose and uncover underlying mechanisms and systems to which people are implicitly subjected, in order to experience, question or question more consciously? “Koffiehuis” gives waste a more central place in the street environment for a sociable, circular cup of coffee that you can have a chat over.
Render collage showing the different elements of the koffiehuis design-intervention and interaction. Aiming to make the different aspects of a large ecosystem of recycling more tangible to the individual.
Highlighted on the left is an experimental approach to a recycling bin where the user throws bio-degradable waste ‘back into soil’.
design of the recycling bin, separately fabricated from the spatial design.
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 led to strategic and design recommendations for the neighbourhood’s council to improve inclusiveness amongst the district’s many communities. Specifically, in their participation and interaction with the built environment. We conducted interviews and data analysis on the socio-spatial behaviour of different actors in the area.
One of the (preliminary) final outcomes was a spatial design for on the embankment which surrounds the neighbourhood and effectively cuts off Oud-Mathenesse from the rest of Rotterdam.
2023
//general axonometry of the embankment bridge
2023
//plan -top view- of the design
Design for a wooden spatial 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, accomodating 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.
Yellow Line: a sound walk sharing stories of fellow residents. The sound installation that follows a route throughout the neighbourhood Witte Dorp, serves as an intervention that aims to benefit social cohesion and an inclusive collective sense of creation, responsibility and pride.
//Yellow Line research+concept+installation design & placement sound walk sharing stories of residents
Render interaction street interaction as
Render showing possiblilities of interaction and placement surrounding street lighting for the possibility of interaction during mornings and evenings well as throughout the day.
The line and the overall design of the route have a geometrical character in a striking yellow colour. This informs the purpose and desired interaction with the intervention, resulting in an inclusive communication of the design that only relies on shape and colour, which are universally understood throughout age, gender, cultural background or language. The construction is designed and implemented in each of the nodes’ in such a way that it highlights the existing elements and structures that are in place in the built environment of Witte Dorp. Being non-intrusive, but creating a place that stimulates people to sit down and listen or interact in any other way with fellow residents, people passing by, or the material and audio which is being exhibited.
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.
//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.
design of a stool & lamp
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.
how is football a tool for the attainment of a legitimate identity as sovereign nation-state within the international geopolitical field?
[ONGOING PROJECT]
I am currently in the process of an ongoing research into the statebuilding politics of football and exploring ways in which to materialise this into an installation piece.
Central to the installation will be the footballshirt stating the words “NATION-STATE SOVEREIGNTY”.
Who draws the lines of the (political) field?
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)
Handcuff machine on a timer.
To force the user to do nothing. or to do by doing nothing.
the more mind-numbing, the more creative.
At rest, frontal and pariental areas are strongly connected = daydream effect.
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.
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.
lvhulst@xs4all.nl
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