Explorative Public Library Interface (TEASER)

Information on the Internet is increasingly being commercialized while at the same time physical collections of public libraries are shrinking. The explorative public library interface is a concept visualisation that investigates the possibilites for explorative digital search engines to serve as a counterweight. It uses algorithms and human curatorship to serve a public interest, and visualizations that compensate for disappearing physical search strategies.

2015 Graduation Design Academy Eindhoven
Exhibition at DAE Dutch Design Week 2015

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Botanical Waiting Area

Temporary installation concept for the Eindhoven NS trainstation in cooperation with the Naturalis Biodiversity Center. The botanical garden is designed as a modular system in order to create waiting areas with seating, plants, and lighting. The lighting reacts to human presence: when people spend time in the waiting area, the brightness increases, feeding the plants light for photosynthesis. These systematics emphasise the plants’ dependency on humans, as parallel to endangered plants in the wild.

2014 Design Academy Eindhoven
Dutch Railways / Naturalis Biodiversity Center

Exhibited at DAE Dutch Design Week 2014

Colour in Motion

This project is an adaptation to the more than 150 year old phenakistoscope technology. Along with the zoetrope and thaumatrope, it's one of the predecessors of modern film. The term 'phenakistoscope' partiallly comes from the Greek word φενακίζειν (phenakizein), meaning "to deceive, to cheat", as it deceives the eye by making the objects in the pictures appear to move. This renewed version of the old pre-cinema device requires two persons to operate and allows multiple animations to be showed on a single disc through variations in rotational speed.

2013 DESIGN ACADEMY EINDHOVEN

Stroke Rehabilitation Interface (TEASER)

For an optimal recovery, it's of great importance that stroke patients already start the rehabilitation process within the hospital. Because of time-shortages from therapists, patients are often not receiving as much therapy as they should. The stroke rehabilitation interface aids patients in performing their excercises independently. It offers patients tailored excercises while motivating them and providing insight into their recovery process. - specific designs cannot be shown due to confidentiality agreements.

2012 PHILIPS RESEARCH - GRADUATION INTERNSHIP ACADEMY FOR MEDIA AND USER EXPERIENCE

Logo to Speech Converter

During the 2010 Children’s Book Week, the logo to speech converter invites children to explore the book weeks’ theme: visual language. To engage children with the subject of visual language, the installation learns them the meaning behind logo’s with which they are confronted with each day. By pressing on 3 consecutive logo’s, the installation translates that input in to a spoken sentence. For example: “The panda roars at the window” or “The sunflower loves the judge”.

2010 ACADEMY FOR MEDIA AND USER EXPERIENCE
EXHIBITED AT THE MUSEUM OF THE IMAGE BREDA

Wijdeveld:
Island Utopia

Island Utopia demonstrates how the designs and philospohy behind ideal cities are often linked to the notion of an island. The island functions as a metaphor for separation and isolation from the rest of the world in order to establish new ways of structuring society. The project communicates this notion of separation through displaying and manipulating architectual drawings of H. Th. Wijdeveld, taken from the archive of The Netherlands Architecture Institute.

2014 DESIGN ACADEMY EINDHOVEN / EXHIBITED AT THE Netherlands architecture institute ROTTERDAM

Visualizing Visual Pollution

The fabric of our public space is continously being invaded by commercial influences. This project tries to reveal the balance between the amount of cultural-historical sites and the amount of advertisements unconsciously observed during a tourist city walk in the city of Eindhoven. A dedicated smartphone application was developed to map out the different types of advertisements and their corresponding location.

2013 Design Academy Eindhoven

The Medicalization of Sexuality

Over the last 60 years, the amount of mental disorders that are listen in the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) have increased dramatically. This has led to a constant change of cultural norms in our society, where the treshold for being 'normal' is not only changing but getting smaller as well. This video shows the increase of sexual diagnoses in the DSM and how their diagnostic criteria have constantly been changing over time.

2013 Design Academy Eindhoven