As part of her UK-NL series at Clerkenwell Design Week, Ineke Hans presents Future work scenes at the Mosa showroom during Clerkenwell Design Week.

Dutch innovation platform PROOFFLab directed by studio MakkinkBey explores PROgressive OFFice furniture and presents a project related to PROOFFLab Magazine:

Opendesk & Ineke Hans: Furniture is not working
London based open source platform Opendesk explores a different approach to design furniture by offering global access to furniture, designed to be downloaded and made locally. Dutch designer Ineke Hans designs for international clients in domestic and work related areas like Ahrend, Magis, Offecct & Iittala.She recently set up a small design studio in London, and next to that organises salons exploring ‘ the future of furniture design & the changing position of the designer’. Under the title ‘Furniture is not working’ Opendesk and Ineke Hans invited 2 UK and 2 NL emerging designers to research the future of work and to design a piece that meets our future furniture needs. During CDW these visions are presented in a statement, image or video together with the finished results.

The presentation goes together with the three UK-NL breakfast conversations at The Goldsmiths’ Centre and is supported by the Dutch Embassy and the Dutch Creative Industries Fund.

Designers:

Adam Blencowe: Adam Blencowe graduated from the Design Products course at the Royal College of Art in 2015. He now works from his studio in Bow, East London His approach to design centres on combining existing materials and systems in new ways to produce unexpected results. For example Fuzzy Logic adapted a Makita jigsaw to make precision felted textiles. Thaw found a new way of casting ordinary plaster of Paris using the ephemeral property of ice. In his work he examines in forensic detail traditional techniques and processes exploring their specific characteristics thus enabling him to reinterpret them in a contemporary way. www.adamguyblencowe.com

James Shaw: James Shaw is a product and furniture designer whose work explores ideas around radical manufacturing. A recent graduate of the Royal College of Art he now runs a studio in South London where he designs and produces objects that test our understanding of function, aesthetic value and material perceptions. His work has been exhibited internationally at institutions such as the V&A, Design Museum, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum and MoMA. His work is in the permanent collections of MoMA, The Montreal Museum of Art, and the Vitra Design Museum among others. www.jamesmichaelshaw.co.uk

Paula Arntzen: Paula Arntzen is a product designer from the Netherlands and is currently based in London. She completed various design courses, including a Masters degree in Design Products at the Royal College of Art in London in 2015. Innovatively she mixes craft, product design and a delicate use of technology as communicative components of wonder in order to better connect people to their everyday surroundings. She works across product & interior design and is specialized in lighting. Key to Arntzen design philosophy is her stylistic research through experimentation with materials and techniques to create experiences with their own distinctive identity. paulaarntzen.nl

Thor ter Kulve: Thor ter Kulve is a Dutch designer based in London. His work re-defines public space, inventing products that enables natural or civic typologies to be transformed into tools, furniture and solutions. In his recent work a stem becomes a perfectly safe vertical climb using Canopystair, a set of stairs strapped around a tree without tools. Other projects include the Water fountain attached on to fire hydrant, or the Swing clamped onto a light pole. With a mission to challenge the value statement of a public location, ter Kulve, enables everyone to re-think the rules of civic environments. Ter Kulve received his MA in Design Products from the Royal College of Art, London and his BA Product Design from Artez Hogenschool voor de Kunsten, in Arnhem. Shows include, Salone De Mobile, London Design Festival, Aram Design Gallery, Dutch Design Week to name a few. www.thorterkulve.com

Organisers:

Opendesk: London based Opendesk explores a different approach to designing and making furniture. By offering global access to designs for download, Opendesk furniture is made as closely as possible to where it’s needed. A global network of fabricators enables zero-shipping, on-demand production – turning the traditional economics of manufacturing into something more social, human-scaled and local. opendesk.cc

Ineke Hans: Ineke Hans (NL, 1966) set up her studio in the Netherlands in 1998 after studying Product Design in the Netherlands and graduating with an MA in Furniture Design from the Royal College of Art in London. In 2015 Ineke moved back to the UK to set up studio|salon: design studio & research salon. From London she works with her studio in Holland on designprojects for leading international design manufacturers and with the salon she explores ‘the future of furniture design’ and ‘the changing position of the designer’. inekehans.com