Jurgen bey biography of alberta

But you can also imagine that such behaviour is much better understood by dancers. So maybe we should investigate how to dance through space to be able to have people get from their trains to their trams. So how can design inspire social action? It rephrases the question: How do we actually change our public space if social behaviour becomes more important than statistics?

Then besides questioning our engineers, we also have to question our culture-makers and our writers: What kind of language is best suited to be on a train station? Or ask dancers what kind of movement would help people to interact better than we did before. How can design teach someone to dream differently? Basically by being confronted with different possibilities.

So I think through design, you are able to rephrase questions and to make the context really different. Therefore you experience things differently and you grow differently. The material shrinks around the different pieces and forms a smooth elastic skin, giving them an entirely new appearance. By cross-breeding and grafting, products and materials of a different nature can merge and develop into new products.

The woods of Oranienbaum are filled with felled trees scattered around. These trees could serves as giant benches by cross-breeding the trees with a number of different chairs ; an interaction between culture and nature.

Jurgen bey biography of alberta

The tree trunk is the seat, the bronze casts of chair backs transform it into a proper piece of furniture. In the past twenty years, Dutch design has become more and more ornamented, historically driven, and crafty. But that makes spaces so homey and messy. I think he was lucky to live in a period of upheaval. There are always moments in history, when designers are able to establish themselves easily with their own aesthetics, because they live between two periods.

My own work might have never been noticed either at another period of time. With his Crate furniture, Rietveld looked deep into the future, he anticipated the do-it-yourself movement and the idea of open design, where designers share their ideas. This furniture was socially driven. Jurgen Bey is a contemporary Dutch designer, his works are presented at Stardust.

He studied at the Design Academy Eindhoven and has since run studios independently or in collaboration with others, while teaching at the Design Academy Eindhoven in previous years, and currently, at the Royal College of Art in London. Bey's work includes product, furniture, interior and public space design, and is produced by his studio, or by companies such as Droog, Royal Tichelaar Makkum, and Moooi.

Bey is known as a critical designer, driven to understand the world and to question it in a unique manner.