Utopia, from the Greek ou-topos meaning ‘no place’ or ‘nowhere’, is defined as an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. In today’s world, utopic visions are having a hard time. Ideals of modernity, nationalism, human creativity and even of reality stand like terminally ill patients, reminding us of the dreams […]
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We face an important challenge in making architecture more sustainable. Research by the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) shows that numerous public buildings, including schools, experience problems related to air quality. Technical installations can help, though an effective use of existing micro-ecosystems can offers a much larger potential for the […]
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How do you picture being lost? Could these moments be photographed? When you go from one familiar terrain to another, there is a moment of uncertainty: the in-between. Unlost. You don’t know. This is when you start looking around for cues in the unfamiliar surroundings. Maybe these are the moments you are looking for: full […]
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How to design sustainable environments that really move us? We believe that sustainable and healthy living of the future is adaptive and interactive like natural systems. To achieve this, over the last years, Studio Samira Boon has developed digitally produced origami designs to implement as lightweight and dynamic 3D textile installations that generate flexible space. […]
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PR & Communication Studio Samira Boon is a textile architecture studio based in Amsterdam and Tokyo with a strong focus on creating flexible and dynamic environments. As an expert in the material properties of textiles, Studio Samira Boon advises and collaborates with architects to formulate site-specific solutions. Adaptive and dynamic textiles improve the use and […]
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PR & AcquisitionAmsterdam, 2016 – 2020 NEXT architects is an international architecture firm that has worked on research and design projects in the field of urban planning, architecture, interior, and infrastructure since its foundation in 1999. By reflecting on the role designs play in their environment, NEXT incorporates ‘connection’ as a core theme in its […]
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In the magazine: Desipientia (December 2014). This article focuses on Regina José Galindo’s iconic performance ¿Quién Puede Borrar las Huellas? (Who Can Erase the Traces? 2003) and explores the use of the body to represent the victims of past and present violence in Guatemala. Regina José Galindo’s work challenges forgetting and indifference by making visible the thousands of […]
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Presentation of the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, 2014. Production and PR for the presentation of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK) during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milan, 2014. With the performance For BACK STAGE ON STAGE, 50 students and alumni of KABK investigated how new dynamics […]
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Exhibition and public programme, Amsterdam, 2013 Responsible for the production of the three-day school (25, 26 and 29 June). noa language school is an art project initiated by artist Mounira al Solh and curator Angela Serino. noa tries to create a different approach in language education starting from the experience of living (in)between two or […]
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Guest lecture, Radboud University Nijmegen, 7 May 2013. Lecture within the course in modern and contemporary art on art and migration. Latin American art from the twentieth century is often read as being politically engaged. In part, this can be attributed to the fact that during this period many countries suffered from repressive (military) dictatorships. […]
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