Brain Storm research published in Conciousness and Cognition

Recently, human behavior has been considered the product of continuous interactions between perception, cognition and action in which ‘‘affordances” (action possibilities the environment has to offer) play an important role. Converging evidence suggests that multiple action possibilities simultaneously compete for further processing, while external and internal factors (e.g., incoming sensory information, predictions) bias this competition. Read full

Opening (Re)Thinking Space 13-02-2016

Lezing Dagdromen & Architectuur 19 februari

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Brain Storm wint aanmoedigingsprijs BNI

Het onderzoeksproject Brain Storm heeft van de Bond Nederlandse Interieurachitectuur (BNI) de aanmoedigingsprijs 2014 in de categorie Bachelor ontvangen. Meer

Voor de lucht

Het definitieve ontwerp van ‘Voor De Lucht’. Voor foto’s klik hier

Brain Storm

When we place everyday objects in a misfitting context, how does this affect how we perceive the action possibilities of such objects? And why is ‘recontextualisation’ such as placement of familiar objects in unfamiliar context a common theme in contemporary art? Could the outcome be relevant for the future of architectural design? More

Voor de lucht

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Voor de lucht.

De lucht om ons heen beweegt.
Alsof de kamer ademt.
Onzichtbaar.
Onmisbaar.

Mijn gedachten dwalen.
Alsof mijn ziel ademt.
Onzichtbaar.
Onmisbaar.

Stills or Flowers for the Soul

‘Still’ is a synonym for distillate. But it is also ‘snapshot’ or ‘still life’. And ‘memory’. For this project I made stills from the garden of my Dutch grandfather, who was a head of public parks in Assen. I only learned about his flower gardens through hearsay. I decided to use chemistry as a tool for my translations, because my Egyptian granddad was a chemistry professor. Combining the professions of my granddads (who never met) resulted in 4 liqueurs (the Stills) that could be tasted during the exhibition. Read more

Expositie Voor de Lucht SBK Zuid 25 jan- 22 feb

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Locatie:
SBK Amsterdam Zuid
Galerie 59, Van Eeghenstraat 59, 1071 EW Amsterdam
Duur:
25 januari – 22 februari 2015
open wo t/m za van 11-18 u en zo van 11-17 u

Lezing

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Beginners mind. Experimental design

Together with researcher Martijn Wokke from the Amsterdam Brain & Cognition Centre, we are trying to track down the neural basis of pre-reflective decision making. How do environmental stimuli influence our decion-making process? And our intuition? I am interested in this as in architecture and bodily interaction are interwined. In this first experiment, I offered unfamiliar objects with a specific function to test persons. See video

Researching Spaces for Thoughts

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Measuring daylight

I tried to compose a work using the daydreamdesigntools I found by reading from Pallasmaa, Bachelard and Ingold. (‘To dream deeply man must dream with substances, not with objects’ – Ingold). Daylight was the substance I chose to compose with. The result is a work that is fully dependant on daylight: a ‘clock’ for daydreamers. I also measured the daydreamquotient of the image. My next step is to explore the qualities of these materials (tracing paper, daylight and air) in a more architectural structure. Larger Picture

Landingsbaan voor libellen (Dragonfly airport)

This sketch design was proposed to de Gemeente de Bilt at the entrance of the Life Science As, in cooperation with RAAAF and Atelier de Lyon. It is an experiment in search for a ‘living image’. De gemeente approved the design. See more

Familiar Land

SILENCE PLEASE, DON’T MOVE and perhaps we can even listen to our own heart beat. (Participation Art & Research Honoursprogramme 2012-2013, exhibition, curated by Juliette Jongma at Jeanine Hofland Gallery, january 2013)

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Stills: the making of

Click here to see how I distilled the stills from the stills

Room on the roof

Inspired by the organized chaos on the rooftops of Cairo, the city of my ancestors, I developed a concept for a mobile rooftop hostel in Amsterdam. Depending on where there is a building crane, the hostel unit, fit for either 2, 4 or 8 persons, can be lifted up on any flat rooftop near the crane. See more

The Coffee Theatre

At the Rietveld Academy we have 64 nationalities. We researched 64 ways of drinking coffee and tea to design a mobile coffee bar for the Academy. The design won the FEDLEV DIY competition and currently we are working on a second prototype that could be used in the new Rietveld Building. Read more

Don’t forget the laundry!

Alzheimer’s research and design. In the narrow long corridors (80mx1.60m) of the dementia ward at the St. Jacobs Institution in Amsterdam, I researched how Alzheimer’s patients experience their public space. I introduced the timeless, tactile social activity of hanging the laundry together. The personal laundry of the residents added human scale and nostalgic smells of freshness. It became a social program in the lives of those who want to forget their forgetfullness. See more

Logic City Movement

Urban planning nowadays means finding a social programme for existing spaces. An attempt to save the endangered VU Hortus ended up in a future vision for de Zuid-As. This project was exhibited at Kunstvlaai 2012 and Vu Hortus june, 2013. See more

Flooding the square

What makes a square a good square? The brief was to study the Jacob van Lennepplein and to make a proposal for a redesign. See more

Ding-dong ditching the Zeehelden area (belletje trek in de zeeheldenbuurt)

In my former area, I took the average of the neighbourhood (500 houses, I took every 10th house). Before I actually rang their doorbell, I photographed their name and found information about them online. Then I mixed and matched the neighbours that have common interests (private or professional). An exhibition of the possibilities for potential friends or collaborations in the local laundry space and then personally invited each neighbour to the exhibition by ringing the doorbell.Read more

monument update

Escapism

For those time writers who lost track of space, this is office jewelry offers a continuous reminder that we are free to make our own choices. More

Daydream Academy

What is daydreaming and can it be triggered by external stimuli? Neuroscientist and friend Martijn Wokke at the UVA Cognitive Science Center helped me to find out. The result was that I could establish the daydreamquotient of certain images, colours and shapes, that I can use in my future work to encourage daydreaming. More

Marryana Rapnever (Trouw nooit een Arabier!)

Never marry an arab! My mother told me these words as early as I could remember, and they inspired me to create an animated character and toys with a hidden message for unmarried girls in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, where I donated the toys to girls schools More

Can you keep my secrets?

An installation about the realization of having choices and meeting with the uncertainty of all possibilities. Revealing the uncertainties – maybe they are great fears or mere silent daydreams – also meant revealing the possibilities. Once revealed and combined with courage and dedication, the uncertainties suddenly became more than possibilities. They became reality.

Parallel Universe

An installation that explains how I experience external physical space from when my mind wanders internal space. See more

100 porcelain pignoses

Don’t ask why. Ask how. An aquaintance with the fragility of working with liquid china bone porcelain. I casted 100 porcelain pignoses until I realised perfection only exists in our minds. More

We do not aim to please.

Daydreamerspotting. While researching the phenomenon of daydreaming and its characteristics, I went out to spot daydreamers. I followed some of them and documented them in their natural habitat. A paradoxal discovery was that office spaces seem to be the best environment for daydreamers. These spaces seem to encourage the capacity to shut off and allowing the mind to wander. More