Archives at Risk podcast
What should we do with designers' own archives? What should - or should not - be preserved for posterity? In the Archives at Risk podcast, curator Annemartine van Kesteren from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen sits down with the designers and their heirs.
21 October 2022
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Apart from episode 3, Karen Huang & Jason Page, all episodes are spoken in Dutch.

Episode #1: Hella Jongerius
In this episode, we meet Hella Jongerius, who must see part of her own well-maintained archive go abroad, because there is no Dutch home for it.

Episode #2: Karen Huang & Jason Page (English)
In this English-spoken episode, we meet Karen Huang and Jason Page, who inherited an archive from a deceased colleague. It was all theirs – if they wanted it...

Episode #3: Emile Truijen
In this episode, we meet Emile Truijen's heirs, who are left to look after his archive while it awaits a permanent home.

Episode #4: Borre Akkersdijk
In this episode, we meet Borre Akkersdijk, who treats a digital archive as a shared source in his textile design studio.

Episode #5: Lies Ros
In this episode, we meet Lies Ros, who lives in her own design archive and collection.

Episode #6: Moniker
In this episode, Annemartine talks to Luna Maurer and Roel Wouters of the design studio Moniker (2012 - 2023) about the challenges of preserving a digital archive.
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Podcast team
Interviews: Annemartine van Kesteren
Directing and editing: Babette Rijkhoff
Music: Cigar Singles van Blue Dot Sessions
Sound engineering: Chiel Verbakel
Archives at Risk is a podcast bt Netwerk Archives Design and Digital Culture (NADD). The conversations are linked to the exhibition Archives at Risk.
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