Design Commissions
Experimental Jetset was established in 1997 and comprises Marieke Stolk, Erwin Brinkers and Danny van den Dungen. They designed the exhibition graphics, printed matter and digital materials for the exhibitions Open, A Bakema Celebration (2014 Venice Architecture Biennale), Hacked, part of the Temporary Fashion Museum (2015) and Space Embodied (2016). They describe their working method as 'translating language into objects'.
Open: A Bakema Celebration
The Dutch entry at the 14th International Architectural Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia examined the work and ideas of the architect Jaap Bakema. The exhibition _Open: A Bakema Celebration_ critically reflected on the idea of the open society through Bakema's work and research.
The shifting roles of the state and the market, the architect and the individual citizen were scrutinised in an installation that utilised a multiplicity of media: models, historical correspondence, photography, drawings, TV material and films as well as the Post Box for the Open Society, an online platform for architects and designers to share new ideas for the open society.
Hacked
The _Hacked _project by fashion designers Alexander van Slobbe and Francisco van Benthum was a commentary on today's fast fashion phenomenon: cheap clothes sold in a rapid succession of collections. By appropriating and upcycling the remnants from this industry of overproduction, Van Slobbe and Van Benthum transformed themselves from product designers into process designers who see waste as their material. Hacked was not only a critique of the effects of the contemporary fashion industry but also an exploration of possible new roles for the fashion designer in the design and production process.
Space embodied
The exhibition _Space Embodied. The Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930_, was about the new, free human as propagated by the Russian avant-garde. Space Embodied was an installation about the body in movement: life-size projections of dancers, a dance floor, stage sets and mirrors confront visitors in a direct and physical way with the historical material from the 1920s.