'Flow 5.0' by Daan Rosegaarde

With his 10 meters interactive installation ‘Flow 5.0′ the Dutch artist Daan Rosengaarde won this year’s Dutch Design Awards in the category Best Autonomous Spatial Design.

Made from hundreds of ventilators, photo by Lotte Stekelenburg

“Flow 5.0 is an interactive landscape made out of hundreds of ventilators which reacts on your sound and motion. By walking and interacting the visitor creates an illusive landscape of transparencies and artificial wind.”

'Flow 5.0' by Daan Roosegaarde, photo by Lotte Stekelenburg

Clients: Evolving and upgraded at Studio Roosegaarde. Commissioned by new media festival TodaysArt, The Hague, NL. Prototype commissioned by Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, SLO.

With thanks to: Peter de Man (partner in sound & interaction), Mark van Meerkerk, Marnix Rijnart and Johan Otten (Studio Roosegaarde). Photography by Lotte Stekelenburg and movie by Ward ten Voorde. Made possible with the support of JET GmbH, Mondriaan Foundation and Royal Netherlands Embassy.

see the video of the installation

to the Studio Roosegaarde website

'Ceramics & Architecture' a this year's Dutch Design Week

At this years Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven the .ekwc will showcase the result of their five-year project Ceramics & Architecture, that consists of the projects ‘Brick’ and ‘Combined Residencies’. It is the biggest exhibition in .ekwc’s history, where 75 architects, designers and visual artists present their works. The publication shows the overall picture of all works made by the participants of Ceramics & Architecture. 

'Between Bricks' by Baukje Trenning, photo by Ruud Peijnenburg

Brick 

In the Brick project architects, designers and visual artists from The Netherlands and abroad have been asked to develop a new type of brick or come up with a new use for existing bricks. The results are as diverse as the participants themselves. They testify to intensive form research, the search for new functionality of the brick as well as an artistic approach to the material. 

Brick - exhibition 3, photo by Ruud Peijnenburg

Combined Residencies 

The project ‘Combined residencies’ focuses on a change in mentality: to demonstrate that cooperation between architects, visual artists and designers at as early a stage as possible, benefits the interactive, creative process. The results are innovative and surprising. Wienerberger, .ekwc’s partner in developing the project, has researched and manufactured some of the results of Brick and Combined Residencies.

'Combined residencies': 'Penrose 2' by David Celento en Del Harrow

Ceramics & Architecture, 17 / 25 october, Hal 2 Klokgebouw Strijp S and TU Eindhoven 

to the .ekwc website