Portal Plates

This work is part of Currency Exchange, a group exhibition and a continuation of the inquiry-based residency hosted by Design Inquiry. Portal Plates invite the public to explore…

DesignInquiry Portland

Last October we took part in an experimental design workshop organised by Design Inquiry at the  MECA, Maine College of Art, Portland ME (USA). DesignInquiry is a collaborative…

Residency Scotland

During a week residency at Cove Park in Scotland, written research and material experiments were conducted around the topics of ‘Designing Resonance’, centered around the notion of intangible…

State of Unsettlement

The project State of Unsettlement is set up as a design-research platform to explore and discuss the political climate and the impact of design in times of Brexit. Made…

Nightstudio: Body One

Nightstudio is a collaborative project together with Emily Luce (CAN), the shared research in Night Studio developed through a conversation/exchange of working with and observing undetected processes. Nightstudio…

Making Futures Conference

Earlier this season UFƟ was speaking on the conference Making Futures . The conference Making Futures was held on 21-22 September at the magnificently sited Mount Edgcumbe House…

Pitfire JDZ

Pitfire test series to understand the process of painting with fire. Artist and Technician Wang Shuo from the Pottery Workshop gave a Pit Firing workshop about the theory and practice…

Dusthack China

In April 2017 we organised Dusthack, a  hands-on studio workshop in Jingdezhen, China. The work experience was focussed on re-thinking, re-doing and re-searching into the past present. Dusthack was…

Imagining Pomona Book

Fruitful Futures: Imagining Pomona // Book Launch Published by Gaia Project (2016) 122 Pages, 25 x 17.5 cm, Paperback. The studio’s project ‘Pomona is everywhere’ was published as…

Article: Dialoque JDZ

作为设计师,我们更应该鼓励对话 交流而不是单方面的独白,  we as designers should stimulate much more of a dialogue than a monologue with what we do. 为明天的设计播下种⼦子, planting design seeds for tomorrow.  There is a young…

Wash series

Wash is an experimental test series where the porcelain plates are emerged in water before applying the color and glaze. The bisque quality absorbs the water allowing the pigments…

FOOD FOR THOUGHT JINGDEZHEN

The Food for Thought workshop made use of design research, collaboration and fieldwork through the topic of Nature. Participants learned to research concept, narrative and experimented with material with…

WORK UPDATE

This last season had been very busy with a mix of academic work and studio practice. Judith was part of leading a research trip in Tokyo with Transition,…

TRAPHOLT FETISHISM

TRAPHOLT – Museum of Modern Art, Applied Art, Design and Architecture has invited the world’s leading trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort to curate the exhibition Fetishism. Obsessions in Fashion…

DUST, DIALOGUE AND UNCERTAINTY

Dust, Dialogue and Uncertainty gives form to a decade of inquiry by the Netherlands-based research platform slowLab, combining diverse facets of its ongoing investigations into the potentials of Slow…

WORK UPDATE

September started off with a series of new projects and a variety of travels are on the agenda. Judith was September in Montreal Concordia university for a research…

UNCERTAINTY STUDIOS DDW

You are most welcome to visit our showcase UNCERTAINTY STUDIOS organised by Interaction Design and Product Design ArtEZ Institute of the Arts Arnhem at the Dutch Design Week in…

SLOW IDENTITY NYC SLOWLAB

This October ’14 Judith was invited by slowLab at the Pratt Institute in New York for a lecture and participation in slow dialogue for the series Mapping Slow…

GATHERING AT HOLON

You can find our work in the exhibition Gathering at the Holon design museum in Israel. In the Gathering exhibition, Lidewij Edelkoort, brings together contemporary design themes that reflect traditional…

VITRIFIED VARIABLES

The porcelain exhibition pieces weave uniquely varied layers of BoomWehmeyer’s art practice into a family of functional variables juxtaposed with its delicate porcelain foldings. Judith created the first…

WORK IN PROGRESS

The last few months have been very busy in the work we do, a lot of different projects and travels have passed the agenda. Judith was in Karachi,…

CONNECTING THE DOTS

The new magazine #6 Connecting the Dots is out with including an interview on our work in China. All Dutch designers companies active in China within December 2012…

IED WORKSHOP

‘Is it possible to ensure sufficient, good, healthy and sustainable food for all mankind?’ This is the main question for the Milan Expo 2015.  The workshop ‘Food for…

KNOTTED SERIES

The Knotted vases are made of porcelain and contain a rubber-like fluidity  with an intriguing form flow. Produced in collaboration with a design firm Pols Potten, in a…

THINK LLINQ

Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 February THINK LLINQ takes place, a 2-day discussion programme and a presentation of innovative products by participating designers, organized by Jolanda Branderhorst and…

BASIC INSTINCTS ARNHEM

Premsela’s multidisciplinary exhibition Basic Instincts, showcasing contemporary directional visions is hosted at the Eusebiuskerk by Premsela and the Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem (NL) from Saturday 2 June through Sunday 29…

COFAA COLOGNE

This november you can view our work at the presentation of gallery Karena Schuessler at the Cologne Fine Arts fair. The gallery will present the work of artists such as…

City Fabric _  Taking Time

City Fabric _  Taking Time. Within our design work it is for us not about where design disciplines are situated or separated but how design disciplines are fabricated and…

PUNCTUATION SERIES

Punctuation marks are essential when you are writing. They show the reader where sentences start and finish and in they are used properly so they make you understand….

REMARK SERIES

Glaze is one of the most used materials in the ceramic industry for seal of the fired clay for functional or decorative use, but its also one of…

CRAFTING CONSCIOUSNESS

The new academic year started with a new class series with Product Design students at Academy of Arts & Design in Arnhem. We started with an enthusiast group…

VITRIFIED VARIABLES

We are very excited about the new collection of  Vitrified Variables that will be visible at Karena Schuessler Gallery in Berlin. The Vernissag / Opening was 21 September and filled a great…

FRIDAY LECTURE, CHINA

This friday, March 16th at 7pm, we give a evening lecture about our work approach for students and interested people in the PWS education centre at the  Sculpture factory…

NEUER (IM)PULS

Researching the meaning and values of the connected hospital and Mutterhaus raised us with the question what this place of health and healing is and how our design…

HAND’S ON …

At the end of the year a new book came out that also covered our work Porcelain Topographies. The book Hand’s on! Dutch design in the 21st century is…

PORCELAIN TOPOGRAPHIES

The collection exists out of a series of porcelain benches and stools created for design-art gallery Karena Schuessler in Berlin. The collection is created under BoomWehmeyer label and…

COLOGNE FINE ARTS

This november you can view our work at the presentation of gallery Karena Schuessler at the Cologne Fine Arts fair. The gallery will present the work of artists such as…

REPOSED SERIES

Light moves around us, in a second being reflected, a next moment restricted or escaping through a rhythm of objects, Light gives the motion to what we create. A…

BASIC INSTINCTS IN BERLIN

Premsela’s multidisciplinary exhibition Basic Instincts, showcasing contemporary directional visions is on view at Berlin’s Villa Elisabeth through July. Featuring work from various designers and artists. The Knotted vases that…

LEARNING FROM NATURE

„What can we learn from nature?“ was the topic of the Green Lab/ Green Design 2.0symposium on 5th april in Berlin, iniated by the Kunsthochschule Weissensee. In the first…

DESIGN MIAMI/BASEL

At the core of the Design Miami/Basel 2011 forum is a marketplace for collectible design, amid which the most reputable international design galleries presenting curated exhibitions of furniture, lighting and…

MOVING BEYOND YOUR BORDERS!

The new term teaching at Artez Product design was woven around the theme “Moving beyond your Borders!”, learning to step beyond what you know to create a new perspective…

PORCELAIN TOPOGRAPHIES IN “CERAMIC REVIEW”

In the january edition of Ceramic Review is an article on the making of the collection Porcelain Topographies. The collection has been well received and can still be viewed at Karena…

TOPOGRAPHIES IN FORM

A great process-spread of the Making of Porcelain Topographies in the magazine Form_the making of design. The story is written by Karoline Fesser and covers the detailed processes of the work….

MADE IN CHINA

“We as designers should stimulate much more of a dialogue not a monologue with what we do”.  These days, a label with ‘Made in China’ seems to carry…

DESIGN ACTIVISM BOOK

Recently published by Earthscan is the book “design activism / beautiful strangeness for a sustainable world”, written by our friend Alastair Fuad-Luke. It´s a great book for understanding and…

ONCE UPON A TIME SERIES

The main focus in the three work months in the cities Shanghai and Jingdezhen were on discovering, meeting and engaging with artists and designers, establish meaningful relationships and…

SLOW LOKET AMSTERDAM

This year’s event will take place at the Oude Kerk in the heart of Amsterdam, as part of FreeDesignDom, “a month-long celebration of creativity, innovation, fashion and design” in …

CONSTANT STREAM PRIVATE VIEW

Can artists and designers create alternative narratives about specific social issues and provoke critical viewpoints of our world? Constant Stream: China 09 is an exhibition project from the Royal College…

DUTCH ROOM IN CREATIVE CHINA

A lecture participation to build creative bridge and awareness. The lecture was organized by Mattmo, a cross-media studio from Amsterdam and VIDE will take place 9 June in Den Hague. There…

Dutch Disturbance

The collection is made in collaboration with Delft Blue company the Porceleyne Fles in Delft, NL.  In collaboration plaster moulds and heritage objects from the company storage have…