Informal evening presentation by Boomwehmeyer on the project Re:Wire and intern work presentation by Marianne Meijer. Talk by Marianne on her work process, chapters such as city fabric and conclusions of 5 weeks project work, her finished book print “Wire my Position’ and her design approach. From 7pm onwards at the [studio] in Julu lu, Shanghai. Please contact for more information.

Welcome on our renewed website. The coming period you will be able to access more of the site and find more details on the work we do. There will be a more personal update with our projects through our constant news flow and you will be able to join in much more with our projects as well.

Great plans on the agenda, a lot of things will be happening the coming months,  Please contact us if you need information or have questions.

We continue to unwrap

We have relocated for our project Re-Wire and divers fieldwork to Shanghai, China. We are located in the[Studio], a shared creative building in French Concession with diverse int. designers & artists.  We are working through different phases of our project here, such as social design workshop with factory workers, in conversation with other design field people and researching several chapters in our Re-Wire project.

Please contact us if you are in the area and want to meet us, our work or just want to stop by.

This summer Marianne Meijer will join our studio as project partner / intern for our Rewire Relation project. She is a design student from the Academy of Art & Design in Arnhem and joins with her creative input. In May we will relocate to our Shanghai workspace and investigate into several chapters all concerning our Re-Wire Relation project.

Marianne has her own blog, where she frequently writes about her work with us in Shanghai and her impressions, ideas and products. We are glad having her with us, specially as she is traveling so far to be our first intern. Welcome to BoomWehmeyer!

Fresh start in ’09 with team-teaching with the product design students from Academy of Art & Design in Arnhem. We just finished a period of looking into empowering each other, using your character, design activism, slow values and a outward focus for creating new ideas on the design practice.

Through a diversity of discussions, workshop, sharpening each others opinions and connection to other design principles the students worked through into a opinion how they could see themselves working with quality and personality. Thanks for being such a enthusiast & exploring group !

The agenda is planned and most details worked through, it is time to move on to action. We are starting our project Rewire_Relation this year. Motivated with our concern for design development and changing relations to environment, material and people around us. It is time to Re-wire in a deeper research affecting and connected to new layers for designing a better world.

Past friday evening, 21 August, a good group of people joined with us for the final Slow Repair Dialogue in Platform21.

BoomWehmeyer was invited to be guest speaking and debating with the group on topics as Re-thinking Social Relationships, new ways of implementing design in the communities and re-think core points that we as designers should implement in our practice.

This summer, Platform21's Amsterdam exhibition space was dedicated to Repairing, a project that challenges our throwaway culture by celebrating the pleasure of mending things and the beauty of objects made unique by the repair process. SlowLab elected to expand debate through a series of ‘Slow Repair Dialogues’ to explore a more holistic re-think of consumption behaviors, to present Slow Design strategies for the enhancement of human relationships and ways of collaborating, and to expose the systemic ‘reparations’ that we believe are essential to viably transition to sustainability. 

Evening events have been taking place throughout Spring/Summer 2009, featuring diverse local Slow activists, such as Ed van Hinte, Debra Solomon a.o. to stimulate the debate with the audience.

We presented out Re:wire project in progress and gave a insight to how we re-think social relationships in our own practice and projects. How we re-imagine production ways, work with cross-cultural exchanges and collaborative communities.

This August/September month we are re-visiting our own locations again for several weeks in the Netherlands, Germany and London. To join in diverse conversations and maintain projects progressing we will be located on European soil. 

If you like to meet with us or have anything else to ask or notice please contact us here.

Design student Marianne in conversation with Chinese designer Francois Yang from Shanghai.

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Summer school in project Rewire with design student Marianne Meijer in Shanghai

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Friday 16 October BoomWehmeyer and Marianne held a presentation at Academy of Art & Design in Arnhem for the design students.

Topic was the Re:Wire work that took place in Shanghai last summer, the reason of Marianne her stay in Shanghai and some future scenario’s that role out of this project. We finished the afternoon with the movie Manufactured Landscapes from Edward Burtynsky. A documentary on Burtynsky’s work, revealing the evidence and effects of massive industrial revolution in China.

The next months we will be located again project work between Germany,  Shanghai & Jingdezhen. We are working on some diverse design projects that will reveal begin of new year. Some work will be about a new furniture line, design research project Re:Wire and projects with other designers and local communities. Follow us at BoomWehmeyer or email us about subjects or participations.

This weekend the exhibition Taking Time opened. Taking Time is a nationally touring Craftspace exhibition curated by Helen Carnac and launching in partnership with Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. The artists in the exhibition are: Judith van den Boom & Gunter Wehmeyer, Gary Breeze, Neil Brownsword, Sonya Clark, Rebecca Early, Ken Eastman & Dawn Youll, David Gates, Matthew Harris, Amy Houghton, Esther Knobel, Sue Lawty, Heidrun Schimmel, Paul Scott & Ann Linnemann, Elizabeth Turrell, Shane Waltener & Cheryl McChesney Jones.

Moving beyond your borders. Re-thinking your ways of working. What are new possibilities in design, in our locality, how can your own ways of working contribute in new ways to designing. Last thursday we facilitated a clinic with BA product design students about expanding work ways in design by crossing borders and stimulating other approaches of design work.

Host design shop Coming Soon & Artez , Arnhem (NL) www.comingsoonarnhem.nl

These weeks we are full on shaping the new work for 2010. Weeks are full with planning, structures, concepts, experiments, logistics and pushing the boundaries of expectations, time and material. 

A great and raw side to living the full time weeks directly on the work floor.  The collection of work is pushing our ideas deeper into new directions of the layers around us, people’s usage of material, products and space. Until end january we will be mostly based in Jingdezhen to work.

This year is nearly to its end again and we look back into a great year full of diversity of work, meeting new people and shared energy on design projects. Our step into 2010 will take place in China while being busy with our work projects. We will start on 1 january with a evening lecture about our work approach for students and curious people at the Sculpture factory in Jingdezhen.

The theme of the talk is Moving Beyond Your Borders, to start the new year with a fresh energy and approach. The evening will be focussed on bringing diversity to grow people’s work directions. If you are in the area feel free to stop by and contact us for more information. We hope you all have a great start of the new year and look forward meeting you again for some synergy.

Best wishes, BoomWehmeyer