_Crafting Consciousness_ BoomWehmeyer’s work focusses on opening up and enabling a different consciousness on how we place ourself in our localities and use design as the developing tool to create new scenario’s in material, education and design strategy. BoomWehmeyer is a small design studio with large ideals, our intention is to stay small, that is to say, not to have a large office but to stay in transition with the role of design. This scale allows to grow our approach in our networks and realise and designing projects and collaboration in education and business. BoomWehmeyer works together with a variety of international partners, institutes and organisations to explore and initiate a different perspective and impact by designing around society, business, culture and craftsmanship.

The start of many projects are grounded in BoomWehmeyer’s belief and commitment to embed education and transitional thinking as core ingredient in the realisation of the emerging practice. Through design coaching + doing , a societal consciousness and bringing a human scale into their discourse their daily practice connects not merely pure form but even more how we practice design around us. BoomWehmeyer´s work ethos “By the practice for the practice” manifests their connectedness and open source approach by design and their conversation on why the coaching and design research between practices and education is a key source to enable change by design.

“With the growing ambiguity on how we design our lives and work in design and business its even more important that we focus on how to be resiliant and embrace this ambiquity. The rewards, we define mostly that we see change happen. Sometimes small or big scale but mostly personal in the clients and students we work with. It’s just great to see how you can work together, empower and activate each other in collaboration and open a whole new transformation. We know a lot of things are in change and the transformation of how we design our lives will stay on going and this is not just in China it happens all around us (something we sometimes forget to see this as China changes rather fast) it takes a level to master this flux to be able to connect it within you into a local and personal purpose. We have been working a lot in China and Europe around re-thinking and working with this needs/transition connection because in this work field you can’t rely on a set manual.”

BoomWehmeyer is a Dutch/German design studio, established in 2005 by Judith Wehmeyer van den Boom and Gunter Wehmeyer. Their work is hand’s on with sharing their expertise and explorations through strategy/coaching, experimental design projects and intiating experimental academic and workfield programs. Together with institutes and partners they activate a different future by  using design as a tool to learn, experiment and develop new scenario’s for living together.

The transitional element of moving into the project or collaboration location has been the resilience of the studio’s consciousness on how and where they operate. With the world reshaping itself BoomWehmeyer values high the definition and meaning of the design practice and focus on a constant bridge between the studio walls and the practice of what design can enable. BoomWehmeyer´s work in Europe and China marks therefore their design ethos and plant design seeds to enable people and the practice to use design as a tool to experiment and develop sustainable awareness for tomorrow.

Judith Wehmeyer van den Boom´s methods of research, design and projects are inspired by her approach as practical idealist. Her curiosity and discourse in design have brought her work in a context of cultures and collaborations. For Judith design is a communicative  co-design process, enabling new relations, gathering diverse minds, qualities and contexts to work towards new paradigm in material and mindsets. The relations between hand’s on material explorations, designing awareness, people and their qualities are fuel in her work in Europe and extensively in China.

In her work as Head of the Department Product Design at ArtEZ Institute of the Arts Arnhem (NL) her passion for design manifests through education and activities such as lecturing, initiating international design education programs,  board member in SlowLab (NY/NL) and being tutor in Design Consciousness what is challenging Awareness by Design and the discourse of the use of design and the role of the crafts.

Since her Product Design studies at the Design Academy Eindhoven, ArteZ and her Master in Applied Arts at the Royal College of Art in London, she is often seen as a conversationalist due to the use and exploration of language and consciousness in her design processes.

Education Consciousness, Conversationalist, Social connector, Awareness Activator,  Hands-on, Re-phrase educator, Porcelain Explorer, Design Consciousness, Bridge builder, Design Activist, Dynamic Teamwork.

Gunter Wehmeyer is a born Landscape-Urbanist, Gunter has 10 years work experience in China and U.A.E on urban/social/strategy projects redefining the essence of design for social innovation and sustainability. He cofounded Studio BoomWehmeyer and is currently working on a new emergent/transitional design enterprises shaping people instead of products.  His detailed focus on the big picture developed by working with various large international firms and driven his collaborative visions across diversity, inconsistency and ambiguity.Through his background as Dipl.Ing. Urban Design following with his executive MBA Sustainability Management / Collaboration Management in Germany, his strengths lies in the strategy of being different and creating shared values towards the hybridization of business and design.

Currently he is very involved as a participant in the THNK, The Amsterdam School of Creative Leadership. THNK is for a new generation of hybrid design THNKERS where public, social and business worlds coming together to realize new and innovative solutions. Gunter’s focus is on the research, meaning and implementations of initiating more sustainable ways of living and develop, debate and co-design approaches that enables the locality to become its own creative force. Expanding and creating new strategies by design that can make a real impact on people’s lives.

Enterprise Consciousness,Synergy Connector, Social Innovation, Urban Explorer, System listener, Big Picture-Thinker, Purpose seeker, Analyzer, In-between Sensei, Detailed Perfectionist, Knowledge Generator.