Projects
Each project is a response shaped by context, driven by materiality and rooted in social awareness.
Through various materials, tools, and disciplines, these works explore how design can empower autonomous initiatives through low-key gestures.
Some are collaborations, others are deeply personal. All are part of an ongoing inquiry into different forms of tactile, situated engagement.
A hands-on, co-creation initiative exploring how curiosity over nature and shared rituals can bridge social and economic divides in the context of Morgenstond, Den Haag.
A closer look into repair culture as both material and social resistance. By merging traditional grassroots techniques from China and Japan with design research, it reflects how value, labor, and care are shaped in a post-consumerist world.
A design-led initiative that reimagines household organic waste as a resource for self-care. Through DIY recipes and workshops, we empower individuals to transform everyday scraps into beauty products, closing loops through caring.
Through Korean recipes adapted to the Dutch context, we created a bilingual cookbook and ceramicware line that invites reflection on belonging, globalization, and the shared language of cuisine.
A process-led ceramic project exploring how scarcity and context shape making. Rooted in resilience, it reflects on privilege, value, and craft as quiet resistance.
A bilingual thesis exploring craft, inheritance, and identity through an inherited object—merging making and memory across cultures.
By exploring making as care through collective barbecues, we reflect on well-being, community, and mental health at Design Academy.
Blending fermentation, form, and food culture, the project questions control, nutrition, and transformation in everyday materials.
We reimagine restaurant waste as a resource for sustainable product-making. By turning organic discards into valuable materials, we propose a system where food and waste support each other in a circular economy.
A ‘board game’ that sparks discussions through speculative scenarios, engaging diverse participants across various settings in Eindhoven.
Using local, experimental techniques based on traditional Okinawan pottery, the piece reflects on memories, migration, and the role of family in shaping our stories.
Material culture contrast of traditional upbringing with modern life, using functional teapots to explore identity, tradition, and the fleeting nature of enjoyment.
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