3380 Detail of the foam installation
Studio Makkink & Bey
3380 Design Diorama (London Design Biennale), 2016
commissioned by: Het Nieuwe Instituut
src: http://www.studiomakkinkbey.nl/list/projects/3380_design_diorama
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3380 Design Biennale
For the first edition of the London Design Biennale, Studio Makkink & Bey developed a three-dimensional blueprint of the personal salon of the studio’s founders, Rianne Makkink and Jurgen Bey.
This contemporary diorama – originally a picture viewing device through which an interior is viewed – is a replica of their archive at home.
Design Diorama, the archive as a utopic environment, consists of a space filled with blue foam copies of objects by former studio employees, freelancers and interns as well as products and artefacts from various other designers, artists and architects. The installation functions as a personal archive of the practice’s own work, mapping and placing it amongst the work of their network of designers, artists, writers, architects and curators, creating a play on the romantic representation of a designer and design studio.
Parallel to the temporary physical diorama installation a digital index has been developed which can be viewed at www.designdiorama.com.
