#openset

Open Set provides a program, which includes symposiums and workshops, that identifies the latest developments in design, emphasizes its relations with urgent social and political debates, and also promotes cooperation with other cultural disciplines and sectors. Open Set is addressed to international designers practicing in a broad range of creative industry sectors, and also to artists and researchers while remaining open for non-designers who are interested in the research subject and can contribute from the perspective of other professional sectors. The event aims to offer the participants an environment in which they are inspired to step out of their comfort zone and experiment with different strategies, techniques, ideas and collaborations in order to develop their own practices with confidence.

The theme Memories of the Future is the subject of two Open Set events of 2016: Seoul Sessions in South Korea and Summer School in Rotterdam. Under this theme, we focus this year on the contemporary perception of memory, referentiality and history, and how these concepts can influence performative and aesthetic narratives of the future; how alternative way of looking at the Memory can influence an alternative vision of the Future. For the fifth edition of the Summer event, we invited Dutch and International artists, designers and researchers to contribute with simultaneous workshops and lectures: Jan van Toorn & Els Kuijpers, Olia Lialina, Kyong Park, Joanna van der Zanden & Alice Twemlow, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, collective Åbäke & Dr. Sebastian Groes, Theo Deutinger, Mike Thompson & Susana Cámara Leret (Thought Collider), design critic Max Bruinsma, and others.

In 2012 Feelux Lighting Company and Bang & Lee started collaborating together at Feelux R&D Dept. and Lighting Museum(Yangju, Korea) to use light as a material and subject to strengthen relationship through the arts, workshops and showcase projects.

Coordinator at Open Set 2015!

This year I’m very excited to be coordinator at Open Set - Graphic Design Summer School, which takes place in Rotterdam! Already very interesting results in the first workshop by Prem Krishnamurthy and Emily Smith.