sagmal@anjagroten.com
Janneke:
janneke@ohyescoolgreat.com
Start: Thursday 18 November 2010, 19:00hr.
With contributions by: John Holten and Line Madsen Simenstad from brokendimanche, Esther Kokmeijer, Frank Hanssen and Paul Hendrikx from studiomango, Anja Groten and Janneke de Rooij with eurovision3000, Dinu Dumbravician with ateliertipografic and Mašta from loesje. Moderator is Anne Miltenburg from orientationlab.
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With a mobile stand, eurovision3000 stood at the different locations of the festival and spoke with students of the Willem de Kooning academy at their gallery, ciitizens of Rotterdam and visitors of the European Design Awards. Every day we made a small newspaper concerning the previous days' results, to hand out to participants.
Right now we are working on a self initiated project about the discussion whether Europe needs an identity and what the role of a designer is in this discussion. Does creating an identity for Europe mean creating a fake surface for something that should develop naturally? Should we look only at the past, the history and the heritage when we talk about a definition of European identity? What is the difference between the inside- and the outside view on Europe? Those are some of the questions that we are posing ourselves and that we would like to discuss with an European audience. The first visual part of our research is a notice board which shows home-made advertisements made by people from different layers in society. We used this public podium as an methaphor for the society looking for an European identity. The contents of the announcements are generated through the Google translator, creating an European language.
20-02-2010
We created a poster series of 3 posters that show 3 different self generated EU maps. We looked for each of the 27 members of the European Union on page 27 of the Google image search. Afterwards we placed the photo’s in original image proportion on the geographic spots of the countries on the European map.
Herewith we’re creating a new European narrative. In our map, countries become bigger because their Google images are bigger.
You see 3 image choices of dutch, English and German Google image search. In the second layer, three different statements are posing the question whether a designer is able to create authenticity in European identity matters.
Based on the lecture of Josef Mrozek, the students of the Sandberg Instituut organized a discussion on European identity.
Mrozek tries to define Europe and the Design of Europe with looking at it´s traditions. We were wondering if it´s a good choice to define europe through it´s past/history/heritage. Is there a way of giving it an identity which is focused on the present time and is there necessarily a need to define it anyway?
This discussion was the starting point of eurovision3000.
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