Seeing myself as a designer with a curious and involved attitude towards the world around me.
Fascinated by the human body and it’s movements and motives. Why do people do
the things they do?
I like to respond to this by tackling social problems.
For example, lending a hand to human posture in evolution with my project ‘Orthoses for the future’.
Or by tackling my own pitfalls as a maker by designing a personalized and wearable methodology named ‘It all appeared to be linked’.
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BA - Cum Laude
New Design & Attitudes
St. Joost, 's- Hertogenbosch (NL)
2020 - 2024
BA - Exchange semester
Jewellery Design and Goldsmithing
Sint Lucas, Antwerp (BE) 2022 - 2023
Intermediate Vocational Education
Spatial Design
SintLucas, Boxtel (NL) 2015 - 2019
Research-based designer focused on body, its movements, and motives
contact: katjavandeurzen@hotmail.com
contact: katjavandeurzen@hotmail.com
WEARABLE MEMORY:
FUTURE'S HEIRLOOM -
JEWELLERY OR GADGET?
Speculative design, Jewellery Design,
925 silver, Synthetic polymer, 2024
Exhibited at
Now Show (graduation exhibition)
- academy St. Joost
's-Hertogenbosch
(27-06-24 to 30-06-2024)
Photography by Marcel van Gerwen
Do we dare entrust our most precious possessions to technology? Or do we yearn for a more analogue way of remembering?
Listen to the podcast 'DwarsDenkers', where I and three other students share about our graduation projects.
Hear the episode here. (Dutch)
”Wearable Memory - The Heirloom of the Future" comes from my fascination with jewellery and the memories and symbolism they carry.
Exploring Future Scenarios
This project explores how technological and analog developments could influence the future of wearable heirlooms by 2050. I wonder if technology can capture emotional value or if physical memories will remain more important.
The Body as an Archive
I consider the body as an archive. During my research, I have become convinced of two possible future scenarios.
Exploring Future Scenarios
This project explores how technological and analog developments could influence the future of wearable heirlooms by 2050. I wonder if technology can capture emotional value or if physical memories will remain more important.
The Body as an Archive
I consider the body as an archive. During my research, I have become convinced of two possible future scenarios.
Technology-Dominated Future
In a technology-dominated future, heirlooms could function as external hard drives for our memories, worn via an implant.
Analog Future
In an analog future, overwhelmed by the constant presence and dependence on technology, we might long for simplicity and concreteness. Thus, we would wear our heirlooms protectively and close to our bodies.
Emotionally Valuable Objects
In both scenarios, we use the heirloom as an emotionally valuable object but also as a possible learning tool for future generations.
In a technology-dominated future, heirlooms could function as external hard drives for our memories, worn via an implant.
Analog Future
In an analog future, overwhelmed by the constant presence and dependence on technology, we might long for simplicity and concreteness. Thus, we would wear our heirlooms protectively and close to our bodies.
Emotionally Valuable Objects
In both scenarios, we use the heirloom as an emotionally valuable object but also as a possible learning tool for future generations.