Designkwartier is a festival about slow-design, food & lifestyle at the Zeeheldenkwartier, The Hague, 29-31 May 2015. Ateliercomplex ‘De Besturing’ where Studio Barbara Vos is located is joining this festival as a group. This years theme is ‘an ode to failure’. By making mistakes beautifull inventions can be done. At Prins Hendrikstraat 127, the artists of the Besturing will pass on their mistakes to each other, to do edit this failure with some of their talented skills, to create masterpieces which are sold on the spot. Studio Barbara Vos made diamond shaped tiles with holes, Sara Vrught and Geanne Welles continued working on these tiles by adding their ‘signature’.

Diamond shaped tiles made by Barbara Vos, completed by Sara Vrugt (wiring) and Geanne Welles (felt circles). These tiles made by multiple artists were sold during the exhibition.Geanne Welles working on an experiment.Tiddo de Ruiter and Maarten Schenkeveld, melting and pouring aluminium as an experiment. Leather bags by Myrte Memelink Sara Vrugt working at the embroidery machine.

During the KABK Open Day of 31 january 2015 work is presented of students and graduates. Tex-tiles by Barbara Vos are shown at the Post Graduate Course for Industrial Design. Tex-tiles are translucent porcelain tiles with textile imprints. Read more about tex-tiles. 

On the 17th, 18th and 19th of October between 17.00-20.00 hours, there is a pop up warehouse ‘BINCKSE WARENHUIS’  located at the Besturing during the IM Binck Festival. In here we sell products of designers like: Rubber Soul, Studio Geanne, Maarten Schenkeveld, Studio Vrugt, Dennis Slootweg, Barbara Vos and Inge Simonis.

Tex-tiles are available at luxury sanitary and tile showroom Intercodam, Amstel 135, Amsterdam. The translucent white tex-tiles are presented on a wall with switches, so people can test the difference with lights turned on or off. An example of installation with led light armatures is also shown.

Studio Barbara Vos neemt deel aan de Haagse Makers beurs op 27 september 2014 in het Koorenhuis, Prinsengracht 27 te Den Haag.

Zie hoe Den Haag het maakt tijdens de Haagse Makersbeurs

Op zaterdag 27 september verzamelen zich in Prins27 (locatie Koorenhuis) tientallen Haagse creatieven. Tijdens Haagse Makersbeurs laten ze aan elkaar en het publiek zien wat er zoal wordt geproduceerd in Den Haag.

De Haagse Makerbeurs is een platform voor creatieven, ambachtslieden en techneuten die in Den Haag actief zijn en aan anderen willen laten zien wat ze in hun ateliers, studio’s en op hun zolderkamers maken. Tijdens de beurs geven de Makers demonstraties van hun eigen creaties, maaksels en baksels en is volop gelegenheid om met elkaar en publiek te netwerken.

Mode-kunstenares Sara Vrugt, bierbrouwerij Bogt, Repair Kid en HockeyTracker zijn onder andere op de beurs aanwezig. HockeyTracker demonstreert er de technologie die tijdens het laatste WK Hockey in Den Haag zijn mondiale debuut beleefde. Die maakt het mogelijk om onder andere balsnelheid en slagkracht tijdens hockeywedstrijden in beeld te brengen.

Naast de productdemonstraties en proeverijen, biedt de Haagse Makersbeurs ook podium aan muzikanten, vj’s en dj’s die met zelfgebouwde apparatuur en instrumenten shows geven in de grote zaal van het Koorenhuis.

Voor meer informatie over het programma: www.haagsemakers.nl

Haagse Makersbeurs beta
27 september 2014
Van 12:00 tot 17:00 uur
Prins27 (Koorenhuis) | Prinsegracht 27 Den Haag
Prijs: € 5,00 (t/m 12 jaar gratis)

Studio Barbara Vos gives a lecture about her studio, her tex-tiles and her experience at EKWC (European Ceramic Work Centre) as an inspiration for setting up a fablab at 4Havens, Rotterdam.

NL: Made in 4Havens promoot lokaal ontworpen en vervaardigd design uit het 4Havensgebied in Rotterdam.
Door middel van onderzoek en activiteit wordt de lokale creatieve economie in het gebied op de kaart gezet.
Met het halfjaarlijks terugkerend festival en het aangesloten netwerk is Made in 4Havens hard op weg hét platform in Vierhavens te worden voor de lokale maakindustrie.

Tex-tiles are submitted to the material library of Centro Stile Fiat Group Automobiles, as an innovative inspirational material for the design team of the automotive industry.

Centro Stile Fiat is nowadays called Centro Stile Fiat Group Automobiles and is located near the research center Elasis CRF in Orbassano since 2007. The design departments of the brands Fiat, Lancia, Alfa Romeo, Abarth, Maserati and Fiat Professional are all joined together at this location. The old Officina 83 in sector B of Mirafiori was only used by Fiat for press introductions and presentations of new design projects over the last years.

Centro Stile Fiat, once one of the biggest design departments in the world, has recently changed owners for an amount of 3,4 million euros (4,5 million dollars or 3 million pounds). Enthusiasts of the Italian brand will remember the building as ‘Officina 83’. Fiat already sold it to the town and region Piemonte in 2005. The city of Turin already owns multiple divisions of this big Mirafiori-complex under the name of ‘Torino Nuova Economia’ and is structurally looking for new destinations. Though lots of people have feared for years that useless shopping centers or even theme parks would be built there, this property of 22.000 square meters has now been bought by a supplier of components in the car industry of Lingotto itself.

Tex-tiles are submitted to the material collection of the Material Library of the London Metropolitan University.