Bladerbankje

In the month of June this year the students of our department were living in empty houses in Schiedam. This gave us the opportunity to use these spaces as a working space or deal with social Art. Starting with the theme "feeling home" I experimented with textiles in many layers.
Fascinated by the difference in use of textiles in different cultures I started by "sculpting" it in a way of usage in living space.

Stating that people mostly start feeling at home when they can have an influence within the interior, whether it is adding something that's theirs or simply moving a piece of furniture I wanted to create a work that includes both these aspects. In front of the house in Schiedam that was mine for a month, there was a small playground and a park bench. This was a perfect piece of furniture to turn into an even more social space by adding multiple pieces of textile. Creating the ability for people to choose their own taste in fabric for the bench, and giving the opportunity for them to add their own piece of textile.