The WaterSchool is a speculative framework that proposes to rethink the cultural, didactic, and infrastructural model of education and living, relating all these facets to more…
3518 Wasserschule, Eine Spekulation in vier Jahreszeiten
The WaterSchool is a speculative framework that proposes to rethink the cultural, didactic, and infrastructural model of education and living, relating all these facets to more…
Gouda 750 Jaar From 6 April to September 2022, the exhibition 'Expo Gouda Makes' offers an inspiring platform for stories, conversations and connections between young and more…
Monday 14 November 2022 the KNAW and the Akademie van Kunsten i.c.w. Studio Makkink & Bey open an exhibition dedicated to water in all its more…
WaterSchool is part of Design Fest Ghent from 22nd of April untill 1st of May 2022, located in the Design Museum. Design Fest Gent is more…
WHAT DO WE NEED TO START FROM SCRATCH – TO START BEING HUMANE AGAIN? In WATERSCHOOL’s Garden of Delight, human presence is not immediately perceptible. It more…
The Dutch Pavilion at the World Expo Dubai shows an installation of WaterSchool. The installation is the result of research by Studio Makkink & Bey more…
The Cheesemaker has been part of the exhibition 'Aangespoeld' (Stranded') in Het Kunstgemaal in Bronkhorst. Designer Marc de Groot curated a group exhibition, inspired on more…
Invited by Shenzhen Institute of Building Research (IBR), Studio Makkink & Bey joined the renovation plan for one of neighbourhood centres in the new area more…
Studio Makkink & Bey designed the exhibition In perspective for the Nationaal Onderwijsmuseum (the national museum of education) in Dordrecht. The exhibition shows the most more…
In May 2019, WaterSchool was presented at the “A School of Schools” exhibition at Atelier Luma. Atelier Luma is a think tank, a production workshop more…
Studio Makkink & Bey presented the WaterSchool during the Fuorisalone Milan 2019 in fabulous Alcova, a former factory building. The ex-industrial space is partly taken more…
From the 24th of April to the 5th of May 2019, the WaterSchool was part of the C-Lab (Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab) project “School On more…
The exhibition Land[E]scape in the renowned OCT Art & Design Gallery in Shenzhen, China takes place from 29th of September 2018 until 6th of more…
With the opening of the monument ‘Deltawerk //’, designed by RAAAF +Atelier de Lyon, it is celebrated that Waterloopbos is now a Rijksmonument. Natuurmonumenten organises a more…
The WaterSchool is a working exhibition to develop a future school which will be opened in the heart of the M4H district in Rotterdam, in more…
The WaterSchool, a self-initiated project of Studio Makkink & Bey, was invited to be present at the 4th Design Biennial in Istanbul. WaterSchool is more…
The exhibition Food Revolution 5.0 sheds light on one of the most pressing issues of the 21st century: What will we eat in the more…
Love Is Love features a spectacular audio-visual and musical design that celebrates Jean Paul Gaultier’s boundless imagination and twenty years of haute couture. The more…
Installation made for : Jean Paul Gaultier From the sidewalk to the catwalk, Exposition Kunsthalle Munchen 18. September 2015 - 14. February 2016 more…
From 13 September 2015 until 8 May 2016, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL Exhibition design by Studio Makkink & Bey Graphic design by Sandra Kassenaar There can be more…
About Exhibition Series Surprising Finds The office for design, applied art and architecture Studio Makkink & Bey created the spatial design for the series of archive exhibitions entitled Surprising Finds. more…
Installation in the first Room for the exposition: "Jean Paul Gaultier - de la rue aux étoiles" at The Grand Palais de Paris. Wednesday April 1st more…
About Exhibition Series Surprising Finds The office for design, applied art and architecture Studio Makkink & Bey created the spatial design for the series of archive exhibitions entitled Surprising Finds. more…
TextielMuseum Tilburg commissioned Studio Makkink & Bey to develop a vision of the interior of the future. In conceptroom Huisraad, Studio Makkink & Bey depict a more…
Designer Martino Gamper has curated an exhibition at London's Serpentine Sackler Gallery featuring classic and contemporary shelving systems that display objects chosen by friends and more…
Living Spaces, an exhibition tracing a hundred years of textiles in Dutch interiors, opens in the TextielMuseum on 8 February 2014. A series of conceptual more…
In the exhibition The Seven Sins, Studio Makkink & Bey takes the famous painting by Hieronymus Bosch, bearing the same name, as a starting point more…
About Exhibition Series Surprising Finds The office for design, applied art and architecture Studio Makkink & Bey created the spatial design for the series of archive exhibitions entitled ‘Surprising Finds’. more…
On show in the Creative Lounge in Tokyo Japan: Earchairs, Worksofa's, one SideSeat, one KadE Chair and a Vacuum Cleaner Chair, stools and aprons - more…
The exhibition design 'Lost In Translation' shows industrial materials that become the frame of a house, and self-build becomes the norm. Domesticity is detached from more…
Commissioned by Vienna Design Week in cooperation with the MAK, from 6th September to 16th September. The traveling exhibition relocates to the MAK Exhibition Hall more…
Guest curators Rianne Makkink and Jurgen Bey address the evolution of production processes and small industries through the work of Dutch and international designers. Industrial developments more…
What happens when the functional design object meets art? Two of Studio Makkink & Bey's designs were shown at the OVERLAP exhibition:The knitted chair, made more…
Instalation of WashHouse at Poetry Happens in Milan more…
Installation of the Wash House project at Art Object Rotterdam 2011 more…
Three scenarios present connections between general culture and car culture. The imprints of mobility on the landscape have been substantial since the arrival of the more…
The Internet has undoubtedly transformed the world we live in; its unprecedented access to and layering of information lead to greater interaction and engagement, and more…
This drawing of a Polderscape shows a typical Dutch polder: a gridded topography that closely resembles its real-life rendition. Our studio's projects, products, small pavilions, more…
In several crate cabinet designs by Studio Makkink & Bey, a shipping crate is transformed into a cabinet; a by-product transformed into a finished piece more…
The Happy Families exhibition shows the entire story of Studio Makkink & Bey and our design philosophy, which is largely based on personal relationships, connections more…
In the Arched Gallery the studio presents a selection of its oeuvre. This selection, or 'Household' is a result of the subject of the exhibition more…
Z33s' 'Designing Critical Design' brings together three designers who have all established an international reputation as a critical designer. Jurgen Bey (Nl), Anthony Dunne and more…
The exhibition: The Hands On Movement crafted form in dialogue aims, with a sense both of generosity and delight, to present a new way more…
The traveling exhibition Tangible Traces – Dutch Architecture and Design in the making, was designed by Studio Makkink & Bey and premiered at the 7th more…
The origin of paper cuts has a close relation with the ancient Chinese believes and customs surrounding afterlife. In the Hereafter material belongings are as more…
You are now in the work space of Jurgen Bey that has temporarily been relocated to the ABC institute for Architecture. There is no cabinet more…
In WATERSCHOOL’s Garden of Delight, human presence is not immediately perceptible. It is a place where the fundamental elements composing the human body and our essential resources simultaneously become valuable nutritional sources, building materials and filtering agents. The garden, a humble starting point, grows into a new type of household – fostering completely new ways of living.
WATERSCHOOL’s site-based research and a ‘learning by doing’ approach focuses on Rotterdam’s Merwe-Vierhavens (M4H) harbour district. Operating as a test site, WATERSCHOOL shows a speculative landscape where the 6,300 future residents implement the regenerative use of raw materials and resources, allowing for balanced cohabitation between all local organisms, communities, and environment.
You can find us in fabulous Alcova, a former factory building. The ex-industrial space is partly taken over by plants and vegetation, giving it a state of poetic semi-abandonment. In WATERSCHOOL Alcova we have invited Rotterdam based artists, designers and architects to contribute. The exhibition, supported by Stichting Droom en Daad, shows a sustainable, circular and regenerative learning environment in order to meet the looming ecological challenges.
In an intimate and personal setting, we will personally guide you through the Garden, connecting it to the Rotterdam M4H district and illustrating what a new living and working environment could look like when its development is guided by a resource use that ensures a fair interaction between all organisms, communities, and their environment.
Aliki van der Kruijs & Jos Klarenbeek
Ance Janevica
Arvid & Marie
Bart Hess & Govert Flint
Basse Stittgen
Emma van der Leest & Radboud University, NL
Flip the City
Frank Bruggeman
Gijs Schalkx
Helmut Smits
Lab AIR
Livin Farms
Maidie van den Bos | Forêt Atelier
Max Latour & Pierre Oskam
Paolo Patelli, Giulio Squillacciotti & Giuditta Vendrame
Philipp Kolmann, Suzanne Bernhardt & Liza Witte
Roberta Di Cosmo & Matilde Patuelli
Studio Klarenbeek & Dros
Studio Makkink & Bey
Studio Ossidiana
Tamara Orjola