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…
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…
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 the move – Lagoon Apeiron” at the 2019 Creative Expo in Taipei.
The starting point of the Lagoon Apeiron project was the social character of shrimp fishing. Shrimp fishing ponds used to be gathering places in society where people meet, talk, learn, play and socialize. Yet currently, with the changing urban lifestyle the fishing ponds and their social character are disappearing.
Referring to this, the exhibition’s central point was an actual fishing pond, thereby turning the exhibition space into a social space. It became a space for talks, performances, cooking lessons, workshops, fishing and discussions. During the “Lagoon Talk Series”, experts from science, anthropology, art and design shared their visions without borders.
The WaterSchool was invited as one of the eight exhibitors. Its vision on education, collaboration, co-creating and the connection with water resulted in a round table with a story woven into the table cloth. Here, Studio Makkink & Bey’s Cheesemaker was metaphorically connected to craftsmen on a small platform in the center of the table, stressing their vision on co-operation between different crafts. Threads lead to the stories and landscapes on the table cloth to show possible products and future scenarios.