In The Midst Of A Forest Vedute is a library of spatial manuscripts for which Jurgen Bey and Rianne Makkink made a visualization of space as time; as a spatial moment in which you move. 'We are in the midst of a forest, in the midst of unknown time that spans a life of studies, youth, love, despair, madness and most importantly: work.'
At 1:27 Jurgen Bey and Bruno Vermeersch explain the relationship between passing through and space.
Passionswege in MAK, Vienna, showed local production workshops based on the local 19th century tradition of passionate cooperation between the Viennese applied arts industry. Studio Makkink & Bey designed the exhibition.
During a Summer School session, students of the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture experimented with new kinds of 1:1 production landscapes, based on the themes: compost, water and energy.
Jurgen Bey takes his time to observe our actions and to discover intrinsic qualities in things that are often overlooked.
Closing pannel discussion at the symposium Me Craft/You Industry: Imagining a Tailor-made Industrial Landscape. With (left to right): moderator Hans Kennepohl, Jurgen Bey, Smári McCarthy, Henk Oosterling and Pieter Tordoir.
Speakers Jurgen Bey and Leo Schouten talk about working landscapes and the progressive office.
Jurgen Bey talks about his view on what he sees around him and about critical design.
Jurgen Bey talks about his view on what he sees around him and about critical design.
Lecture about how spaces and objects influence our perception and the way we value an experience. He speaks about redesigning the educational system and the importance of well designed workspaces.
Re-interpreting the container, Studio Makkink & Bey engage our perceptions of what a product’s purpose is. These shipping crates, normally used to temporarily house goods, take on a more solitary role as a sized down household unit. The Crate Series re-defines functional, ordinary objects by infusing them with new narratives. Shipping crates usually used for temporary storage and freight are transformed into containers for living, domestic cabinets rich in detail. The result plays with our ideas of value; the container becomes the content, a by-product is metamorphosed into the product.
A podcast interview, in which the two explain how they work as a creative duo – Bey the dreamer collects and dreams up ideas and Rianne with the architectural expertise materialises the visionary cloud of ideas into form.