Join DesignInquiry and a dynamic roster of participants and activators for a week long investigation through making, contemplating, printing, binding, and collaboration!
Salvage, translated to ‘bergen’ in Dutch, denotes a discovery of hidden value in something dredged up from the deep, something thought to be beyond repair. As a design act, it’s a transformation, a kind of alchemy, wherein new life is breathed into abandoned things. How, then, might salvage provide an ethos and an imaginary for our futures? Can we envision the salvage of cities, of democracy, of our relations with the natural world? The port city of Amsterdam provides a perfect venue for the topic of salvage, with its history as a term used in shipping insurance, and the city’s possible futures below sea level. Aside from transforming shipping palettes into furniture or abandoned buildings into communal residences, salvage also becomes a political theory, a “craft of the poor” and a way of making that activates a protesting public. Practitioners of salvage “open themselves to the new and unseen,” according to political theorist Jason Kosnoski, who sees salvage as one of the “arts of living on a damaged planet,” in the words of Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.
Inquiries are immersive, experimental, and unconventional gatherings that invite detours and allow space to challenge assumptions, expand boundaries, and emerge with fresh insights. We invite participants with a convivial attitude, healthy appetite, developing research and a willingness to embrace elastic experiences and reframe the structure. We seek the curious, the playful, the awkward, the profound to get inspired, distracted, diverted, lost, found, and renewed at the intersection of our collective research.
Confirmed Activators:
Noviki with Future Fragments
Alice Twemlow
BB Workshop
NovoTypo
Future Salvage takes place at the Grafische Werkplaats in the dynamic Amsterdam Noord area right next door to NDSM
“The NDSM area in Amsterdam North has been around for over a hundred years. From industry to historic shipbuilding colossus. From an industrial construction site to an incubator for pioneering art. Over the past decades, countless creators, artists, cultural institutions, programming restaurants, new museum concepts and appealing initiatives for festival and cultural events have settled here.
The extensive outdoor area offers space for wonder, connection and experimentation. As a free space for art and culture, but also as a space to wander around for residents of the surrounding neighborhoods and the many visitors from home and abroad. Together, they make NDSM an inseparable whole: the city's cultural incubator, and the bustling heart of old, new and future urban neighborhoods.” from NDSM
Salvage, translated to ‘bergen’ in Dutch, denotes a discovery of hidden value in something dredged up from the deep, something thought to be beyond repair. As a design act, it’s a transformation, a kind of alchemy, wherein new life is breathed into abandoned things. How, then, might salvage provide an ethos and an imaginary for our futures? Can we envision the salvage of cities, of democracy, of our relations with the natural world? The port city of Amsterdam provides a perfect venue for the topic of salvage, with its history as a term used in shipping insurance, and the city’s possible futures below sea level. Aside from transforming shipping palettes into furniture or abandoned buildings into communal residences, salvage also becomes a political theory, a “craft of the poor” and a way of making that activates a protesting public. Practitioners of salvage “open themselves to the new and unseen,” according to political theorist Jason Kosnoski, who sees salvage as one of the “arts of living on a damaged planet,” in the words of Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.
Inquiries are immersive, experimental, and unconventional gatherings that invite detours and allow space to challenge assumptions, expand boundaries, and emerge with fresh insights. We invite participants with a convivial attitude, healthy appetite, developing research and a willingness to embrace elastic experiences and reframe the structure. We seek the curious, the playful, the awkward, the profound to get inspired, distracted, diverted, lost, found, and renewed at the intersection of our collective research.
Confirmed Activators:
Noviki with Future Fragments
Alice Twemlow
BB Workshop
NovoTypo
Future Salvage takes place at the Grafische Werkplaats in the dynamic Amsterdam Noord area right next door to NDSM
“The NDSM area in Amsterdam North has been around for over a hundred years. From industry to historic shipbuilding colossus. From an industrial construction site to an incubator for pioneering art. Over the past decades, countless creators, artists, cultural institutions, programming restaurants, new museum concepts and appealing initiatives for festival and cultural events have settled here.
The extensive outdoor area offers space for wonder, connection and experimentation. As a free space for art and culture, but also as a space to wander around for residents of the surrounding neighborhoods and the many visitors from home and abroad. Together, they make NDSM an inseparable whole: the city's cultural incubator, and the bustling heart of old, new and future urban neighborhoods.” from NDSM