Arnhem-based designer Judith van den Boom strives to bring human relationships to fruition within the processes of manufacturing her own ceramic designs. She works together with Gunter Wehmeyer in studio BoomWehmeyer on projects illustrating their wide concern for design development, social communities and innovation.

Van den Boom challenges contemporary notions of making in her product development, seeking out and exploring “warm relationships” with manufacturers. Slowing processes within today's super-fast production and consumption era in China is one way of doing that. Her recent creative investigations of material, body language and sensation fed directly into a collaboration with a large manufacturer in Tangshan, China that included design workshops and poetry readings with factory workers. Learn more about Van den Boom's work and ideas here >

July/August 2008
Slow email? On Friday 08 August, slowLab founder Carolyn Strauss will present ideas and process of creating slowMail, a project exploring slowness in electronic messaging, at The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. slowMail is a collaboration with Julian Bleecker. Strauss and Bleecker received a Rhizome Commission to develop this project, which is being presented alongside other Rhizome commissioned artists. more info >

Upcoming
PICNIC 2008 promises a converegence of "thousands of creative minds from all over the world." We're hoping slowLab will be invited to bring a slow perspective to the proceedings... Amsterdam (NL) 24 to 26 September 2008. more >