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, exploring “warm relationships” with manufacturers, as evidenced by her ongoing collaboration with a large manufacturer in Tangshan China that includes design workshops and poetry readings with factory workers. Learn more about Van den Boom's work and ideas here >

June 2008
'No Idle Hands' is a collection of short documentaries curated by slowLab network member Sabrina Gschwandtner about contemporary handcraft: "absorbing, obsessive, mysterious, political, communal and mythical." The screenings will be followed by a Q and A with filmmakers. Tuesday 10 June at 8:00 pm more info >

'Amazingness' runs through 06 July at at Viewfinder Photography Gallery in Southeast London. This show of photographs by slowLab network member Anna Hillman records and reveals the subtle, quite beautiful interactions between Nature and urban places, encouraging us to slow down in our own daily lives and locality to take it in. more info >

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