This project was developed as part of the International Design Experimental Meeting (IDEM) 2024, a week-long, interdisciplinary, and international workshop in the Belgian Ardennes. The starting point was the theme of “beauty”—a subjective, culturally charged term that is often avoided or viewed critically in design.
As my contribution, I developed a sculptural work made of mirror foil, which I photographed in nature. The reflective surface reacts to its surroundings, reflecting the landscape, light, and viewer, thus eluding any fixed form or clear attribution of beauty. Beauty does not appear here as a static property, but as a relational, unstable phenomenon. In the confrontation between artificial material and natural space, the work questions common aesthetic hierarchies and reveals how strongly beauty depends on context, perspective, and cultural influences.
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At first glance, it was about the
topic of beauty,
but perhaps also more about
values, political and socially
critical views and the different
perspectives of the younger
students and older generation
of professors.
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