Judith Vanden Boom: Design

Activating, prototyping and rewiring conversations with material, people and contexts has become Judith’s fuel to stimulate new directions in design. Working with the diversity of hands and minds, to create deeper meaning in the design territories. Focussed on continuing the conversations that question, reveal and materialize a new connectivity through design tools.

Judith van den Boom (1977) born in Utrecht (NL) studied for her BA Product Design at Design Academy Eindhoven and Academy of Arts & Design in Arnhem, following design driven Master Applied Arts at Royal College of Art in London (UK). From here she build up her studio that is focussed on Work and Think Space, being active through material and social design related projects.

For Judith, design is not merely about creating products but about engaging and exploring the hinterland between designs function and work fields. Shaping with fragile materials and the different techniques and expectations one can have of material, are one of her languages to express her passion for the form and usage.

The studio work connects the idea of work & think space by active work around peoples design expectations, material and social expressions such as academic work, design experiments, local product projects and creating design that adds to stimulate a change. Change in usage, change in expectation, change in how we perceive our own context.

In the past, she was based in London and worked actively with others on creating changing design perspectives. From 2004 until present she had several extensive work experiences in China through residencies, social design projects and new ideas around manufacturing. Here she build up deeper conversations through working together that are continued in her practice Here she created work such as ceramic productions, documentation, photography and connections in bridging co-creative cultural networks.

Furthermore Judith exhibited throughout the last years internationally in design weeks, , solo shows, galleries and shops in; NY, London, Milan, Montreal, connected with publications in diverse international design magazines.

She is also an active design tutor connected to diverse academies and teaching with passion on new learning strategies with design students on design diversity and new personal development strategies, facilitating design workshops and initiating new study methods.