BCXSY, a cooperative between Amsterdam designers Boaz Cohen and Sayaka Yamamoto, recently completed work on a collaborative ceramics project with the clients at Twinkelbel, a daycare center and ceramic workshop in the Netherlands which caters to adults with disabilities. The center uses clay to generate communication, therapy, play and to teach the clients new skills and ways to grow their creativity.
Their collaboration, Stamppot, is a series of ceramic tableware objects which reference vegetables. Taking its name from the traditional Dutch meal of potatoes mashed together with different kinds of vegetables, the objects in the set are left to interpretation, rather than referencing a specific vegetable on-the-nose. The designers state that the inspiration for the project came from the clients’ enthusiasm for things from their home country. Clients chose from a color palette tailored to different vegetables and created the forms based on their own interpretations, focusing on color and texture.
The project was comissioned by Kazerne Lab, which facilitates partnerships between creative professionals and businesses, with a focus on the social, economic and cultural values of the end results.
Above image: Process photograph from BCXSY’s collaboration with clients at Twinkelbel. Photograph from the designers.
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The finished Stamppot series along with process photographs from BCXSY’s collaboration with clients at Twinkelbel. Photographs from the designers.
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I applaud this project this is support great. It shows a fair relationship between industry design craft and social engagement. It was not clear how or if there was an economic value to the workers? I would like to have understood that element a little better. Thanks great stuff.