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Newsletter 12 2025
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Design in times of confinement
© Caroline Dethier

Until February 11, 2024 the CID presents Home Made. Produce, Create, Live, exploring the history and innovations of working at home.
During the Covid-19 period, photographed by Dutch photographer Christian Van der Kooy, some were able to experiment with new ways of making things at home. The Riveroshan duo, for example, reinterpreted the drawings of their little daughter who was confined to their home. Others focused on the benefits of fixing things. The Humade studio, for example, revived their porcelain repair kit developed in 2009 using the age-old Kintsugi method.

With the support of the Dutch Embassy in Belgium.
HOME MADE
Create, Produce, Live
15 October 2023 – 11 February 2024
© Assemble
From the “chambrelan” (old French for somebody who works from one room) to the “maker”, working in the home has a long history. It continues to remind us of the relationship between a given time period and its output, as well as the link between an object and where it was ...
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