For my Design Academy Eindhoven MA Design Curating and Writing thesis, I spent a year researching, writing, visiting local designers I admire, and developing a project focused on a breed of students and alumni from the same institution that builds semi-industrial machines to make things.

‘Human and Machine’ proposed a new BA department for students to make their manufacturing tools and machines and work with local resources. I created a 4-year program, selected tutors, made a campaign and recruited future students at school. I also designed a promotional video along with fellow film-maker student Yen-an Chen, institutional material, and a poster featuring 100 machines and designers, such as Dave Hakkens and Olivier Van Herpt, who supported me
on the initiative and lent me early prototypes and objects to showcase.

I curated an exhibit at Van Abbemuseum within the 'On Curating Design' exhibition
and at Design Academy Eindhoven’s Graduation Show MINED, at Dutch Design Week.

Furthermore, I tested it during Make Material Sense’s first semester with a group of sound machine-maker students who collaborated with alumni OWOW to incorporate sensors into their instruments.