Furniture designer Ollee Means and PZI MA Design course leader and curator Michelle Kasprzak will discuss Ollee’s book Circles to Spirals: a personal compendium of sustainable design. Ollee’s research shares his personal journey into the language, theories, and historical actors shaping contemporary sustainable design practices.
Join us in the Research Station (WH.00.316) on March 25, 15:00-1700.
Ollee Means is a designer and founder of BOTHI, an Amsterdam-based design house producing aesthetic objects of utility. Working between gallery and retail, he explores how contemporary craft can operate sustainably as a business, developing objects and furniture that balance creative authorship with the practical realities of production, commerce, and everyday use.
Michelle Kasprzak is a curator, educator, writer, and artist. Currently, she is the Course Leader of the Master Design at the Piet Zwart Institute and a Postdoctoral Researcher in the NWO-funded De DNA Dialogen consortium. She founded Little Earth Mountain, a label for artists' multiples and printed matter on language, landscape, and desire in 2024.
Research in Perspective hosts conversations about research in practice at the WdKA-Piet Zwart Institute. It is a forum for connecting, sharing information and insights, and acknowledging, questioning, and honoring the diversity of approaches, methods, and practices involved in the research we undertake. Research in Perspective invites guests and welcomes session proposals. Convened by Miriam Rasch, Vivian Sky Rehberg, and Renée Turner, coordinated via the Research Station and Research Center.
