WaterSchool

The WaterSchool is a speculative primary school designed and organized around water as an essential material, subject and social phenomenon. It proposes a rethinking of the economic and infrastructural model of education: this school could produce everything it needs to function onsite through small-scale industrial collaborations with selected designers/artists. Currently the WaterSchool is being developed in a myriad of manners within a wide range of outputs.

Studio Makkink & Bey aims to connect companies, governmental bodies and designers working on topics related to water and education. Within the framework of exhibitions, Studio Makkink & Bey acts as a curator, inviting upcoming artists/designers to present their work in thematic exhibitions and lecture series. Through uniting works by artist/designers within a larger (speculative) framework, Studio Makkink & Bey hints towards a future in which art and design are more integrated in education and life in general. In the exhibitions, projects are categorized according to themes, being Clean, Grow, Harvest, Make, Build and Document. Each of these themes pertain to a larger context and water-related issue, as well as a space and an act.