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"Holding on to" Architectural trademarks

Erasmus bridge shapes tea diffuser

Erasmus bridge tilted cup

Multimedia vases inspired by local areas

Plates with different map areas of Rotterdam, creates different placement options for food and play with sauce

Stamps inspired by harbor textures, clip on stamps to one handle

Tea set, coming together, made with isolation to represent Quarantaineweg

Organic candle with pressed styrofoam layers

Tea set with clay textures

CONCLUSION: TOO LITERALLY TRANSLATED, TIME FOR MORE RESEARCH

Weaving with local materials: construction site, cultures, harbor,....

CHOSEN CONCEPT

STORY:

I live at Katendrecht, which when I say that most people immediately think of prostitution. To me that is very unfair considering during that same time the biggest Chinese community in Europe was located in the same area. By outsiders they have always been overshadowed seeing prostitution is better known.
I wanted to create an ode to this community that were still a huge part of Katendrecht during the 1930's.
I looked up traditional Chinese vases, which to me represents them very well. Not only that but I also love the shapes.
I have found some interesting personal stories of that community in Katendrecht and wanted to create a snapshot out of the story to really represent that Chinese population specifically. That snapshot I plan to portray onto the vase to share their story.

VARIATIONS

Ming pillows

Possible embroider stories

Also: During the 15th century China was ruled by the "Ming Dynasty". They evolved a lot in ceramics and created new and better techniques. They really made the Ming vases one of China's cultural trademarks.

Chinese medicine care and research a lot about health and aging. They have a fear of nothing being permanent and everything ending at some point. China has an interesting "pillow history". They researched on how to get the best night sleep and on how to become as old as possible. People used too sleep on wooden or bronze "pillows" thinking it would help or even sleep on ceramic pillows thinking the cold would make them become older. On the other side some people preferred comfortable pillows so it really depends on their believes.
The ideal pillow type has changed over time from hard and cold ceramic pillows to soft pillows for a pleasant and dreamy sleep.

What do the peanut cookies / teng-teng katjang look like?

Packaging

What does the last Chinese restaurant look like?

What did the harbor workers look like?

VISUALIZE THE EMBROIDERED SNAPSHOTS

"Unbreakable" stands for the fact that this product is an unbreakable ming vase but also that even though every trace of the Chinese community has disappeared from Katendrecht, history isn't breakable and they were still and will always be a huge part of Katendrecht's history

INSPO

Necklace instead of tag?

FINISHED PRODUCTS

POSTER

SUBLIMATION HEAT PRESS

The last chinese restaurant at Katendrecht closed

Teng-Teng sellers to finance their families

The chinese men working at the harbor

How are Ming vases originally transported?

The snapshot drawings that are going to be sublimation printed onto my fabric

PRICING

MATERIAL COST:

FABRIC - €5
PRINTING SUBLIMATION PAPER - €0,75
THREAD - €1
STUFFING - €1
BALSAWOOD - €9,50
STICKER SHEET - €0,10
PAINT - €0,30
GLUE - €0,10

TOTAL - €17,75


LABOUR:

2H CUTTING FABRIC + 3H SUBLIMATION PROCESS + 17H SEWING X €35 = €770 : 3 = €256,66


ERROR MARGIN (15%):

(€17,75 + €256,66) X 1,15= €277,07

WHOLESALE PRICE:
€277,07 X 5 = €1.385,39

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TOTAL PROFIT:

€1.385,39 - TAX (21%) - COMMISSION SHOP (50%) - PRODUCTION COST (€17,75) = €384,01

CALCULATIONS

PERSONA

NAME: AMELIA DAVIS
AGE: 32
OCCUPATION: JOURNALIST
STATUS: MARRIED
LOCATION: NEW ZEALAND, AUCKLAND

ARCHETYPE: TRAVEL HISTORY LOVER

CHARACTERISTICS: CLEVER, SMART, MOTIVATED, SPORTY

MOTIVATIONS: ACHIEVEMENTS AND GROWTH

GOALS: KNOW MORE ABOUT CULTURES IN THE WORLD, REDESIGN HER HOUSE INTERIOR, INSPIRE OTHERS

FAVORITE BRANDS: APPLE, NIKE, PATAGONIA

COULD SELL AT THE UPCOMING MUSEUM THEY ARE BUILDING AT KATENDRECHT ABOUT MIGRATION TO THIS AREA, MAYBE EXHIBIT OR SELL IT AT THE MUSEUM SHOP.