Building new relationships with people and materials, finding and creating new connections and dialogues has become her fuel. Judith van den Boom (NL) made her MA in London in a design driven Applied Arts C&G department at the Royal College of Art. In the years before she finished her BA in Product Design at the Academy of Art & Design in Arnhem (NL) and started work in various fields. In the past few years she has mainly been working abroad to develop a different perspective.
The world is her dialogue space where she explores physical & conceptual answers, by engaging with products, exhibitions, teaching, discussion, design thinking, varied int. work periods and in her partnership in BoomWehmeyer studio.
At present she connects in Boomwehmeyer Studio with her partner Gunter Wehmeyer (GER) where they meet in the different backgrounds and mindsets between urban design, scale, design thinking, material research and product design. Here the collaboration works from XS to XXL designing, looking beyond the boundaries of material, use, and expectations. Currently they are focussed on research projects in China to create new design platforms.
Also Judith is teaching with BA academy design students on slow design and new personal development strategies. She is active setting up new design approaches by being member of SlowLab (NY/NL) to activate new ways of thinking. Judith’s passion for engagement with different identities, cultural abilities, understanding and discussion has become an essential base for her work.
Through time she has built close relationships with manufacturers and designers in China who are open for experiment, social sustainability and going below the surface of plain production and connect in workshops and active discussion moments to create a change on the work floor.
Judith’s work is constantly evolving, between hands and minds, object and functional and currently focused on human-centred design, social and creative development, setting up projects where design creates much deeper meaning and the physical form; an active mind.