Curious who's selected for Designalism Newsroom?

Please let us introduce you to these talented participants starting the May 20th at Beeld en Geluid Den Haag.

19.05.2022  |  by ACED  |  Designalism

Curious who has been selected for Designalism Newsroom? Please let us introduce them to you! On May 20th these talented participants will start at Beeld en Geluid Den Haag. This group is supplemented with participants from Pointer (KRO-NCRV), De Volkskrant and NOS, whom we will also introduce this week.

Charmaine de Heij

Charmaine de Heij reflects with photography on contemporary issues, which concern her on a personal level as well. The subjects that her photography touches upon are diverse: from a psychological state to identity to racism. Charmaine is of mixed origin, Dutch and Surinamese. With her work she would like to be a representation of her cultural heritage and aims to cultivate understanding.

Chris Congleton

Chris Congleton is a student MSc Computer Science: Data Science based in Leiden. In his thesis he investigates the political tendencies of Dutch newspapers. By using various big data, machine learning and AI techniques, Chris analyzes a collection of newspaper articles. Of which, for instance, displaying how often politicians or parties are mentioned in a newspaper.

Eef Veldkamp

Eef Veldkamp is an artist, researcher and tutor at ArtEZ University of the Arts. In his practice, Eef focuses on organizations that relate to contemporary issues around, for instance, protest. Each organization has its own goals, programming, pitfalls and expiration dates that are often put into practice in collective with other artists and thinkers.

Fenna Wenselaar

Fenna Wenselaar is a media creator and researcher who aims to use her skills to make complex information accessible to a broad audience. She obtained a MA degree in Information Design from Design Academy Eindhoven in 2019, has a strong fascination for what people do on the internet and loves working with video.

Fien Leeflang

Fien Leeflang is a graphic designer and image editor based in The Hague. She obtained a bachelor's degree in Graphic Design from The Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague in 2020. The interaction between visual and linguistic storytelling is her main interest, which reflects in her practice, focusing on research and information design.

Jonathan Tang

Jonathan Tang is a Dutch-Cantonese visual artist with a background in architecture. His work mainly focuses on processes within power structures of modern society by means of the image as a materialized object. Currently, he is studying the MA Photography and Society at The Royal Art Academy of Art, The Hague.

Jonathan Tjien Fooh

Jonathan Tjien Fooh is a storyteller part of PoetryCircle Amsterdam, a researcher, and programme maker Designing Cities for All at Pakhuis de Zwijger. Molded by the ‘Alakondre’ culture, resilient nature, and colonial history of Suriname, his work is aimed at untangling systems of oppression and exclusion; remixing art, storytelling, ethnographic research, and decolonial thinking, to uncover erased stories.

Noor de Kort

Noor de Kort followed the writing course of the master's in Journalism at the University of Amsterdam and the master's in Politics & Parliament at Radboud University. Noor previously wrote for Trouw and NRC and currently works as a communications adviser at the municipality of Tilburg. Politics, history and sport are subjects that fascinate her in particular.

Luis Anibal Villegas Hernandez

Luis Anibal Villegas Hernandez is a Venezuelan-born Aruban journalist, poet and jurist in training. His interest in journalism and law were sparked by his bureaucratic journey to become a citizen of Aruba, which culminated in him fighting the immigration department in court. Luis' work focuses mainly on migrant, climate and LGBTI+ rights, as well as public administration, freedom of information and Kingdom relations.

Saskia Pouwels

Saskia Pouwels is a designer, educator, and researcher at Human Experience & Media Design at Hogeschool Utrecht, NL. Her work explores and shapes practices at the intersection of data and immersive design, focusing on remote-sensing technologies and the social and political implications of digital intellectual property. She calls for a fundamental shift in the way we conceive and design (digital) environments.

Zhizhong Keene

Zhizhong Keene works as a graphic- and visual designer, mixing traditional and new media practices of print design, coding and digital illustrating. With an interest in the visual language of cartoons and animation, Keene explores how their elements such as panels, sequences, exclamations and narrative structures can be applied across different surfaces & spaces.

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Charmaine de Heij

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Chris Congleton

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Eef Veldkamp

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Fenna Wenselaar

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Fien Leeflang

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Jonathan Tang

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Jonathan Tjien Fooh

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Luis Anibal Villegas Hernandez

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Noor de Kort

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Saskia Pouwels

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Zhizhong Keene

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