Bastiaan Stoker

Mingling Lights are modular plastic sticks with integrated LEDs and magnets, designed for collective play and unexpected functionality. They can be linked together, or deconstructed again, into any shape and size. Mingling Lights can work on a power bank (with an adapter) and up to 32 units can be attached at once.

An emotionally believable story can make us connect with anything. Regardless if a given narrative is true, false or questionable, it’s the story that fundamentally gives anything its value. Dennis The Desklamp is an example of an ordinary functional object, but with a human character that you can develop a relation with. By doing so, I’m providing the start of a connection, of a story, that others may finish.

An emotionally believable story can make us connect with anything. Regardless if a given narrative is true, false or questionable, it’s the story that fundamentally gives anything its value. Dennis The Desklamp is an example of an ordinary functional object, but with a human character that you can develop a relation with. By doing so, I’m providing the start of a connection, of a story, that others may finish.

Mingling Lights are modular plastic sticks with integrated LEDs and magnets, designed for collective play and unexpected functionality. They can be linked together, or deconstructed again, into any shape and size. Mingling Lights can work on a power bank (with an adapter) and up to 32 units can be attached at once.

An emotionally believable story can make us connect with anything. Regardless if a given narrative is true, false or questionable, it’s the story that fundamentally gives anything its value. Dennis The Desklamp is an example of an ordinary functional object, but with a human character that you can develop a relation with. By doing so, I’m providing the start of a connection, of a story, that others may finish.

These series of casts display the transformation of a classic design. A total of 15 casts where made, slowly deteriorating the shape. The functional quality of the Juicy Salif has stayed intact throughout all castings.

'Reproducy Salif' is a series of aluminium casts from a deteriorating wooden mould of the classic 'Juicy Salif' design by Philippe Starck. These series of casts display the transformation of a classic design. A total of 15 casts where made, slowly deteriorating the shape. The functional quality of the Juicy Salif has stayed intact throughout all castings.

Through the process of creating and adding meaning intuitively, this project evolved from a blank canvas into this. A mobile instrument that contains 5 instruments which can be played by anybody, intuitively. This public instrument can be played by 5 people simultaneously. Each instrument is individually amplified with a piezoelectric pickup to an external amplifier, to create an atmospheric experience for both the observer and the player.

This public instrument can be played by 5 people simultaneously. Each instrument is individually amplified with a piezoelectric pickup to an external amplifier, to create an atmospheric experience for both the observer and the player.