Hacking design

Echoing Joseph Beuys, IKEA once campaigned that ‘everybody is a designer’, celebrating their consumers armoured with an Allen key. Today, besides software, people hack politics, the military, cuisine, DNA, BarbieTM and also design. Hacking design not only results in many new products that are copied instantly, but is also an interesting driver for innovation, as is clear from the hacks that were shown at the exhibition Platform21 = Hacking IKEA, but also reminiscent of the ‘phone phreaking’ streak that inspired Steve Wozniac and Steve Jobs to start Apple.

SIMULACRA – HACK BY BAS VAN BEEK


PHOTO: PLATFORM 21 / PREMSELA ➝ WWW.BASVANBEEK.COM

PLATONIC SUNS – HACK BY DANIEL SAAKES ➝ REPRAP / ERIK DE BRUIJN


PHOTO: PLATFORM 21 / PREMSELA ➝ LOG.SAAKES.NET

ÖLKE BÖLKE – HACK BY REMY&VEENHUIZEN


PHOTO: PLATFORM 21 / PREMSELA ➝ WWW.REMYVEENHUIZEN.NL

LAMPANBETWEENTWOBLANDAS – HACK BY STUDIO PLUS


PHOTO: PLATFORM 21 / PREMSELA ➝ WWW.WOUTERVANNIEUWENDIJK.NL

ASTRID – HACKED BY LISETTE HAASNOOT


PHOTO: LISETTE HAASNOOT ➝ WWW.LISETTEHAASNOOT.NL

ASTRID HACKED BY LISETTE HAASNOOT


PHOTO: LISETTE HAASNOOT ➝ WWW.LISETTEHAASNOOT.NL

FLATPACK RE-ARRANGED – HACK BY KIEREN JONES


PHOTO: KIEREN JONES ➝ WWW.KIERENJONES.COM

FLATPACK RE-ARRANGED – HACK BY KIEREN JONES


PHOTO: KIEREN JONES ➝ WWW.KIERENJONES.COM

IKEA COFFIN – HACK BY JOE SCANLAN


PHOTO: PLATFORM 21 / PREMSELA ➝ WWW.THINGSTHATFALL.COM/JOESCANLAN.PHP

HEX (IKEA HEX KEY NECKLACE) – HACK BY CYNTHIA HATHAWAY


PHOTO: PLATFORM 21 / PREMSELA ➝ WWW.HATHAWAYDESIGNS.ORG

BEACH BAG – HACK BY SARAH KUENG AND LOVIS KAPUTO ➝ INTRODUCTION / MARLEEN STIKKER


PHOTO: SARAH KUENG & LOVIS CAPUTO ➝ WWW.KUENG-CAPUTO.CH

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