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From Design to Teaching
— my life following its own design.
I’m moving from Amsterdam to Melbourne in December 2025 to begin a new chapter in education. My work has always centred on how images, materials and media shape the way we understand the world.
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The phrase “form follows function” has stayed with me for years. Not as a design rule, but as a reminder that choices carry meaning. It encourages me to align intention with action, and to stay aware of how form communicates and influences.
I bring that awareness into my teaching and into the way I engage with visual and material culture.
In the classroom, I see visual language as something young people already use. Instinctively, creatively and often without pause.
My aim is to help them slow down, look more closely and understand how images and materials shape the way they see themselves and the world. When they recognise those patterns, they gain confidence in their own making and interpretation.
My background in visual culture and research taught me to understand images and materials as part of social and cultural life. Creativity becomes a way of navigating what is shifting and noticing how meaning forms in the everyday. That same curiosity guides how I learn, teach and create.
Visual work gives students a way to understand how images and materials influence their thinking. By making, observing and reflecting, they learn to recognise the cues that shape meaning and to respond with greater clarity. It is a quiet but important skill: learning to see how their world works and how to navigate it with intention.
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