Michou-Nanon de Bruijn uses design as a medium to communicate her researches and
future visions to the public. In order to stimulate discussions, and create awareness for
global and local problems. In her working process she does not divorce a product from
its surrounding. Material and immaterial connections are made in order to build
utopian systems. This utopian systems are the nutrition for her physical design work.
Michou-Nanon studied Man and Wellbeing at the Design Academy Eindhoven. where
she received a cum laude for her two graduation projects (Koelkachel and Individual
Idea). Her Graduation Work has been published and exhibited internationally. Which
led to an second fridge project (FlatLightFrigo) commissioned by OpenStructures. It was
exhibited in Z33 Belgium and Stroom den Haag. She collaborated in 2009 with designer
Hanna Jonsdottir and filmmaker Valentina Maria Maechler in order to create an
affordable system for Icelandic Gardening in Hšfn Iceland. Since 2007 Michou-Nanon
works on a research project called EuropeanAgeingUtopias which is a reaction on the
Demography satatistics published by the EuropeanUnion. This summer she is invited
by KROTofKANS (a project organised by CBK Zeeland) to life and work in Oostburg
where
she will investigate the population ageing and the future of living in this small
village.
Next to her own Projects she enjoys working as Senior Designer for Studio Makkink &
Bey.
Due the wide range of the Studio she is able to design in different fields from
creating concepts, public spaces, interiors, to products. Herby a selection of projects she
worked on: WashHouse,
The Crate Series, Blue House Rug, Balancing Barn MVRDV,
Daily Hanky, BI meets BS, Witness Flat, Spaarndammerstraat, Spaarzwijntje...