DutchCulture | Buitengaats: Joris Laarman Lab: Bits and Crafts at Friedman Benda (NYC)

Joris Laarman Lab: Bits and Crafts, is a groundbreaking exhibition by Dutch designer Joris Laarman. Formed around the theme of digital fabrication and generative design tools, Laarman’s exhibition is testament to the seismic impact of digitalization on the design world.

The realm of digital design tools and digital fabrication is shifting our ideas on design in all its facet —and this pushes the Lab to explore the endless new possibilities of the digital revolution. While Joris Laarman employs cutting-edge tools to enable new shapes, fabrication and methods, his enduring signature is manifested through a combination of both technology and craftsmanship, which furthers establishes his personal design vocabulary. As with each of his designs to date, the works in Joris Laarman Lab: Bits and Crafts are a distinct convergence of technological innovation and surprising beauty.

Joris Laarman was born in the Netherlands in 1979, and graduated Cum Laude from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2003. While still in school he created the “Heatwave radiator,” a design widely-lauded and incorporated into many museum collections. In 2004, Laarman together with his partner Anita Star, founded Joris Laarman Lab. The lab currently situated in Amsterdam, collaborates with craftsmen, scientists and engineers on the possibilities of emerging technologies as CNC systems, 3D printing, robotics or parametric software.

Joris Laarman Lab: Bits and Crafts, Friedman Benda New York, 1 May - 14 June 2014

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