Hanneke de Leeuw

MEET THE MAKER

As a designer, Hanneke is fascinated by change and wants to contribute to the activist role that design has by sketching visionary images of the future. For example, she is investigating how she can use waste in a new way, as a raw material for new products. She is also realizing a social project about corona and developing a series of plates and cutlery related to climate change and food. ‘By looking differently, researching and experimenting with surprising angles, I want to shed new light on those changes. I give them a positive twist, with a playfulness that instills in people the idea that by doing yourself you influence the world around you. A turn in which imagination, an open mind, but also confusion and experimentation are central.’

WHAT ARE YOUR FEEDBACKS?

‘Crafting business has prompted and taught me to look more businesslike at my crafting.’