from here to there – reality mappings
Comfort and disillusion # 4
Onomatopee 50.8
by Jozua Zaagman
Onomatopee playfully frames and manifests our progressive capacity to design culture. At Onomatopee, architects, urban planners, graphic and spatial designers, cultural critics, marketers, artists, politicians and others willing to engage with the meaningfulness of designed culture, get together, within a constructive sphere of nurturing, cultural citizenship, to negotiate and establish our cultural future via design’s playful, political practice. Each project consists of an exhibition, which allows our experience to become durable, and a publication that gives context to our imaginations. Projects expand upon both real-time cases and abstract thought.
Isn’t speculating upon the socio-spatial dynamics of atlases something we all enjoy? Don’t we all wonder about the optional possibilities which our public space provides, trying to establish where our personal coordinates may flourish?
Jozua Zaagman works in the gap between art, architecture, sociology and urban planning. He works visually yet analytically, collecting data in the public domain and using it to make a statement about socio-cultural tendencies in the urban environment. He maps traces of human activity, the actual imprints of people in our public terrain, bringing to life markers of a human scale which are otherwise invisible to those in power – the planners, policy makers, architects, etc. He allows these images a voice. This analytical way of working produces a specific spectrum of photos, sound recordings, text material and other data, which Zaagman, by means of applied design, makes accessible to the general public. Through this process he transforms hard facts into visual poetry, both of, and for, a human scale.
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