Monsterlijke samenstellingen
Monstrous Compositions is a research-based exploration into Dutch orthography and the broad
mutations it feeds. The project serves as a critical questioning of linguistic purity through
the
practical development of speculative future writing forms.
Within the Dutch language, it seems correctness is still valued over understandable fluidity.
But when hearing and seeing this medley of characters, sounds, and their duplicates, one question arises:
What happens to the language when we further entangle these monstrous outcomes
of the spelling system through the practice of simplification?
Perhaps an intentional degradation of written language will position it closer to its spoken counterpart.
In ‘Monsterlijke Samenstellingen’, I challenge the idea of a pure, correct form of language.
Through simplification and physical entanglement of shape grounded in sound,
I question current linguistic systems, with the underlying question of what
they will
look like in the future?
The project unfolds into a series of tactile experiments that explore the qualities and defects of the Dutch linguistic system.
Grounded in repetition and the constant weaving of shape, material, and nostalgia, a new proposition forms.
One that presents an alternative way of looking at language and how we use it.
In a world that is hungry for clarity and fast answers, the project asks people to stand still
and think about something that a lot of people view as natural: understanding and literacy.
It asks you to observe whether what you think you know well is truly the best way.
Right, because that is what you learned in class.
But is the way we are used to always the best?
Language belongs to the mouths that it is spoken from. To the hand that writes it down on paper.
‘Correct’ or not. And just like the people those mouths and hand belong to,
language reshapes, grows, and bastardises constantly.
Year
2025-ongoing
Details
Speculative design -- Exhibition
BA Graduation Project - Type Design - Speculative Design - Writing System - Graphic Design - Social Design