View the work of fourth-year student Crissi
What does a depolarised society look like? Crissi is exploring that question.
A birthday party. Everyone is smiling, but not everyone feels at ease. There are opinions, expectations, silences. For Crissi Apostolidis, fourth-year Product Design student, that is exactly where her work begins.
Crissi explores what a depolarised society might look like. “I wonder how we can be encouraged to think from different perspectives,” she says.
Her first project, Flipper, literally shows two sides of a story, on one phone. “The idea is that we are constantly confronted with the other side. It reminds you of everything you don’t yet know.”
“I want to work in places where disciplines meet.”
That confrontation also plays a role in her theatrical work. Crissi places real people in exaggerated situations, such as a birthday setting. “Birthdays can be quite uncomfortable. Everyone has a different opinion, you’re surrounded by people you didn’t choose yourself, it’s supposed to be fun… That makes it interesting. Not to confront each other, but to be confronted yourself. And through that, to reflect.”
In her work, design, research and theatre come together. Crissi wants to keep working in spaces where disciplines meet. “Just having the freedom to explore, to collaborate with people who know a lot, to keep learning new things – and to do that all my life. That’s my dream.”
