Congrats! Amit Palgi, Can Bora, Mina Rassouli, and Paul Hulsebosch on receiving a startersvoucher
- Fine Art
- Design
- Dance
- Entrepreneurship
The past few months, they worked hard with the ArtEZ Business Centre to perfect their pitch, which paid off. They will be receiving €2.500 to help them start their plans. Read below what they did to receive the voucher and what to expect from them in the near future.
Amit Palgi graduated from ArtEZ Dance Arnhem in 2023. During the corona-lockdowns, he started making immersive VR dance films. The audience couldn’t attend the dance shows, so he took the dance shows to the audience. He applied for the startervoucher because producing these films requires a lot of technology. He will use the money to continue creating films after graduating. He convinced the commission by showing the relationship between dance and technology. The technology took over during his pitch as he talked, and he started dancing. Now he can create new projects, which he will use to find additional money and commissions.
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Can Bora graduated in 2022 from the master Performance Practices. His work is a multidisciplinary effort to find ways to understand your body. In his youth, he was ashamed of being too sensitive. But he found out later that his sensitivity enabled him to have a fulfilling life – if he could understand his feelings. ‘A body’ to him is a tool to re-interrogate systems, disciplines, and cultural codes. He calls this the ‘felt-sense’. The company he will start will develop sensation-based design products and courses in which you learn to connect with your body and read its processes. The money from the voucher will be used to build his webshop and produce prototypes.
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Mina Rassouli graduated in 2022 from Comic Design. She applied for the startervoucher so she can start a design studio. Her work centers around female empowerment, infused with a little comedy. This combination resulted in the 'Tiddow', a lopsided heart shaped boobie pillow. The products she intends to make will tease the idea of the women's body under constant pressure by the media to be perfect. Her work wants to deconstruct that idea and celebrate women's bodies as they are. She will invest the money from the voucher in a sewing machine and sewing lessons. And she hires an ArtEZ Business Centre coach to help her get started and reach her clients.
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Paul Hulsebosch graduated in 2021 from Product Design. His work focuses on the dangers humanity puts the ecological world through its actions. He applied for the voucher to realize his project 'Versatiles': a street tile designed so grass can grow through. Cities remain greener that way, and the ground underneath the tiles will get damp and prevent drought. He will invest the money from the voucher into a 3D printer to produce the molds necessary for his tiles. He uses part of the money to promote his work at relevant places such as Dutch Design Week. It's hard to pitch a project as grand as this to a critical jury in just three minutes, but he did it through preparation and confidence. Hopefully, Paul's tiles will be scattered throughout the Netherlands soon.
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We wish everyone good luck, and we hope to hear more in the future. If you are interested in a startersvoucher, you can read more here.