Felting atelier

Phylene Lemans atelier

Phylene is an example of a pro am. She has studied dutch literature and worked as a child therapist, teacher of dutch and the last 3 years she decided to make a hobby of hers into a professional activity. She started with workshops on how to felt, felting hats and continued following lectures on felting. She also did an experimental workshop held by Jongstra.
Now she has her own atelier in the oud west. At her atelier ,which she shares with a fine arts painter you can see her felting with her students, chatting over a cup of coffee or trying on beautiful hats in peculiar forms and colors. Sometimes she is giving workshops in schools and activity centers in Holland. “I load my car with all kins of fabrics,wool and soap and drive kilometers giving workshops on felting.It is something that gives me a lot of pleasure."

http://www.feltamsterdam.nl/home/1

Kodama visited.

Rob Bunnik
Jaldhara Bakker
www.kodama.nl
KODAMA>atelier+ winkel

Rob and Jaldhare create beautiful custom made interiors in Japanese style.

They produce and sell their creations in their space near overtoom. The space is beautiful, the smell of the exotic wood fills the air and classical music is playing non stop. They work long hours in a relaxed pace. They enjoy what they do. In fact Rob gave up a carier in medicine and Jaldhare a job working with mentally handicaped people , in order to open their own wood atelier.

foodbank (click here) <----

Papabubble: sugar, spice and everything nice.

Located on Haarlemmerdijk

70 is the papabubble candy-

workshop.
Here a young crew produces

handmade candy using

interesting techniques,

treating the material (sugar)

sometimes as clay, other

times as glass.

The boundaries are quite low

to have something produced

here, though the labour can

get expensive.

Nevertheless their (work)shop

is open to all.

For Fumitaka Saito Holland means tulips, windmills and a "Mekka" for recorders.

Fumitaka makes recorders but sometimes they turn out as bananas!

- by Melina Pyykkonen

Questions relating to production

Why make only recorders?

Fumitaka studied for 5 years to play but considers himself better at making than playing them.

Why Amsterdam?

Amsterdam and Holland are a “Mekka” for recorders also due to Frans Bruggen, who is a very well-known recorder player.

Where do you get your material?

He considers himself lucky that his supplieris in Amsterdam, in the Houthaven called Fijnhouthandel.

Who and where is your customer?

He only produces on order for customersworld-wide. He does not visit his customers but it would be better if he sees them.

How long does it take to make one?

Preparation of the wood takes 6 years. For it needs to dry.

Production problems?

The banana effect! The wood lives and it can happen that when he sends a straight instrument to the customer, it changes during sending, customer complaints, recorder is sent back but is straight again when it reaches Fumitaka!!

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- by Jette Borger


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Afbeelding: Kaart Amsterdam uit Brockhaus Konversations Lexikon 1901 Erster Band 'A - Athelm'

Who is making what, where, how, with whom and why in Amsterdam today?

Between October and December 2008, designLAB students are exploring Amsterdam's finest production systems. Each place is portrayed through a set of questions & answers, a vizualized gesture and a quote. The portraits can be seen as personal odes to the craftmanship, passion and production wisdom of these places.

The 5 basic questions relate to the system around a specific mode of production:
- what do you make? [produce]
- how much does it ‘cost’ to make it? [money / labor]
- what can you do and not do? [limits/terms of production process]
- where does it come from / what does it take to make it? [input]
- where does it go? [output]


During a first brainstorm we defined interesting forms of production:
:: positive: ‘output’
:: negative: stealing, keeping secret, throwing away, destroying, wasting
:: random
:: accidental, unplanned
:: marginal
:: limited / unlimited
:: amateur / professional / pro-am
:: profit / non profit
:: material / immaterial

Related links discussed during the project:
www.demos.co.uk
www.shrinkingcities.com
www.movingcities.org
www.megastructure-reloaded.org/en/yona-friedman

“ Intelligence starts with improvisation (...) The thing with cities (...) is that it’s all about behavior. A building that has no user is no building.” - from an interview between Yona Friedmann and Hans Ulrich Obrist, about Merzbau

“A Pro-Am pursues an activity as an amateur, mainly for the love of it, but sets a professional standard. For Pro-Ams, leisure is not passive consumerism but active and participatory. Pro-Ams demand we rethink many of the categories through which we divide up our lives. Pro-Ams are a new social hybrid. Their activities are not adequately captured by the traditional definitions of work and leisure, professional and amateur, consumption and production.”