Noud Sleumer is a conceptual designer whose work explores global systems of production and processing. His research focuses on the lifecycles of consumer electronic products, tracing the supply chains from resource to production and from points of sale to final processing. With an emphasis on methods of deconstruction, Sleumer’s practice provides insights not just into our everyday objects, but the systems, infrastructures and people who support them too. Using reconstruction and re-contextualisation as his tools, Noud allows for new visual and concrete perspectives on the globe’s complex waste-industries. It’s from this work that we can collectively re-assess our relationship to man-made matter.
As a designer Noud Sleumer is a conceptual designer who's role is to critique ‘the act of making’. Within self-initiated and explorative projects his focus is trained on strategies of reduction and blending. Simplicity is the tool that underlies these approaches and enables Sleumer to create new playgrounds of creativity, in which we can collectively re-examine our relationship to man-made matter.
In the age of abundance, knowledge about what is produced is inaccessible or neglected. Because of this Sleumer positions the role of the designer not as producer but as iconoclast. Key to his work is the reversal of design methodologies in order to question the essence of making within a world that is always under construction.
Noud graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven (NL) with a master’s in Social Design and holds a bachelor’s degree in Experience Design (Academy for Art, Communication and Design - NL).
Contact: info@noudsleumer.com
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Redesign Rietveld - Keilgebouw - Rotterdam
14/01/2022 - 19/03/2022
Benefiet voor Brabant - Albert van Abbehuis - Eindhoven
15/01/2022 - 15/02/2022
Signs of (un)making - solo exhibition - TAC Eindhoven
16/10/2021 - 5/12/2021
The Greater Number, Dutch Design Week - Eindhoven
16/10/2021 - 5/12/2021
Expozitia Quantum Questions: EFECT - Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
24/11/2020 - 12/12/2020
What A Time To Be Alive - Temporary Art Centre Eindhoven
16/10/2020 - 31/10/2020
GEO—DESIGN: Junk - Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
19/10/2019 - 17/11/2019
The Object is Absent, MU, Eindhoven
19/10/2019 - 27/10/2019
Antenna Expo - Design Indaba, Dutch Design Week Eindhoven
20/10/2018 - 28/10/2018
G18 - Former Campina site, Design Academy, Eindhoven
20/10/2018 -
28/10/2018
‘Device People’ - Droog Design, Amsterdam
04/10/2018 - 15/10/2018
Van Abbe & De Stijl - Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
17/06/2017 - 31/12/2017
Brabant Wunderkammer - BKKC, Tilburg
14/09-2017 - 31/12/2017
Colour Geographies - Luma Foundation, Arles (France)
22/05/2017 -
31-08-2017
Generation '17 - MOAM, Vondel CS, Amsterdam
19/01/2017 - 19/01/2017
The Wandering Eye - Adam & Siam, Amsterdam
11/12/2016 - 27/02/2017
Next Up - FHK, Tilburg
30/06/2016 - 02/07-2016
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Article, Metropolis M - No. 4, 2016, Utrecht
Article, Het Parool, bijlage PS - 19/01/2017, Amsterdam
Review, Mister Motley - 15/07/2016, Amsterdam
Review, De Ingenieur - 22/06/2018, Den Haag
Article, Eindhovens Dagblad - 24/10/2018, Eindhoven
Review, TL mag – Art & Design - 25/10/2018, Brussels
Review, De Volkskrant - 28/10/2018, Amsterdam
Article & Video, Algemeen Dagblad - 01/11/2018, Rotterdam
Article, Design Indaba - 11/04/2019, Cape Town
Book, Do it Ourselves - 10/10/2019, Rotterdam
Article, VPRO - 19/10/2019, Hilversum
Article, Metropolis M - 21/10/2019, Utrecht
Article, BNO.nl - 22/10/2019, Amsterdam
Article, Dezeen - 25/10/2019, London
Article, De Architect - 31/10/2019, Alphen aan den Rijn
Article, Dezeen - 14/11/2019, London
Column, Reformatorisch Dagblad - 28/11/2019, Apeldoorn
Review, DDW.nl - 26/12/2019, Eindhoven
Article, Dutch Design Daily - 21/10/2020, Eindhoven
Article, Dutch Designers Yearbook - 18/12/2020 - Rotterdam
Video, VPRO - 19/10/2021, Hilversum
Review, Algemeen Dagblad - 18/10/2021, Rotterdam
Review, Mestmag - 21/10/2021, Eindhoven
Article, Architectenweb - 27/10/2021, Amsterdam
EXPERIENCE
Module leader & teacher - Academy Of Design Grad School
Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2021
Teacher - Academy of Art, Communication and Design,
Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts,
Tilburg, 2019-2022
Social Matter, Social Design
Book by Jan Boelen & Michael Kaethler
Contribution with the essay:
Re-Mining: A technological renaissance out of human and mineral extraction?
Valiz - Amsterdam, 2020
Re-constructing The Classroom
Collaboration with Foundation We Are, Studio Bernhard Lenger & Lansbrekers,
Kazerne Eindhoven,
05/06/2019
Antenna Conference - Design Indaba & Dutch Design Week, Klokgebouw Eindhoven, 22/10/2018
ACCREDITATION
Alumnus Driving Dutch Design - BNO, ABN-Amro & Dutch Design Foundation - 2020
Dutch Science Award 2018 – InScience & Klokhuis:
Nominated in the top 10 shortlist of best academic
researches of 2018
