ReWire: Joost Fluitsma at TEDxWageningen

Joost makes a live demonstration how beautiful art can be crafted out of wire and other objects otherwise seen as waste.

Joost's father is a sculptor and his mother is a speech therapist. He mixes these two professions into his work. He studied Industrial Design Engineering in Delft and Art in Den Haag. From a distance they are almost the same, but he experienced two totally different worlds. An engineer thinks in pressure and tension and thinks about the functionality, whereas an artist is making his or her work from a personal need and later looks back at what the meaning is. In his work for RE*WIRE he experienced a nonconventional way of thinking. It is a lot about doing out of a personal need.

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