Things aren't always as you are

Henk Elenga is invited in the frame of this semester's assignment the Power of Beauty specifically and in general in relation to the uncomfortable and uncertain times we find ourselves confronted with.
Elenga was a notorious member of the 1979-1994 vanguard art and design group Hard Werken. He is a painter, type and furniture designer, art-director, graphic designer, artist … and strong believer that ‘we are made for adventure’.
"Elenga’s practice does not fit easily within any single domain or preconceived notions of what art or design is, but is based on hands-on processes, serendipity and fearless experimentation with life itself. Henk embodies the romantic notion of an artist as a generative force, or rather more anarchic ‘art hooligan’ as he calls it.”
The class is set-up to have discussions about make-ability through a lecture and creativity as an inspiration for ownership, self-organisation, play, opportunities, gatherings in times of scarce artistic and cultural infrastructures in trying economic times. Making a comparison with Rotterdam’s post-war reconstruction.

Henk Elenga - Henk Elenga