Name: Marlou Linders
Study: Fashion & Design

Date: 8th of April

@Kort_Verhaal

We noticed by talking to people during these last few weeks, that almost everybody has the feeling there is only one topic to talk about; Corona.

So we made short stories to bring a smile in these rough times.
We've shared these stories at places people can still visit, the open air of Rotterdam.

People Sharing the smiles

Quarantine Photo's

Spreading the Smiles through Rotterdam

Spreading Kort_verhaal like a virus

People getting inspired to create KORT_verhaal

People responding to KORT_verhaal

Research

Irma Boom

Map of Rotterdam

Loesje

Miranda July

Gran Fury

I grouped with Maya for the resit period. After all these months of isolation it was refreshing to work together again.
Since the lockdown was basically over for her, while I was already back in Armenia in a full quarantine, we couldn’t relate the COVID isolation of April anymore. First, we had the idea of doing a projection mapping and sharing thoughts of people on buildings, so basically having the contrast of small bits of personal thoughts on big, uncomfortable spaces. This took us to a conversation about our current situations, and we realized that, in a way, we have similarities in our background: some current political heat, the socialist past, a lot of abandoned spaces.
We thought it’s more relevant and more open (educational, why not) to combine our current situations, common historical past and connect our project to it.

Also, we noticed how the quarantine detached people from the world, as everyone was literally interacting with their own close, small environment (room, laptop screen), so we wanted to create a space where people could just share simple images from their lives and see, learn what life is like in other parts of the world.


We thought of making collages with all these scenes/buildings and distribute it as posters around with short texts about human survival/class struggle/social conditions, however, not in a very sophisticated way.
For collecting images and sharing with people, we thought opening an Instagram and taking people’s submissions of places they live in, or just images from their city that mean something to them. This could be an Instagram page for instance. That would also allow to create a network and share personal images of scenery, to make these collective images (collages) and talk about really simple, human actions and encourage humans to share their visual environments with each other and think about questions, especially after/during a pandemic that has made us question a lot.

Our audience is every citizen, every person who evern walks around or just wonders how people further than they are living.