Cynthia Hathaway
Education
2000 – 2002: Masters in Product, Identity and Architectural Design, The Design Academy, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Focus: Product Design. Thesis Mentors: Gijs Baker, Renny Ramakers and Jurgen Bey of Droog Design. Examiner: Reyn van der Lugt.
2000 – 2001: Masters in Experiential Design Pilot Project, FunLab, The Design Academy, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Tutors: Ed Annink, Max Bruinsma, Ed van Hinte and Jan Konings.
1998 – 2000: Undergraduate Degree in Architectural Design - AKI, Academie Beeldende Kunst, Enschede, The Netherlands. Mentors: Edward Geluk, Architect.
1997 – 1998: First Year of Industrial Design. ECIAD, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada.
1987 – 1990: Undergraduate Degree in Arts and Science, University of Toronto - Toronto, Canada.
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Teaching
September 2019 - present : KABK, Royal Institutute of the Arts, The Hague, The Netherlands. Mentoring graduating MA students in Industrial Design department. Artistic Researcher with the KABK Lectorate 'Design and the Deep Future' project, led by Dr. Alice Tremlow.
September 2014 - 2016 : Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Co-Director with Melle Smets of the temporary Master's Program "System D Academy".
September 2010 - September 2013 : Rietveld Academy - Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Teacher at the DesignLab
September 2011 - March 2012: Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Lead Artistic Researcher of Make A Forest and Dronten asylum project with Master and Rietveld Students.
April 2010 - June 2010: Academie van Bouwkunst - Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Guest Teacher for the Almere Pioneer Project.
September 2009: Academie van Bouwkunst - Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Workshop leader for StreetWorks, Approaching Amsterdam. Created the "Walking the Line" workshop to encourage architecture, landscape and urbanism students to map a section of a main Amsterdam road through a material perspective by literally scavenging for "urban fabric". The Curation by the students of this fabric resulted in an exhibition "off/of street" at the end of the day.
October - December 2008: Academie van Bouwkunst - Amsterdam. Guest Teacher of the Suitcase Project, designed by Hathaway for Identity and Scenario Design for University students of Architecture.
May 2008: Rietveld Academie, Textile Department - Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Invited to critique student's work on textile architecture.
Jan - March 2008: Rietveld Academie, DesignLab - Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Teaching concept development and product creation with Sophie Krier.
September 2006 - September 2007: Technical University Eindhoven, Industrial Design Masters Department - Eindhoven. The Netherlands.Teacher in the Empowering People Track.
(https://w3.id.tue.nl/nl/education/domain_empowering_people/).
Sept. 2002 – September 2007: FunLab Masters, Design Academy Eindhoven, Eindhoven. The Netherlands. Artistic Director of Masters course focusing on Experiential Economies and Scenario Design.
The FunLab Master Design course focuses on the development of designs of experience that are imbedded culturally and have implications beyond the quick fix of entertainment such as that found in theme parks and entertainment zones. FunLab Teachers include psychologists (Susanne Piet), trend forecasters (Li Edelkoort), storytellers (Willem de Ridder and Joost Swarte), communication experts (Tyler Whisnand of Kessels Kramer) and event and architectural designers (Javier Mariscal, Barcelona). Over the years, international students have worked with themes like rituals, fashion, public space and architecture, and more specific subjects like Toys and Play (Ed Van Hinte and Ed Annink, designers), Food and Ritual (Kaspur Kurdahl, food designer) or obsession (Alan Murray, designer). Students have travelled internationally to research landscapes in Worlitz, Germany and Las Vegas, USA.
June 2006: Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Textile Department. Rijksgecommiteerd (external examiner) for final examination projects.
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Projects
January 2022 - present: Foreland Studios, Industrie Park Kleefse Waard, Arnhem. Team leader and workshop producer. Foreland Studios is founded by Ed van Hinte, Bob Verheijden, Floris Schoonderbeek and Sabine Winters. Foreland investigates independently, and at the same time hand in hand, with the technical and creative industries how innovations of today can become tangible, visible and more human in the future. Foreland was founded from the urgency that, in addition to the development of technological innovations, attention must also be paid to the cultural acceptance and implementation of these innovations.
During April - June 2022, and with 14 designers and artists, The HYDROMAX pilot focuses on hydrogen and its role in the energy transition, a subject that is now more socially relevant than ever and a technical challenge. At Foreland we try to open up the space for discussion about future scenarios. The pilot program Hydromax revolves around hydrogen, as is the energy promise of the future! Or is it?
Participants: White Noise DaDa, Studio Method, Sophie Czich, Elinor Salomon, Gijs Schalkx, Collectief Soepel, Willem van der Sluis, Jippe Leifbroer, Elza Berzina, Fynn van der Ziel, Marthe Wille.
Workshop Leaders: Cynthia Hathaway, Aynouk Tan, Edwin Gardner, Ed van Hinte, Bob Verheijden
https://foreland.eu
Instagram: @foreland.studios
Sept 2018 - Sept 2020: DISCO* - Creating Artistic Connective Practices through Artistic Research at FHK, Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Tilburg
'DISCO* - Developing Artistic Connective Practices Through Artistic Research' was a two year research investigation led by Hathaway, and with the FHK community. A thinking-through-doing research experience, the research developed an FHK position towards inclusive and multidisciplary collaborations between the arts and society. The Disco* collective made up of the Knowledge Circle (Elsje van Leeuwen, Martyn Smits, Heleen de Hoon, Caroline Ribbers and Carry van Bokhoven), students, and a variety of guests, developed the pedagogical and practice-based framework for informing connective practices at the FHK. By hosting dinners, creating a community rhizomatic potato garden and harvesting festival, developing with students radical workshops, creating a public artistic research space, Hathaway devised a variety of participatory artistic research actions to reveal connectivity as a shared responsibility and mutual exchange between artist and artist, artist and publics. Hathaway's practice-based research during the two years at the FHK informed the theme and framework for the new lectorship of ‘Artistic Connective Practices’ starting in 2021.
The publication summarizing the research, DISCO* - Developing Artistic Connective Practices Through Artistic Research, is available at https://shop.renateboere.nl/product/disco-creating-artistic-connective-practices-through-artistic-research/
May 2018 - present: The Sweat(er)shop and the Wool Alliance of Social Agency (WASA), funded by Creative Industries Fund's Start Up Research and Internationalization research grants.
Hathaway Designs is furthering research on wool as a social and interspecies binder, and protector of landscape and mobility. A research blog follows her journey of contacting a variety of organizations of wool, shepherdry, transhumance (the walking of animals to pasture), migrant associations and rural revitalization activist groups. The aim is to create an alliance of wool to support the role it and wool could play in nurturing sustainable societies. In 2022, WASA presents Wool March, a public walk with sheep and shepherds connecting us to land and multi-cultures associated with, and through wool. Wool March puts feet into the ground, and is a way to reconsider the many values of wool, including transhumance practices of walking herds over lands. Wool March is supported by Stichting DOEN.
blog: WASA Wool Alliance for Social Agency
https://woolallianceforsocialagency.blog
Instagram: @woolmarch
December 2014 - August 2018: Department of Search, The Giant Corn Field Project and Zero Footprint Campus, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. Created with artist Melle Smets, the Department of Search is currently set up on the University of Utrecht Uithof Campus (Utrecht Science Park) to insert artistic interventions and perspectives on campus. The Department of Search creates collaboration between artists and scientists for on-site research and tangible prototypes to support the University's effort towards a sustainable campus.
www.zerofootprintcampus.nl
November 27 2014: Non Experts Experts program, V2 Institute for Unstable Media, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
"The same small circle of experts circulate on the world's conference stages... but what of all the specialist knowledge under our noses? Who are the unacknowledged experts in our midst? The maker movement has done a good job of uncovering hidden technological talents, but which other domains are developing innovative techniques with possible wider impacts? With artist Melle Smets, Design Researcher Cynthia Hathaway, and the collaboration of the Open Design students at the Willem de Kooning Academy, we have been on a hunt for the most interesting 'non-expert experts' in the Netherlands. At this event, we will hear from a wide range of unsung experts in several divergent areas: from giant vegetable growers and their 500 kg pumpkins to natural weightlifters lifting twice their body weight, and anything else you can imagine. Our aim is to bring hidden knowledge to light, and to reveal the surprising techniques, motivations, and results that our experts achieve. In this evening program, while we hear from our experts and view exclusive footage shot in their backyard laboratories, we'll also enjoy informal and unusual bite-size snacks which will be based using ingredients or methods discovered through our research."
Curator: Michelle Kazprzak
Collaborators: Elise van Beurden, Djip Minderman, Niels Buwalda and Tom van der Heiden
http://v2.nl/events/blowup-non-expert-experts
November 2014: The Repair Society, Istanbul Design Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey.
What would society look like if we assigned a central role to repair? With this question in mind, Joanna van der Zanden (Curator), Gabriele Oropallo (Researcher of Design History) and myself founded the Repair Society which functions as a living archive that collects stories, statements, ideas, and artifacts from people interested in or occupied with any kind of repair work. Springing from the original Repair Manifesto (created by Joanna van der Zanden, Arne Hendricks and Cynthia Hathaway) the Repair Society will travel to different cities to archive and illuminate a blueprint for a Repair Society. During the Istanbul Design Biennale 2014, the Repair Society installed a lab-like work space consisting of a library, video works and manuals, and an activist space for visitors and students of local design departments to make the space through ideas of repair.
With thanks to Lucie Pindat @ Vandejong.
http://www.repairsociety.net/
http://2tb.iksv.org/proje.asp?id=21
December 2013 - August 2014: Design Academy Eindhoven, Readership in Strategic Creativity Eindhoven,The Netherlands. Associate Design Researcher on 3D Printing and Architecture. In partnership with Oce Printing Company (Canon) and Design Researchers of Delft University (Giulia Calabretta, project leader).
Creating the link sooner between consumer and a 3D printing technology still in its development stages, Hathaway and colleague Karianne Rygh devised workshops with residents of new construction neighbourhoods in the Dutch city of Almere where customization plays an important role in the building of new homes. Hathaway's focus was to shorten the distance between 3D printing technology and its application in the sphere of DIY home building. Additionally, consulting with professionals such as architects, interior designers, textile producers, material manufacturers and construction companies, Hathaway created the Supermaker concept to minimalize the footprint of the building supply and production chain through the localization of 3D printing technology.
http://www.crisprepository.nl/organisation/design-academy-eindhoven
Feb 23 - 28, 2014: Zurcher Hochschule der Kunste, Zurich Institute for the Arts, Zurich, Switerland. Co -Leader of the "The Life of Objects" Workshop with Joanna van der Zanden and Gabriele Oropallo.
"Products are documents of human activities, gestures, and the wider context happening around them. The protagonists of this workshop are the objects with their life stories. The existing material landscape will form a resource from which participants will harvest alternative functions, or forecast new forms of interaction and user behaviours."
At the outset of the workshop, Students of Design selected a series of used or discarded objects that were closely read through script analysis. Through hands-on activities participants were invited to examine how layers of meaning accrue around objects over time and progressively charge and change them. Details, perceived imperfections and material qualities were identified and syntactically cataloged and contrasted. The exercises offered the possibility to rethink the objects and reassess their functionality. The objective of the workshop was to identify strategies to rethink product aging, to achieve endurance and emotional attachment in order to extend the potential of designed products to last and function at multiple levels. Such approaches included repairing, hacking, re-purposing and interaction design strategies. Students produced prototypes, received feedback from potential users in the city and found actual buyers.
http://master.design.zhdk.ch/en/news/final-presentation-discussion-resourcing-design-international-design-workshop-2014
February 14, 2014: Stadium Generale Program, ArtEz Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Arnhem, The Netherlands. Studium Generale program Just Another (Im)perfect Day workshop
"How do we respond to imperfection as part of the everyday routine? Does it make us stronger and inspire us? Or does it make us feel vulnerable and make us strive for perfection? And what do we consider imperfect? When does imperfection reveal itself in everyday life? This program, curated by Joanna van der Zanden, will make your day a bit messier." With lectures by Ben Highmore and Ellen Rutten, and workshops by myself and Julia Mandle.
This workshop demanded the reconsideration and reassignment of our habitual routines by releasing household objects from standardized categorization and usage. Setting objects free from current classification, students unleashed assumptions and ‘walked sideways’ through quick rebuilds. These ‘reassignments’ were tested in space, and both the physical and mental memory of how to use something was challenged and reconstituted.
http://www.artez.nl/studiumgenerale/Archief/Just_Another_Day_2014/Just_Another_Day_in_English
March - June 2012: Utrecht Manifest, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Designer for the Utrecht Biennial for Social Design, under the title of "A Working Landscape". Artistic Director: Jurgen Bey and Curator Sophie Krier. Designs for the Tamoil Gas station and Car wash in the Rotsoord district of Utrecht. Designs highlight through cross collaboration local businesses and expertise focusing on the automobile. Designs are experienced at the Tamoil gas station throughout the month of May 2012.
www.utrechtmanifest.nl
www.sophiekrier.com
January 2011 - 2012 : Twentse Welle, Enschede, The Netherlands. Project Leader with designer Jurgen Bey for exhibition "Privacy".
April 2010 - 2012: Premsela, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The Dutch Platform for Design and Fashion. Advisory Board Member of People's Republic of Design Program.
April 2010 – April 2011 : DroogLab, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Lead Designer for the Artic Project with Architect Winy Maas of MVRDV, and Designers Christien Meinderstma, Stuart Sproule of RedFlag Design, and Pirjo Haikola.
September 2009: Dutch Design Double, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Curator and exhibit designer for "Translations in Process", a shoe exhibit of the works of Roswitha van Rijn, Marloes ten Bohmer and Cedric Flazinski.
April 2009: Platform 21, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Designer of the Mobile Repair Unit and co-writer of the Repair Manifesto.
October 2008: Akzo Nobel - Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Corporate Branding Head Office. Design Consultation and Project Management of the India Festival opening ceremony installation. Opened by Her Royal Princess Maxima.
April 2008: Wieden + Kennedy - Portland, Oregon. USA. Concept and ideation for Target.
September 2006 - May 2007: Platform 21 and Premsela Foundation - Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Researcher and Curator of "Travels Through Paradise" Exhibition.
Based upon my research of 21st Century leisure and entertainment activity and material manifestations, a month-long exhibition resulted and exposed the domaines of professional and amateur hobby production. "Travels Through Paradise" brought together 55 professional and amateur miniature builders in an interdisciplinary and collaborative effort to build a 55 meter miniature train track. Builders included Artist Kim Adams from Canada, Makkink and Bey (Jurgen Bey, designer ), NEXT Architects, Ted Noten, Melle Smets (GANG), Ed Van Hinte (design writer and educator), and train hobbyists from the National Federation of Modelbuilders (NMF) and the manufacturers Preiser and Busch.
(www.platform21.com) and (www.premsela.org)
February 2007: "Souvenirs Revisited" - A series of porcelains based upon traditional Canadian souvenirs re-told to reflect contemporary concerns about identity and nature. Three figurines were shown in Toronto, Canada with MotherBrand as part of the Gladstone's "Come Up to My Room" Event. See also www.mocoloco.com, under interview.
May 2005 - present: Lightness Studios - The Netherlands. Creative Consultant in Marketing and Communication.
A laboratory and think-tank, Lightness Studios deals with issues consequential to building light, from manufacture and construction processes and transportation. An intensive two year, interdisciplinary studio will generate implementable designs inspired by the collaboration between the building Industry and Creatives, including Product designers Jurgen Bey and Bertjan Pot, Aerospace Engineers from Delft University, Architects and fashion and textile designers such asEugene van Veldhoven.
(www.lightness-studios.nl)
July - November 2005: Symposium “De Brabantse Spelen: Vormgeving en Sport in Brabantstad” - Den Bosch, The Netherlands. Artistic Director.
Guest lecturers included Guus Beumer on Fashion and Sport, Ed Van Hinte on Sport, War and Technology, and Rein Jansma on Sport Architecture. The event included workshops and activities for 500 invitees from various governmental ministries, the business sector, creatives and communication experts and academia.
October 2005: “Chittima” Childcare Bangkok - Thailand. Fashion designer for uniforms for Chittima Childcare Bangkok. Included children and baby uniform and caregivers.
April 2005: Kessels Kramer, and Effective Brands - Amsterdam, The Netherlands, for Calvin Klein. Designer in a think - tank collective for the next launch of Calvin Klein Perfume. The concepts were approved by CK in June of 2005 for further development by designer Fabian Baron, the designer of CK One advertising and creative design.
(www.kessels-kramer.nl) (www.effectivebrands.com)
March 2005 - May 2006: Organic, Inc. - Creative Consultant for this North American Internet marketing, Branding and Communications Corporation. Leader and creator of 2-day lecture and workshop itineraries for all employees set in Las Vegas. Workshops focused on developing new skills in research, scenario and communication, which are then implemented into Organic work philosophy and strategy. (www.organic.com)
August 2002 – October 2003: Eternally Yours Foundation - Den Haag, TheNetherlands. Head Creative Director / Exhibition Designer for the International Conference “Eternally Yours 24 Hrs. Time in Design: Visions on Product Endurance”.
Conference took place in October 2003 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, which included 450 participants from Italy, England, USA and Holland. Lecturers included Brian Eno, Michael Landy, Guus Beumer, Enzio Manzini, John Thackara, Fumi Masuda, Bruce Sterling, and Michael Floyd. The conference took place over a continuous 24-hour period.
May, 2003: Design Academy Eindhoven and Bavaria N.V., - Lieshout, The Netherlands.
Product Designs for spectator activities and souvenirs for Dutch Soccer Championships 2003, for proposed winning team PSV. Designs for 50,000 spectators proposed.
November 2002: Design Lab, Bangkok - Thailand. Uniform and fashion accessory designs for PR, Senior and Junior Hairdressers for 5 “Quick Cut” Salons.
July 2002 – present - Freelance Designer for Droog Design, Amsterdam.
July 2002: FHV Content, Creative Development Company - Amstelveen,The Netherlands. Workshop leader for Product development and Consultation Workshops for Sanex Corporation Europe.
1994 – 1997: Versatile Mosaics - Victoria, Canada. Owner of Mosaic Installation Company for private and public residences, and businesses, focusing on interior design and identity. Clients included Street Clothing, Aritzia Clothing Vancouver, Mirari Interiors, and Citta Construction.
Exhibitions
May 2020: WASA (Wool Allicance for Social Agency) - exhibition and key note lecture, as part of Sustainable Innovations, curator Simon Angel. Munich Fabric Start, Munich, Germany.
May 2017: Berlin Fashion Week, Berlin Germany -
Sweat(er)shop exhibited in Dutch Sustainable Business Lounge at the Funkhaus Green Showroom, Ethical Fashion Show, Simon Angel, curator.
October 2014: Van Abbe Museum exhibition "Sense Non Sense" - Eindhoven, The Netherlands. During the Dutch Design Week, the XXL vegetables of the Dutch Giant Growers Club are on exhibit in relation to non-industry standards and peripheral expertise. See also under XXL City Harvester Complex on website.
http://vanabbemuseum.nl/en/programme/detail/?tx_vabdisplay_pi1[ptype]=18&tx_vabdisplay_pi1[project]=1467
Cambridge Galleries, University of Waterloo, Architecture School - Waterloo, Canada. 5%: Against the Odds. Canadian Women in Industrial Design. Exhibition of contemporary Canadian Female Industrial Designers, with Cynthia Hathaway, Helen Kerr, Patty Johnson, Diane Bisson, Diane Croteau and Michelle Ivankovic. November 15 - January 15, 2012. www.cambridgegalleries.ca
Galeria Miejska w Tarnowie - Tarnow, Poland. Berek! Szukam! Exhibition, June 21, 2011 - July 21, 2011. Headshot Photobooth displayed. With Dini Besems, Guy Keulemans, Bartosz Mucha, Leonard van Munster, Eric van Robertson, Suzuki Office, and Joanna van der Zanden of Platform 21. www.gm.tarnow.pl/?p=1129
Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu - Torun, Poland. Tag! Base! Hide and Seek Exhibition, December 4, 2010 - February 13, 2011. "Headshot" Photobooth displayed. www.csw.torun.pl
Al-Sabah Art and Design Collection - Shaab, Kuwait. Fragiles Exhibition, June 7 - July 5, 09. "Souvenirs Revisited" Porcelains exhibited.
Platform 21 - Amsterdam. September 2008. "Hacking Ikea". "IKIKIK" Necklaces and Sashes exhibited. Show travelled also to Korea, and in 2009 to Montreal for the Biennale. www.platform21.nl
Beaver Tales: Canadian Art and Design - UTAC, Toronto. September 2008. Souvenirs Revisited Porcelain Series, "Deer" exhibited. www.utac.utoronto.ca
"Fragiles" Gestalten Publishers - Berlin. Travelling exhibition on Porcelain, Glass and Ceramics. Miami Design Fair 2007, Kortrijk at Quinze and Milan in 2008. www.gestalten.com
Wry + Ginger by Azure - NYC. Exhibition of new products by 15 Canadian Designers at Design Within Reach (DWR). Souvenirs Revisited Porcelains exhibited. www.azuremagazine.com
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag - The Netherlands, Simply Droog 10 + 1 Years of Avant - Garde Design. Continuing travelling show with Digital Nest Clock exhibited as part of Droog Collection.
Fluid Functions - Droog Design, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October - November, 2004: Solo-show of Carrefour products at Droog’s exhibition space in Amsterdam. www.droogdesign.nl.
Open Borders - Droog Design, Lille France, September - November, 2004. Toy Bird project shown as part of Droog Event in the Cultural Capitol of Europe, 2004.
Carrefour Supermarket - Lille, France, September - October, 2004: Solo-Exhibition “fluid Functions” took place inside this mega-supermarket store where 9 products were created, designed, and displayed from the shelves of the supermarket. Products and DIY manuals also available for show and downloading on Droog website, www.droogdesign.nl. In collaboration with Carrefour supermarket, I was invited to re-vitalize existing Carrefour products within a DIY system. Various “hybrids” of off - the - shelf items were displayed and exhibited, including a new store uniform of shirt and tie worn by employees opening night. Alongside each new product was a manual for an interested shopper/designer to follow the easy instructions to produce it for oneself at home.
VIVID Vormgeving - Rotterdam, The Netherlands, August - October, 2004. Flip Clock shown in Eternally Yours Foundation Retrospective. www.vividvormgeving.nl
Fellissimo Design House - New York, May, 2004: "Memory Wallpaper" exhibited in Cabin Show, a collective of Canadian Designers.
Chelsea Hotel New York “Improvisaire” - May 2004, Young Designers at work in Holland visit New York’s famous landmark and spend 2 weeks designing from the streets and archives of the Chelsea. Installation/exhibition to take place in two rooms, one being Marianne Faithful’s room.
Droog 10 - Munich, April 2004. Traveling retrosective exhibition celebrating Droog’s jubilee. Cuckoo Clock exhibited.
Tokyo Designer’s Block - Tokyo, Japan, October 2003. In the collective called Mother of Toronto, Canada. Four Canadian Designers showcased in Canadian Embassy and Ex’Realm Gallery in Tokyo for International Design Fair. Cabin has been picked up by for touring throughout Japan and for manufacturing possibilities.
Milano Salone Furniture Fair - 9-15 April 2002, Droog Hotel, Milan, Italy. Two clocks, presented as part of Droog Design Collection, 2002.
May 2020: WASA (Wool Allicance for Social Agency) - exhibition and key note lecture, as part of Sustainable Innovations, curator Simon Angel. Munich Fabric Start, Munich, Germany.
May 2017: Berlin Fashion Week, Berlin Germany -
Sweat(er)shop exhibited in Dutch Sustainable Business Lounge at the Funkhaus Green Showroom, Ethical Fashion Show, Simon Angel, curator.
October 2014: Van Abbe Museum exhibition "Sense Non Sense" - Eindhoven, The Netherlands. During the Dutch Design Week, the XXL vegetables of the Dutch Giant Growers Club are on exhibit in relation to non-industry standards and peripheral expertise. See also under XXL City Harvester Complex on website.
http://vanabbemuseum.nl/en/programme/detail/?tx_vabdisplay_pi1[ptype]=18&tx_vabdisplay_pi1[project]=1467
Cambridge Galleries, University of Waterloo, Architecture School - Waterloo, Canada. 5%: Against the Odds. Canadian Women in Industrial Design. Exhibition of contemporary Canadian Female Industrial Designers, with Cynthia Hathaway, Helen Kerr, Patty Johnson, Diane Bisson, Diane Croteau and Michelle Ivankovic. November 15 - January 15, 2012. www.cambridgegalleries.ca
Galeria Miejska w Tarnowie - Tarnow, Poland. Berek! Szukam! Exhibition, June 21, 2011 - July 21, 2011. Headshot Photobooth displayed. With Dini Besems, Guy Keulemans, Bartosz Mucha, Leonard van Munster, Eric van Robertson, Suzuki Office, and Joanna van der Zanden of Platform 21. www.gm.tarnow.pl/?p=1129
Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu - Torun, Poland. Tag! Base! Hide and Seek Exhibition, December 4, 2010 - February 13, 2011. "Headshot" Photobooth displayed. www.csw.torun.pl
Al-Sabah Art and Design Collection - Shaab, Kuwait. Fragiles Exhibition, June 7 - July 5, 09. "Souvenirs Revisited" Porcelains exhibited.
Platform 21 - Amsterdam. September 2008. "Hacking Ikea". "IKIKIK" Necklaces and Sashes exhibited. Show travelled also to Korea, and in 2009 to Montreal for the Biennale. www.platform21.nl
Beaver Tales: Canadian Art and Design - UTAC, Toronto. September 2008. Souvenirs Revisited Porcelain Series, "Deer" exhibited. www.utac.utoronto.ca
"Fragiles" Gestalten Publishers - Berlin. Travelling exhibition on Porcelain, Glass and Ceramics. Miami Design Fair 2007, Kortrijk at Quinze and Milan in 2008. www.gestalten.com
Wry + Ginger by Azure - NYC. Exhibition of new products by 15 Canadian Designers at Design Within Reach (DWR). Souvenirs Revisited Porcelains exhibited. www.azuremagazine.com
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag - The Netherlands, Simply Droog 10 + 1 Years of Avant - Garde Design. Continuing travelling show with Digital Nest Clock exhibited as part of Droog Collection.
Fluid Functions - Droog Design, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October - November, 2004: Solo-show of Carrefour products at Droog’s exhibition space in Amsterdam. www.droogdesign.nl.
Open Borders - Droog Design, Lille France, September - November, 2004. Toy Bird project shown as part of Droog Event in the Cultural Capitol of Europe, 2004.
Carrefour Supermarket - Lille, France, September - October, 2004: Solo-Exhibition “fluid Functions” took place inside this mega-supermarket store where 9 products were created, designed, and displayed from the shelves of the supermarket. Products and DIY manuals also available for show and downloading on Droog website, www.droogdesign.nl. In collaboration with Carrefour supermarket, I was invited to re-vitalize existing Carrefour products within a DIY system. Various “hybrids” of off - the - shelf items were displayed and exhibited, including a new store uniform of shirt and tie worn by employees opening night. Alongside each new product was a manual for an interested shopper/designer to follow the easy instructions to produce it for oneself at home.
VIVID Vormgeving - Rotterdam, The Netherlands, August - October, 2004. Flip Clock shown in Eternally Yours Foundation Retrospective. www.vividvormgeving.nl
Fellissimo Design House - New York, May, 2004: "Memory Wallpaper" exhibited in Cabin Show, a collective of Canadian Designers.
Chelsea Hotel New York “Improvisaire” - May 2004, Young Designers at work in Holland visit New York’s famous landmark and spend 2 weeks designing from the streets and archives of the Chelsea. Installation/exhibition to take place in two rooms, one being Marianne Faithful’s room.
Droog 10 - Munich, April 2004. Traveling retrosective exhibition celebrating Droog’s jubilee. Cuckoo Clock exhibited.
Tokyo Designer’s Block - Tokyo, Japan, October 2003. In the collective called Mother of Toronto, Canada. Four Canadian Designers showcased in Canadian Embassy and Ex’Realm Gallery in Tokyo for International Design Fair. Cabin has been picked up by for touring throughout Japan and for manufacturing possibilities.
Milano Salone Furniture Fair - 9-15 April 2002, Droog Hotel, Milan, Italy. Two clocks, presented as part of Droog Design Collection, 2002.
Lecture Circuit
Munich Fabric Start, Munich, Germany: May 2020: key note lecture of WASA (Wool Alliance for Social Agency)
Food Friction Symposium, Arnhem: November 30, 2018: Speaker with Bradley Wursten at Food conference about artistic research that focuses on intreaction between food and behaviour. Hosted by Katja Gruijters, ArtEZ Graduate school.
Falmouth University, Falmouth, UK: June 15, 2018: Keynote Speaker at Core Academic Training (Enhancement) Conference. Lecture on Interdisciplinarity Learning Strategies and Artistic Research
Erasmus University Rotterdam: June 13, 2018: Interdisciplinary Learning Strategies and the Sweat(er)Shop
Parnassos Cultuurcentrum, Utrecht: June 5, 2018: Sustainability Festival, organized by VIDIUS, UBV, Djembe, BoKS and Atlas Student Associations/Sustainability commissions. Lecture: Zero Footprint Campus project at Utrecht Science Park.
Stroom, The Hague - May 17, 2018: Book Launch of Department of Search Book with Melle Smets, graphic design and publisher Studio Renate Boere / Hybrid Crocodile
Avans Hogeschool, Den Bosch, The Netherlands - October 12 2017. Lecturer in Stadium Generale program under theme "Aesthetics in the Wild". Department of Search and Sweat(er)shop.
KABK, The Royal Academy of Art, Interior Architecture and Furniture Design - The Hague, The Netherlands. September 21, 2017. Department of Search and Sweat(er)shop lecture as part of Value Future theme, Design Research Station of Ed van Hinte
Willem de Koning Academy, Design Department - Rotterdam, The Netherlands. September 28, 2017. Sweat(er)shop and D-stillery
KABK, The Royal Academy of Art, Interior Architecture and Furniture Design - The Hague, The Netherlands. October 29, 2013. Lecturer in The IAMO lecture series "Shrinkage / Pruning / Growth", with a lecture on food and city growth in terms of the XXL City Harvester Complex.
http://www.kabk.nl/ia/detailannouncement.php?id=137
Unibz DesignFestival 2012, "Learning" Conference and Workshops - Bolzano, Italy. September 20 - 22, 2012. Workshop leader and guest lecturer together with Sophie Krier, Metahaven,Formafantasma, Rob Giampietro, mishler'traxler, Daniel Eatock, Flavia Muller-Madieros.
Utrecht Manifest, Utrecht - Utrecht, The Netherlands.April 6, 2012. Guest lecturer on transportation design and Classic Car collecting in North America. Focusing on the qualities of expertise, DIY, DIT, self-sufficiency, hacking and and "how the world should be" found in hobby-ism and amateur economies.
SAIC, School of Art Institute Chicago - Chicago, USA. December 5, 2011. Guest Lecturer
DroogLab Event Toronto - Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Canada. November 30, 2011. Presentation of XXL City Harvester complex, designed by Hathaway for DroogLab's Luxury of the North Project. Panel discussion with Renny Ramakers Director of Droog, Agata Jaworska of Droog Lab, Mark Gorgolewski of Department of Agricultural Science Ryerson, and John Vincent, Giant Vegetable Grower. Moderator: Misha Glouberman.
www.droog.com/projects/models/luxury-of-the-north/
Harbourfront Centre - Toronto, Canada. January 2010. Innovators + Ideas lecture series, with Tobias Wong. During the Toronto International Design Festival. Lecture: Design Collaborators: Projects and Process. Presented by Motherbrand.
Gardiner Museum - Toronto, Canada. January 2010. Lecture: Design and the Ceramic Industry in Holland. Presented by Motherbrand during the Cut Copy Paste Exhibition.
Utrecht Manifest - Utrecht, The Netherlands. October 2009. Lecture with Gwen Floyd on "Mennonites + Technology".
Platform 21 - Amsterdam. February 2008. Hathaway's "Roadtrip" talk presented in the lecture series "The Future of the Automobile". Took place during the "Joyriding" exhibition. www.platform21.nl
Gumi International Industrial Design Forum - Gumi City, Korea, October 5, 2007. Guest speaker for forum on improving Competitive Power of Products.
Willem de Kooning Institute - Rotterdam, The Netherlands, October 2007. Lecture "Las Vegas as Cultural Escapism" presented.
International Conference on Experience Design - Bozen - Bolzano, Italy, December 2005. Guest lecturer on “Designs of Experience as Co-Creative”. Publication of lectures due Spring 2006 for International Distribution.
TUE, Technical University Eindhoven - Eindhoven, September 2005. Department of Industrial Design. Lecture on Las Vegas as part of Escapism symposium.
ICFF, International Contemporary Furniture Fair - New York, May 2004. Lecture on Experience Design during furniture fair on location.
Rietveld Academy - Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January 2004. Lecture and guest critic for Industrial Design Department with Frank Tjepkema.
Arnhem School for the Arts and Design - Arnhem, The Netherlands. September, 2003. Guest Lecturer and Critic for graduating students in the Undergraduate Industrial Design Department, with Ed Van Hinte.
AKI, Architecture and Fine Arts College - Enschede, The Netherlands. Guest Teacher and Lecturer for final year students in Architectural Design Department, June 2003 – October 2003. Edward Geluk, Head of Department.
BNO Zephir 7 - September 2002, Theater Zeebelt, The Hague, The Netherlands. Lectured in series of talks on new designers in The Netherlands. Thesis work presented.
Edelkoort Inc., and United Publishers S.A.: Textile View, View Point, View on Colour, Inview, Bloom: The View Seminar. Fashion Institute of Technology - New York, November 7 and 8, 2001. Speaker at the “View Seminar, 2001”. Presented “The Right to Copy: Starling” Project. List of speakers included Li Edelkoort, Director, United Publishers and Bonnie Young of Donna Karan Collection Design.
Studio Edelkoort: United Publishers S.A., “Bijou 2002” Trend Forecast Event - Paris,France. “Brand New” Video presented as part of Trend Forecasting 2002 with Li Edelkoort, Director, United Publishers and View Magasines, and Bonnie Young of Donna Karan Collection Design.
Munich Fabric Start, Munich, Germany: May 2020: key note lecture of WASA (Wool Alliance for Social Agency)
Food Friction Symposium, Arnhem: November 30, 2018: Speaker with Bradley Wursten at Food conference about artistic research that focuses on intreaction between food and behaviour. Hosted by Katja Gruijters, ArtEZ Graduate school.
Falmouth University, Falmouth, UK: June 15, 2018: Keynote Speaker at Core Academic Training (Enhancement) Conference. Lecture on Interdisciplinarity Learning Strategies and Artistic Research
Erasmus University Rotterdam: June 13, 2018: Interdisciplinary Learning Strategies and the Sweat(er)Shop
Parnassos Cultuurcentrum, Utrecht: June 5, 2018: Sustainability Festival, organized by VIDIUS, UBV, Djembe, BoKS and Atlas Student Associations/Sustainability commissions. Lecture: Zero Footprint Campus project at Utrecht Science Park.
Stroom, The Hague - May 17, 2018: Book Launch of Department of Search Book with Melle Smets, graphic design and publisher Studio Renate Boere / Hybrid Crocodile
Avans Hogeschool, Den Bosch, The Netherlands - October 12 2017. Lecturer in Stadium Generale program under theme "Aesthetics in the Wild". Department of Search and Sweat(er)shop.
KABK, The Royal Academy of Art, Interior Architecture and Furniture Design - The Hague, The Netherlands. September 21, 2017. Department of Search and Sweat(er)shop lecture as part of Value Future theme, Design Research Station of Ed van Hinte
Willem de Koning Academy, Design Department - Rotterdam, The Netherlands. September 28, 2017. Sweat(er)shop and D-stillery
KABK, The Royal Academy of Art, Interior Architecture and Furniture Design - The Hague, The Netherlands. October 29, 2013. Lecturer in The IAMO lecture series "Shrinkage / Pruning / Growth", with a lecture on food and city growth in terms of the XXL City Harvester Complex.
http://www.kabk.nl/ia/detailannouncement.php?id=137
Unibz DesignFestival 2012, "Learning" Conference and Workshops - Bolzano, Italy. September 20 - 22, 2012. Workshop leader and guest lecturer together with Sophie Krier, Metahaven,Formafantasma, Rob Giampietro, mishler'traxler, Daniel Eatock, Flavia Muller-Madieros.
Utrecht Manifest, Utrecht - Utrecht, The Netherlands.April 6, 2012. Guest lecturer on transportation design and Classic Car collecting in North America. Focusing on the qualities of expertise, DIY, DIT, self-sufficiency, hacking and and "how the world should be" found in hobby-ism and amateur economies.
SAIC, School of Art Institute Chicago - Chicago, USA. December 5, 2011. Guest Lecturer
DroogLab Event Toronto - Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Canada. November 30, 2011. Presentation of XXL City Harvester complex, designed by Hathaway for DroogLab's Luxury of the North Project. Panel discussion with Renny Ramakers Director of Droog, Agata Jaworska of Droog Lab, Mark Gorgolewski of Department of Agricultural Science Ryerson, and John Vincent, Giant Vegetable Grower. Moderator: Misha Glouberman.
www.droog.com/projects/models/luxury-of-the-north/
Harbourfront Centre - Toronto, Canada. January 2010. Innovators + Ideas lecture series, with Tobias Wong. During the Toronto International Design Festival. Lecture: Design Collaborators: Projects and Process. Presented by Motherbrand.
Gardiner Museum - Toronto, Canada. January 2010. Lecture: Design and the Ceramic Industry in Holland. Presented by Motherbrand during the Cut Copy Paste Exhibition.
Utrecht Manifest - Utrecht, The Netherlands. October 2009. Lecture with Gwen Floyd on "Mennonites + Technology".
Platform 21 - Amsterdam. February 2008. Hathaway's "Roadtrip" talk presented in the lecture series "The Future of the Automobile". Took place during the "Joyriding" exhibition. www.platform21.nl
Gumi International Industrial Design Forum - Gumi City, Korea, October 5, 2007. Guest speaker for forum on improving Competitive Power of Products.
Willem de Kooning Institute - Rotterdam, The Netherlands, October 2007. Lecture "Las Vegas as Cultural Escapism" presented.
International Conference on Experience Design - Bozen - Bolzano, Italy, December 2005. Guest lecturer on “Designs of Experience as Co-Creative”. Publication of lectures due Spring 2006 for International Distribution.
TUE, Technical University Eindhoven - Eindhoven, September 2005. Department of Industrial Design. Lecture on Las Vegas as part of Escapism symposium.
ICFF, International Contemporary Furniture Fair - New York, May 2004. Lecture on Experience Design during furniture fair on location.
Rietveld Academy - Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January 2004. Lecture and guest critic for Industrial Design Department with Frank Tjepkema.
Arnhem School for the Arts and Design - Arnhem, The Netherlands. September, 2003. Guest Lecturer and Critic for graduating students in the Undergraduate Industrial Design Department, with Ed Van Hinte.
AKI, Architecture and Fine Arts College - Enschede, The Netherlands. Guest Teacher and Lecturer for final year students in Architectural Design Department, June 2003 – October 2003. Edward Geluk, Head of Department.
BNO Zephir 7 - September 2002, Theater Zeebelt, The Hague, The Netherlands. Lectured in series of talks on new designers in The Netherlands. Thesis work presented.
Edelkoort Inc., and United Publishers S.A.: Textile View, View Point, View on Colour, Inview, Bloom: The View Seminar. Fashion Institute of Technology - New York, November 7 and 8, 2001. Speaker at the “View Seminar, 2001”. Presented “The Right to Copy: Starling” Project. List of speakers included Li Edelkoort, Director, United Publishers and Bonnie Young of Donna Karan Collection Design.
Studio Edelkoort: United Publishers S.A., “Bijou 2002” Trend Forecast Event - Paris,France. “Brand New” Video presented as part of Trend Forecasting 2002 with Li Edelkoort, Director, United Publishers and View Magasines, and Bonnie Young of Donna Karan Collection Design.
Collections
Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum, New York. Memory Wallpaper acquired as part of the collection of wall hangings.
Droog Design, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Cuckoo Clock, Fluid Functions Designs, Madurodam Photograph Series, XXL City Harvester Complex.
Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum, New York. Memory Wallpaper acquired as part of the collection of wall hangings.
Droog Design, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Cuckoo Clock, Fluid Functions Designs, Madurodam Photograph Series, XXL City Harvester Complex.
Awards
May 2004: DSM Unlimited Young Designers Award, 2004, The Netherlands. Annual design award for Perfume “l’Office”, of which 4000 produced and distributed. (www.dsm.nl)
May 2004: DSM Unlimited Young Designers Award, 2004, The Netherlands. Annual design award for Perfume “l’Office”, of which 4000 produced and distributed. (www.dsm.nl)
Publications
Field Explorations: Design-and arts-based practices Towards Viable Agri-cultures. - Alastair Fuad-Luke, ed., Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, forthcoming in Spring 2021. "Lessons from Shepherdry" article, Cynthia Hathaway.
Disco*. Creating Artistic Connective Practices through Artistic Research - Cynthia Hathaway, 2020. Publisher: Hybrid Crocodile. Traces two years (2018-2020) of my artistic research process in the context an art institute. A colourful journey through my practice-based research to develop a research community of thinking through doing, and the framework for the lectorship-to-be 'Artistic Connective Practices', 2021 at Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Tilburg.
Department of Search. Where Art and Science Create Debatable Futures - Editors and Text writers: Carlijn Diesfeldt, Cynthia Hathaway, Melle Smets and Ed van Hinte, 2018. Design: Renate Boere. Publisher: Hybrid Crocodile
About Learning and Design - BU Press, Bozen Bolzano University Press, 2014. "Neighbourhood Lessons", Cynthia Hathaway. An article published about Carwash Mecca and Communication and the Supermarket as representative of a design methodology.
Here There Everywhere - Stichting Droog Design - 2014. XXL Harvester Project featured.
Fragiles: Porcelain, Glass + Ceramics - Gestalten Verlag, Berlin. 2008. Souvenirs Revisited Porcelains featured in "Neo Figurines" chapter.
101 Things To Do - Kessels Kramer, Amsterdam, 2006 BIS Publishers, The Netherlands. "Do Mobile" project presented for mobile phone designs of activity for the anniversary publication of the "Do" initiative of KesselsKramer.
DPI Design Stars Boulevard Interview Collection - Taiwan. September 2008. Hathaway designs featured.
Femina Deco - Switzerland. September 2008 Autumn Edition. Souvenirs Revisited porcelains featured in "Attention! Fragile" section.
Eigenhuis + Interieur - The Netherlands. August 2008, # 8. Souvenirs Revisited Porcelains featured.
Beaver Tales Exhibition Publication - Toronto, Canada. September - December 2008.Souvenirs Revisited Porcelains featured in "Nature Expresses Culture and Identity" chapter.
Vogue Britain - May 2008. Souvenirs Revisted Porcelains featured.
Goodies Magasine - The Netherlands. April 2008. Interview of Hathaway by Jorrit Roerdinkholder on Designs for Railroad transportation.
The Walrus - Toronto, Canada, March 2008. "Lumberjack Chic": Interview of Hathaway concerning Canadian Identity and Product Design.
FRAME - The Netherlands. March/April 2008. Souvenirs Revisted featured in article of Fragiles Miami Exhibtion.
DPI - Taiwan. Febuary 2008. Volume 106. Asian Publication for Graphic and Product Design. Hathaway 's work featured with accompanying interview.
Fast Forward - GreyTones and VolleKracht, The Netherlands. October 2007. Miniature Photography featured.
ITEMS - The Netherlands. May/August 2007. Trvels Through Paradise Exhibition and Lightness Studios highlighted.
BLVD - Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January Issue, 2005: “Top Designers To Watch for 2005”. Selected as one of the “top 100” designers in Holland.
IM: Identity Matters - Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 05/04 Issue: “Gezocht: Broodontwerpers”. article written on work done for Droog Lille show Open Borders, with Toy Bird project and Carrefour supermarket Exhibition described and highlighted.
Hypergraphia - Cabin / Cabane 2004, The Canadian Issue, Toronto, Canada: Issue 1 : Memory Wallpaper shown and highlighted in article “Cabin Fever” by Michael Enright. “... it is a story that needs content, like the resonant silhouettes on Cynthia Hathaway’s faux wood wallpaper. I would love to wake up to that pattern, or to be comforted in the dark by its white and ghostly presences.”
Interior Design - June 2004, New York: Improvissare work featured at Chelsea Hotel. Rooms “transformed into impromtu treasures”. Metropolis: Architecture, Culture and Design, February 2004. Memory wallpaper chosen for article “In Production”.
IM: Identity Matters - Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Spring 2004. Design AcademyEindhoven’s FunLab Master class, the Suitcase projectfeatured on cover and as main article. Artistic Director of project: Cynthia Hathaway, with guest teacher Tyler Whisnand of KesselsKramer, Amsterdam.
CBC Radio 3 - Canada. On website publication on the Arts and Design, www.cbcradio3.ca, “Big Ideas”, October 10 – 16, 2003. Cabin show in Tokyo, Japan reviewed and posted, with “Memory Wallpaper” highlighted.
Sliptales - KesselsKramer, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. January 2004. “Sliptales”, a book of short tales for Neroc Corporation, The Netherlands. Designed and edited by myself, produced in partnership with KesselsKramer, International Communications Bureau.
Droog Now - Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Number 18, April 2003. Full - Spread article written on my thesis work about the relationship between the fake and the real, entitled, “Redemption of the Fake”.
S&RO - stedebouw and Ruimtelijke Ordening, Nirov Publications, Den Haag, The Netherlands. March, Number 3, 2003. Madurodam Series chosen to accompany architectural articles on “Nostalgia and Retro: An Economic Analysis”.
Art 4d - Architecture/Design and Arts, Bangkok, Thailand. May 2004. Quick Cut Hair Salons highlighted, with successful reviews on their concept and “costuming” by myself.
Your Source - Lifestyle, Interiors and Architecture, Toronto, Canada. Spring/Summer 2003. Interviewed about Dutch Design as a member of Droog Design.
BLVD Magasine - Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July / August, 2002. Voted best clock design for 2002.
Websites
www.souvenirshop.ca : Souvenirs Revisited Porcelains featured and sold.
www.canadiandesignresource.ca : frequent contributor to this first of its kind resource site on Canadian Design.
www.motherbrand.com : featured and exhibited with this Canadian Designer and Graphics collaborative.
www.droog.com : Hathaway's work and info with Droog Design and Drooglab posted here.
www.clickz.com : News and expert advice for the digital marketer. Article by Mark Kingdon, past CEO of Organic and present CEO of Linden Lab writes on Hathaway's Camp Organic. "What's your Analysis - to - Emotion Ratio". www.clickz.com/3496521
www.cooperhewitt.org : Memory Wallpaper acquisition for Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York.