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17-25 October 2026

Surplus presents : Rethink Processes

Rethink processes is exhibiting emerging creatives, enhancing their gameplay, acting on current design, on a quest to reshuffle the design expression.

Hosted by Surplus Collective

This project is now archived and was part of DDW19

Surplus presents : Rethink Processes poster
Surplus presents : Rethink Processes poster
photo by Pierre Castignola

Rethink processes is exhibiting emerging creatives reacting on the industrial quest of perfection in terms of aesthetics and function. The exhibition creates a confrontation between two spaces. One side represents the outcome of the industry and the other the reaction of individual creatives.

Rethink processes is exhibiting emerging designers and creatives, by enhancing their meticulous gameplay with industrial process, materials, forms and concepts of use. It is a raw expression of design current state, that exist between in a constant que

Preview of versions of exhibited works
Preview of versions of exhibited works
Graphic design by Jonathan Levain

About Surplus Collective

Surplus Collective was founded by Pierre Castignola, Diego Faivre and Willem Van Hoff reacting on the current attitude as a society towards image as aesthetic. Aiming to demonstrate that the medium of the image can be reclaimed as a means to represent design. And that image as aesthetic has fundamentally undermined the value of physically manifested aesthetics like design and that this weakens the value of artistic endeavour as a whole. With the guest participation of Tim Teven and Ronald Smits

Colofon

curation and exhibition design Surplus Collective
Material partner Baars & Bloemhoff

Partners

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