Annelys de Vet

From 2009 until 2019 she headed the MA in Design 'Think tank for Visual strategies' at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, the master's course of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.

[1][2] Together with Nuno Coelho she curated the exhibition Unmapping the World as part of the Experimenta International Design Biennial in 2013, which had as a theme "No Borders".

They invite several artists, designers, photographers and architects to map their country, environment or social concerns from their own perspective during a series of workshops.

Their intent is, mainly, to show the complex realities of these places in stark contrast to overly simplistic media images.

This project was set up in collaboration with the International Academy of Art Palestine on the invitation of the Dutch NGO ICCO and became an independent organisation in 2015.

Working closely together with local designers and artisans in Palestine, the label strives to narrate the human experience through its products.