CO-FOUNDER
Jorge Mañes Rubio
Jorge Mañes Rubio is an artist based in Amsterdam, a TED Senior Fellow and a recipient of the S&R Foundation Washington Award. His practice revolves around providing more diverse, personal narratives for the future. His works can be perceived as active matter; something that can be handled, experienced, and ultimately activated. He has exhibited at leading museums worldwide including the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, Victoria & Albert Museum London and the Tropenmuseum Amsterdam.
CO-FOUNDER
Amanda Pinatih
Amanda Pinatih is Design Curator at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam where she provides the vast design collection with new perspectives and makes exhibitions that responds to today’s social, decolonial and environmental issues. Simultaneously as a PhD candidate at the VU Amsterdam, Pinatih is researching what Indonesian objects, that came to the Netherlands during colonial times, afford in contestations of belonging for young people who self-identify as Indonesian-Dutch.
CREATIVE COORDINATOR
Kruti Saraiya
Kruti Saraiya is a graphic designer/ typographer based in Mumbai. The focus of her practice has been to allow for a contemporary Indian design narrative to emerge to fill the gap between mtv kitsch and traditional Indian crafts. As a typographer, she sees her role in infusing context into letters and bringing the written word alive. Her strengths lie in working with scripts of Indian languages to create an equal space for them alongside English in urban India. Her commercial and experimental work celebrates the Indian aesthetic in a fusion of east and west. 'The key', she says, 'is to change our mindset from an either-or to an AND.’ Besides this her portfolio includes branding, packaging, editorial and web design across verticals. She has been a speaker at the Indian Design Forum – IDF 2013. She currently has an independent practice and teaches in the Visual Communication Department at the Indian School of Design and Innovation (ISDI) and Ecole Intuit.