After high school I went traveling and got addicted to the rush of getting to new places, meeting new people, sleeping in different beds, etc. I feel more alive and much sharper when in an unknown environment. Even though I went travelling as much as possible ever since, I always returned home to live only a few hundred meters from where I was born. Because of my friends, my family, my comfortable and beautiful apartment and because I wanted to study a specific course not far from there: Industrial Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology.
Looking for excitement I travelled in between the years of study as much as possible and enjoyed exchanges and internships whenever possible. After graduating last year, me and six other graduates started Afdeling Buitengewone Zaken, a collective through which we explore how we want to work through a great variety of projects. I feel this is a great way to develop myself professionally and enjoy what I do to get by. Unfortunately I can’t really afford the time and money for long trips anymore and so I plan to find the excitement of the new, still constructing something bigger collectively by giving up the basic certainty of my home.
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