Samen Stikken (Sewing Together)
Hannah, Renée and D’Lisa graduated in architecture in 2025. Afterwards they took up a project that revolved around ‘transience’, through the repurposing, recycling and repairing of a large curtain used in Tom Callebaut’s G-Lab.
The curtain, measuring eight by three meters, garnered traces of use throughout the years and had aged significantly, from raffling edges to dirt marks, scars and other signs of a well lived existence. They deliberately chose to not remove those traces but to embrace them. Using red thread, they are sewing around them, slowly and with care, as if to honour them and consciously draw attention to them. The sewing together becomes a way to open up a conversation about durability, sustainability and transience.
They brought their curtain to Doel Festival. Inviting visitors to sew with them and have conversations about Doel’s past history, how Doel garnered similar scars and markings over a period of twenty plus years of near abandonment and pose the question of how we could further envision how Doel’s current appearance might be a part of its future.
Afterwards, Hannah, Renée and D’Lisa poured their findings into a small zine. The curtain itself was raised in the night during the festival, hanging prominently on the facade of Doel’s old high school and monastery.
