About Me
I like to work reactively, spontaneously, visually, with my hands using accessible resources. I think this is why I like Visible Mending and drawing in my tiny notebook with coloured pencil.
With Danika van Kaathoven, I created Studio A-lot-of-things (Salot) in early 2022. As a duo, we are curious about how workshops can be a playful time and space for knowledge sharing, collecting, and producing. Currently, we are exploring the radical potential of repair by combining workshops, research, and hands-on making through our Making Mends workshop series.
In 2023, I created Footwear Care Lab with Isabel Wolfs and Jesse Oeinck to collect and share DIY ways to care for sneakers through hands-on workshops and our website.
In March 2022, I obtained my Master’s in Design at the Kyoto Institute of Technology with my project Mending with Mycelium. My Bachelor’s degree is also from KIT.
What I offer
Workshops
Making Mends Workshop | A hands-on, creative, and playful visible mending workshop. 90 minutes to 3 hours long depending on your goals and needs. Suitable for teenagers and above.
Team building, museum activity, birthday activity, supplementary activity for university.
Examples
1. DIT program, Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL
2. Midori.so Tokyo, JP
3. Centraal Museum Utrecht, NL
Making Mends Kids Workshop | Kids version of Making Mends workshop. 1 to 3 hours long. Suitable for children between 6 and12 years old.
Museum activity, school activity, birthday activity
Examples
1. Making Mends Kids at MTRL Kyoto
Custom Workshop | I design playful, engaging workshops for your students’ learning goals or target audience of your exhibition or event.
Examples:
1. What is in our clothes? Making sense of textile materials for Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2. STITCHING TOGETHER for VOX-POP (University of Amsterdam)
2. Movements of Gifting for PASKAMER
Illustration
Cards for special occasions | Personal cards to share important life events with special people.
Commission | For publications, website, and more.
I have worked with
Design Impact Transition platform of Erasmus University, VOX-POP of University of Amsterdam, ArtEZ Graphic Design Department, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Museum Speelklok, Van Eesteren Museum, Mediamatic, Utrecht DownUnder+FAAM, PASKAMER, MAGNET, RAUM Utrecht, Munchmuseet (with MAGNET and KEIKEN), LolaLijn Buurtkamer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Get in touch
email: efhuffman[at]gmail.com
Instagram: emm.ahuff