Hella Jongerius
Born 1963. Dutch industrial designer
Since the beginning of my career, I strive to improve the relationship between user and designed object—for example, by questioning and reversing the usual hierarchy between an object’s function and its narrativepower. A deeper awareness of the equality and interwovenness of all that exists—plants, animals, people, objects—is needed and can be healing. Therefore, animals, as well as more abstract references to life and nature, frequently appear as narrators in my work.
— Hella Jongerius, October 2024
