Disarming Design
Jara van Teeffelen+
Jara van Teeffelen, born in 1997, is a Palestinian-Dutch artist. She graduated with a bachelor’s in Interaction Design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and is currently pursuing her masters at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam. Her work combines humor and politics through the use of objects from daily life as tools to overcome political challenges.
Tips so simple you won’t need someone spoon-feeding them to you.
Discover a number of ways to repurpose a spoon. From using it as an oar to row away from your enemy, to having it reflect the sunlight to blind your intended target.
Inspired by the spoon that was used by six Palestinian prisoners who carried out a miraculous jailbreak through a tunnel they reportedly dug using this utensil, this project gathers a selected number of uses of a spoon other than its traditional use for feeding.
Underneath all the initial suggested uses for the spoon lies a set of possibilities for it being used as a tool of resistance against political power structures. The outcome results in a printed manual, which can be torn from the paper roll and folded by the participants to be used as an undercover guide when facing certain life threatening-challenges.