Visualizing peace and justice by three designers.

These works were created as part of a three year research project on visualizing peace and justice in The Hague. Graduate students from the Design Academy Eindhoven and Fine Arts students from the Royal Academy (KABK) work on peace and justice related themes. During a network meeting in Vienna: Bernard Lenger from Austria, Seoyoon Kwon and Daeun Lim both from South Korea, explained their projects. The focus was on how design thinking is a valuable too to enrich what we call Hague Thinking: the vast patrimony of thoughts and practice in the field of peace and justice.

Daeun Lim: Materializing observations: how she translated the work for peace into wearable textile symbols. With her work she hopes to engender new ways of looking at things.

Seoyoon Kwon will talk how dialogue over coffee is complementary to the work being done by the legal institutions in the Peace Palace (and elsewhere). Her work is a challenge to walk the thin line between expression and meaning.

Bernhard Lenger: It all started with one simple question: Is ecocide in the mandate of the ICC? As a designer he wants to give a voice to those who are not heard by the system. He wants to make visible what is cautiously being hidden. This is just the beginning.