029 sits down with Amelie Coppens and Pete Fung to talk about migration, moving countries, its promises, expectations vs reality, taking space and claiming space as an Asian minority in the Netherlands, and last but not least, calling out the matcha mania.
Pete Fung
In 029 fashion, Pete Fung is a +852 born, +1-604 educated designer and researcher now living in +31. Often working with publics or specific communities, his practice explores how design can be used to critical engage with the complexities of our social contexts and interdependence. Next to his independent studio work, he is a design tutor in MA Social Design and the extracurricular coordinator at Design Academy Eindhoven.
Amelie Coppens
Raised between China and Belgium, Amelie spent the first decade of her life in Shanghai before returning to her hometown Ghent. Growing up between cultures sparked her lifelong curiosity about people; about how we live, connect and make sense of the world around us. This led her to study cultural anthropology in Utrecht. Her master’s thesis explored Chinese queer migrants living in the Netherlands, and how they navigate identities and belonging across borders. Having recently completed her studies, Amelie is now looking ahead to her next steps, eager to see where her passion for understanding the stories and practices that shape human lives will take her.
The 029 Broadcast is back for another season and this time we're broadcasting live from Radio Worm in Rotterdam. In this episode the guests and host YP Wang talked about the queer-aspora experience and the word "homesickness". At the end of the episode there's a new segment called "Calling Out" where the 3 of us called out things that we want to draw the public's attention to.
Recorded in Nov 2024:
We have a special live episode of the 029 Podcast with artist/designer Justin Errami-Moy @jmoy_____ that was broadcast on @good_times_bad_times
Justin Errami-Moy is a spatial designer and sound artist based in the Netherlands. He has an academic background in architecture which influences his thinking in both his spatial and sonic works. Under his musical alias ‘jmoy’ he works on musical projects in which he seeks to tell spatial narratives through sound---closely relating spatial design and sonic composition.
In his work, Justin is interested in the relation between dualisms: self/other, inside/outside, rational/intuitive, subject/object, nature/culture etc. Instead of seeing contradictions, he questions how these relate to each other---what happens within the ‘/’? By blurring these boundaries he aims to make the viewer/listener more aware of their interconnectedness with their environment.
In episode 2, Guanyan Wu tells her story by way of handpicking 3 songs that have shaped her identity. Originally from Guiyang 贵阳 in southwest China, Guanyan connects the dots from the hot and sour flavors of her hometown to choosing songs for her DJ sets in the Netherlands.
The first episode of the 029 podcast is here! The show host YP Wang sat down with Rotterdam-based artist and designer Shuang Xu to talk about her practice, research into Teow Chew diaspora and culinary interests.
