- Derrick Crichlow (he/him) is a research driven designer. His work involves re-imagining the manifestation of queerness and black diasporic identity present within spaces in Rotterdam, Curaçao and beyond. By utilising research through reading, conversation and writing he makes tangible aspects of the queerness of blackness. By desiring a space where both communities can exist simultaneously he uses design (installation and object) to engage in a process of worlding an alternate reality.
Maud Pelmelay
- 2023 - 2025: Design Academy Eindhoven, MFA Contextual Design, Cum Laude.
- 2017 - 2022: Willem De Kooning Academy, BFA Spatial Design, Cum Laude.
Exhibitions:
- 2026: Memory Vacuum - Collective Differences, The Grey Space in the Middle (The Hague, NL), Donning a Fa(ça)de: The Kapsalon* Barber Chair.
- 2025: Graduation show Dutch Design Week (Eindhoven, NL), Donning a Fa(ça)de: The Kapsalon* Barber Chair.
- 2024: Dutch Design Week (Eindhoven), DON’T MOVE THE FOUNTAIN.
- 2024: Vienna Design Week (Vienna, AUT), DON’T MOVE THE FOUNTAIN.
- 2023: Nos x Nos at Bar Bario (Amsterdam, NL) I Wish I Spoke Papiamentu But I Don’t.
- 2023: Rhytmic Visions at POING Club (Rotterdam, NL), I Wish I Spoke Papiamentu But I Don’t.
- 2023: Making (in) the Unforeseen (Rotterdam, NL), I Wish I Spoke Papiamentu But I Don’t.
- 2022: Graduation Show WdKa(Rotterdam, NL), I Wish I Spoke Papiamentu But I Don’t.
FUNDINGS:
- 2026: Impuls & Verdieping, CBK Rotterdam Art Office, Donning a Fa(ça)de: Using The Kapsalon* Barber Chair
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2026: Culture Moves Europe - Call for Individual Mobility 2025-2026, floored, funded by the European Union & Goethe Institut.
- Residencies:
- 2026: Espacio Pluto (Valencia, ESP), floored, International Residency Program funded by the European Union & Goethe Institut.
Writing:
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2025: Master thesis “Donning A Fa(ça)de”, Design Academy Eindhoven.
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2024: Exhibition text in collaboration with Pia Gräwe, DON’T MOVE THE FOUNTAIN.
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2024: Essay “Babe... It’s Time To Get A Haircut” for digital zine “Exit Night, Enter Light”, The Couch Het Hem.
Talks:
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2026: (upcoming) Guest lecture Queer Feminist Issues in Methodologies at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
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2024: cccriojo* 02 in collaboration with Faustin, Operator Radio.
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2023: Rhytmic Visions in collaboration with Faustin, Poing Radio.
Awards: