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Judith van den Boom is slowLab's newest Board director (elected in July 2009). Since 2008, she has been very active in slowLab projects, including her work as a guest teacher in the Oberlin College 'Slow Campus' workshop in January 2009, and as a featured participant in the first Slow Loket in Amsterdam in 2008 (she wrote about the experience here>). Boom brings her strong experience as a creative thinker, product designer and community activist to bear on slowLab's directionality and programming. Boom studied design at the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem (NL) and Royal College of Art in London (UK). Her current focus and drives are to stimulate the development and diversity of design, creating new connections between design, people and the environment. She aims to enable positive change through research, product development, dialogues, design workshops and teaching. For example, as a product designer, she works to proactively slow the product development cycle by seeking out and exploring “warm relationships” with manufacturers in China. Boom is a partner with Gunter Wehmeyer in Studio BoomWehmeyer, an international studio that embraces "a deeper people approach attitude" for creating new forms of multidisciplinary communication and collaborative cultural exchange. Their current work in the Netherland, Germany and China illustrates a wide concern for positive design development and social innovation.
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