Still on display until — 15 December 2024

Soft Spaces: Dug-out

For the past three months, eleven young people drawn from the network of the youth support organization PowerUp073 have been working on a Soft Space of their own with the fashion designer Baby Reni. Their conversations have focused on issues of image and identity, raising questions such as ‘how am I perceived by others and what prejudices do I encounter?’ and ‘who am I when I can authentically be myself, free of outside scrutiny?’ In this way, topics like neurodiversity, sexism, racism, identity, gender and mental health have been given a place in the soft space that the young people have shaped together. The participants set themselves a clear goal: to make other young people feel seen and to create a place where they can be acknowledged.

Video by Jongens en co

Soft Spaces is supported by the Cultural Participation Fund, which encourages people to take part in cultural activities. Design Museum Den Bosch’s activities are made possible in part by the Municipality of ’s-Hertogenbosch, the Friends, Members and Patrons of the museum, and Club Design.