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Annelys de Vet (born 1974 in Alkmaar, The Netherlands) is a designer, educator and researcher. She runs her own design practice under the name DEVET. From 2009 until 2019 she headed the MA in Design ‘Think tank for Visual strategies’ at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, the master's course of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. There she initiated the temporary masters course Disarming Design, from 2020 until 2022.

Annelys started the publishing initiative Subjective Editions in 2003. This project develops mapping publications of different regions globally in collaboration with local communities.

In 2012 she co-founded the design label Disarming Design from Palestine, in collaboration with the International Academy of Art Palestine and with support by ICCO (NL).

Education
From 1991 until 1996 de Vet studied at Utrecht School of the Arts (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht) where she obtained a bachelor in Graphic Design, after which she studied for an MFA in Design & Fine arts at Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam between 1996 and 1999. Additionally she was an artist in residence at RMIT University (Melbourne) from 1999 until 2000, where she studied sculpture.

As of 2019 she is a PhD candidate at the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA)—a practice-led doctoral study at Sint Lucas School of Arts and University of Antwerp, where she researches the conditions of design pedagogy to counteract oppression and injustice through the act of design.

Career
From 2003 until 2008 Annelys coordinated the Man & Communication department at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Between 2006 and 2009 she developed the concept and design for the Temporary Museum Amsterdam (Dutch: Tijdelijk Museum Amsterdam), the parallel programme to the annual art fair Art Amsterdam.

In 2009 she was appointed course director at the design department of Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, a position she held until 2019. She also headed the masterclass for digital storytelling 'Sandberg@Mediafonds' from 2010 until the end of her directorship at the institute. During this period, in 2015, she moved her studio to the Pajottenland—in the vicinity of Brussels—a space she shares with Dutch artist Rudy Luijters.

Together with Nuno Coelho she curated the exhibition Unmapping the World as part of the Experimenta International Design Biennial in 2013, which had as a theme “No Borders”. Here de Vet and Coelho aimed to unveil the apparent neutrality of professional cartography. The works they selected are all contemporary engaged mapping projects. For the 22nd edition of the international Graphic Design Biennial in Chaumont in 2015 de Vet was invited to head the student competition, as well as curate the exhibition of student work. Unmapping the World also served as the theme for this competition, recurring from the title of the Experimenta Design ’13 exhibition.

Subjective Editions
De Vet founded the publishing initiative Subjective Editions in 2003. This project works together with local communities from different regions globally to design a ‘Subjective Atlas’ for that region. They invite several artists, designers, photographers and architects to map their country, environment or social concerns from their own perspective during a series of workshops. Their intent is, mainly, to show the complex realities of these places in stark contrast to overly simplistic media images.

The first atlas in this series was born from a workshop Annelys gave at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA). In 2004, at the time of the workshop, Estonia recently joined the European Union. As a way to visualise something as abstract and enormous as the EU, Annelys urged the students of EKA to develop an atlas with their personal—subjective—view on the matter.

Initially, after this first publication, Annelys imagined the following editions to center on other region’s views of the EU. In 2005, however, she decided against this in favour of a Subjective Atlas of the Netherlands, in collaboration with her students of the Design Academy in Eindhoven. To highlight the importance of national identity as something that stems from lived experience, rather than the way a country is presented in popular media. This philosophy has remained roughly unchanged in the coming editions.

Disarming Design From Palestine
The third atlas to come out of the Subjective Editions was commissioned by Dutch NGO ICCO, who invited Annelys to make an atlas in collaboration with the International Academy of Arts (IAAP) in Ramallah, Palestine. This atlas was published in 2007. In 2012 the project Disarming Design from Palestine saw the light of day. Co-founded by Annelys and set up in collaboration with the International Academy of Art Palestine on the invitation of the Dutch NGO ICCO Disarming Design became an independent organisation in 2015 and aims to continue being self-supportive.

Working closely together with local designers and artisans in Palestine, the label strives to narrate the human experience through its products. Through the Disarming Design platform objects made by Palestinian designers and artists are being promoted and sold in the rest of the world. The items made by these creatives are produced in close collaboration with local artisans. With their short supply chain and fair wages they aim to contribute to a sustainable and human-centered economy. Aside from production and selling, Disarming Design organises small-scale community-based learning activities. Through peer-to-peer educational methods they work on transferring knowledge of Palestinian designers and artisans to local and international students.

In Belgium, at the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA), Annelys expands upon her lived experiences from this project. She started writing a PhD with the name Disarming Design in 2019, researching “how design can be a vehicle for empowerment and solidarity in conflicted realities—how can one, through the practice of design, develop sustainable positions in fractured societies?” Additionally, she also teaches a one-time master’s course at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam with the same name. This two-year course started in september 2020 and aims to develop the position of the designer as someone with social, political and emancipatory impact in contexts where the power is oppressive. The end goal of this course sees the students developing long-term networks with engaged creatives and institutions, to later establish new educational design platforms.

Design Dedication
In 2020 the book Design Dedication was published by Valiz. This book, subtitled Adaptive mentalities in design education, was initiated and edited by de Vet. Its cornerstone is the ten years Annelys worked as the head of Sandberg Institute’s Design Department. Containing essays and reflections by members of the department, alumni and students, the publication looks back on ten years of design education. With this collection, it aims to formulate a new vocabulary for pedagogy for design. Annelys brings these voices together in hopes of initiating a discourse for others to think and talk about the educational environment. It puts forth “an attitude in and towards design education that is socially engaged, politically aware, generous in approach, lyrical in tone, experimental in form, and collaborative in practice.” Positing this way of learning and teaching as “not about forms or things, but about a mentality and an understanding of the context and underlying structures.” Annelys proposes to the reader to view design as a way of thinking, rather than the creation of forms or things.

Selected Other Work
Annelys has taken on various roles in the conception of different publications, mainly (but not limited to) working as editor, designer and writer.


 * The Public Role of the Graphic Designer/De Publieke Zaak van de Grafisch Ontwerper (2006): a self-initiated publication, co-edited with Roelien Plaatsman and Joris Visser.
 * Nieuwe Symbolen voor Nederland (2005): edited by Rutger Wolfson and designed by de Vet, published by VALIZ. (Dutch)
 * Kwintessens #97 (2016): where she acted as guest-editor and designer, published by Design Vlaanderen & Flanders Fashion Institute. (Dutch)

Her practice also encompasses spatial interventions and product design, including:


 * Among Us/Onder Ons (2004): performance for Dutch orchestra De Volharding, in collaboration with Mayke Nas.
 * Nieuwe Symbolen voor Nederland (New Symbols for the Netherlands) (2008): contribution to the eponymous exhibition at De Vleeshal, Middelburg, the Netherlands.


 * Between the Lines (2008): installation of 21 illuminated niches containing short phrases.
 * For everything there is a season (2012): set of 12 tea towels for Dutch design firm Droog.
 * My cup of thoughts(2012): cup and saucer depicting various combinations of statements for Droog
 * New Urgencies (2018): installation for the exhibition OCCUPATION:DESIGNER at MAD Brussels.