In the summer of 2017, before graduating, I created an Illustrated booklet that describes Noeskwam: A Model for a Qualitative Society. 

Noeskwam shows a model for a qualitative society. Noeskwam is a garbage patch floating in the middle of the sea. Its residents have claimed this garbage island as their own, and are creating their utopia on it.

Together they form a tribe and create a new society that shows the importance of the playful elements in everyday life. The only resource they have is the waste and plastic that washes ashore. The tribe makes everything out of found material, from everyday objects to their clothing. They see it as a precious material, not just because this waste is their only resource, but also because plastic lasts forever. Noeskwam shows us a new way of approaching our plastic waste.

This new society shows the importance of playful elements in everyday life – an approach inspired by the theory of the Homo Ludens (the playing human) by Dutch cultural historian Johan Huizinga. I used references such as Palle Nielsen-The Model, Celine Condorelli-Models for a Qualitative Society, and Constant’s Nieuwenhuys-New Babylon. Who created worlds and institutions around the same philosophy. This collection can be seen as a cultural expression of the human playing, who promote the rights of the game. In the book, I illustrated how everyday life looks like on the island through a manifesto.