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Julia Berg is a designer and researcher. Based in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Currently Studying MA Fashion Strategy, ArtEZ University of the Arts


Projects
A magazine reader
Bodies making meaning
Chet Julius
Happiness
Join collective conversations
Post consumer waste 
Sic transit gloria mundi
Time passes, constants stay








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Happiness (2019)
Studio Dries Verhoeven (Commissioned)



 

Graphic Design for Happiness by studio Dries Verhoeven. 

On the street is a small concrete cubicle, a cross between a public toilet and a pharmacy. This illicit store is manned by a humanoid, a human-looking robot. She talks to us about different drugs, painkillers and antidepressants we can use to tweak our emotional reality by re-jigging the serotonin and dopamine levels in our brain.In the combination of robotics and drugs, the work explores the zone where the human and the artificial merge; where, aided by synthetic substances we can rehumanise or become more than human. Or escape our human state entirely, for a while.

Happiness is co-commissioned by SPRING Festival Utrecht (NL) and NDSM-werf foundation (NL)

Photography Willem Popelier, Thorsten Alofs

Production; Studio Dries Verhoeven
www.driesverhoeven.com
Mark