Michael van Schaik @ PZi
michaelvanschaik.nl---
Graduated (cum laude) from the Willem de Kooning Academy in 2006, currently living and working in Rotterdam, Leiden & Amsterdam as independent designer.
Selected projects:
Archus Browser Project
archusproject.org
Graduation project about developing concepts for a new kind of webbrowser making more use of modern techniques and possibilities of technology nowadays. The missing 'Browser 2.0'. See website for a detailed explanation (in dutch).
The Acoustic City (in cooperation with Eva Gresnigt)
Graduation project in which I created a system to translate environments into sound (in a simple to understand, visual way). By 'listening' to streets, you explore/analyse them in a different (more objective) way. In this system I analyse the street in 7 layers; infrastructure, architecture, furniture, nature, advertising, humans, connections. Each layer consists of 8 possible groups of objects/values, which are represented in a graphical and color code notation system. This notation gets played in an interactive installation. The sounds of the advertising-layer are made in cooperation with Eva Gresnigt (voice), for sounds in general I also got advised by Radboud Mens.



