Louise Schouwenberg

Who is Louise Schouwenberg?

Louise Schouwenberg studied psychology at the Radboud University Nijmegen, sculpture at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, and philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. She worked as a visual artist from 1985–2003. Since then her primary focus has been on art and design theory.

Schouwenberg has curated exhibitions on the cutting edge of art and design and has worked as adviser for many organisations. She regularly writes for national art and design magazines and has contributed to a range of books, one of the latest being the monograph: Hella Jongerius- Misfit, released by Phaidon Press in 2010.

Current work: • Head of the Masters programme Contextual Design at Design Academy Eindhoven • Lector Design Theory at Design Academy Eindhoven, since 2010 • Writing of a monograph on artist Robert Zandvliet, to be published by Nai publishers, May 2012 • An indepth research of the success of Dutch design since the 1980s, to be published in 2013 • Re-design of the Delegates’ Lounge of the United Nations Headquarters. Schouwenberg is part of a Dutch team, which also consists of Hella Jongerius, Rem Koolhaas, Irma Boom and Gabriel Lester. The team was commissioned by the Dutch government to create a vision on the re-design of this important space within the U.N. headquarters in New York, to be completed by the end of 2012.