A new space was presented for the first time from the new location of the Palace of Typographic Masonry in Loods 6. The programme consisted of three parts: first the introduction of the Repository of Porous Identities collection by Richard Niessen, then an explanation of the design of the publication with Tamara Hartman's text by Lukas Engelhart, Jan Egbers and Justus Gelberg, and finally a lecture on designing different ‘porous’ identities by Miquel Hervás Gómez (fanfare). The audience was able to pick up their copy of 'En u mag dit wapen voeren’!
Today, visual identities often serve as overly simplified, tightly controlled facades. Consider Amsterdam: the city's historic three-cross symbol, once used in diverse ways, is now rigidly standardised as a 'brand' within a strict house style. Tamara Hartman explores this shift in her text, published in design by Lukas Engelhart, Jan Egbers and Justus Gelberg, who added an archive of Amsterdam's more porous examples. These print sheets will adorn the Palace walls in the Repository of Porous Identities. In this room in the Department of Construction, a diversity of more open visual identities is collected, that probably do more justice to the multifaceted constructs that are our institutions. Amongst these examples is the identity of In Search of the Pluriverse, in which weather conditions are translated into typographic constellations, designed by Miquel Hervás Gómez (fanfare).
