How to Explain it to My Family

A common experience of every Design Academy Eindhoven student is the difficulty of describing what they do to their family – this comes to light each year at the graduation show. In order to combat this, Camille Pelissou created an information point with three different experiences geared towards different generations of her own family. For her grandmother, Camille created a new version of the catalogue, inviting students to write about their own projects in more accessible language. For her parents, Camille proposed a guided tour with a live ‘translator’ mediating language between designers and non-designers. Finally, for her sister she created a YouTube channel full of vlogs each answering questions such as “What does your family REALLY think about your project?”