Graduation project
My Summer-camp Graduation
Arthur Jacquet-Usureau
## “Design can be treated with humour, and humour allows me to take a healthy step back from my work.”
Bringing his artistic affinities under the umbrella of ‘design’, Arthur Jacquet explores the no-man’s land between design and art. Following Beaudelaire’s remark that ‘genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will’, he proposes a metamorphosis of an iconic school playground item: the scoubidou knotting game. Investigating the subjective boundaries between both disciplines, the project questions the limits of what is a valid design project in the context of the open ideas on design in the Netherlands. The giant scoubidous and the mockumentary that goes along with it thus can be seen as a pastiche on the design practice and the status of the creator.