2022
I had the pleasure of working with the people from les ateliers claus, a legendary venue and artist residency in the heart of Saint-Gilles (Brussels). In cooperation with my good friend Wannes Dewit, I redesigned their website and Content Management System (CMS), tailored to their specific needs and aesthetic vision. Working with a real client in a larger project, without a mentor or a tech-representative of the organisation to communicate with, posed some challenges and demanded a professional, responsible approach. As their organisation has a long-lasting signature branding, with some very clear rules and ‘limitations’, I had to put in the extra effort to implement their ideas without being able to design according to my own aesthetic preferences. The old website and CMS were created and maintained using an early version of Drupal, and contained nothing short of a thousand entries; concerts, residencies and blogposts made in the last 15+ years. All this data had to be reformatted to fit the demands of the new application and its database structure. to do this, I explored the world of python and Jupyter notebooks for the first time, which sparked an interest in working with larger datasets and algorithms.
