Biography：

Jurgen Bey是荷兰最具实验性的设计师之一。早年与楚格设计（Droog Design）密切合作，成为荷兰概念性设计、批判性设计的代表人物之一。一直以来Jurgen Bey的设计都承袭着楚格式早期的设计风格，将物件的功能和本质以原始形式呈现，直接挑战观者对日常生活用具的定义和思考。二手设计亦是Jurgen Bey一直以来的主要设计主题之一，他在当今设计界中二手物件回收再利用的潮流中贡献了一份力量。

2002年他与Rianne Makkink共同创建了Makkink & Bey工作室，将城市规划、建筑、景观建筑的理念融入到作品设计之中，涵盖小规模产品和大规模建筑及城市设计。工作室研究内容涉及能源、原材料、多重应用、食品生产、社会及经济体系。他们的目标是通过设计的思维，为社会现象与问题提供新的展望与解决方案。Jurgen Bey现任厦门大学创意与创新学院业界专家。

Abstract：

The WaterSchool is a self-initiated design research project by Studio Makkink & Bey since 2012 within which they explore how schools and entire neighbourhoods could be (re)developed to minimise their ecological water footprint. Till now it is a speculative school delving into this. It is designed and organised around water as an essential material, subject and social and political phenomenon. It proposes rethinking of the cultural, didactical, holistic and infrastructural model of education through having all these facets relate to a certain topic, being water. This school could produce everything it needs to function onsite through small-scale industrial and craft producers together with selected designers, architects and artists.

The school building shows in both its interior and exterior how the built environment could be (re)developed in order to minimise its ecological water footprint. From the school, the research extends outwards imagining how dwelling, living and working could be rethought to reduce their respective footprint on the scale of a neighbourhood.