In collaboration with Claire Fumex



Rehab|Lab is an alternate future vision for declining industries in Limburg. Discarded machines, tools, derelict buildings, and unemployed technicians are brought together in a space for design experimentation, working between the borders of industry and craft, the borders of past and future.

Normally, industrial heritage is either erased from our collective memory or frozen as museum artifact. Instead,
Rehab|Lab grants new life to tools and techniques, giving designers the opportunity to use forgotten resources in innovative ways. Empty urban spaces become active nodes as individuals participate in a creative knowledge market.


Download PDF of work scenario


A currency of hours, not money:




Investing profits back into the building:



The proposal was based onto deep research into the history of ceramic manufacture in Maastricht, as well as the birth of the Sphinx empire. This diagram is intended to assist interested parties in identifying the people, places, and systems that determine the fate of the Timmerfabriek factory.


Download PDF of the Timmerfabriek network

We also put together a booklet of the kinds of resources that could be found in the abandoned buildings of the Sphinx factory, as well as in the extensive archive of the Centre Céramique in Maastricht. By thinking about future uses for these tools and techniques, we hoped to reinvigorate the heritage of industrial manufacture, but take advantage of technological and cultural advances that have taken place since they fell into disuse.