1) When does a surface fascinate you?

Surfaces, of any kind, become fascinating when they act as a form of communication – within us, or between us and our material environment. This communication can be visual, expressed through color or pattern. It can serve as ornamentation or take on a caring function, like providing health protection.
Surfaces captivate us when they evoke memories and experiences, when they stir a sense of wonder and curiosity – about something beyond, or even something hidden within ourselves.

2) What kind of surface design do you miss?

What I likely miss is the more organic, dynamic design that was often seen in the 1970s and early 1980s – a visual language not yet fully subjected to the demands of efficiency and scalability, one that dared to appear less formal, less linear, less goal-driven. It was a design of deliberate imperfections, intentional disruptions – something that seems to regain relevance today, in a world obsessed with optimization through algorithms and supposed peak performance driven by AI.

3) One room. One surface. What do you choose?

Surfaces create spaces; in some cases, they give form and function to those spaces in the first place.
As a biologist, I am particularly fascinated by the in-between states and transitions from surface to space. Surfaces are places of passage, of rupture, and of wordless communication.

4) What is your vision of future surface design?

I long for a design that does more than just serve a function – a design that does not leave me emotionally untouched. I expect the interaction between surfaces, their design, and us as human beings, with all our desires, to be richer, more complex, yet also more fragile – and thus more exciting and meaningful.
I also wish for surface design to become something we ourselves can shape more directly, something we can influence in how it affects us.