Daan Walder – Social Design

social design.

social design.

My social design practice operates between installation, research, and public space, using audiovisual and generative systems to explore community, identity, technology, and cultural memory. These projects are inquiry-driven and spatial, examining how digital structures shape perception and collective experience. This is where I test methods, challenge aesthetics, and expand the language that informs my applied design work.


work.

work.

Dancing Fragments

2026

audiovisual design / archival media / sound design / queer history

Dancing Fragments is a sculptural audiovisual installation inspired by Nijmegen’s queer house and techno scene, using the legendary Extravaganza party as a starting point. Archival material from co-founder Jeroen Roording informed a self-built generative system where infrared images fade, distort, and fragment across LED matrices, speaker modules, and semi-transparent panels, creating a layered, abstract memory that evokes the fleeting freedom, collectivity, and atmosphere of queer nightlife.

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Stoorzenders

2025

radio technology / techno anarchism / audiovisual design / spatial design

Stoorzenders is an ongoing research project that explores how gentrification, commercialization, and surveillance are reshaping urban space, and in turn erasing the voices that once defined it. Rooted in Nijmegen, the project takes the form of a foldable, off-grid installation composed of self-built radio antennas and a decentralized server. Together, they create a portable, autonomous infrastructure for collecting, storing, and transmitting hidden or forgotten stories from the city.

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Skopos

2025

audiovisual design / generative visuals / organic conciousness / immersive design

Skopos is an audiovisual installation exploring the boundaries between human, plant, and artificial intelligence. Generative visuals, shaped by live electromagnetic signals from a living plant, create a continuously shifting organic landscape. Combined with a responsive soundscape, the work invites viewers into a meditative space where perception, intelligence, and nature intertwine in real time.

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Solum Venenum

2024

spatial storytelling / immersive design / 3D projection / generative visuals / sound design

Solum Venenum is an interactive audiovisual installation exploring the hidden environmental impact of illegal synthetic drug production in the Netherlands. Using body-tracking sensors, visitors navigate a digital landscape shaped by chemical waste, uncovering the unseen consequences of human activity. The work combines field research, technology, and storytelling to provoke reflection on ecological and societal responsibility.


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