Roosje Klap is a PhD Candidate at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts.

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Roosje Klap (1973, NL) researches the experimental boundaries of custom fit design through close collaborations with artists, curators, architects, (type) designers, and writers. The research-based interdisciplinary approach is reflective of a generation of designers that define their assignments alongside commissions.

In 2014, Klap initiated the collective 'Design Displacement Group' (DDG), which focuses on the discourse of graphic design in the rapidly changing media landscape and its trans-disciplinary development towards other disciplines. DDG formed the blueprint of her current collective ARK (Atelier Roosje Klap) that collaborates on self-initiated projects and commissions in varying compositions — a methodology that the group coins as ‘post-signature.’

As an experienced educator and coach specializing in graphic design, media art, and digital humanities, Roosje led and designed curricula and workshops for international art academies and universities to inspire creatives and enhance equitable relationships in their habitats. Roosje Klap is chairman of Valiz Publishers, board member of the Wim Crouwel Institute, and member of the supervisory board of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam.