DAE Design Research Podcast - Mark Henning – Normaal #8

What is normal behaviour? What is a normal handshake? A letter published by the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte in which he expressed the idea that if certain people couldn’t behave normally they should leave, made Henning got triggered by the absurdity of our need to be normal. Using handshakes as a metaphor for normal behaviour he did several interventions and decided to design a testing station for handshakes, an experimental format where the participants are forced to adjust to the given normality. Interview: Katinka Baehr | Editing and sounddesign: Jair Stein | Mix: Alfred Koster | Editor in chief: Jennifer Pettersson | Soundtrack: Blue Dot Sessions – Two Dollar Token / Partly Sage / When in the West. Music: www.freemusicarchive.org