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NON NATIVE NATIVE (NNN) is a design and research initiative based in Amsterdam. We explore the subject of cultural/national/political identity and contemporary migration, expanding the possibility of a cross-disciplinary co-production with other fields of expertise such as social science and journalism. NNN projects are made up of visual research, documentary film, and public events, displaying personal explorations of the shifting political and social realities. In 2019 the initiative launched its public program NNN EMBASSY with an aim to extend the international, non-western discourses within the cultural landscape. The initiative is founded by Belle Phromchanya, operates in collaboration with diverse professionals to celebrate the art of reclaiming the unclaimed.
Born in Bangkok, Thailand in 1984, Phromchanya was trained as a graphic designer before relocating to Amsterdam in 2011 to study a Master in design at the Sandberg Instituut, Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Along with her practice as designer/researcher under the moniker Non Native Native, she is also a co-founder of ACED: an institute for design, art, and journalism, and a guest lecturer for BA and MA programs at various art academies.
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NNN SHOP IS OPEN ! [NEW]
Created by Five Metal Shop from Taiwan, this 2020 calendar is a modern remake of traditional Chinese calendars. The Calendar includes the lunar calendar and the 24 solar terms, which are some of the more relevant information extracted from traditional calendars ... ︎
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Born in Bangkok, Thailand in 1984, Phromchanya was trained as a graphic designer before relocating to Amsterdam in 2011 to study a Master in design at the Sandberg Instituut, Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Along with her practice as designer/researcher under the moniker Non Native Native, she is also a co-founder of ACED: an institute for design, art, and journalism, and a guest lecturer for BA and MA programs at various art academies.
︎ Download Full CV
NNN SHOP IS OPEN ! [NEW]
Created by Five Metal Shop from Taiwan, this 2020 calendar is a modern remake of traditional Chinese calendars. The Calendar includes the lunar calendar and the 24 solar terms, which are some of the more relevant information extracted from traditional calendars ... ︎
PRESENTATION
Bangkok CityCity Gallery Bangkok Underground Film Festival 2017
Beijing Design Week 2013
CA Korea Magazine
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
De Appel Arts Centre
De Punt Amsterdam
Faena Art Center
Galleries' Night Bangkok 2018
The Hmm
Moose Space
NEVERNEVERLAND
Open Set
Pakhuis de Zwijger
Thailand Creative and Design Center
World Design Capital Cape Town 2014
Wall Street Eindhoven
PARTNER & COMMISSIONER
Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst
Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research
International Convention of Asia Scholars
Leiden University College The Hague
MOTI
OneWorld Magazine
Royal Thai Embassy, Den Haag
SNV Netherlands Development Organisation
SOUP HQ
Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie
Stimuleringsfonds voor de Journalistiek
Studio150
Thailand Ministry of Culture
Workpoint News
WORKSHOP
AKV St. Joost Breda
Bangkok University
The Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing
Chulalongkorn University
Design Academie Eindhoven
Fontys
ArtCoDe Tilburg
HKU University of the Arts Utrecht
MU Eindhoven
Otis College of Art and Design
Royal College of Art London
Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam
Thai Student Academic Conference
King Mongkut's University Thonburi
Kingston University
Bangkok CityCity Gallery Bangkok Underground Film Festival 2017
Beijing Design Week 2013
CA Korea Magazine
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
De Appel Arts Centre
De Punt Amsterdam
Faena Art Center
Galleries' Night Bangkok 2018
The Hmm
Moose Space
NEVERNEVERLAND
Open Set
Pakhuis de Zwijger
Thailand Creative and Design Center
World Design Capital Cape Town 2014
Wall Street Eindhoven
PARTNER & COMMISSIONER
Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst
Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research
International Convention of Asia Scholars
Leiden University College The Hague
MOTI
OneWorld Magazine
Royal Thai Embassy, Den Haag
SNV Netherlands Development Organisation
SOUP HQ
Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie
Stimuleringsfonds voor de Journalistiek
Studio150
Thailand Ministry of Culture
Workpoint News
WORKSHOP
AKV St. Joost Breda
Bangkok University
The Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing
Chulalongkorn University
Design Academie Eindhoven
Fontys
ArtCoDe Tilburg
HKU University of the Arts Utrecht
MU Eindhoven
Otis College of Art and Design
Royal College of Art London
Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam
Thai Student Academic Conference
King Mongkut's University Thonburi
Kingston University
2019
CAPITAL OF MAE LA
A short documentary film offering a modern story of one of the longest-running refugee camps in the world and its inhabitants. The project is an ethnographic andartistic collaboration. In 2014, I followed my friend, Jiraporn, (an anthropologist working on her Ph.D.) to the Mae La refugee camp along the border of Thailand and Myanmar. Interestingly, the camp has been a home for over 40,000 refugees for more than 30 years ... ︎
2017–ON GOING
ACED : INSTITUTE FOR DESIGN, ART, AND JOURNALISM
ACED is an institute for design, art, and journalism with the aim of promoting interdisciplinarity between the artistic and journalistic field. The foundation aims to achieve its goal through the realisation of experimental production, research & knowledge development, and public programs ... ︎
2018
A YEAR IN GREYSCALE :
THE COLLECTIVE MOURNING IN THE DIGITAL ERA
The research brings attention to cases that show how creative practitioners deal with practical matters that came with adopting the new mood and tone of the mourning period. Upon the announcement of the passing of the beloved King Rama IX on 13 October 2016, graphic designers, webmasters, content editors, and media producers worked overnight to transform their public channels to fit the national sentiment ... ︎
© NON NATIVE NATIVE—2019
