The Rise and Fall of Join Teun the Raccoon

Join us for a two-day critical storytelling workshop designed for practicing designers at different stages of their careers. Through collaborative play, writing, and improvisation, participants are invited to reflect on the current status of the design profession through the tragicomic tale of Teun the Raccoon, a designer navigating the fragile ecosystem of the creative industries.

About the Event

Over the course of seven improvised scenes, participants will embody, write, and perform the world of Teun,  a raccoon-turned-designer of collectible objects who creates and dreams his way through ambition, delusion, and collapse. Each scene will unfold collectively, generating dialogue, reflections, and small artifacts that will later be adapted into a collective written short film script where participants of these sessions will become co-authors.

When October 24 - The Rise: Scenes 1-3 (13:30-17:30) October 25 - The Fall: Scenes 4 -7 (13:30-18:30)

Max 1h 20 min per scene.

Participants

min 3, max 4 participants per scene, playing 8 different characters across the story.You can join specific time slots if you can’t attend the full session.

Where 

Onomatopee Projects: Lucas Gasselstraat 2a, 5613 LB Eindhoven

How It Works

Participants are invited to embody a character and complete the objective of different scenes. Characters are distributed by scene, Teun’s muses and mentors to fellow designers and curators. Teun and other characters will be portrayed by a different participant in each scene, allowing multiple interpretations to unfold. Together, we will discuss and solve scenarios that reflect our own experiences and encounters within the design profession while completing the full arc of a single story developed across the two days.

Note! The sessions will be recorded for documentation. Please be aware of this and consent to your voice and/or image being recorded for documentation purposes.