The studio designed Outbox for neurobiologist Professor Dick Swaab’s ‘Uitburgeringscursus’, which is a play on the so-called ‘Inburgeringscursus’, the Dutch term that refers to the naturalisation course any newcomer needs to follow before he’s accepted as a citizen. In his bestselling book ‘Wij zijn ons brein’ (We Are Our Brain) and a recent television broadcast in which he introduced Outbox, Swaab cautions people to think more carefully about what will happen when they die, because ‘a good life deserves a good death’. Outbox is designed to store valuable documents and items that are important in the planning of our burial and other matters related to our death.

Year
2011
Dimensions
Box; L 245, W 245, H 245 mm. Key: L 80, W 15, H 43 mm
Material
Mirror and stainless steel
Client
Dr. D. Swaab