Davina is a Dutch social artist and graphic designer based in Rotterdam. She froms visual strategies across music, community and identity, reflecting the worlds shaped by sound and collective culture.
Experience
Internship
/summer job:
Offff studio
Rotterdam
2. Communication & Graphic Design
Internship
Limestone Books
Maastricht
Education
1. Grafisch Lyceum
Rotterdam
Graphic Design
Lifestyle and Media Mbo BOL4
2. Willem de Kooning Academie
Graphic Design Bachelor
Honours Programme: Visual Culture
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Graphic Design Bachelor
Honours Programme: Visual Culture
Let’s talk with a bakkie koffie :) Feel free to reach out.
Email: davinapoot@live.nl
Insta: @davinapoot.works
Samen Radio
With this project, I explored how to forge connections between people through a collaborative radio show. Samen Radio is a method made as a tool for connection. The show is open to anyone who loves party music and is willing to share it with others. Everyone takes part as an equal curator, contributing their personal music selections and stories to the show. During the recording sessions, I take the role of a host, guiding the co-curators and creating a welcoming and comfortable environment for them.
Through my research, I identified a pressing social shift in Rotterdam: the disappearance of independent cultural spaces, driven by commercial development, gentrification, and changing policies. In addition, party culture is increasingly experienced through screens and digital platforms rather than in physical spaces. The method seeks to rebuild a sense of community, directly engaging with these issues by creating spaces for people who long for real-life connection.
The ethos of the Samen Radio:
At Samen Radio we take agency of how we consume music, which is together and connected. No one is a guest in the show, we’re all equal curators. We gather in a room with 3-5 people, taking a moment to listen to the music we brought and record our conversations. While doing this we explore party music genres in a new context. We share our picked tracks and merge our personal interests creating a one hour long sound piece. It’s a collaborative method, with a structure made to function as a tool for connection.
link to the website
link to the episodes on Soundcloud