Pauline Rip
- La Tannerie Fantastique
- Riding Ghosts
- Elficology : the harvest of morning dew
- Meet Meat
- Lowfoot
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Pauline Rip
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DESIGN SCENOGRAPHY
Elficology : the harvest of morning dew
Exhibitions
• Soon exhibited at Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris. 12/2025-01/2026
• Dutch Design Week 2021, "Unesco Ghosts’ files", Beursgebouw, DDW21, Eindhoven.
• Taiwan Design Museum, August-September-October 2023
Press
• Dezeen architecture and design magazine, "Pauline Rip designs cultural artefacts[...]", Amy Freason, January, 2022.
• Designing stories: What the folk!, Design Academy Eindhoven, Nadine Botha, 2021. • Le Monde, "A Eindhoven, l’école de design [...]", Le Monde, Jessica Gourdon, February 2023. Taiwan Design Museum for “We-We futures”, cur. Chun Ting Che, Taiwan.
Residency
• Mediamatic Foundation Art & New technology, Amsterdam, NL, 2023
Prize
• Finalist COAL PRIZE “Eau Douce” 2025
PRICE DELIBERATION 12 DECEMBER 2025 at Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris.
Elficology: the harvest of morning dew is a multidisciplinary project blending speculative design, performance, craftsmanship, and storytelling. It imagines a fictitious cultural practice — the harvesting of dew — an entirely imaginary custom built upon the peculiar criteria of UNESCO’s intangible heritage. In doing so, the project questions how a practice might be legitimized and preserved, even if it is not “real” in the traditional sense. Who, then, decides the value of a given field of knowledge? Could not a simple drop of dew also attain political status and institutional recognition?
Inspired by elficology — defined by Pierre Dubois as “the ecology of the soul” — the project weaves connections between institutional bureaucracy and folklore, alchemy, science, and artisanal know-how. It seeks to raise awareness of local ecosystems by layering a fictional dimension onto contemporary environmental issues, rediscovering the landscapes around us and thus countering the prevailing sense of eco-anxiety. The design of these ritual objects, costumes, “official” administrative documents, and performative gestures creates a delicate dialogue between humans and nature, giving rise to what one might call an eco-fairy.