The working man wears rotterdam

The working man wears rotterdam

As part of a project where we were asked to select a public space and create an intervention, we chose the Rotterdam metro as our setting, a place where people from diverse backgrounds briefly cross paths but rarely connect. The Working Men Wears Rotterdam is an intervention that explores the visual and social boundaries between different layers of the working class. We created a garment that combines elements from various professions, a symbolic uniform that embodies the imbalance between physical and intellectual labor. By wearing this garment in the Rotterdam metro, we placed the garment directly into a public space where class distinctions silently coexist. Through this act, we invite people to question what kind of work the garment represents, and to confront their own assumptions about status, labor, and identity. Our goal was to reveal how easily appearance shapes perception, and how clothing continues to define the social hierarchy that structures everyday life. Created in collaboration with Avalon Verstappen, Lucienne de Haas, and Laura Verwegen.