Goossen Karssenberg Geometrische Patronen / Geometric Art
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Welkom op mijn site over geometrische patronen
Sinds 2008 verdiep ik me in islamitische geometrische patronen en de vraag hoe deze zijn te benutten in het wiskunde onderwijs. Ook ontwerp ik zelf nieuwe patronen die ik op verschillende manieren produceer en toepas in kunstwerken en design.
De eeuwenoude islamitische ontwerptraditie is om verschillende redenen intrigerend. De meetkundige complexiteit en elegantie van de ontwerpen is uniek. De fascinerende plaats die de islamitische mozaïeken innemen in de architectuur stijgt ver uit boven het simpele idee van 'versiering': Mozaïek en gebouw vormen een onlosmakelijk geheel. De veel voorkomende combinatie met kalligrafie en bloemmotieven draagt hieraan bij. Driedimensionale toepassing van patronen op koepels en in de vorm van de stalactietachtige gewelven aan de binnenzijde van koepels en nissen (de zogenaamde muqarnas) vergroten de reikwijdte van de traditie nog verder.
Ik hoop dat deze site iets van mijn fascinatie voor islamitische mozaïeken op u weet over te brengen!
Mijn opa de trekvogel
Prachtig jeugdboek over Marokko waarin een aantal patronen zijn opgenomen die ik getekend heb. In het boek zit ook een bon voor gratis toegang tot de mooie tentoonstelling 'Ziezo Marokko' voor 1 kind in het Tropenmuseum Amsterdam. De tentoonstelling loopt tot voorjaar 2017.
Een tegelset die ik ontwierp in NWQ 2014
In de Nationale Wetenschaps-Quiz 2014 kwam halverwege (vanaf minuut 39) mijn vraag over een bijzondere tegelset voorbij. Deze foto is van het moment waarop Lottie Hellingman uitlegt hoe de vork in de steel zit. Klik op de foto om meer over dit semiperiodieke patroon te weten te komen of kijk naar de uitzending op youtube om uitleg van Lottie te krijgen!
Recent Activities, News
Official opening of Museum Gallery RAT (Recomposed Art Texel)
May 13 2017 we celebrate the opening of our new location Burgwal 20 Den Burg. Here you find artwork composed with beachcombed materials by Maria Roelofsen and my design studio for making new pattern compositions based upon the Islamic design tradition. For further information also look at www.museumgalerierat.nl
A new floral design with worksheet. Click on the picture to find more information about the Khatai Flower.
March 24th 2017
Heart cloud sun
Workshop in Amsterdam
21 august 2016 11.30-13.00
In the Tropenmuseum I delivered a workshop on the Islamic design tradition of geometric patterns in Dutch, further information here
Floral designs
A new subject is being developed and information will be available on this website: floral designs. I started today with the lotus flower. Click on the lotus below to visit the right tab.
24th of March 2016
Colour Plates available
Download my puzzle-/colour plates at this link of the Tropenmuseum Junior
Short story 'Spiral Figures'
I wrote a short story in Dutch about a child who draws spiral figures at the beach
Students finished newly developed lesson strand on Islamic mosaic design
Click on the picture below and check the two slide shows on the 2015 results.
The workshop I delivered in 2014 is online since Jan. 2015
here is the same workshop with translations into turkish
A miraculous set of tiles
Patchwork by Marijke Maris-Baan
Heptagon construction
A method to construct a near-regular heptagon now published on this site
Result of drawing competition
6 July 2014. The drawing cmpetition was won by José Bradamonte.
Students finished mosaic design course
A group of about 20 students finished the lesson strand on Persian style mosaics in the beginning of may 2014. You can find some impressions of their activities here
View their endresults here
Result of pre-study
Article published
2014, March.
My article 'Learning Geometry by Designing Persian Mosaics' is published in issue nr. 100 (March 2014) of the Canadian journal 'For the Learning of Mathematics'.
At the flm-website you can find an Abstract.
Examples of basic patterns
New pattern design
Click on the picture below to find a series of patterns with octagons
Workshop 1&2 Feb. 2014
The workshop held on Texel was attended by 13 people in total. Among them: a furniture maker, a designer of lamps, quilters, painters and teachers. See the photo-impression of the workshop
Article in local newspaper Texel
This article (text and photo Pip Barnard) is about my fascination for Islamic geometrical ornamentation and how it can be used in (mathematics) education.
Article in Dutch newspaper
An article about the artwork by Maria Roelofsen and myself was published in the Dutch newspaper 'Reformatorisch Dagblad' on 30 december 2013. (Text Janneke van Reenen-Hak, Photo's Sjaak Verboom)
Publication in dutch magazine 'Experiment NL'
In this magazine on dutch Scientific research an article was published about my work. All those who have a subscription of 'Quest' received this magazine. Four pages with beautiful illustrations!
International workshop on Islamic geometric design Istanbul
At the Design Center of Istanbul a six-days congres was organized with lectures and workshops delivered by experts in this field. Incredibly inspiring!
Conference Isfahan, Iran
May 2013. A three day conference for mathematicians and artists on geometric Islamic patterns was held. Lots of inspiring workshops and lectures were delivered.
Workshop Leiden
Workshop for students, Institute for Studies of the Middle East, Leiden University, 27 march 2013
Contribution to piece of art
Lecture for maths teachers
During the conference for Maths teachers held december 18th 2012 at the Groningen University I gave a lecture about using islamic mosaics to teach geometry at all levels in secundary schools.
Article Published
June 2012.
In the review for Dutch mathematics teachers called 'Euclides' the article 'Designing Persian Mosaics in the Classroom. Students in the centre of a medieval design tradition' appeared (for the article in Dutch click here).
Maria completed 'the frog'
