YURO MONIZ

Ceramic Artisan

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On Craft, Emotion, and the Courage to Build With Your Hands

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Yuro Moniz is a multidisciplinary maker and storyteller working between art, design, and culture. After years in fashion, photography, and film, she turned to ceramics — searching for a medium that reconnected her with craftsmanship, emotion, and human touch. Her large-scale hand-built works blend ancient Korean and Japanese techniques with contemporary themes, exploring identity, heritage, and resilience through clay.

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In this conversation, Yuro speaks about transformation, burnout, and finding balance between creation and care. She shares how turning to ceramics became both her craft and her therapy — a way to slow down, pray, and rebuild. We discuss her monumental totem about freedom, the lessons learned from Korean masters, and what it means to preserve human feeling in a world of speed and screens. A story about process, vulnerability, and the courage to keep shaping life by hand.

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WHY I ASKED THIS GUEST

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Today I'm joined by Peter Adolf, a visionary garden designer whose work has transformed how we experience landscapes known for projects like a eyeliner in New York and Ry Garden in Chicago. Peter spent decades redefining the relationship between plant spaces and emotion.
In this episode, we dive into his early challenges and creative breakthroughs. He shares how taking risks shape his craftsmanship career, and what the vital role is of intuition in great design.

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DO OR DIE / A OR B

Are you more rational or emotional? 
Piet: Both. 

Practical or romantic? 
Both. 

Structure or color, both controlled the narrative or let the garden tell its own story?
A little bit of both. 

Cherish the process or cherish the result. 
Result and process. 

Your work primarily recognized for its ecological impact or its aesthetic beauty. 
Both. 

Design one final, groundbreaking garden or curate and refine all your previous works?
I would like to have a new project and I think the gardeners that don't work well or refine my own gardens will take a lifetime again to get them where they were. 'cause gardeners have their own life, and also they need to have their own life to change the right way for the legacy. 

The gardens will be taken care of, the gardeners. And is there a wish from you that it's maintained the same way or just let it go? 
Let it grow into the future. I would say so. Let it grow by the good hands of bareness and into something that still is good and especially beautiful because you can imagine and trees grow up with the plants underneath, don't like it that or and years. So you have to change your plans. And if I look back to all the plants of what I've done and no garden looks the same anymore, and you can just rip it out and put it all over from your original design. So that's it.

Focus on mentoring young designers or document your life's work? 
Both. 

Your gardens and your true maintenance or wild and natural growth?
Wild and natural growth doesn't exist because then our garden ends up in metals and BLEs. So, it's always gardens, our gardens and garden. I'll say it's a place where you feel good in and it's extruded from nature, a place for yourself. So you have to treat it, you know, like, you treat yourself and in the best way. So environmentally, right, ecologically, right. And that just wildlife allowed, I see that in that sense. So it's not, Corning is about control. You cannot let it go.

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YURO MONIZ

Ceramic Artisan

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On Craft, Emotion, and the Courage to Build With Your Hands

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Yuro Moniz is a multidisciplinary maker and storyteller working between art, design, and culture. After years in fashion, photography, and film, she turned to ceramics — searching for a medium that reconnected her with craftsmanship, emotion, and human touch. Her large-scale hand-built works blend ancient Korean and Japanese techniques with contemporary themes, exploring identity, heritage, and resilience through clay.

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In this conversation, Yuro speaks about transformation, burnout, and finding balance between creation and care. She shares how turning to ceramics became both her craft and her therapy — a way to slow down, pray, and rebuild. We discuss her monumental totem about freedom, the lessons learned from Korean masters, and what it means to preserve human feeling in a world of speed and screens. A story about process, vulnerability, and the courage to keep shaping life by hand.

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JOACHIM BAAN

Creative Director

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On Controlled Chaos, Storytelling, and Building a Meaningful Creative Life

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Joachim Baan is a creative director, photographer, and brand strategist based in Utrecht. Together with Christoph van Veghel, he runs Another Everything, a consultancy creating brands and cultural projects through strategy, design, and execution. His path spans independent publishing, fashion, photography, and running projects like Speed of Solitude — always guided by storytelling, aesthetics, and controlled chaos.

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In this conversation, Joachim reflects on resisting hustle culture, why stories are stronger than data, and how curiosity shapes both his personal life and professional practice. We talk about building Another Everything with Christoph van Veghel, creating brands and cultural projects for Nike, Rapha, KLM, the Van Gogh Museum, Skins Cosmetics, and Atelier Munro. Joachim explains why sameness is killing creativity, why taste remains a tool for predicting the future, and how independence and long-distance running shaped his resilience. Above all, he shows that building culture is less about control and more about trust, openness, and contribution.

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MOHAMED CHAJID

Creative Director

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On Momentum, Mission-Driven, Relationships, and the Relentless Drive to Keep Learning

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Mohamed Chajid is a concept engineer and creative director based in Rotterdam. His path began with curiosity for philosophy, technology, and design, leading him to industrial design engineering at TU Delft and a self-taught journey through 3D, graphics, and spatial design. What started as experiments on Instagram caught the attention of Virgil Abloh — opening doors to collaborations with brands such as Apple, Nike, New Balance, Disney, and Drake.

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In this conversation, Mohamed speaks about his journey and the lessons of saying yes, learning by doing, and building relationships over résumés. Why consistency, reflection, and curiosity shape his practice. And why a life dedicated to creating is less about client lists and more about culture, education, and contribution.