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LOTTE VAN HULST
@vanhulstlotte
lvhulst@xs4all.nl




































































































SELECTED WORK



FC TECTONICS:
Football’s Strategic Play in the Territorialisation of Nation-State Sovereignty






 



 
 
Multi-media installation
Length: ‘12
Date: 2025
Link: VIMEO

MA GEO-Design Graduation work, Design Academy Eindhoven. Exhibited at Dutch Design Week 2025.        






FIFA counts 211 member associations—eighteen more than the UN. This discrepancy exposes the contested nature of legitimacy itself: who counts as a nation, and through which frameworks?

Operating as a non-state actor, FIFA mirrors but also exceeds diplomatic structures, selectively granting or denying recognition. In doing so, it creates extraterritorial spaces that compel state compliance while remaining outside state control.






FC TECTONICS is a research-based two-channel video installation that explores how the geopolitical infrastructure of football produces and legitimises territorial boundaries. 

Developed through a critical spatial practice, the work approaches football not as a sport but as a technology of governance that regulates sovereignty through negotiations of space.

By reframing football as a field of power, FC TECTONICS reveals how national legitimacy is continuously contested, redrawn, and negotiated.







                              
                                                   






















TECHNICAL METHODOLOGIES



ARCGIS/QGIS:
satellite analysis and geospatial data processing, layering football-affiliated spaces against EEZ boundaries.

BLENDER/RHINO/UNREAL ENGINE:
3D Spatial modeling, animation and environmental construction.




AFTER EFFECTS:
hand-drawn relational trajectories and compositing.

PREMIERE PRO:
video editing and sequencing.

ILLUSTRATOR:
detailing maps, diagrams, visuals.

ISADORA:
two-screen mapping and real-time media control


















































geo-spatial data

 processing



relational mapping










carving out 


alternative 

spatial boundaries
Exploring critical map making methodologies to find ways through design, materiality and aesthetics to support the research and critical analysis of the production of conventional borders and the institutes that govern these.

This approach allowed me to consider how, through football, a space for nation-state sovereignty can be carved out on an international scale and to question the conventional geopolitical global governance order.