2012
SOURCE #08
Thursday 8 March (20.00-22.00) - auditorium
Lecture by and interview with Anthony Dunne
('Ethics & Aesthetics'-series)
Ethical responsibility and sustainable beauty have reentered the realm of the design discourse. In an era where natural recourses are fading and the divisions between different democratic challenges lie ahead we aim to understand the role and position of the designer. The main question, besides an oeuvre lecture, will pivot around the notions on how the professional field of design will evolve in the decades to come.
Anthony Dunne is professor and head of the Design Interactions programme at the Royal College of Art in London. He studied Industrial Design at the RCA before working at Sony Design in Tokyo. On returning to London he completed a PhD in Computer Related Design at the RCA. He was a founding member of the CRD Research Studio where he worked as a Senior Research Fellow leading EU and industry funded research projects. Anthony was awarded the Sir Misha Black Award for Innovation in Design Education in 2009.
Dunne is a partner in the design practice Dunne & Raby. His work with Fiona Raby uses design as a medium to stimulate discussion and debate amongst designers, industry and the public about the social, cultural and ethical implications of emerging technologies. The projects of Dunne & Raby include Hertzian Tales, a combination of essays and design proposals exploring aesthetic and critical possibilities for electronic products (MIT Press 2005); Placebo, a collection of electronic objects exploring well-being in relation to domestic electromagnetic fields (2001); and Technological Dreams Series: no.1, Robots (2007). Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects was published by Birkhauser in 2001. Their work has been exhibited and published internationally and is in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Frac Ile-de-France and Fnac (Fond national d'art contemporain), as well as several private collections.
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SOURCE #07
Wednesday 29 February (10.30-12.00) - auditorium
Lecture by Rick Poynor - The Soft Power of Design
('Design Challenges; scenarios for designing meaning' - series)
Rick Poynor founded Eye magazine in London in 1990, edited it for seven years and is now its resident columnist. He writes the "Observer" column for Print magazine and he has written about design, media and visual culture for Blueprint, Icon, Frieze, Domus, I.D., Metropolis, Harvard Design Magazine, Adbusters, The Guardian, The Financial Times, and many other publications. His books include More Dark Than Shark (1986), a study of Brian Eno's early songs, Typography Now: The Next Wave (1991), and Typographica (2001). He is the author of two collections of essays, Design Without Boundaries (1998) and Obey the Giant: Life in the Image World (2001). No More Rules: Graphic Design and Postmodernism, a critical study of graphic design and postmodernism, appeared in 2003.
Poynor studied the history of art at Manchester University and gained an MPhil in design history from the Royal College of Art, London. He has been a visiting professor at the RCA and a tutor at the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht, and he lectures widely on design matters in Europe, the United States and Australia. He is guest curator of the exhibition "Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties", which opened at the Barbican Centre, London in September 2004 and toured in China through 2005.
With the 'Design challenges'-series for which we program only one lecture each trimester, we aim to understand the status quo of design within the contemporary cultural landscape. Which issues that are at stake, which positions can we define within the design profession and it’s discourse? 'Design challenges' ideally highlights the current trends and tendencies in the realm of design and merges them with topics of interest for society at large.
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SOURCE #06
Thursday 23 February
Ernst van der Hoeven: Nature needs heroes!
lecture 10.30 - 12.30h / workshop 13.00-15.00h (masters only) - Master space 2nd floor
Ernst van der Hoeven studied art history with a specialisation in architecture at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. In 1994, he co-founded the Rotterdam based architectural historian office Crimson, with a hybrid practice taking the contemporary city as its object. In 2000, he moved to Milan to study landscape architecture at the Politecnico. After his graduation in 2002, he started his own office in Amsterdam: EVDH, studio for the urban landscape. With his studio he designs landscapes, curates exhibitions, makes works of art, teaches and consults on the restoration and exploration of nature in the urban environment. Together with artist Frank Bruggeman and graphic designer Samira Ben Laloua he founded and publishes Club Donny, a journal on the personal experience of nature in an urban environment.
These questions and possible answers will be addressed in his lecture and workshop (a.o.): what does the actual inner-city nature and its representation consist of? What forms the relation between the city and the countryside in past, present and potential future? How can serendipity and time be taken into account while designing? How can the notion of quality be defined and mapped in (the design for) public space?
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SOURCE #05
Lecture Yvonne Dröge Wendel - Relational Thingness
Wednesday 08 February 2012
10:30h - Auditorium
Objects or artifacts are often perceived in terms of clichéd concepts of ‘meaning’, ‘identity’ and ‘authenticity’. But things do more. They are determining forces in human behavior and thinking. Better understanding of what things actually do will affect how we design, produce and conduct research, as well as influence all areas of human life, including sustainability. Artist Yvonne Dröge Wendel studies the relations between people, objects and context. With an experimental approach she looks for exiting new ways to relate to things. Her fascination for things led her into wedlock with Wendel, a decorative cabinet, whose name she officially bears since 1992. In 1994, she took her malfunctioning old-timer, a Renault 16, on a ‘Grand Tour’ to Rome to have it blessed by the Pope. Dröge Wendel won the 1994 Prix de Rome for her documentation of this special journey, La Benedizione della Macchina. Since 2000, she has organized performances with her Black Ball, a gigantic ball of felted wool, in Leeuwarden, Bolzano, Newcastle, Istanbul, Odense (DK) and Rotterdam. Active participation by the public is an even greater desire in recent work, her ‘just enough’ forms, which possess ‘just enough qualities’ to be recognized as ‘something’, but not enough to definitively identify them.They are neutral, ambiguous, or in her words, ‘challenging constellations of restrictions’. In Item Store (2008/11), forms are strewn about, ready to be picked up, in what looks to be a purposeful space. The forms are provided with a variety of labels.
In December 2010 she started a promotion study at the University of Twente under the title: Performative and relational abilities of things. She is one of the first two artists in the Netherlands who, with the support of NWO and Fund BKVB, can do an artistic research. Her UT-promotor is Peter-Paul Verbeek, professor Philosophy of Man and Technology. Her Co-promotor is Sher Doruff.
http://objectresearchlab.ning.com
http://www.yvonnedrogewendel.nl
http://www.nwo.nl/promoverenindekunsten
video about the Alzheimer express: http://youtube/sxMDtICVDfs
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SOURCE #04
Thursday 2 February 2012
Excursion De Paviljoens, Almere: exhibition - 'The Dutch Identity? - The Power of Now' introduced by curator Annick Kleizen / Tropenmuseum Amsterdam: exhibition 'The World Explained' by Erick Beltrán - introduced by Anke Bangma
In 1993, The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB) exhibited a selection from its first five years (1988-1992), under the title De Kracht van Heden (The Power of Now). For the exhibition The Dutch Identity? The Power of Now Museum De Paviljoens made a new selection of artists, designers and architects who where among the first to receive a grant for research, new work, travel or exhibitions in the period between 1988 and 1992. This group now belongs to the top of contemporary culture. Museum De Paviljoens paired this selection with a choice from the last five years of the Fonds BKVB.The group of artists, designers and architects that have been supported by the Fonds BKVB between 1988 and 2011, will undoubtedly make their mark both in the Netherlands and across the borders for at least the coming 20 years. For a new generation the conditions are different. How will the cultural infrastructure function in 2013 for unknown talent in the Netherlands? Who can reach the top in 2041 or 2051? How can we keep the power of the present of today in our society?
With: Hans Aarsman, Lara Almarcegui, Christiaan Bastiaans, Ben Laloua / Didier Pascal, Ben van Berkel / UNStudio, Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács, Amie Dicke, Rineke Dijkstra, Marlene Dumas, Dora García, Adriaan Geuze / West 8, Joost Grootens, Anne Holtrop, Saskia Janssen, Fransje Killaars, Gert Jan Kocken, Job Koelewijn, Rem Koolhaas / OMA, Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Joep van Lieshout, LUST, Thomas Manneke, Bjarne Mastenbroek / SeARCH, Christien Meindertsma, Mevis & Van Deursen, MVRDV, Aernout Mik, Maureen Mooren, Reineke Otten, NEXT Architects, Navid Nuur, Bas Princen, Henri Roquas, Jan Rothuizen, Malkit Shoshan, Sarah van Sonsbeeck, Berend Strik, Studio Makkink & Bey, Viktor & Rolf, Roy Villevoye, Barbara Visser, Marijke van Warmerdam, Guido van der Werve, Witho Worms, René van Zuuk, and 2012Architecten.
‘Our view of the world consists to a large extent of suspicions, makeshift connections and personal interpretations.’ Erick Beltrán
How do blind people experience colour? How can telling jokes help prevent wars? What is emotion? Residents of Amsterdam answer these questions and their own theories about various subjects are added to a contemporary encyclopedia. Mexican artist Erick Beltrán presents the art project The World Explained. Since September 2011, Beltrán and a team of young anthropologists began interviewing residents of Amsterdam, assembling the results in a contemporary encyclopedia. You can see the results of these interviews in the Park Hall of the museum. Before this edition, Erick Beltrán produced volumes of The World Explained in São Paulo (2008) and Barcelona (2009). You can also see the personal theories he collected there, compare Amsterdam’s mentality with that of São Paulo and Barcelona. When the exhibition finishes, the three editions will be combined to form a single complete volume.
Anke Bangma (NL) has been curator contemporary art at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam since 2011. She also works as artistic research supervisor at the Oslo and Bergen National Academies of the Arts in Norway. Between 1998-2007 she was Fine Art course director at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. Recent projects include “The World Explained”, an exhibition and book project with Erick Beltrán, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam (2011-12); “Who, What, Where, Why and How”, a project by Rod Dickinson and Steve Rushton, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (2009); “Performing Evidence”, an exhibition for SMART Project Space, Amsterdam (2009); and the publication “Resonant Bodies, Memories, Voices” (edited with Deirdre Donoghue, Lina Issa and Katarina Zdjelar, Piet Zwart Institute/Revolver Publications (2009).
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SOURCE #03
Friday 27 January 2012
Excursion Zuiderzee Museum Enkhuizen, Symposium 'Me Craft, You Industry' (icw Premsela)
Friday January 27th, Premsela’s Me Craft/You Industry symposium at the Zuiderzeemuseum in Enkhuizen, looks at how we can shape the future of industry. The symposium examines past and present design processes and looks toward tomorrow's work landscape – a central concept in the thinking of Rianne Makkink and Jurgen Bey (Studio Makkink & Bey). The design duo curated the exhibition Industrious|Artefacts: The Evolution of Crafts, on view in the museum through Sunday 12 February.
Makkink & Bey argue that we can use industry to enhance the design of the industrial landscape and foster small-scale, local business and innovation. Symposium participants take an in-depth look at the relationship between industry and craft and the significance of past and present production processes. “We should be thinking about innovative and exciting ways of thinking beyond craft as artistic refuge and towards craft as a production of the new tomorrow,” argues symposium speaker Iftikhar Dadi, art historian, artist and curator affiliated with Cornell University in the USA.
Programme and speakers
The symposium is a co-production of Premsela and the Zuiderzee Museum and Jurgen Bey and has been planned by the designer and researcher Sophie Krier. Besides Dadi (via Skype, due to illness), speakers were philosopher Henk Oosterling, professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam and initiator of the Rotterdam Vakmanstad project; architect, designer and researcher Fiona Raby, partner at Dunne & Raby; Christiaan Bolck, programme coordinator and researcher in the Bio-Based Products department at Wageningen University and Research Centre; Icelandic software developer, writer and hacker Smári McCarthy; and designer and Sandberg Institute director Jurgen Bey. Also participating in the discussion were designers Sonja Bäumel, Unfold, Trikoton, Studio Glithero and Forma Fantasma, all of whom are showing their work in the exhibition.
Industrious|Artefacts
In the exhibition Industrious|Artefacts, Makkink and Bey bring together work by a range of designers to show how the former Zuiderzee region’s historic crafts evolved and how they have influenced contemporary design and industrial processes. Energy supplies are dwindling, the waste mountain is growing, and ever more land is being built on. Each designer in Industrious|Artefacts works to find solutions to these problems in his or her own way. Premsela provided support for preliminary research for the exhibition, which opened in May and runs through Sunday 12 February.
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SOURCE #02
Monday 23 January 2012, 15.30-17.00h
Lecture Dr. Marta Zarzycka: Art and Feminism
Master Department / theory space, second floor
Feminism is one of the ways in which we can come to an understanding of the image culture in which we are immersed. Employing recent theories from gender and postcolonial studies, this lecture analyses a wide range of artistic practices addressing issues such as femininity, sexuality and empowerment across various genres and technologies. It focuses on how women artists reverse existing relations of power by reworking concepts that had been typically connected to femininity: body, desire, subordination, motherhood, vulnerability, and pain.
Having completed her MA in art history and her PhD in Gender Studies, Dr Marta Zarzycka (1976) is Assistant Professor at the Gender Studies Department, Utrecht University. She teaches and publishes in the field of visual studies and feminist theory, with particular focus on theories of trauma and politics of representing global war. In her current postdoctoral research (NWO VENI project), titled 'Images at war: photography, gender and humanitarian aid', she focuses on the role of digital photography in shaping collective Western consciousness through its representation of trauma happening globally. Her publications include “Now I Live on a Painful Planet: Frida Kahlo Revisited” in Third Text (January 2006) and “The Force of Recalling: Pain in Visual Arts” in Technologies of Memory in the Arts ( Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). Recently, she has been co-editing a volume titled Carnal Aesthetics: Transgressive Imagery and Feminist Politics (I.B. Tauris, 2011).
http://www.genderstudies.nl/
Source: Dr. Marta Zarzycka
Artist: Jenny Saville
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SOURCE #01
Lecture by Frans Bevers (Opera Amsterdam)
Wednesday 11 January 2012
Master space, second floor
Frans Bevers co-founded OPERA Design in 1981 and is currently director of Opera Amsterdam. Bevers studied architectural design and was head and lecturer of the department Architectural Design at the Rietveld Academy.
OPERA works in a broad range of projects. Their portfolio contains several large-scale museum interiors and major exhibition designs. These projects are balanced by more personal design commissions for the homes of private clients and conceptual proposals for office and retail environments. In other words: OPERA specializes in creating communicative spaces, permanent or temporary, in practically every possible cultural or commercial context. This broad perspective has always been a deliberate choice. It distinguishes OPERA from more specialized design firms.
It regards the design process as a shared processs: a combination of different sets of expertise in which the office provides its knowledge of space and the organisation of such a joined design effort. As a result OPERA does not limit its operation to a single field of interest: this approach allows OPERA to work for museums and retail chains, for theatre companies and corporate clients, private commissioners and commercial brands.
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2011
SOURCE #11
Thursday 24 November 10.30-12.00h
Lecture by Joris Laarman (Studio Joris Laarman): Digital Fabrication and Crafts
Auditorium
After (lunch) break: workshop (master students only) - Master Space
The Joris Laarman Lab was set up in 2004 by Joris Laarman and partner and film maker Anita Star. Joris attended the Design Academy Eindhoven and graduated cum laude in 2003. He gained first notoriety with his functional rococo radiator heatwave that was first picked up by Droog and now also produced by Jaga. He contributed in articles and seminars for Domus magazine and he was a guest teacher at European universities like the Architectural Association London, Rietveld academy Amsterdam and the DAE. During her study film and documentary Anita joined forces in 2004 to set up a production house where anything can be created, from design to film to writing. 'The Lab is an experimental playground set up to shape the future. It tinkers with craftsmen, scientists, engineers and many other motivated people. We want to add cultural meaning to technological progress and show the beauty of how things could work. Using a hands-on approach we want to create objects and installations full of content that bear a promise and eventually contribute.'
The lab is working on a collection of highly unique experimental works in collaboration with many scientific institutes and craftsmen around the world. Where possible the Lab aims to develop its editions industrially in collaboration with companies like Flos, Vitra, Swarovski, Droog and more. Laarman’s work is in various museum collections such as MoMA New York, Centre Pompidou, Cooper-Hewitt, FNAC, Chicago Art Institute, and the Vitra Design Museum, to name a few.
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SOURCE #10
Tuesday 8 November 15.30 – 17.00 auditorium
Lecture by Nanna Verhoeff – Mobility in Design: Navigation and the Experience of Cultural Heritage on Mobile Screens
'In this lecture I will present my recent work on screens and mobility, which has resulted in the forthcoming book Mobile Screens: The Visual Regime of Navigation (in press). My thesis is that we use - and have used – screen technologies for forms of navigation: for movement through, and exploration of the spaces that surround us. We can compare different modes of screen-based navigation when looking at the cinematic screen, the interactive touchscreen, the GPS-based mobile screen, but also the windshields of our cars, installations, or urban screens in public spaces.
I will present my thoughts about this visual regime of navigation pervasive in our screen-based visual culture and explore some case studies of the design of these visual experiences. Finally, I will propose a research approach to contemporary design practices for the on-screen access to cultural heritage, for which (media) designers collaborate with visual archives and museums.'
Nanna Verhoeff is associate professor at the Department for Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University. Her latest research project and publication ‘Mobile Screens: The Visual Regime of Navigation’ (forthcoming) focuses on a wide range of screen phenomena such as car window shields (the highway panorama of car navigation), the screen of early cinema and television (cinematic or televisual navigation) to the interactive touch screen on smartphones (performative cartography of a haptic screenspace navigation).
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SOURCE #09
Thursday 3 November 10.30 - auditorium
Lecture Inga Cholmogorova - "GO!" by tandem GioGio (Giorgio and Giorgina)
Inga Cholmogorova works on location and through the analysis and interpretation of a given space she makes site & context specific works, which result in installations or performances. On each site she tries to make something that is already present, “experienceable” for the public. She creates site responsive environments that the visitors can experience and interact with, inviting them to alter their perception to be able to discover new aspects of the given reality.
Her work deals with an ever-changing nature of things and concepts of space and time, beauty, impermanence and memory. The form echoes the content, her work is different from moment-to-moment and impermanent being specific to the particular place and time. She is interested in investigating our perception of ourselves and the space around us as well as notions of absence and presence. Issues such as borders, separations and interconnectivity are reoccurring themes. Personal and cultural memory and associations play an important role addressing issues of perception, communication, language and gender.
In the afternoon, tandem GioGio will give a workshop to the master students.
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SOURCE #08
Tuesday 1 November 15.30 – 17.00
Lecture Bik van der Pol - How can (artistic) research be translated into representation and/or a projects?
Auditorium
Liesbeth Bik and Jos van der Pol have been working together as Bik van der Pol since 1995. Their pieces invite audiences to rethink spaces, their architecture, their function and history. They explore art’s potential to produce and convey consciousness as though creating opportunities for communication.
Proceeding from their engagement with the immediate surroundings they create installations, often architecturally inspired, which they fill with a specific programme. They thus confront the public with a specific place and force people to think about the history and future of that place, but also about the city in general. In their projects they also focus attention on the functionality and usefulness of art in a specific situation or place.As mediators they deliberately attempt to influence the cultural climate and transform it in a constructive manner, by ameliorating situations, adding what is lacking, illuminating things that wallow in obscurity, and opening up issues or making them public.
The ideas that Bik Van der Pol call into question in their work contribute to ongoing discussions about collections of contemporary art in museums and their social relevance, about historical appreciation, and about public participation and engagement in art. Their often site specific works has been shown in many cultural venues world wide. Recent projects and exhibitions include: the Istanbul Biennial; the Volksgarten exhibition at the Kunsthaus in Graz; Plug In at the Van AbbeMuseum in Eindhoven; Models For Tomorrow at the European Kunsthalle in Cologne; the Moscow Biennale (2007); Fly Me To The Moon, at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum; Naked Life, MOCA, Taipei (2006); Secession, Vienna; Cork Caucus Cork (2005); and Nomads in Residence, a workspace for artists, Utrecht (2003, with architects Korteknie/Stuhlmacher). Part of their practice includes publishing books, such as for example Public Arena (2009), It isn’t what it used to be and will never be ahain (2009), Catching Some Air (2002), With Love From The Kichen (2005), Istanbul, 59 Locations (2007), Past Imperfect (2005), Fly Me To The Moon (2006) and The Lost Moment (2007). On several occasions they worked with private- and public collections, for example at the van Abbe Museum (Plud In 28: Pay Attention), the Marie Louise Hessel Museum/CCS Bard (I’ve got something in my eye, 2008), and TENT/Frac Nord Pas Calais (Married By Powers, 2002)
In 2010, they won the ENEL Contemporanea Award with their work ‘Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?’ that consists of an architectural model loosely based on the design of the icon of modernism, the Farnsworth House (1951) realised by the architect Mies van der Rohe. The artwork is a temporary home for butterflies, as the ultimate agents for ideas of transformation, change and recycling. With radical change incorporated in their life-cycle, capable of transforming from one state to another, they never are what they appear to be. The different stages of these animals of total metamorphosis can be observed and experienced in the model. Nature becomes spectacle, a spectacle inside the confinements of the museum wall.
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SOURCE #07
Dutch Design Week
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SOURCE #06
Wednesday 19 October 10.30-14.30
Lecture and workshop Christian Ernsten (Partizan Publik): Analyzing and building on the social & empowering the community
Christian Ernsten (1979) is partner at Partizan Publik since 2006. Until 2010 he also worked at Volume magazine. He acts as director, curator and editor-in-chief in commissioned and self-initiated interdisciplinary projects in and outside the Netherlands. He has a special interest in memory, social justice and architecture.
Partizan Publik is an innovative design and action collective that develops public equity. They are social engineers, deciding case-by-case on how a project or an idea should get shape. Originality, interdisciplinary, entrepreneurial and engagement are key concepts.
They work on self-initiated and commissioned projects: clients are ao the City of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Urhahn Urban Design or the Rabobank. Partizan Publik is director of the Amsterdam 4 en 5 May Commitee (which commemorates the Second World War in the city), and the curator of the Power House artist-in-residency in Detroit. It organized the Movember campaign and develop the Open Coop a beta-place for art, design and technology in Amsterdam.
Previous projects are: Mokum; A Guide to Amsterdam and Beyroutes; A Guide to Beirut two subjective city guides as well as of The Spontaneous City, founder of Mediamatic Travel, a peer-to-peer online travel agency to the cultural underground. Its members lectured Social Engineering the Amsterdam Metropolis, a interdisciplinary Minor at the University of Amsterdam.
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SOURCE #05
Thursday 10 November
Excursion
Audax textielmuseum Tilburg: guided tour through the Textile lab, introduction to the current exhibition 'i Fabric. European Talent.' by curator Suzan Rüsseler / visit to the De Pont Museum, Tilburg / visit to the Europees Keramisch Werkcentrum (EKWC) Den Bosch: guided tour, studio visits
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SOURCE #04
Tuesday 4 October 15.30 – 17.00
Lecture and Q&A by Robin Ruben Brouwer: On contemporary Hedonism and the culture of Me, Myself & I
Auditorium
Robin Ruben Brouwer (Alkmaar, NL, 1960) studied and lectured contemporary philosophy and semiotics at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Together with colleague Tiers Bakker, he founded an international research group consisting of philosophers, writers and academics in 2005 to construct a critical analysis of the neoliberal society. The group distinguishes itself by its interdisciplinary approach: it considers neoliberalism not only to be a political / economical model, but also tries to map its different ‘attitudes’. In 2008 “Liberticide, Kritische reflecties op het neoliberalisme” (Robin Brouwer en Tiers Bakker, red) was published with essays on the neoliberal society. In cooperation with philosophers Slavoj Zizek en Boris Groys, a second reader will be published in 2011. Brouwer specializes in contemporary societal theory, political philosophy. He is working as a free lance advisor and analyst for governemental bodies, institutions and companies.
http://smba.nl/en/events/the-marx-lounge-liberticide/
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SOURCE #03
Thursday 29 September 10.30 – 15.30
LUST (t.b.c.) – How tools become form/strategy
Lecture and Q&A, workshop
LUST is a multidisciplinary graphic design practice established in 1996 by Jeroen Barendse, Thomas Castro, and Dimitri Nieuwenhuizen, based in The Hague, Netherlands. LUST works in a broad spectrum of media including traditional printwork and book design, abstract cartography and data-visualisations, new media and interactive installations, and architectural graphics. Moreover, LUST is deeply interested in exploring new pathways for design at the cutting edge where new media and information technologies, architecture and urban systems and graphic design overlap.
This fascination led to establishing LUSTlab in the summer of 2010. LUSTlab is more than a new form of Research & Development. LUSTlab goes further than observing, inventing and producing, by means of forming a platform where knowledge, issues and ideologies can be shared.
LUSTlab researches, generates hypotheses and makes unstable media stable again. The future of digital media lies in the design of its use. Humanizing the unhuman, bringing the internet down to earth and finding the missing link between the digital and the physical. The outcomes vary from (strategic) visions to new communication tools, man-machine installations and physical products using digital content.
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SOURCE #02
Monday 19 September 15.30- 17.00
Lecture by Martijn de Waal – How Mobile and Digital Media are Changing Our Cities
Martijn de Waal (1972) is a writer, researcher and strategist, working in the field of digital media and (urban) culture. He has worked with and for various clients and organizations such as The Netherlands Architecture Institute, Open Society Foundation, The Architectural League of New York, Lift@Home, Kitchen Budapest, The Mondriaan Foundation and Dutch Public Broadcasting. He is part of the New Media, Public Sphere and Urban Culture research group at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Groningen, and connected to the department of mediastudies at the University of Amsterdam. In 2009 he was a visiting scholar at MIT's Center for Future Civic Media.
The Mobile City is an independent research group based in the Netherlands founded by Martijn de Waal en Michiel de Lange in 2007, that investigates the influence of digital media technologies on urban life, and the implications for urban design. The Mobile City likes to collaborate with institutions, organizations and individuals from various disciplines who share their interest in these issues.
The project started as a collaborative effort to translate the respective PhD research projects of De Lange / De Waal to the practical field. They observed huge discrepancies between (mostly academic) theories about ‘cybercities’, ‘augmented cities’, or ‘smart cities’, and the actual design of cities by both media developers and artists who – willingly or not – intervene in urban culture, and by a majority of architects and planners who struggle to come to terms with fast-paced technological developments. While aims to understand and create better cities frequently overlap, vocabularies and conceptual tools do not. It is from this intention to connect stakeholders and issues, and to advance shared concepts and knowledge that The Mobile City was founded.
On Wednesday 28 September 14.00 - 15.00, Martijn de Waal will do one on one talks on your projects with 4 Master students (approx 15 minutes each)
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SOURCE #01
Monday 12 September 15.30-17.00
Lecture Timo de Rijk - Design Challenges – On design, Culture and Unchangingness
Timo de Rijk (1963) is professor of Design Cultures since September 2010 at the VU University in Amsterdam. He is also regular lecturer at Delft University of Technology and curator of numerous exhibitions, i.a. Frank Lloyd Wright meets Berlage (Beurs van Berlage Amsterdam, 1999, with Vitra Museum, Weil am Rhein), The Hague Style. Art Deco in The Netherlands (Municipal Museum, The Hague, 2004) and Norm=Vorm (Municipal Museum, The Hague, 2010). He was guest lecturer at the Design Academy in Eindhoven. He is /was member of various boards and committees in The Netherlands and abroad, i.a. Committee Arts and Design, Raad voor Cultuur, Executive Committee Design History Society - London, Strategy Team Faculty Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Committee Life Time Achievement Awards Interior Architecture and Architecture, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.
De Rijk studied art history at Leiden University and received his Phd at the Faculty of Design Engineering of Delft University of Technology in 1998. His specialization is Design History with a focus on the design history of The Netherlands, the innovation of interior design, the concept of evolution and commercial design. He has published abundantly nationally and internationally about topics such as Dutch product design, interiors of the twenties, standardisation in design. From 2008 he is editor in chief of Morf, magazine for design of the Premsela Foundation in The Netherlands and of the Dutch Design Yearbook since 2004.