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DAE Lecture Series

Design Academy Eindhoven’s Lecture Series is co-led by the student-led Lecture Series Committee (LSC), a Programme Manager (Ceola Tunstall-Behrens) and DAE’s Events Producer (Carline Zoete). It brings leading practitioners from the field of design – as well as practitioners from other disciplines such as art, architecture, craft, curation, education, the humanities and science – to DAE to share their ideas and work with the students and public.

Recent topics include designing collectively, designing in public space, the performing body, computational design and sensory-emotional, spatial and cognitive experiences of sound. The series was created in 2018 and has increased its output to an average of fourteen lectures per academic year. 

The aim of the Lecture Series is to identify inspiring speakers from a diverse range of backgrounds and disciplines, to invite new perspectives into the Academy and to create a platform for the sharing of different types of knowledge.

The LSC is a group of current Bachelor and Master students from DAE. Each academic year, the committee invites students across DAE to share their dream line-up of speakers. Along with their own suggestions, they then invite and programme a series of speakers. They also co-run the whole Lecture Series programme, and lead on designing the lecture posters, hosting and moderating lectures and making photo and video documentation.

 

Upcoming Lectures

Curating as Placemaking: On Robida’s spatial, pedagogical and editorial practices
19 March 2026
Lecture

Previous Lectures

From publishing as archiving, to archiving as publishing
5 March 2026
Lecture
Growing with mycelium: Lessons in Time, Care and Co-Creation
26 February 2026
Lecture
Trying to Make Sense of the World through Design, A Practice of Aha Moments
22 January 2026
Lecture
Design as a Revolutionary Practice of Love, Care, and Responsibility for All Beings and the Planet
8 January 2026
Lecture
From Polycrisis to Practice
20 November 2025
Lecture
Duration, Amplification, and the Infinite Paradox
6 November 2025
Lecture
24 October 2025
Lecture
21 October 2025
Lecture
Metamorphosis
2 October 2025
Lecture
18 September 2025
Lecture
Heliogram: Medicine, Magic and Technologies of the Self
11 September 2025
Lecture
Designing together: how co-design is reshaping space
12 June 2025
Lecture
Uniting People Through Light and Motion
22 May 2025
Lecture
1 May 2025
Lecture
Counterflows
10 April 2025
Lecture
From Student to Student
3 April 2025
Lecture
Bodies And Subwoofers (B.A.S.): Low-Frequency Sound
27 March 2025
Lecture
The Chaosmos of Collective Organising
20 March 2025
Lecture

COMMITTEE MEMBERS 2025/2026

Benjamin Wijsman (BA)
Bianca Maria Negrini (MA Critical Inquiry Lab) 
Emma Itria (MA Critical Inquiry Lab)
Klaudia Pietrasz (BA) 
Karin Borovcova (BA) 
Leo Larche Hitchcox (BA) 
Machiel Borger (BA)
Martina Costa Bignotti (MA Information Design)
Pauline Strandt (BA)
Sara Rabiei Abbasi (BA)

DAE Lecture Series Archive Index