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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

Previous Lectures

Rituals Echoing Social Issues
12 December 2024
Lecture
Heal, Hex, Hack Technology
7 November 2024
Lecture
The Siege of Silence with Jumanah Bawazir
19 September 2024
Lecture
Tricked Out of Our Expectations with Studio C.A.R.E
12 September 2024
Lecture
Wet and Wild Mutualisms
6 June 2024
Lecture
DIT (Do It Together)
23 May 2024
Lecture
Latent Soundings
16 May 2024
Lecture
Solution Love Affair
28 March 2024
Lecture
Get A Proper Job
14 March 2024
Lecture
The Architecture of Staged Realities
7 March 2024
Lecture
400 Billion Dollars of Air
22 February 2024
Lecture
Immersed: Experiential Design in an Age of Transience
8 February 2024
Lecture
Sound Alchemy
7 December 2023
Lecture
From Sputnik to Starlink: Why we should talk about satellites with Quadrature
30 November 2023
Lecture
Origins and Regenerations: Designing for Restorative Architectures
16 November 2023
Lecture
How We Know What We Make
2 November 2023
Lecture
The Power of Curiosity and Interdisciplinary Collaboration with Stijn Roodnat
5 October 2023
Lecture
Exploration for Proposition
28 September 2023
Lecture

Lecture Series Archive Index

20.11.2025
Henriette Waal
From Polycrisis to Practice

06.11.2025
Boris Acket
Duration, Amplification, and the infinite Paradox

02.10.2025
Tadeáš Podracky
Metamorphosis

18.09.2025
Paul Cournet (Studio Cloud)

11.09.2025
Molly Palmer
Hellogram: Medicine, Magic and Technologies of the Self

12.06.2025
Poor Collective
Designing together: how codesign is reshaping space

22.05.2025
DRIFT
Uniting People Through Light and Motion

01.05.2025
Moshtari Hilal
Ugly Rubble

10.04.2025
Agustina Woodgate
Counterflows

02.04.2025
Lucas Muñoz Muñoz
From Student to Student

27.03.2025
Stefanie Egedy
Bodies And Subwoofers (B.A.S): Low-Frequency Sound

20.03.2025
Anja Groten
The Chaosmos of Collective Organising

27.02.2025
Charlotte Triebus
The Body As Material

20.02.2025
Jan Konings

09.01.2025
Vera van de Seyp

12.12.2024
Céline Park
Rituals Echoing Social Issues

07.11.2024
Ginevra Petrozzi
Heal, Hex, Hack Technology

03.10.2024
Beatrace Angut
Lorika Oola Fashion Africa Now

19.09.2024
Jumanah Bawazir
The Siege of Silence

12.09.2024 
Studio C.A.R.E
Thricked Ouf of Our Expectations

06.06.2024
Lee Pivnik
Wet and Wild Mutualisms

23.04.2024
Lorenzo Malloni DIT (Do it Together)

16.04.2024
Moisés Horta (hexorcismos)
Latent Soundings

28.03.2024
Danah Abdulia
Solution Love Affair

14.03,2024
Anab Jain
Get A Proper Job

07.03.2024
Saskia van Stein
The Architecture of Staged Reaities

23.02.2024
Lawrence Abu Hamdan
400 Billion Dollars of Air

08.02.2024
Space Broth
Immersed: Experiential Design in an Age of Transience

07.12.2023
Yuri Suzuki
Sound Alchemy

30.11.2023
Quadrature
From Sputnik to Starlink: Why we should talk about satellites

16.11.2023
Afaina De Jong
Origins and Regenarations: Designing for Restorative Architectures

02.11.2023
Chiara Di Leone
How We Know What We Make

05.10.2023
Stijn Roodnat
The Power of Curiosity and Interdisciplinary Collaboration

28.09.2023
Johanna Seelemann
Exploration for Proposition

07.09.2023
Selçuk Balamir
Designing the Just Transition

24.05.2023
Alina Lupu
Occupations, strikes, blockages, speaking up, speaking about, speaking against, sitting down, calling in, refusing to move

11.05.2023
Yussef Agba-Ola
7 Lizards in bone ash

09.05.2023
Claudia Mareis
Balancing Action, Relfection, Critique

19.04.2023
Ilga Minjon & Vivian Cintra
Acts of Spaeking out and speaking back, giving voices a way to go

05.04.2023
Marco Ferrari
Cartographic Inquiries

22.03.2023
John Körmeling
No fence in the praire – Lucky Luke

01.03.2023
Dr. Martina Otero Verzier & Patricia Reed
Data Mourning

15.02.2023
Susan Schuppli
Listening to Ice

08.02.2023
Martina Margetts
Radical Empathy

11.01.2023
Vida Kasaei & Amir Komelizadeh
Stories of Iranina Women’s Resistance

15.12.2022
Guerrilla Girls
The Fine Art of Complaining

08.12.2022
Marco Ferarri

17.11.2022
Lukas Wegwerth & Moritz Maria Karl
Roots of Chaos

10.11.2022
Fem_Arc Collective
Listening as a spatial practice of resistance

19.10.2022
Nifemi Marcus-Bello Africa
A Designer’s Utopia

29.09.2022
Leigh Tukker
Intersex: not everyone is considerd male or female. 

19.05.2022
Still Waters Documentary: flood disaster in Ahr Valley, Germany

12.05.2022
Anna Engelhardt, Svitlana Matviyenko
Panel discussion about war in Ukraine On the mechanisms of disinformation and propaganda in the realm of the war in Ukraine

21.04.2022
Madinia Tlostanova
Global coloniality, the imperial difference, and the trajectories of the former socialist East European nations

19.04.2022
Tadeusz Iwański
Mapping the History And Politics of Ukraine

07.04.2022
Arna Mačkić
Active Monuments

24.03.2022
Danae Io
System of System: Managing displacement: exclusion in Europe’s politics of migration

03.03.2022
Floriane Misslin
Diagramming Fluidity, Visualising Sociology, Demystifying Fashion

09.12.2021
Aleksejs Ivashuk
Statelessness in the EU

08.11.2021
Martina Margetts
Radical Empathy

27.11.2021
Ruben Pater
CAPS LOCK: How capitalism took hold of design, and how to escape from it

03.06.2021
François Vergès
Imagining Futures from Entangled Temporalities and the Need for Interconnectedness and Relationality

29.04.2021
Simon Njami
The Narrow Door: Curating not Western Artists in the 90s and the Early 21st Century

25.03.2021
Priya Swamy
Can the revolution be institutionalized?

25.02.2021
Goda Palekaité
In Intimate History and Liminal Practices

06.01.2021
Metahaven

26.11.2020
Nelly Ben Hayoun
Designing to impossible

24.06.2020
Mariana Pestana Empathy
A radical role for design in the more than human world

03.06.2020
Common -Interest
Design Research as Activism

20.05.2020
Julia Lohmann
Sea-born Strategies – futuring through critical design practices

12.03.2020
Common Interest Design
Research as Activism

06.03.2020
Girls Like Us
A.ll B.odies C.onspiring

27.02.2020
Onkar Kular
The Right to Design: A purposeful misreading

23.01.2020
Thomas Thwaites
After Making a Toaster and Being a Goat

06.01.2020
Metahaven

01.10.2019
Danielle Arets, Bas Raijmakers & Avinash Kumar

16.05.2019
Flavia Dozdan & Annelys De Vet

21.02.2019
Gunter Pauli

17.01.2019
The Future Laboratory

STUDIO VISITS:
Anja Groten
Espace Aygo
Extra Practice
Clara Schweers and Flora Lechner
Studio C.A.R.E

EXTERNAL COLLABORATIONS:

2025.10.24 LSC X EUNIC NL; On Fair Grounds
2025.10.21 LSC X Creative Circular Cities
2025 LSC X Futchclub
2025 LSC X DDW: Framework Lab
2025 Milan Design Week: LSC X KALDEWEI Are we going in Circles?
09.12.2020 Futures and patriarchies design (event of futures)
2019 The Arena: Past, Present, Future closing lecture for the DAE GS

 

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)