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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

Occupations, strikes, blockages, speaking up, speaking about, speaking against, sitting down, calling in, refusing to move
24 May 2023
Lecture
7 Lizards in bone ash
11 May 2023
Lecture
Balancing Action, Reflection, Critique
9 May 2023
Lecture
Acts of speaking out and speaking back, giving voices a way to go
19 April 2023
Lecture
Cartographic Inquiries
5 April 2023
Lecture
No fence in the prairie - Lucky Luke
22 March 2023
Lecture
Data Mourning
1 March 2023
Lecture
Listening to Ice
15 February 2023
Lecture
Stories of Iranian Women’s Resistance
11 January 2023
Lecture
The Fine Art of Complaining
15 December 2022
Lecture
Roots of Chaos
17 November 2022
Lecture
Listening as a spatial practice of resistance
10 November 2022
Lecture
Africa - A Designer’s Utopia
19 October 2022
Lecture
Intersex: not everyone is considerd male or female. Trigger warnings apply.
29 September 2022
Lecture
Documentary: flood disaster in Ahr Valley, Germany
19 May 2022
Lecture
On the mechanisms of disinformation and propaganda in the realm of the war in Ukraine
12 May 2022
Lecture
Global coloniality, the imperial difference, and the trajectories of the former socialist East European nations
21 April 2022
Lecture
Mapping the History And Politics of Ukraine
19 April 2022
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)