Lucas Muñoz Muñoz

About the lecture  

In this talk, I will speak from student to student, share the bits of my professional journey and personal approach to design. I’ll reflect on how every project I take on has been a renewed opportunity for study, research, experimentation, and learning. I started as a student at DAE, and I continue embracing that mindset. For me, each project supposes a new challenge to my old tools, to get them renewed with curiosity to explore, expand skills, and bounce against the boundaries of design like the tennis ball of a prisoner. 

Bio

"I see my practice as fundamentally collaborative. When it comes to defining an object, materials should work together similarly to how humans collaborate: direct interaction and honest expression of individual capacities should be at play between materials, as they are naturally expressed within human relations." 

Lucas Muñoz Muñoz (1983) works in the field of art and design, exploring redefinitions of the functionality and materiality of use-objects, spaces and engineering. Through the experimental nature of his body of work, he crafts projects that take a personal look to our artificial environment, using humour and rawness as tools, combined with a deep sense of logic and creativity. 

Trained at Central Saint Martins in London, IED Madrid and Design Academy in Eindhoven, Lucas has been making and producing since he was in his twenties; he then founded eStudio enPieza! in Madrid with David Tamame. After his time of training and work at Sectie C in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, he settled in his workshop in Tetuán, Madrid, from where he has developed full space refurbishment projects departing from the existing context and its on-site transformation into new materialities that fit architectonic purposes. Examples such as the restaurant MO de (from which his studio received the Dezeen Award and FRAME magazine yearly award, respectively for sustainability and best use of material) and the Sancal office in Madrid. As well as conceptual and critical work based on local and context-driven research, such as the Temporary Collection for the Machado Muñoz gallery. His oeuvre includes a wide range of typologies that span from boats, sound-systems and speakers to chairs, lamps or skateboards, mixed media, documentary films, 3D scanning, site specific installations, etc.