STRP x Design Academy Eindhoven present PROTOTYPE
STRP & DAE present PROTOTYPE
Talks at the Intersection of Technology, Design, and Society
STRP, in collaboration with Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE) and Limestone, presents a series of talks with recent DAE graduates and alumni whose work lies at the dynamic intersection of technology and design. Underlying themes of the presentations are the professional development of young makers, tools and technological developments in the design field, and the innovative power of young makers. Relevant makers, teachers and thinkers from our networks, will have a place on stage next to DAE alumni, and recent graduates to share insights into their creative processes and connect with each other.
STRP Young ACT x DAE
DAE is partner of STRP Young Award for Creative Technology. The Young ACT is open to all creative graduates in the Netherlands; as a local partner, one of the prizes is for a DAE graduate. The STRP team will select six nominees who will be featured in the DAE Graduation Show. STRP’s Young Art Board will select the winners.
Limestone @ PROTOTYPE
STRP’s new experimental space, PROTOTYPE, in Microstad is in full development. At the heart of DAE's Graduation Show during Dutch Design Week 2025, STRP is hosting the Limestone bookshop this year.
Guests & Topics
DAE STRP Young ACT nominees
This year, STRP selects six graduation projects from DAE’s open call as nominees for the STRP Young Award for Creative Technology. One of these is chosen to receive support to further develop their work in the context of STRP’s program. During these talks, we dive deep into the nominated graduation projects, discussing their themes, process, and the broader implications of their work.
Bart Hess
Graduated from DAE, Bart Hess is now a recognized artist exploring the boundaries of the human body and technology through tactile and futuristic aesthetics. DAE alumni Bart Hess will work together with a group of young creatives to develop the space. This space will be a meeting place where young creatives can connect during accessible events focusing on art, technology, society, and the future. A place with a program organized for, by, and with young people. For six months, young people will work with Bart Hess and the STRP team to design, prototype, and activate a space that is both an artwork and a living laboratory, a platform for testing textures, movement, light, and sensory experiments. During this project, three community events will be organized to involve the target group in the development of PROTOTYPE. The opening of the new space will take place from March 26-29, 2026, during STRP Spring.
HyperCulture
HyperCulture is a designer-director duo from Eindhoven, The Netherlands, formed by Floris Vos (Alumni DAE) and Peter van de Riet. The meaning of Hyperculture is the natural outcome of living in a digitally connected society capable of rapid communication. They draw inspiration from pop culture, subcultures and ethnic cultures to create visual aesthetics that have a unique narrative. Value and excitement can be created by remixing and re-contextualizing visual languages from different cultures, eras and forms. They work in the domains of design, branding, animation, motion graphics,film and visuals arts.
Cream on Chrome
An alumni design duo who graduated from DAE. Cream on Chrome were awarded the STRP ACT Award in 2022 for their project ‘The Environmentalist Stock Exchange (ESX)’. In this talk, they reflect on their journey postgraduation, share their thoughts on the relationship between technology and design, and offer advice for emerging designers on how to grow their practice and gain visibility.
Melani de Luca Author of Steve: A Framework for AI and Identity Design
Melani de Luca, Alumni MA information design, is a graphic designer, researcher, and artist whose work critically examines contemporary cultural phenomena and their impact on society. She explores the intersection of the digital and physical, tangible and intangible. Her recurrent themes revolve around pop and visual culture, analyzing social contexts linked to digital mass media. Her practice combines various media such as editorial design, sculpture, and installation. In 2017, she published her first book, Post-Butt, The Power of the Image, with Onomatopee in Eindhoven, Netherlands, followed by a second edition in 2019. Recently, she released her second book, Steve, A Framework for AI and Identity Design, published by Set Margins, also in Eindhoven.
Lua Vollaard
Lua Vollaard, teaches at Design Academy Eindhoven and is a curator and writer based in Amsterdam. She works as a curator of contemporary art at Stroom Den Haag, developing projects on the codes that govern and how they shape the public domain. Recent projects include Jenna Sutela –ave bossa, bow ole (2025); The Cost of Alliance (group exhibition, 2025); and Agustina Woodgate – More Heat than Light(2024, in collaboration with QuTech). As one third of the collective Superkilogirls collective, she researches the material infrastructures of computing and its entanglement with women’s labour. She writes about contemporary art, interventions in institutions, and technological histories for Art in America, Frieze, and e-flux, and others.
Trans Realities Lab
A laboratory of the past, present and future; one that transcends realities, disciplines and perspectives. The Trans Realities Lab (TRL), imagined and developed by Dr Biscoe and his research team, is a hybrid digital environment for research, and a space for students to engage with research facilities, and approaches informed by the exploration of new technologies.
Talks & schedule
The talks will take place on October 25 & 26. Each session will feature a speaker presenting for about 20 minutes, followed by a Q&A with the audience. STRP facilitates short intermissions between talks that allow for informal discussion, reflection, or transition