Vormgeving

Where public and private meet, merge and crossover, an exciting field emerges for designers.

Public – Private will shape design where public and private meet and merge. The office is entering our homes, public parks are more and more used to meet friends, people have to make choices on what to share and what to keep to themselves. All this results in exciting opportunities for designers. It shifts and blurs the traditional borders. It requires new ideas to make a human feel at home, show and share his identity, be comfortable and safe, and be alive. It requires new ideas to shape the public space, redefine its functions and position in the community. These developments open up new possibilities for designers, architects and other creative minds that jointly shape our living space and challenge the way we work. Especially in the crossover, on the borders and in the extremes of this field, we find the challenges where our students can make a difference.

We consider research and materialization equally important, interconnected and it is important that both are conducted continuously and in parallel throughout the design process. Through trial-and-error, testing your hypotheses from your research and prototyping and by using the feedback from experts outside the Academy into further research, materialization and testing, you work towards the final design.

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t/m 31 jan. 2025
Eindhoven

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Studio Silva Systems is dedicated to the concept of the forest as a superorganism for design and practice with ecological accountability.

We take you on a journey through forests and learn about the benefits they provide by visiting them. In an experimental practice of learning, we question how to interact with fragile and complex organisms and explore ways of regeneration. Through individual and collective research, observations, and experimental approaches to making, we investigate complex systems encompassing ecology, society, culture, and economics. Forests played a significant role in the development of human civilization and balance the global ecosystem in many ways. Some words for thought:

Forests are wonderful and scary: materials, light, air, smells, roots that hear water, self-organization, invisible, density, darkness, imagination, fairy tale, …

Forests are time and climate: growth, movement, decay, cycles, symbiosis, believe, photosynthesis, seeds, breath, biodiversity, migration, inter-dependent networks, butterfly effect, extinction, activism, carbon sequestration, politics, future, hope, …

Forests are the world: nature culture divide, rethinking the world, working together, commoning, regeneration, sourcing, recycling, repairing, reusing, collaboration, logistics, economy, care, …

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22

t/m 31 jan. 2025
Eindhoven

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Studio technogeographies aims to bring complex systems of design, extraction, transportation, manufacturing, commerce, consumption, and geopolitical forces, both human and non-human, from sites across the world to the centre of bachelor design education.

The studio is a theoretical and practical laboratory placing design and designers as active agents for imagining potential future scenarios inside our contemporary technogeographies—where for centuries, techniques and technologies have been defining (from the domestic to the geopolitical scale) our coexistence in our increasingly codependent societies.

The studio places itself in the contemporary realm as a collective agency with a journalistic approach, exploring the complex techno-geographical systems of our planet where the relationships between the natural environment and the industries of humankind are fundamental. Reflecting this relationship, the studio focuses on the design education of the individual student and on the collectivity in which they/she/he think, act, perform, make, communicate.

The fundamental question of 'how do we understand our geography?' will be carried by looking inside and outside of geographical territorial borders. By exploring where society exists, produces, consumes, performs—above and below, inside and outside, centrally and marginally, visibly and invisibly, online and offline.

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22

t/m 31 jan. 2025
Eindhoven

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Studio Thinking Hands focuses on the crucial relationship between mind and body in the creative field. It is a course of study designed to counterbalance the virtual aspects of modern life, far away from screens, 3D models, or copy cut Instagram accounts. The Studio teaches students how to enhance and build an inquisitive and intellectual mind with making and crafting as a part of the design process.

Thinking Hands offers a methodology that respects the physical experience of making as a source of unique inspiration—head in the clouds, feet on the ground. The dreamer and realist go hand-in-hand here.

When action and thinking are hand-in-hand, we can be very resilient, even in ad hoc and unpredictable situations. This approach is about improvisation and adapting to what a situation, a problem, a design process needs.

As a designer and a human being, you’re constantly rediscovering yourself on a micro-level. At a macro level, the world is also rediscovering itself. How do you position yourself and your values and goals within this macro perspective? We see it as a crucial part of the design process to turn ideas into reality. It’s important to communicate, seduce and express.

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22

t/m 31 jan. 2025
Eindhoven

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In an effort to escape the meaningless blah blah blah culture embedded in global political, social, economic and environmental realities, Studio Turn Around aims to be a beacon of optimism and a driver for sustainable, people-centred experiences.

TURN AROUND and LOOK AHEAD.

We envision designers to have a natural urge to innovate and have a strong curiosity to learn how things work, how things come apart and how parts can be reused as a material source for future products. We want to challenge ourselves and our students to create concepts that are unique and innovative while being proof that both functions and esthetics are visible and meaningful.

We encourage students with a forward-looking mindset and an interest in life-enhancing technologies to participate in the programme of Studio Turn Around, to design radical concepts with great empathy for people and with an undeniable impact on the world. Design for a society where technology enables the well-being of individuals and communities.

Students will learn how to create product experiences that are essential, pure and sometimes frugal, but also daring, sometimes loud, sometimes silent, but always surprising, original and unexpected. We create a learning environment where a straightforward, no-nonsense approach goes hand in hand with a humoristic or poetic approach.

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t/m 31 jan. 2025
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The Morning Studio explores design as a tool for constructive protest and collective action.

Opposing by proposing, patient but stubborn, as a group if we can, fully autonomous if we must. At times with humour and irony, always with great attention and care.

Society and our direct surrounding serve as our exploration field. Whilst analysing the structures and systems we are all part of, we rely on our intrinsic motivation to identify opportunities for change.

We design for concrete situations and want to address a real audience. Rather than ‘design thinking’ we prefer ‘design doing’. Fieldwork and hands-on experiments are taken as a welcome opportunity for deepening insights and sharpening skills.

By looking for the common ground in between we’re building a narrative of interdependance over time. In doing so every design becomes a node within a larger web of transformative action(s) in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. At the end of each semester we carefully archive our work so that all embedded experience and knowledge can be passed on and serve as a breeding ground for the next group(s).

Students taking part in The Morning Studio should be driven by a desire for change, a strong interest in collectivity and collaboration, and a special attention for the mundanities and extraordinary occurrences in everyday life.

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22

t/m 31 jan. 2025
Eindhoven

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