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15/09/2026

Daydreaming (The Future I remember) with Matteo Guarnaccia Matteo Guarnaccia

⏰ Thursday 24th September, 19h00-20h30 CEST (Walk-in 18h45)
📍 2C, 2nd Floor, DAE

About the lecture:
What happens when design is no longer driven by innovation, growth, or novelty, but by the desire to cultivate relationships between people, places, and the more-than-human world? In this lecture, Sicilian designer and art director Matteo Guarnaccia explores design as a practice of attention, care, and cultural preservation rather than mere production. Drawing from projects like *Cross Cultural Chairs* and the *Institute for Postnatural Studies*, Guarnaccia connects future possibilities with past encounters—framing design not as inventing the future from scratch, but as a series of deliberate choices about what to protect and preserve. Join us to discover how design can function as an anthropological tool for active listening and ecological stewardship.

⚡️ Looking forward to see you at the first lecture of this academic year, register through the link in bio! ⚡️

Graphics by Pauline Strandt Pauline Strandt & Benjamin Wijsman benjamin wijsman

14/09/2026

✨ Announcing the DAE Lecture Series Line-Up from September to November 2026 ✨

The 2026/27 Lecture Series kicks off with an exciting line-up of autumn speakers, curated by the student-led Lecture Series Committee, Programme Manager Ceola Tunstall-Behrens Ceola Tunstall-Behrens , and Events Producer Carline Zoete .

The current LSC members are: Kieu My Lê KIỀU MY LÊ (BA), Jana Friedrichsen Jana Friedrichsen (MA), Leo Larché Hitchcox (BA), Machiel Borger (BA), Yotam Pfeffermann (BA) and last but not least Pauline Strandt Pauline Strandt (BA) and Benjamin Wijsman benjamin wijsman (BA) who are also the designers of the visual identity and posters!

From September to November, all lectures will take place on Thursday evenings in 2C at DAE, from 19h00-20h30. Each lecture will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.

Interested in curating, hosting, or suggesting future speakers? DM LSC to get involved!

09/09/2026

How do we design when digital and physical realities blend into one?

Traditionally, the focus in design generally goes toward physical objects and spaces, but throughout our lives, we increasingly spend time in digital spaces. Studio Melting Realities studies how these two worlds merge together.

In our latest interview, Roel Wouters introduces the new Bachelor Studio at Design Academy Eindhoven, exploring our increasingly ‘liquid’ world.

From the physical friction of a screen swipe to the complex ethics of AI, the studio challenges students to move beyond passive consumption. With a social agenda focused on “communal presence,” it asks a vital question: How can technology operate in ways that don’t make us lose each other?

“Digital reality often feels like a given, but platforms, systems, and tools can be designed by us. Students should feel agency to create tools with different intentions.”

Read the full conversation between Roel Wouters and Jeannette Petrik via the link in our bio.

Images:
Roel Wouters, Photo by Boudewijn Bollmann & Roel Wouters
Still from Deep Soup, Luna Maurer & Roel Wouters, 2025
Still from Emoji is all we have, Luna Maurer & Roel Wouters, 2022

07/09/2026

Curious about studying at Design Academy Eindhoven? Join us for an in-person Open Day and get a closer look at life at DAE.

Meet current students and staff, explore our facilities and workshops, learn more about our Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes, and ask all your questions about studying at DAE.

📅 24 October 2026
📍 Design Academy Eindhoven, Emmasingel 14, 5611AZ, Eindhoven

Save the date and register via the link in our bio.
More information to come soon.

Graphics by Susanna Tomassini and Jennifer Carniel

03/09/2026

A new academic year has started!

To sprinkle the start at DAE with useful insight and help first year students settle into the academy and the city. Together with ise we have prepared a welcome campaign for all incoming cuties ✨

We are looking forward to seeing everyone’s work develop over the coming months ⚡️

Shout out to Ise Weier and 💜

Images by Lucy Todorova

02/09/2026

A year after stepping down from the Critical Inquiry Lab, Saskia Van Stein reflects on six years of building the programme, what she learned from students and colleagues, and how education reshaped her own understanding of leadership, collaboration and the role of design in times of systemic change. The entire conversation with Nadine Botha can be found via the link in our bio.

Saskia helped shape the department into a space for critical inquiry, experimentation, dialogue and collective learning - developing new ways of learning, building collaborations and opening the programme up to perspectives beyond the academy. One example was THIRST, a collaborative project that brought together students from across the MA programmes to explore water and its relationship to our bodies, environments, society, and water as a territory.

As Saskia puts it: “I never believed education should remain within four walls.”

We’re incredibly grateful to have had Saskia as part of the Critical Inquiry Lab and for everything she has brought to the programme and its community over the years.

Since 2025, Patricia Reed has taken on the role of Department Head. Having worked alongside Saskia as Co-Head since 2023, Patricia continues to build on what has been developed while taking the department in new directions.

Image 1: Saskia van Stein, by Boudewijn Bollmann
Image 2: MA Collaborative Project: THIRST - Students at DAE are contributing to the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) on the topic THIRST, by Boudewijn Bollmann
Image 3: Saskia van Stein, by Boudewijn Bollmann
Image 4: Saskia with students

(Critical Inquiry Lab is a full-time, two-year DAE Master programme - learn more about it via our website)

19/08/2026

Have you visited yet? Tartı School is now on view at Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven as part of Collection as Cosmos — and if you haven’t seen it yet, this is your invitation to go.

The installation includes projects by Geo-Design alumni Benze De Ream Benze De Ream, Aleksandra Nazarova Aleksandra Nazarova Forster and Yuhan Fang Flat han_, brought together by Merve Bedir Merve Bedir and developed with metahaven.

Merve Bedir will run a workshop on measurement as part of this collaboration, within Geo-Design curriculum, during the fall trimester!

Continue following the work and discover how design and art come together in this new installation.

📸 Photos by Peter Cox

07/07/2026

𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘆 (𝗱𝗲)𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

Presenting the DAE Graduation Show 2025 through thematic narratives by .

Maria Ribes Sola’s () ‘Growing Down’ reframes childhood dress-up as a tool for unlearning adult norms, translating memories into an oversized, performative costume collection. Nerby, Agustina Gutiérrez Lamas’s ‘Reconstructing Identity’ uses mate tea as a lens to explore Latin American cultural memory, reframing everyday rituals as acts of connection against globalisation.

Aki Hayama’s (Aki Hayama) graphic novel ‘Whole New City’ uses an adapted manga style to trace how the loss of homeland after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake shapes identity, blending fiction with personal migration history. Olfa Rachdi () maps the intersection of North African and European cultures through twelve personal histories from Marseille. Her installation uses responsive hydrochromatic ink to symbolise the fluid, shifting nature of dual heritage.

Finally, Ming-Chun (Patrick) Chiang’s (patrickchiang) ‘Microchips Recipes’ investigates the human stories behind global technology supply chains. Through a three-channel video installation featuring Taiwanese TSMC and ASML factory workers, Chiang reveals home as a fluid, collective experience shaped by care rather than fixed political identity.

Photo 1,2,3,4 by Ronald Smits
Photo 5 by Nicole Marnati

22/06/2026

Design Academy Eindhoven is proud to share the outcomes of the partnership between Studio Do Make students and Peacock Sustainable Designs Peacock Designs in Egypt, which brings a research-driven lens to traditional palm-rib craftsmanship. Initiated by Professor Estela Saez-Vilanova and Peacock CEO Dahlia Salem, this collaboration focuses on transforming agricultural waste into sustainable furniture.

DAE’s Do Make students brought hands-on, circular design methodologies to the project, working alongside Peacock’s network of over 50 local artisans. Following end-of-term reviews, three winning students travelled to Egypt with Estela to produce their prototypes directly in the factory. In the images, you can see the lamp developed by Amalia Vrazoupoulou , the colored table legs by Francisca Mazzuferi and the shelves by Primo Arets .arets.

This exchange connects our academic research with international production infrastructure, reinforcing how sustainable design and regional heritage enrich one another ✨

09/06/2026

𝗨𝗻𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆

Presenting the DAE Graduation Show 2025 through thematic narratives by .

Today’s selection sees four bachelors projects touching upon the topic of technology and knowledge around it. Anouk Sébastien’s () ‘Becoming a Noob’ (re)introduces creatives to the terminal through web-to-print zines and workshops, bypassing corporate software houses to champion autonomous, sustainable digital practices. Carlo Palacios Gimeno’s “C U L8R” revives the fragile, customizable aesthetics of the early 2000s internet. By transforming dormant desktop archives and an .mp3 into a remixable audio-visual experience, the project brings personal digital memories back to life.

George Nöfer’s ‘Gun.stl’ uses 3D-printing files originally meant for DIY fi****ms to create objects of contemplation, mapping the boundary between the harmless and the threatening to foster critical civic dialogue around digital weapon manufacturing. Antoine Aimé’s (.antoine) furniture collection blends code and craftsmanship, utilizing a custom program based on the golden ratio to generate three-dimensional forms that are then hand-carved in wood or 3D-printed for casting in aluminium.

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