Design Academy Eindhoven

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.

A new collaboration takes shape!

On 6 June 2026, celebrates its 90th anniversary with the opening of Collection as Cosmos and the unveiling of Dommelplein. This space features Tartı School, an installation about measurement, design, and art, showcasing projects by alumni Benze De Ream .de.ream, Aleksandra Nazarova and Yuhan Fang 方语涵 . This installation is brought together by Merve Bedir , and developed with (DAE’s MA Department Heads of Geo-Design).

Congratulations to the Geo-Design alumni, Merve Bedir, and Metahaven, for bringing this project together. The exhibition marks the start of an ongoing collaboration between Design Academy Eindhoven and Van Abbemuseum.

Join us in celebrating this milestone and exploring the intersection of design, art, and community.

Image 1 by Petr Kroschinsky
Image 2, 3 by Aleksandra Nazarova
Image 4, 5 by Yuhan Fang 方语涵

DAE congratulates all Alums and tutors participating in the Collection as Cosmos, more will be shared soon ✨

What is possible when designers dive into the world of quantum physics?

Over six months, 19 bachelor students from DAE’s Do Make studio - led by Nacho Carbonell - worked alongside researchers from the Center for Quantum Materials and Technology Eindhoven (QT/e) to translate complex quantum computing principles into tangible, engaging design concepts.

Three of those designs have now been combined into a single installation that is currently on view at the Qubit building on the TU/e campus and will be part of later this year.

The project is part of a broader collaboration between Design Academy Eindhoven, QT/e, the Quantum Talent and Learning Center Eindhoven, and exhibition company Bruns .exhibitions - bridging research and public understanding through the power of design.

Link in bio for more! 🔬✏️

Images provided by the students of Do Make Studio!

LINA Fellows Kateryna Lopatiuk and Tiphaine Bedel recently gave a workshop entitled Building with Fragments at DAE ✨

Building from Fragments brings together LINA fellows and DAE students to create collective interventions in Eindhoven.

Students worked with two streams of materials: materials sourced locally in Eindhoven and fragments brought from Ukraine. Previously exhibited as part of the Circularity on the Edge installation at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, these fragments arrive in Eindhoven not as relics but as active building matter.

The workshop explores how to hold both realities at once and to find, through difference or similarity, a way to build together. The workshop is a practice-based learning at the intersection of circular design and material memory.

Photo 1, 2 by Urban Cerjak
Photo 3: image of the installation by Kateryna Lopatiuk of Circularity on the Edge project in the Artificial section of the Venice Biennale Architettura 2025.
Photo 4: Objects and architectures sensitive to water as a resource - catalogue excerpt (personal illustrations) by Tiphaine Bedel

Images of the event will follow soon, so excited to share them with you 💫💫

Making Worlds Otherwise with The Rodina

⏰ Thursday 28th May, 19h00-20h30 CEST (Walk-in 18h45)
📍 New Auditorium Space, next to the Digital Workshop, 2ndFloor DAE

About the lecture
“Every design act is also an act of world-making.” Sowhat are our roles, responsibilities, and capacities as situated world-makers? How can we design situations and environments that encourage activity and togetherness, leading toward transformation in a viewer or a social context? During this talk, Amsterdam-based designer and researcher Tereza Ruller (The Rodina) addresses these questions by introducing a range of methods and approaches—including performativity, embodiment, and processuality. These methods allow designers to go beyond the traditional boundaries of communication design to embrace inclusivity and surface previously marginalized stories. Making Worlds Otherwise asks what it means to design the conditions for shared reimagination. Join us to hear why and how Ruller positions communication design as a performative, world-making practice.

Graphic design by  and 

The LINA European Architecture Platform community launched the first Blueprints festival!

Gathering at MAO Slovenija and University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Architecture, we dove into the methods that our architecture programme explored in its first three years. Over 300 collaborations between LINA Fellows and LINA Members took place in this time. In Ljubljana, we took a close look at the wealth of knowledge that was created and set a course for future explorations: through material research, questions of housing, approaches to learning and unlearning, and through the prism of film and writing, among others.

With curator Federica Sofia Zambeletti were excited to showcase our (un)common practices through our shared meaning of collaboration: as communing, a way of working, learning, and inhabiting space together.

Our work is made possible with the support of Creative Europe, the European Union’s funding programme for the cultural and creative sectors.
LINA Blueprints is also supported by Pro Helvetia and the Ministry of culture of the Republic of Slovenia.

The LINA Blueprints will be returning to Ljubljana next April!

Photos: Luka Karlin
Design: AA & Studio Kruh
Exhibition design: Maja Bevc & Nusa Zupanc

Do not miss the lecture Talking Through Matter with Lotte Douwes !!

⏰ Thursday 21 May, 19h00-20h30 CEST (Walk-in 18h45)
📍 New Auditorium Space, next to the Digital Workshop, 2nd Floor DAE

This climate and education themed event opens with a lecture from Lotte Douwes and is followed by a roundtable discussion moderated by Marsha Simon . At the table will be a rich and diverse representation from our educational and organisational community, including our in house material bank .dae, metal workshop instructor Andre Wiersma .wiersma, head of educational office Jetske Tuinstra, Studio Silva System tutor Axel Coumans , Reflections Coach and Strategic Advisor Stella Verdult , and head tutor Studio Better Matter Odin Visser .visser ⚡️⚡️

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Photo 1 by Anouk Moerman
Photo 2 by Almicheal Fraay
Photo 3 courtesy of Bzar
Photo 4 by Sean Fisher
Photo 5 by Sean Fisher
Photo 6 by Axel Coumans
Photo 7 by Anwyn Howarth
Photo 8 by Boudewijn Bollmann

𝗨𝗻𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆

Presenting the DAE Graduation Show 2025 through thematic narratives by .

This chapter features bachelors projects resonating the narrative of Unlearning Technology, starting with the JaeHee Yoon’s (._) ‘Baroque::kinesis’ which explores the boundary between data and flesh through 3D-printed wearable “skin pinchers.” By using algorithmic divination to translate personal digital data into unique physical accessories, the project connects the weight of our virtual identities to direct sensorial stimulus. Shira Arzi’s (.a) ‘metric.ply’ subverts the logic of digital compression; rather than reducing data for efficiency, her custom tool uses 3D point clouds to amplify geometric deviations, turning data “noise” into a creative, sculptural force.

Elin Aspfors’ project reimagines live webcams as masters of the *longue durée*. By using movement and color data from global streams to trigger generative soundscapes, she transforms the surveillance image into a cinematic score that heightens our perception of time and space. Remi Vanderhaeghen’s () ‘North Forecasting’ and ‘North Surfboards’ bridge the digital and physical to reclaim local knowledge. Specifically designed for the unique rhythms of the North Sea, his app and custom-shaped boards empower a surfing community to better understand and ride the specific conditions of the Dutch and Belgian coastlines.

Photo 1 by Pierre Castignola
Photo 2, 3, 4 by Carlfried Verwaayen

⏰ Reminder: last chance to apply to our Bachelors programme, 15 spots are left!
We will be accepting applications for these final places until Friday 15 May at 23:59 CEST.

Find out more about the application process via the link in our bio :)

Design Academy Eindhoven and supported by SURF, the IT cooperative of Dutch education and research, are developing what would the future of education look like in XR (eXtended Reality) environments!

Through their experimentation with the Trans Realities Lab digital focus module students and the HKU Artistic Extended Reality Lab students are actively prototyping what collaboration between univeristies could look like when embedded in an XR framework.

Congratulation to professor doctor Ian Biscoe and PHD candidate Joris Weijdom for leading this joint experimentation ✨

Biodesign as System-Making with Natsai Audrey Chieza

⏰ Thursday 7th May, 19h00-20h30 CEST (Walk-in 18h45)
📍 New Auditorium Space, next to the Digital Workshop, 2nd Floor DAE

The lecture will be followed by a Q&A with the audience and will be recorded. Register through the link in bio!

About the lecture:
In this lecture, Natsai Audrey Chieza presents the work of , a practice working across biology, technology, design, and culture as intertwined conditions shaping how we live with, and as part of, the living world. Centred on the studio’s R&D-led approach, the talk explores how new systems of production are developed through close interdisciplinary and multi-sector collaboration: from microbial processes to the infrastructures required for new materials, practices and futures to take hold.

The lecture reflects on how Faber Futures’ project space rehearses alternative models of production, participation, and value, while attending to the relationships and trajectories they set in motion. In doing so, it considers how regenerative systems emerge through the interplay of techno-scientific work with cultural, institutional, and imaginative infrastructures.

Together with this coming event we are excited to share the line-up of speakers for the final months of the academic year with you! Check the attached poster in the scroll ✨

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