The Arena 2020 |

This year, during DDW, The Arena has an online programme broadcasted live on DDW TV and DAE’s Instagram. Graduates will also be hosting the (G)Radio show on RaRaRadio on Sunday 18th from 11:00 (rararadio.org, @gradio.gs20).

Tune in to DDW TV daily from 14:30-15:30 for panel discussions on the dilemmas of institutional critique, bio-politics and collective care, power structures behind invisible infrastructures, interrogations on cultural heritage and more.

Also join us on the @designacademy at 12:00 and 18:00 for interactive graduate talks, workshops and performances. Each session will elaborate on graduate design processes, methodologies and final outcomes.

Saturday 17th

→ PANEL AT DDW TV 14h30-15h30

Architectures for the Self As we live in increasingly confined and restricted situations, how can we carve out new architectures of time and space for ourselves? For action, self-expression and self-care, of ourselves and others. By bringing in perspectives from the physical to the virtual, the immaterial to the material and from the individual to the collective, this panel will discuss the relevance and need for architectures for the self.

Moderator Ceola Tunstall-Behrens (The Arena team)

Panelists Alice Bardou (Social Design, MA)
Alicja Konkol  (Communication, BA) Atlas Chen (Game Designer)
Hamja Ahsan (Artist, Curator and Writer)
Manon Aubry  (Social Design, MA) Setareh Noorani (Architect, Researcher & Zinester) Sjef van Beers (Artist) - Video contribution

→ INSTAGRAM LIVE SESSIONS 12h30 Joseph Grima (Creative Director, Design Academy Eindhoven) & Serina Tarkhanian (Social Design, MA)

Sunday 18th

→ PANEL AT DDW TV 14h30-15h30

Methods of New Materialism How do materials around us construct and inform our&nbsplives?&nbspHow should we consider our relationships with them, in terms of use and value?&nbspBy examining narratives&nbspof material production, life cycles and infrastructure, this&nbsppanel&nbspwill revisit&nbspthe position of designers in the field of 'new materialism'.

Moderator Maxime Benvenuto (Design Researcher)

Panelists Anastasia Kubrak (Designer & Researcher) Archibald Godts (Studio Plastique) Jan-Micha Gamer (Social Design, MA) Lukáš Likavčan (Researcher & Theorist) Martina Muzi (Designer, Researcher & Curator) Willeke Segers (Motion, BA)

→ INSTAGRAM LIVE SESSIONS 12h00 Kaiu Meiner (Communication, BA)

18h00 Giulia Pompilj (Food Non Food, BA)

Matúš Solčány (Information Design, MA) & Ryan Baker (Information Design, MA)

Monday 19th

→ PANEL AT DDW TV 14h30-15h30

(Un)seen: Invisible Infrastructures Infrastructures enable certain types of mobility and transactions to take place. Our primary way of interacting with these infrastructures, however, is through an interface, whether it be a screen, object, or system. What happens when we look beyond their interfaces? What do we learn about the politics and power structures of the systems surrounding us?

Moderator Ceola Tunstall-Behrens (The Arena team)

Panelists Benjamin Bratton (Theorist of Philosophy, Art & Design) - Video contribution Caroline Nevejan (Chief Science Officer of Amsterdam, Professor of Designing Urban Experience) Noa Jansma (Communication, BA) Patricia Reed (Artist & Theorist) Ryan Baker (Information Design, MA) 
Zeniya Vreugdenhil (The Critical Inquiry Lab, MA)

→ INSTAGRAM LIVE SESSIONS 12h00 Helen Milne (Contextual Design, MA) & Meghan Clarke (Contextual Design, MA)

18h00 Eszter Raine (A Wish, BA)

Ben Schupp (Information Design, MA) & Cinzia Bongino (Information Design, MA)

Tuesday 20th

→ PANEL AT DDW TV 14h30-15h30

Illuminating the Black Box In a world where tech-giants fuel rapid, eternal growth, the average citizen struggles to negotiate their autonomy. Veiled by glossy promises of bigger, better and faster, surveillance and governance are hard to navigate. Through radical connections and methods of subversion, can design empower us to create new understandings about technology?

Moderator Tiiu Meiner (The Arena team)

Panelists Bogomir Doringer (Curator & Head of Education, NXT Museum) Elsa Rambaud (Social Design, MA)
Jorim Theuns (Information Design, MA) Lenka Hamosova (Speculative Designer & Researcher)
Pete Fung (Contextual Design, MA)

→ INSTAGRAM LIVE SESSIONS 12h00 Sorrel Madley (Food Non Food, BA)

Boey Wang (Well-Being, BA) & Jade Badra (Leisure, BA)

18h00 Jean-Baptiste Gambier (Public Private, BA)

Wednesday 21st

→ PANEL AT DDW TV 14h30-15h30

Ctrl + C Considering approaches to co-authorship, this panel seeks to revisit repetition and copy culture within the field of design. Taking the lead from three of this year's graduates, we will look to address the perception of the copy at large and question whether it is time to shift the attitude of design towards copy and paste.

Moderator Ned Kaar (The Arena team)

Panelists Alice Wong (Story Designer)
Anna Oxholm Iversen (Social Design, MA) Brendan Cormier (Writer, Curator, Urban Designer & Senior Design Curator, V&A Museum) Fiona Herrod (Food non Food, BA) Rachel Morón (The Critical Inquiry Lab, MA) Yasmeen Khaja (Design Researcher & Writer)

→ INSTAGRAM LIVE SESSIONS 12h00 Marta Rios Piza (Social Design, MA) & Miguel Guevara Parra (Contextual Design, MA)

18h00 Elsa Sier (Motion, BA)

Coltrane McDowell (Social Design, MA) & Pete Fung (Contextual Design, MA), moderated by Alexandre Humbert (Film Designer and DAE Tutor)

Thursday 22nd

→ PANEL AT DDW TV 14h30-15h30

Beyond a Better History Design, and the designer, have often been synonymous with notions of innovation, and producing something ‘better’. What if we are faced with contexts and situations where this is not the end point, or even a desirable goal? This panel examines practices of journalistic design and will discuss the roles and responsibilities of designers in a ‘post-better’ world.

Moderator Saskia van Stein (Head of MA The Critical Inquiry Lab, Masters Department at DAE)

Panelists Dr. Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg (Designer & Artist)
Coltrane McDowell (Social Design, MA)
Dima Srouji (Architect & Founder of Hollow Forms) Joseph Grima (Creative Director of Design Academy Eindhoven & Co-Founder of Space Caviar) Roberta di Cosmo (Social Design, MA) Yu-Chun Lo (Communicaton, BA)

→ INSTAGRAM LIVE SESSIONS 12h00 Benjamin Motoc (Public Private, BA) & Riwan Coeffic (Activity, BA)

18h00 Adele Vivet (Contextual Design, MA) & Tadeáš Podracky (Contextual Design, MA)

Lola Tual (Communication, BA) & Olga Flór (Public Private, BA)

Friday 23rd

→ PANEL AT DDW TV 14h30-15h30

Contagious Care Science has shaped a conception of cleanliness that feeds misconceptions about the importance of our microbiome. In an era of microbial fear, brought on by the current Covid-19 pandemic, it is more important than ever to understand how micro-organisms impact practices of health. This panel will invite conversations around how we can understand microbial bodies, and explore embodied and more-than-human systems of health.

Moderator Marina Otero (Head of MA Social Design, Masters Department at DAE)

Panelists Prof. Jamie Lorimer (Environmental Geographer, University of Oxford)
Marek Glogowski (Social Design, MA) Monika Gravagno (Artistic Director, Facciocose) Paulien Nabben (Activity, BA)
Serina Tarkhanian (Social Design, MA) Roberto Pérez Gayo (Social Designer & Social Worker/Activist)

→ INSTAGRAM LIVE SESSIONS 12h00 Michael Bojkowski (The Critical Inquiry Lab, MA) & Zeniya Vreugdenhil (The Critical Inquiry Lab, MA)

Anna Maria Michail (The Critical Inquiry Lab, MA)

18h00 Bartosz Seifert (Communication, BA) & Ieva Jakuša (Motion, BA)

Emy Bensdorp (Well-Being, BA), Michel Gallus (Activity, BA) & Pollyanna Moss (Well-Being, BA)

Saturday 24th

→ PANEL AT DDW TV 13h-14h

DAE, then comes the moment to act As creative antagonists, we are often left with the task of putting out the fires of modernity, unable to contend with the larger structural and systemic issues which continually reignite those very same flames. How then do ‘we’ build moments, spaces and movements that ultimately result in lasting, generative change to such structures?

Moderator Gyonne Goedhoop (Moderator, Writer, VSB matchmaker, Programmer at TENT)

Panelists Alex Furtado Melville (Managing Director at Concrete Blossom)
Chaewon Kong (Anti-Racist Collective Member, BA Student) Emirhakin (he/him) (Artist/Designer, Sandberg Institute Graduate) Kirtis Clarke (Graphic Designer & MA Contextual Design student) Mechteld Jungerius (The Critical Inquiry Lab, MA) Samein Shamsher (Social Design, MA)

→ INSTAGRAM LIVE SESSIONS 12h00 Ceola Tunstall-Behrens (Contextual Design, MA) & Noëlle van den Dungen (Contextual Design, MA)

Ilja Schamlé (Communication, BA), Job Claassen (Communication, BA) & Noa Jansma (Communication, BA)

18h00 Giulia Pompilj (Food Non Food, BA), Niels Nielsen (Communication, BA) & Victor Miklos Andersen (Food Non Food, BA)

Bianca Carague (Social Design, MA) & Serina Tarkhanian (Social Design, MA)

Sunday 25th

→ PANEL AT DDW TV 14h30-15h30

Abandoning Nature? Our relationship with nature and its resources has withered. Shaped by a self-centered social order, the language of legislature, consumer products and media have led us down a path towards indifference and panic. Through techniques of unveiling hidden values and storytelling, how can design help us gain vital knowledge of the complexities of nature, and rekindle a long lost bond?

Moderator Tiiu Meiner (The Arena team)

Panelists Carla Khater (Research Director of Restorative Ecology, CNRS-Lebanon)
Charly Blödel (Social Design, MA)
Dean Bowen (Rotterdam City Poet Laureate)
Hannah Segerkrantz (Well-Being, BA)
Ignacio Subias (Leisure, BA) Madeleine Oltra (Well-Being, BA) Rebecca Lewin (Curator of Exhibitions & Design, Serpentine Galleries)

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