Six Arena panel discussions will take place in the Graduation Show. The conversations will invite graduates and guests to explore and investigate themes shared by this year’s graduates. Join live as an audience member at The Stage, located at Microtuin, or online via the livestream.
The Arena is the live public programme of the Graduation Show 2022. It provides space for the graduating designers to present their work while engaging in conversations about the ins and outs of design. Each panel will feature a musical introduction by Marie Tirard.
By analysing different case studies, this discussion will look at the virtual and digital body. The discourse aims to work through the bodily relation to technology. How did technology and its usage shape the perception, framing and controlling of bodies? How do we understand the identity of the body and how can agency be claimed in its building?
Moderator: Gabriel Maher (Researcher, Designer & Masters Tutor at DAE) they/them
Graduates: Clara Schweers (MA Contextual Design) she/her Connor Cook (MA GEO—DESIGN) he/him Jian Huang (MA Contextual Design) he/him Nikola Scheibe (MA Social Design) she/her
Is it possible to educate without resorting to standards? This panel investigates current knowledge-sharing systems by exploring our positioning around different themes related to (design) education. Tracing a thread that connects academic and unconventional sources of wisdom, the conversation will dream up more inclusive educational environments.
Moderator: Joseph Grima (Creative Director of Design Academy Eindhoven) he/him
Graduates: Emma Sfez (MA Critical Inquiry Lab) Eva Lotta Landskron (MA Critical Inquiry Lab) she/her Julia Urreaga Aizarna (MA GEO—DESIGN) she/her Maxime Benvenuto (MA Critical Inquiry Lab) she/her
External: Kay Schuttel (Photographer, Filmmaker & Bachelors Tutor at DAE) she/her
Modernity has been shaped by the consumption of other worlds - certain humans and more-than-humans had to be extinguished to lay the ground in which only modernity could thrive. Humans have witnessed the loss of Earth (disconnection from nature and land we occupy) and loss of Worlds (erasure of culture). How can we as designers face these wounds and how can we go beyond the consequences of modernity?
Moderators: Virginia Tassinari (Design Researcher and Lecturer at LUCA School of Arts (BE) and Politecnico di Milano (IT), Designer at design studio Pantopicon (BE)) she/her
Graduates: Felix Bell (MA GEO—DESIGN) he/him Shin Yang (MA Social Design) she/her Yassine Ben Abdallah (MA GEO—DESIGN) he/him Yuval Harel (BA Public Private) she/her
By reading the many layers of dust that have silently settled over our anthroposised planet, this panel aims to trace an alternate story of human extractivism over the landscape. Using storytelling as a carrier of inquiry, the discussion will question narratives built around the socio-environmental crisis, as much as our political and intimate involvement.
Moderators: Miguel Parrrra (Arena Team)
Graduates: Dana Savić (BA Wellbeing) Gaia D’Arrigo (MA Social Design) Gerardo Sandoval Osio (MA GEO—DESIGN)
How can we break the patterns of ecological domination in existing human-centred systems? In this panel, we will question and try to disrupt imposed perspectives on more-than-human relationships. Inspired by the queer ecology movement, we will raise questions of ownership and domination over plants and waters in order to collectively reimagine and discuss new perspectives on alternative relationships.
Moderator: Monja Simon (Arena Team) she/her
Graduates: Brogen Berwick (BA Public Private) she/her Hannah Kansy (MA Information Design) she/her Louisa Wolf (MA Information Design)
Externals: Jessica den Outer (UN Earth-Centred Law Expert from NL) she/her
→ The Cat in the Black Box: Perspectives on Data and Design
Technology is becoming so complex nowadays that there is a need to unpack the metaphor and design of this black box. Following the digital appearance of the cat (as a meme, as a physical body, as a metaphor) this panel aims to demystify the black box. By doing so it will highlight the different angles from which data can be used to relate to, read and impact a cat.
Moderator: The blackbox
Graduates: Jan Christian Schulz (MA Social Design) he/him Lukas Völp (MA Social Design) he/him Marie Verdeil (BA Communication) she/her Rebekka Jochem (MA Contextual Design) she/her Teresa Fernández Pello (MA Contextual Design) she/her
External: Ron Wakkary (Professor of Design at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (Simon Fraser University in Canada))
Arena Producers: Miguel Parrrra Monja Simon Teresa Carvalheira Toni Wagner
Arena Panel introduction music by Marie Tirard
Elevator Radio team: Guanyan Wu Johanna Denecke Jonah Attalla Nick Monro-Meares Yuanpu Wang Zoe Prifti
ARENA RADIO
In collaboration with Elevator Radio, the Arena Radio will be broadcasting daily from the Graduation Show. The programme consists of live talks, sonic experimentations, interviews, and other forms of exchange.
