DAE is a proud member of the LINA community

The Master Social Design of Design Academy Eindhoven has entered a new collaboration with LINA. LINA is a platform, formed by a collective of institutions who are all focused on promoting and supporting emerging talents in the field of architecture. Since architecture is, just as design, an applied form of art, there is a huge overlap in the profession of designers and architectures. Participating in LINA therefore means that we expand our network for the students, tutors, alumni and community.

The collaboration will be filled in for three years and in efforts is that we organise both public and private events. In addition, we join projects and cooperate with other members of the platform. The emerging architects selected through the platform will present their work in lectures and workshops included in the educational activities. These events add to the semester-long Master studios by bringing on design ethics, eco-social innovations, prototyping, presentation techniques, material research, speculations, and display methodologies.

The coordinating partner of LINA is the University of Ljubljana.
Marina Otero, head of DAE MA Social Design, is leading this project. LINA is co-funded by European Union.

The following activities are scheduled in the first year of the collaboration:

• Workshop 1 - Pomo d’Orographies, Design practices of care – led by Francesca Beltrame – Thursday 16 February
  During her research Francesca has been using her grandmother’s tablecloth as a design practice. Speaking about this tool herself, she says: “Learning from the tablecloth experience, the aim of the architectural proposal is to create space for dialogue and exchange which is lacking at the moment".

• Workshop 2 - Palace of Un/learning: Magazine of Un/Learning – led by Bernadette Krejs & Max Utech – Tuesday 23 May
  The workshop PALACE of UN/LEARNING is questioning the unquestioned in the field of spatial production. In times of multiple crises and uncertainty, we need to unlearn the status quo in order to rethink our disciplines, our teaching and our practices: How and what do we learn? Which knowledge is part of the canon we rely on and what remains invisible? How can we design and plan and without exploiting the environment and labor? So, what’s good? Who is we?

• Workshop 3 - self-office – led by Laura Solsona and Eduard Fernàndez – Thursday 25 May.
  Self-office is a small practice that operates across architecture, landscape, and academia. During the workshop students will work on a collective visual essay on Eindhoven’s Infrastructure of Resistance in the form of a publication. The presentation of the work will take place in a performative manner, simulating a book launch.

These workshops will help students navigate the space from an idea to its materialization.